Minute Notes vs IC DayPlanner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Minute Notes
Quickly capture thoughts and ideas with a simple, focused notepad. Search your notes instantly and export them as plain text. Designed for privacy with no accounts or cloud services, all data stays on your device.
- One-tap note creation
- Fast search across titles and text
- Pin important notes
- Export notes as plain text
- Native split-screen layout
- Offline storage
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Capture a thought before it disappears. Minute Notes is a focused notepad for writing, finding, and exporting plain-text notes without an account. Open the app, create a note with one tap, and keep typing. FAST FROM THE FIRST NOTE • Create a note with one tap • Search across titles and note text • Pin important notes to the top • Export any note as portable plain text with the system share sheet • Use a native split layout built for both iPhone and iPad PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your notes are stored on this device. Minute Notes has no account, no ads, no analytics SDK, and no cloud or upload service. You choose where an exported note goes. Minute Notes is deliberately small: a clear place to capture an idea, find it again, and move it somewhere else when you are ready.
IC DayPlanner
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Day Planner is an app that helps you to be more productive during the day. The app allows you to prepare your daily plan in one single place, in the app, and, then, distribute items of the plan between Calendar and Reminders app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: IC DayPlanner at every 15 months against Minute Notes's every 40 months. 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Minute Notes ships an update every 40 months, IC DayPlanner every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Minute Notes | IC DayPlanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 40 months | Every 15 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dmitriy Motorin | Igor Chesnokov |
In-app purchases
Minute Notes
No in-app purchases
IC DayPlanner
No in-app purchases
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