Comparison

Daily Notes Planner 2 vs Quiet Almanac

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

Head to head
About

Daily Notes Planner 2

This app offers a straightforward way to jot down plain-text notes for specific dates, acting as a simple calendar organizer. It allows for easy referencing and searching of notes, with iCloud syncing across devices. Additional note formats like folders and weekly schedules are also available.

Highlights
  • Plain-text notes by date
  • Calendar highlighting for dated notes
  • Chronological note search
  • iCloud syncing across devices
  • One Page Note
  • Folder Notes
  • Weekly Schedule Notes
Features
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Daily Notes Planner 2 is a simple notes app that satisfies all of your life's needs for notes. Your notes are stored locally on your Mac by default. Turn on automatic iCloud sync to securely sync your notes across iPhone, iPad, and Mac through your personal Apple iCloud account. Calendar Notes lets you write simple plain-text notes for any date. No complicated hourly scheduling. No confusing reminders. Just tap a date in the calendar and write what you need to remember. Dates with notes are highlighted, so you always know where to look later. Folder Notes gives you a familiar way to organize notes with folders and files. Create folders, add note files inside them, rename items with a long press, and use Edit to delete or rearrange rows. One Page Note is one simple page for anything temporary. If you need to quickly jot something down and do not want to organize it permanently, this is the perfect place for it. For faster syncing across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android, and the web at DailyNotesPlanner.com, check out Daily Notes Planner 3, which uses email verification with a six-digit code. Daily Notes Planner 2 is designed for people who want notes to feel simple, private, calm, and easy to find. Privacy Policy: https://dailynotesplanner.com/privacy-policy

About

Quiet Almanac

This app helps you record your daily habits, important dates, and one-time appointments in a peaceful, distraction-free environment. Track your progress, get timely reminders, and review past events in an organized archive.

Highlights
  • Daily habit tracking
  • Important date reminders
  • One-time appointment logging
  • Event archiving
  • Lock screen widget
  • Progress statistics
Features
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Quiet Almanac is a personal life recorder — for the rhythms you keep and the moments that matter. Track your daily habits, mark important dates, and log one-time appointments. Everything in one calm, distraction-free space. Daily habits — Check off the things you do every day, every week, every two weeks, or on the last day of every month. Quiet Almanac handles the irregular months automatically. See your progress in Stats. Important dates — Never forget a birthday or anniversary. Quiet Almanac reminds you every year, automatically. Appointments & one-time tasks — Add a reminder, complete it, and it moves to your Archive — with a record of whether it happened. Archive — Every one-time task lives here after it's done. Add notes, look back, remember. Lock screen widget — See today's tasks without unlocking your phone. No ads. No subscriptions. No noise.

Screenshots

Daily Notes Planner 23 screens
Quiet Almanac4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Quiet Almanac at 5.0 against Daily Notes Planner 2's 4.4. Quiet Almanac also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Daily Notes Planner 2's advantage is ratings volume (352 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). On price, update cadence, 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. Daily Notes Planner 2 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Quiet Almanac sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Quiet Almanac holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Daily Notes Planner 2 has 352 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Daily Notes Planner 2 ships an update every 3 weeks, Quiet Almanac fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Daily Notes Planner 2 versus Quiet Almanac: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaily Notes Planner 2Quiet Almanac
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (352 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews53.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings352 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer5th & 7th LLCxuan liu

Customer experience

Daily Notes Planner 2

All ratings345 ratings
Positive86.1%
Neutral5.2%
Negative8.7%
Written reviews43 reviews
Positive53.5%
Neutral11.6%
Negative34.9%

Quiet Almanac

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Daily Notes Planner 2

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • App crashing when inserting text
  • Sync between devices is inconsistent
  • Data won't load to MacBook
  • Crashes when trying to load from iCloud
  • Weekly schedule cannot update and sync properly
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  • Keyboard covers typing area, cannot scroll

Requested features

10 requests
  • Import/export functionality for V2
  • Text highlighting/bold/underline
  • Upload photos to notes
  • Change calendar settings (weekends on right)
  • Document scanning in notes
Show 5 more
  • Add bulleted lists
  • Warning message before saving to cloud
  • Colored text option
  • Print notes
  • Landscape view on iPhone

Quiet Almanac

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Daily Notes Planner 2

One-time1
  • Premium Version$4.99
1 purchases

Quiet Almanac

One-time1
  • Unlock Stats$0.99

Questions

Is Daily Notes Planner 2 free?
Daily Notes Planner 2 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Quiet Almanac free?
Quiet Almanac is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Daily Notes Planner 2 or Quiet Almanac?
Quiet Almanac is rated higher. Daily Notes Planner 2 averages 4.4 out of 5 from 352 ratings, while Quiet Almanac averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Daily Notes Planner 2 or Quiet Almanac have ads?
Neither Daily Notes Planner 2 nor Quiet Almanac shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Daily Notes Planner 2 or Quiet Almanac?
Daily Notes Planner 2 ships an update every 3 weeks, and Quiet Almanac fortnightly. Most recently, Daily Notes Planner 2 was updated on October 26, 2026 and Quiet Almanac on October 18, 2026.

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