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.
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.
- 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
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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
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.
- Daily habit tracking
- Important date reminders
- One-time appointment logging
- Event archiving
- Lock screen widget
- Progress statistics
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Daily Notes Planner 2 | Quiet Almanac |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (352 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 352 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 5th & 7th LLC | xuan liu |
Customer experience
Daily Notes Planner 2
Quiet Almanac
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
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- 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
Daily Notes Planner 2
- Premium Version$4.99
Quiet Almanac
- Unlock Stats$0.99
Questions
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