Comparison

Plain Note vs Due This Week

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

Head to head
About

Plain Note

This app allows you to create and organize notes with customizable tags and icons. It offers lock screen and home screen widgets for quick access and supports character/line counting. Personalize your experience with themes, app icons, and fonts.

Highlights
  • Organize notes with tags
  • Customizable tag icons and colors
  • Character and line counting
  • Lock screen and home screen widgets
  • Customizable themes, app icons, and fonts
  • Archive and organize notes
Features
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"Plain Note" is a simple notes app. You can organize your notes by adding tags, and it supports lock screen and home screen widgets. It can be used on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Features • You can categorize your notes with tags. • Customize tag icons and colors. • You can count the number of characters and lines. • Archive and organize your notes. • Widgets can be added to the lock screen and home screen. • Customize themes, App icons, and fonts. (Some features are available for a fee.) Premium (in-app purchase) • Sync data with iPhone, iPad, and Mac via iCloud. This can also be used as a backup. • All themes and App icons are available. • All tag icons are available. • All font customizations are available. *Prices may vary by country or region. Please check in the app. *Some features may not be available in all languages or regions. Terms of Use: https://monelyze.app/en/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://monelyze.app/en/privacy

About

Due This Week

Features
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Everything the school sent, in one week. Three PDFs, two kids, one Saturday. Due This Week turns the letters and emails piling up in your inbox into a single checklist for the week — across every child in the house. Who it's for. The parent who ended up being the household's admin. More than one child, sometimes more than one school, and letters arriving three different ways: an email on Monday, a PDF on Thursday, a folded sheet in the bottom of a bag on Friday. If one child and a wall calendar are working for you, you don't need this. Share it in. That's the whole job. A newsletter, an email, a photo of a letter. Due This Week reads it and shows you what it found — a form to sign, money to send, a kit to buy — with a guess at the day and the child. You tick what's real and fix what isn't. Nothing is saved until you say so. Nothing leaves your phone. Documents are read on your device, by software built into iOS. There is no account, no password, and no server of ours for a letter about your child to sit on. No analytics, no trackers, no third-party anything. On a device with Apple Intelligence the reading is sharper; on every other device it still works, with rules instead of a model. One list, every kid. The week runs Monday to Sunday. Anything whose day has been and gone gathers at the top, so Friday morning answers two questions: what's late, and what's coming. Assign a job to whichever adult is doing it, and send the whole week to them in a message. The things that come back. The gym kit every Tuesday, the trip money on the tenth. Set it once: tick this week's off and next week's is already waiting. On the home screen. A widget for what's due, so a school morning doesn't need the app opened at all. A nudge, not a nag. One reminder on Sunday evening about the week ahead, and one the morning before something is due. Both optional. If nothing is due, nothing is sent. It replaces the re-typing, not the school's website. Wherever your school posts its notices, that is one school, one child, one login, and it ends at "here is your notice". What has no home is the bit underneath — the list of what your household actually has to do this week. That is this. Free to download. After a short introduction it is a weekly subscription or a single purchase, priced by the App Store for your country — and a little over four weeks of the subscription costs more than buying it outright, so buying it once is usually the honest answer. Cancel a subscription any time in your Apple Account settings. Privacy: https://graboosky.github.io/due-this-week-web/privacy.html Terms: https://graboosky.github.io/due-this-week-web/terms.html

Screenshots

Plain Note4 screens
Due This Week4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Due This Week at every 2 days against Plain Note's every 9 days. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Plain Note sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Due This Week sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Plain Note ships an update every 9 days, Due This Week every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Plain Note versus Due This Week: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlain NoteDue This Week
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (1.1K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews62.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.1K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMonelyze Inc.Patryk Grabowski

Bugs and requests

Plain Note

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Notes sometimes get deleted after updates
  • Widget not working as expected, showing wrong note

Requested features

7 requests
  • Ability to swipe widget to display another note
  • Subfolders for better organization
  • Export function to backup notes
  • Option to change app colors
  • Support for multiple notes in one widget
Show 2 more
  • Text formatting options (bold, italics, headings)
  • Ability to insert photos and videos

Due This Week

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Plain Note

Subscriptions2
  • Premium - Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Premium - Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium - Lifetime$29.99
2 purchases

Due This Week

Subscriptions1
  • Weekly$1.497 Days
One-time1
  • Buy it once$6.99

Questions

Is Plain Note free?
Plain Note is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Due This Week free?
Due This Week is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Plain Note or Due This Week have ads?
Neither Plain Note nor Due This Week shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Plain Note or Due This Week?
Plain Note ships an update every 9 days, and Due This Week every 2 days. Most recently, Plain Note was updated on October 14, 2026 and Due This Week on October 4, 2026.

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