DAILY NOTE vs Card Diary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DAILY NOTE
Capture your daily thoughts and memories with this digital journal. Easily write entries, add photos, and customize your experience with various themes. Organize and find your notes effortlessly through calendar views and search.
- Easy and fast writing
- Attach photos
- Customizable themes
- Calendar view for notes
- Searchable content
- Backup and restore
- Password and biometric lock
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Write today's diary [ DAILY NOTE Features ] ● Easy and fast writing ● Attach photos when writing ● Support for various themes (font, background) ● Read your all notes in calendar ● Monthly / Tag / Overview ● Type words to search contents ● Backup / Restore function ● Password & Biometric lock
Card Diary
This app offers a simple and beautiful way to journal your daily experiences. Easily record thoughts, emotions, and memories with text or photos, making each day feel meaningful. Customize your entries with backgrounds, fonts, and tags.
- Decorate cards with photos or colors
- Record multiple diaries per day
- Calendar view
- Add photos and videos
- Track weather and emotions
- Tag entries and add locations
- Automatic iCloud backup and sync
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◆ "App of The Day" in over 100 countries. ◆ Over 1.7 million App Store downloads. ◆ App Store recommendation "Best New App". Card Diary makes journaling a simple, mindful and highly rewarding activity. -- APP OF THE DAY Make every day meaningful. -- Apple Editors’ Notes For concise diary entries -- App Store [FEATURED] "Card Diary" is a simple and easy Diary Journal App. "Card Diary" has the concept of "putting a day on a card". Write today's journal. One line of text or one picture is fine. "Card Diary" makes your day meaningful and special. Record your day easily and beautifully. You can make a pretty diary even if you use only one picture or one line of text. We believe that your every day is very meaningful. We hope that Card Diary will help motivate you to find meaning in every day. This is a simple, clean diary app. You can set a background for each month, using a photo or choosing from 20 colors, 15 pastels and 5 monotones. Then make each day special by choosing between two types of card: photo or text-based. Love, happiness, joy, sad or angry... You can write all your emotions and memories on the card. Try using it as a variety of diaries. (Photo journal, butler journal, reading journal, movie journal, love journal, etc.) ◆ Features ◆ - Decorate your cards. (Photo/Color) - Write multiple diaries per day. - Calendar view provided. - Photos and videos. - Weather and emotions. - Locations and tags. - Favorites. - Automatic backup. (iCloud) - Multi-device synchronization. (iCloud) - Manual backup and restore. - App lock. (Password, Touch ID, Face ID) - File export: TXT and PDF (print). - Various fonts. - Various font styles. (bold, align, color, etc.) - Timestamps and dividers. - Optimized UI for iPhone and iPad. - Dark mode. ◆ Feedback ◆ - Instagram : @carddiary.app - Facebook Messenger : @carddiary.me - Line ID : dreamkitcorp - WeChat ID : dreamkitcorp - Privacy Policy : https://carddiary.me/PrivacyPolicy.html - Terms of Use : https://carddiary.me/TermsOfUses.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Card Diary at none against DAILY NOTE's shown. Card Diary also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (1.3K vs 310). On price, rating, review sentiment and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. DAILY NOTE sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Card Diary sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for DAILY NOTE against 4.7 for Card Diary. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 310 and 1.3K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of DAILY NOTE's written reviews are positive against 80% of Card Diary's.
DAILY NOTE ships an update every 3 weeks, Card Diary every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 26, 2026.
| Parameter | DAILY NOTE | Card Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (310 ratings) | 4.7 (1.3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better | 80.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 310 | 1.3K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 14.7 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 421 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | youngjin seo | Dreamkit Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
DAILY NOTE
Card Diary
User reviews
DAILY NOTE
From 310 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and intuitive interface
- 📅 Useful calendar view and date tracking
- 🔒 Secure with password protection
- 🖼️ Ability to add photos to entries
- 💻 Seamless cross-device usage
Room to improve
- 📢 Excessive advertisements
- 🔍 Limited search functionality
- 🔖 Inability to create multiple entries per day
- 🔄 Lack of automatic backup/sync options
- 🖍️ Limited customization options for text formatting
Card Diary
From 1.3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and easy to use
- 🚀 Smooth and fast performance
- 💎 Beautiful and minimalist design
- 📸 Ability to add photos and videos
- 🔒 Secure with password/Touch ID protection
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional crashes and bugs
- 🔍 Limited search and filtering options
- 🖍️ Lack of rich text formatting options
- 🗓️ Difficulty navigating between months/years
- 💰 Some key features locked behind paywall
Bugs and requests
DAILY NOTE
Reported bugs
3 issues- Occasional app crashes
- Inconsistent behavior when saving notes
- Delayed or missing notification alerts
Requested features
5 requests- Add support for bullet points, bold, and italic text
- Implement iCloud/Google Drive sync for cross-device access
- Allow creation of multiple notes per day
- Introduce a dark mode option
- Provide more font and color customization options
Card Diary
Reported bugs
3 issues- Entries not saving properly or disappearing after updates
- Calendar view not displaying entries correctly on certain dates
- Issues with iCloud sync causing data loss or inconsistencies
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to rearrange photo order in entries
- Implement a 'On This Day' feature to view past entries
- Allow syncing across multiple devices with a user account
- Introduce more customization options for fonts, colors, etc.
- Integrate with other services like Dropbox for backup/export
In-app purchases
DAILY NOTE
- Premium$9.99
Card Diary
- 1 Month3 Days trial$0.991 Month
- 1 Year3 Days trial$5.991 Year
- Lifetime$9.99
- Thanks Coffee$12.99
- Thanks Beer$12.99
