Blackboard by Boogie Board vs DayOS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blackboard by Boogie Board
This smart notebook app digitizes handwritten notes and drawings, offering a paperless way to capture ideas. It allows for easy saving, organizing, editing, and sharing of your work to cloud services and via email.
- Digitize handwritten notes and drawings
- Save, organize, and share work
- Integrates with cloud services
- Edit and enhance notes
- Smart Scan functionality
- Archive and search notes
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Blackboard™ by Boogie Board® is a reusable smart notebook that blends creativity with productivity. It delivers a fluid, freeform, and paperless note-taking experience. The FREE, all-in-one Blackboard™ app turns handwritten notes or drawings into digital files – backing content up to your favorite cloud platform. Saving, organizing, and sharing work has never been easier. STAY CONNECTED & SEAMLESSLY CAPTURE WORK The Blackboard™ app works across the following models: Blackboard™ 2.0 (new for 2024) and the original Blackboard (in both Letter and Note sizes). Both Blackboard™ 2.0 and the original Blackboard™ models support Smart Scan, which captures and saves notes to the app using the smartphone camera. The app also integrates with popular cloud-based services, including OneNote, Evernote, Dropbox, and Google Drive. EDIT & ENHANCE The Blackboard™ app includes tools to draw, highlight, and enhance work materials. SHARE The Blackboard™ app archives work as images or PDFs for easy and fast sharing to e-mail, messages and more. ARCHIVE, ORGANIZE, & SEARCH The Blackboard™ app allows work to be tagged – making organization and search move swiftly. FEEDBACK OR HELP? E-mail us anytime at customerservice@buffalogames.com Instagram & Facebook: @myboogieboard
DayOS
This app offers a streamlined workspace for daily organization, combining tasks, calendar, notes, and a private vault. It focuses on simplicity and efficiency without the complexity of project management tools. Available on iPad, it supports markdown notes, photo attachments, and spending tracking.
- Daily Home dashboard
- Simple daily task management
- Day, week, month calendar views
- Markdown-supported notes with attachments
- Spending tracking and bill reminders
- Private, password-protected vault
- Light, dark, and system themes
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DayOS is a focused personal organization app designed to keep daily life simple, private, and efficient. It combines planning, notes, calendar, spending, and a private, password protected note vault in one clean workspace without the clutter of a traditional project-management app. Now available on iPad! All-in-one app of: - Tasks - Calendar - Notes - Private, password protected vault An extremely simple yet very functional and efficient app designed to manage your entire day all in one location Core features: • Daily Home dashboard with a clean overview of today’s calendar events • Today tab for simple daily task management without turning the app into a heavy weekly or monthly task system • Calendar with day, week, and month views, swipe navigation, event creation, editing, deletion, and color-coded entries • Notes with folder view or list view, custom folders, subfolders, quick notes, search, trash, and a minimalist modern layout • Hybrid markdown-supported notes with headings, bullet lists, numbered lists, and interactive checkboxes • Inline photo attachments in notes, plus file attachments • Spending section for quick transaction logging, monthly spending tracking, and recurring bill tracking with due dates • Floating quick actions for fast note capture and spending entry from the main screens • Vault for premium users: local-only private notes and passwords protected by a passcode, with recovery flow, export, folders, and vault trash • Light, dark, and system theme support • Sign in with Apple support • Premium lifetime license for only $14.99 • Low cost monthly subscription and free trial available • Local account separation between guest mode and signed-in Apple accounts • Data controls including sign out, delete app data, and vault-specific secure deletion flows Premium: • Founder's edition lifetime license: Promotional lifetime premium access at a lower price • Premium access gives unlimited access to the app • A one month free trial available • Available both as a very affordable monthly subscription or as a one-time purchase lifetime license • Specifically it gives you the ability to create more than 100 notes, more than 5 simultaneous tasks a day, custom folders, and access to the vault features Privacy and storage: • Vault data is stored locally on-device only, notes and files never leave your device. Password protection with added Face-ID functionality available • Guest and Apple account data are kept separate locally • The app includes options for erasing app data and managing sensitive vault content securely Privacy Policy: https://gist.github.com/murraydylan77-commits/3e26cb6da694fa7791ee9fc2a3076fe3 Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: DayOS at 5.0 against Blackboard by Boogie Board's 3.4. DayOS also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). Blackboard by Boogie Board's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (53 vs 1). On price, ads and device support 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. DayOS sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Blackboard by Boogie Board asks for nothing beyond the download.
DayOS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Blackboard by Boogie Board has 53 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Blackboard by Boogie Board ships an update every 2 months, DayOS every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blackboard by Boogie Board | DayOS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (53 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 27.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 53 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Buffalo Games, LLC | Dylan Murray |
Customer experience
Blackboard by Boogie Board
DayOS
In-app purchases
Blackboard by Boogie Board
No in-app purchases
DayOS
- Monthly Premium1 Month trial$2.991 Month
- Lifetime Premium$14.99
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