Comparison

Simple Daily Diary vs Quill

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Simple Daily Diary

Capture your everyday moments with a fast, easy, and beautifully designed journaling app. Add custom titles, personalize with themes, and easily find past entries with smart search. Sync across devices and enjoy local backups for peace of mind.

Highlights
  • Add custom titles to entries
  • 20+ handpicked color themes
  • Smart search by date or keywords
  • Share thoughts and memories
  • iCloud sync between iPhone and iPad
  • Local device backup
Features
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Looking for a simple and delightful way to keep a daily journal? Simple Daily Diary is exactly what you need — fast, easy to use, and thoughtfully designed to capture your everyday moments. Just download and see for yourself. With Simple Daily Diary, you’ll never forget the moments that matter most. Revisit your memories anytime in a space that feels truly yours. Key features: • Add custom titles to highlight your most meaningful entries. • Make it your own with 20+ handpicked color themes. • Find what you wrote in seconds using smart search by date or keywords. • Share your thoughts and memories without leaving the app. • Sync seamlessly between iPhone and iPad using iCloud. • And for extra peace of mind, your diary is also backed up locally on your device. No subscriptions, no clutter. Just a beautifully simple diary that fits right into your everyday life.

About

Quill

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Quill keeps what you write on this iPhone. No account, no sign-up, and no server of ours — so there is no company that could read your diary, and that includes us. LOCK IT A four-digit PIN and Face ID. Quill asks when it opens, and again after thirty seconds away. Forget the PIN and a recovery code lets you back in. The preview in the App Switcher is covered. WRITE Bold, italic, underline, colour, links, bullets, numbers and checklists. Three photos in an entry — twenty with Pro. A mood, in words rather than stickers. Tags. Write up a day you missed, however far back. Your draft is saved while you type, so a crash or a flat battery takes nothing with it. FIND IT AGAIN Full-text search across every entry, on the device, in milliseconds. Filter by tag, mood, photos, favourites or a range of dates. A month calendar shows the days you wrote on. On this day brings back the same date from earlier years, and stays quiet when there is nothing to show. BRING AN OLD DIARY OVER Import from Day One, Apple Journal, a folder of Markdown, or plain text and CSV. You see how many entries and photos were found before anything is written. Import the same file twice and nothing is duplicated. TAKE EVERYTHING OUT AGAIN Export to PDF, to a book with a cover and contents by month, or to Markdown with your photos in a folder. With or without Pro, and after you stop using Quill. BACKED UP TO YOUR OWN iCLOUD Entries and photos travel through your private iCloud database. Not ours. Turn it off and Quill still works, entirely on the phone. QUILL PRO Draw a page by hand with a finger or a Pencil, and open it later to carry on. Record a voice note — five a page, five minutes each — kept inside the entry. Scan a page of a paper notebook and have the writing read into it, shown to you to correct before anything is added. Share an entry as a card that starts with no words at all, only the date, and lets you choose how much more to include. More than one mood a day. Twenty photos an entry, reading fonts and sizes, more notebooks, your streak on the home-screen widget, advanced search filters, and the place and weather noted with each entry. Not a subscription. The lock, iCloud backup, import, export, search, memories from past years and the daily reminder are not behind Pro and never will be. English, Tiếng Việt, 日本語, 한국어, 繁體中文, Deutsch, Français, Español, Italiano, Nederlands, Português, Türkçe and العربية — changed inside the app, without touching your iPhone's own language. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://primetruthteam.github.io/quill/privacy/

Screenshots

Simple Daily Diary3 screens
Quill4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Quill at every 2 days against Simple Daily Diary's every 50 months. Simple Daily Diary's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Simple Daily Diary sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Quill sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Simple Daily Diary ships an update every 50 months, Quill every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Simple Daily Diary versus Quill: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple Daily DiaryQuill
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (1.3K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews52.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.3K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 50 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDmytro VynokurovNguyen Dinh Chung

Bugs and requests

Simple Daily Diary

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Paid upgrade not working as expected
  • Entries disappearing or not saving properly
  • Freezing or crashing when using certain features

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add password/lock feature
  • Increase storage space or make it truly unlimited
  • Allow editing and adding of past entries
  • Provide cloud backup/sync option
  • Offer more customization options (colors, fonts, etc.)

Quill

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Simple Daily Diary

One-time1
  • Unlimited Diary$6.99
1 purchases

Quill

One-time1
  • Quill Pro$19.99

Questions

Is Simple Daily Diary free?
Simple Daily Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Quill free?
Quill is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Simple Daily Diary or Quill have ads?
Neither Simple Daily Diary nor Quill shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Simple Daily Diary or Quill?
Simple Daily Diary ships an update every 50 months, and Quill every 2 days. Most recently, Simple Daily Diary was updated on November 11, 2026 and Quill on November 6, 2026.

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