HighNotes vs Quick Journal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Frequent, brief note-taking
- Builds journaling habit
- Attach photos to notes
- Enhances memory
- Improves emotional health
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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.
Quick Journal
This app offers a straightforward journaling experience with extensive customization options. Personalize themes, fonts, icons, and layouts to create your ideal digital notebook. Widgets and draft saving features enhance usability for daily reflection.
- Customizable themes and fonts
- App icon and layout personalization
- Home screen widgets
- Save entries as drafts
- Copy and share entries
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Quick Journal is the simplest way to keep a journal. You can customize your journal's theme, fonts, app icon, layout, and even where the composer button is placed. To help you write or keep track of your entries, the app features widgets you can put on your home screen. You can copy or share your entries. You can always come back to an entry later by saving it as a draft, just swipe down and the entry will be saved. Hope you enjoy! EULA https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Quick Journal at every 9 days against HighNotes's every 2 months. Quick Journal also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.4) and review sentiment (86% vs 73%). HighNotes's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.4). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Quick Journal holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 47 and 24 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of HighNotes's written reviews are positive against 86% of Quick Journal's.
HighNotes ships an update every 2 months, Quick Journal every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HighNotes | Quick Journal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (47 ratings) | 4.7 (24 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews | 86.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 47 — better | 24 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 17.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aleksandr Fiodorov | Charlie Deets |
Customer experience
HighNotes
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In-app purchases
HighNotes
No in-app purchases
Quick Journal
No in-app purchases
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