Comparison

HighNotes vs Everlog

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

Head to head
About

HighNotes

This app encourages frequent, brief journaling to build a consistent habit. Easily add photos to your entries to make them more engaging and enjoyable to revisit.

Highlights
  • Frequent, brief note-taking
  • Builds journaling habit
  • Attach photos to notes
  • Enhances memory
  • Improves emotional health
Features
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Never miss a meaningful moment! HighNotes is a journaling app designed in a way that encourages you take smaller notes more frequently so it doesn't feel much of a commitment. It makes it easier to build a regular journaling habit. Attaching photos to your notes makes them more engaging and enjoyable to read. Keeping a journal many advantages like enhancing memory muscles, boosting comprehension, improving emotional health and communication skills. There are countless benefits you can count on with HighNotes.

About

Everlog

This app provides a minimalist platform for daily journaling, helping users reflect, track thoughts, and build mindfulness habits. It supports rich media, offers journaling prompts, and ensures privacy with passcode locking and iCloud syncing.

Highlights
  • Minimalist interface
  • Journaling suggestions
  • Photo and video attachments
  • Passcode lock
  • iCloud sync
  • Markdown editing
  • Search and tags
Features
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Everlog is a calm, private journal for everything worth remembering: your thoughts, photos, places, moods and workouts, together in one place on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Open it and start writing. Everlog stays out of your way while you write, then helps you look back. Write Without Friction • A fast, distraction-free editor with Markdown formatting, checklists and highlights • Templates with fill-in fields for routines like gratitude lists or morning pages • Writing prompts, plus personal prompt ideas based on your recent entries • Tags, bookmarks, comments and full search keep everything easy to find Capture the Whole Day • Photos, Live Photos and GIFs, inline with your words or in a panel beside them • Location and weather for every entry • Songs, podcasts, workouts with their routes, places and moods from Journaling Suggestions • Voice recordings with automatic transcription, videos, PDFs and sketches Look Back • On This Day shows what you wrote on this date in past years • Recaps sum up every month and year with your photos, stats and a summary written by Apple Intelligence • Widgets for streaks, writing stats and On This Day help you keep the habit Private by Design • Lock Everlog with a passcode, Face ID or Touch ID • Your entries live on your devices and in your own iCloud, never on our servers • Encrypt your backups with a key only your devices hold • Back up to iCloud Drive or a folder of your choice, and export to JSON, PDF, text or CSV at any time At Home on Every Device • A full Mac app with multiple windows, menus and keyboard shortcuts • Designed for iPad, and for iPhone Duo both folded and unfolded • Shortcuts actions, Lock Screen widgets, Control Center controls and Spotlight search Bring Your Journal With You Import from nine other journaling apps, or from Markdown and text files. Your entries keep their dates, and photos and tags come along wherever the other app exports them. Everlog Premium Everlog is free to use, with no limit on entries. Premium adds iCloud sync across all your devices, unlimited journals, automatic backups, video, audio, PDFs, sketches, weather, extra fonts and alternate app icons. Privacy Policy: https://everlog.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://everlog.app/terms

Screenshots

HighNotes4 screens
Everlog4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HighNotes at none against Everlog's 3. HighNotes also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). Everlog's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs every 2 months) and rating (4.6 vs 4.4). On price, review sentiment and ads 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. Everlog sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. HighNotes asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Everlog holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Everlog has 308 ratings behind it against 47, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of HighNotes's written reviews are positive against 79% of Everlog's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HighNotes ships an update every 2 months, Everlog every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
HighNotes versus Everlog: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHighNotesEverlog
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (47 ratings)4.6 (308 ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.7% of reviews79.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings47308 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 11 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB216 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAleksandr FiodorovWessley Roche

Customer experience

HighNotes

All ratings47 ratings
Positive85.1%
Neutral6.4%
Negative8.5%
Written reviews66 reviews
Positive72.7%
Neutral13.6%
Negative13.6%

Everlog

All ratings308 ratings
Positive91.2%
Neutral2.9%
Negative5.8%
Written reviews305 reviews
Positive79.0%
Neutral9.2%
Negative11.8%

Bugs and requests

HighNotes

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Everlog

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes when using Apple Intelligence
  • Invisible text when entry exceeds limit
  • Syncing issues leading to data loss

Requested features

5 requests
  • Voice recording/dictation
  • More advanced formatting options
  • Calendar/timeline view
  • Shared/collaborative journals
  • Habit/mood tracking

In-app purchases

None

HighNotes

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Everlog

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Everlog Premium7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is HighNotes free?
HighNotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Everlog free?
Everlog is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, HighNotes or Everlog?
Everlog is rated higher. HighNotes averages 4.4 out of 5 from 47 ratings, while Everlog averages 4.6 from 308 ratings.
Do HighNotes or Everlog have ads?
Neither HighNotes nor Everlog shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HighNotes or Everlog?
HighNotes ships an update every 2 months, and Everlog every 11 days. Most recently, HighNotes was updated on October 22, 2026 and Everlog on October 24, 2026.

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