Orange Diary vs Onlynote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Orange Diary
This app allows you to record daily activities, experiences, thoughts, and ideas. It offers rich content options including text, photos, voice, and location data, with features for easy organization and secure access.
- Record activities, thoughts, and ideas
- Rich content: text, photo, voice, location
- Organize entries with tags and themes
- Timeline and calendar views
- Passcode and Touch ID lock
- Offline use and data sync
- Export to PDF
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Orange Diary is a great diary app, designed to record activities, experiences, thoughts and ideas throughout a day and sync data across all your devices. It lets you organize your created diary / journal entries or notes from the past in the easiest way. What is "Moment" in Orange Diary? You can keep every moment that happened in your life with "moment". What is "Diary" in Orange Diary? You can save all thoughts & feelings germinated in your mind with "Diary". Many people use Orange Diary as, : Personal diary for freely jotting down personal thoughts & feelings : Journal for saving all the visited places in a travel : Baby book for compiling photos of growing child : Fashion scrap book for keeping records of one’s daily fashion choices and wish lists COMPREHENSIVE AND IRRESISTIBLE FEATURES: 1.Create, edit moments and diaries. 2.Support moments & diary mode. 3.Rich content : text, photo, voice, location data. 4.Every moment can be shared to social networking media. 5.Thematic icon & text tagging for fast and easy organization of pages. 6.Customized font color/size/style. 7.Support Timeline. 8.Support Calendar view. 9.Photos. Slide show in landscape mode. 10.Tags. 11.Customizable themes. 12.Customizable wallpaper. 13.Passcode Lock. 14.Touch ID unlock. 15.Support offline use. 16.Data Sync Service 17.Export to PDF. Email ：maydiaryapp@163.com
Onlynote
A free, offline note-taking and to-do list app with home screen widgets for quick access. Organize notes with folders, search content, and attach photos. Set reminders and customize appearance for a private, personalized experience.
- Home screen widgets
- Folder organization
- Search functionality
- Notes and checklists
- Photo attachments
- Reminders and notifications
- Offline functionality
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Onlynote is a simple, free note-taking and to-do list app. No account or sign-up required — everything is stored privately on your device. FEATURES - Home Screen widget: see pinned and recent notes without opening the app, and tap New to start writing - Folders: organize notes into folders, switch between them from the title bar, and manage them in Settings - Search: quickly find notes by title or content - Trash: recover deleted notes or delete them forever - Notes & checklists: write free-form notes or create to-do/checklist items - Photos: attach photos to any note - Reminders: set a reminder with a local notification so you never forget - Swipe to delete: swipe any checklist item to delete it, in any order - Auto-sort: checked items automatically move to the bottom of the list - Drag to reorder: long-press and drag notes on the home screen to reorder them - Share as image: export and share any note as an image - Customize: choose note colors, font style, font size, and card size in Settings - Privacy controls: read the privacy policy and change ad personalization any time in Settings - Fast & offline: works fully offline, with no internet connection required Whether you need a shopping list, a daily task manager, a quick memo, or a place to keep photos with notes, Onlynote keeps it simple and private.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Onlynote at 4.8 against Orange Diary's 3.9. Onlynote also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 7 months) and ratings volume (93 vs 7). Orange Diary's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, review sentiment 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. Orange Diary sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Onlynote sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Onlynote holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Onlynote has 93 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 78% of Orange Diary's written reviews are positive against 71% of Onlynote's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Orange Diary ships an update every 7 months, Onlynote every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Orange Diary | Onlynote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (7 ratings) | 4.8 (93 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.8% of reviews — better | 70.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 93 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 76 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 明超 谢 | APPS BAY LIMITED |
Customer experience
Orange Diary
Onlynote
In-app purchases
Orange Diary
- VIP Account$7.99
Onlynote
- Remove Ads$2.99
