Comparison

My Daily Input vs Nerdish

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

Head to head
About

My Daily Input

Discover new knowledge daily with personalized topics. Improve yourself gradually with engaging, bite-sized information. Explore a vast collection of subjects and revisit favorites.

Highlights
  • Personalized topic selection
  • Daily knowledge bites
  • Learning and inspiration
  • Browse topic collection
  • Repeat daily entries
  • Archive favorites
  • Quiz mode
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Learn something new every day. Put together your own topics according to your interests and receive small, but excuisite bites of knowledge every day. Improve yourself step by step and without much effort. - Choose your topics - Receive daily bites of knowledge - Learn & be inspired - Browse through the growing topic collection Sample Topics: - Animals – Fascinating Facts - History – General – Basics - Space – Basics - Biology – Basics - Healthy Nutrition - Capital City Knowledge (Quiz) - Motivational Quotes & Jokes and over 100 more ... Choose what motivates you and keeps you going. New topics are added regularly, but more important to us than getting you to download the app, is not to disappoint you. To avoid this, you can have a look at all the latest topics you can choose from in our app - free of charge, of course - in advance in the topic collection on our website. We hope you'll find something that inspires you or arouses your curiosity. We want to make it as easy as possible for everyone to learn a little bit more every day and thus always become a little more knowledgeable. Together we make the world a little bit better, day by day. Learn for life! Additional features: Once again:  Press "Repeat" and have your Daily displayed again to better internalize it. Archive:  Save your favorites in the archive. Quiz time:  For guessers, many of our topics are also available as single choice quizzes. Don't miss a thing:  If you haven't been to the app yet, we'll be happy to remind you of your daily Dailys. --- In-App Purchases: Why & for what? As a small thank you for their support, Pro users will not be distracted by banner ads for the duration of the subscription and will have a “Review“ – feature at their disposal that will allow them to access the Dailys of their last two visits again. The actual core of the app is completely free and you don't even need to set-up a profile. Further questions will hopefully be answered in our FAQs on the website or in our app. The right topic mix of tricky learning facts and light entertainment is always in your hands. We hope to support you with the My Daily Input app.  We are on your Team, let's go! --- Topic Collection: https://mydailyinput.com/en/topic-collection/ Privacy Policy: https://mydailyinput.com/en/privacy-policy/ Terms of Service: https://mydailyinput.com/en/tos/

About

Nerdish

Expand your general knowledge with concise, engaging articles on diverse topics like science, history, and art. Designed for busy adults, this app delivers quick, fact-checked reads in 5-10 minutes daily to foster lifelong learning and personal growth.

Highlights
  • Concise articles on science, history, art, and more
  • Daily 5-10 minute learning sessions
  • Fact-checked and well-structured content
  • Connects key ideas for deeper understanding
  • Topics include psychology, technology, and daily life
Features
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Nerdish is a learning app that helps you grow your general knowledge. The articles inside are our own — written to show you things you'd never thought to look up, feed your curiosity, and help you learn more about the world. You can read them or listen to them, and most take about ten minutes: why people like spicy food, what Nefertiti actually looked like, how the internet crosses oceans. What's inside: - Articles we write ourselves. Each one starts with a question our editors find interesting, and gets researched properly before it's written. - Topics from the life around you. Sleep, coffee, déjà vu, the internet, Nefertiti — things you pass by every day without wondering about them. - Our own writing framework. It keeps every article interesting and concise, but still genuinely educational — a lot of thought went into getting all three at once. - Built as microlearning for adults. Short chapters of a couple of minutes each, designed to fit a phone screen and a busy day. - Audio for everything. Read it, listen to it, or follow the text while it plays. - Historical photographs, archive material and artwork alongside the text, with facts and details in the margins. - A wide range of subjects, from the human body to ancient history — and the connections between them. We built Nerdish for people who: - would rather spend phone time on something better than socials. Same ten minutes, different outcome. - enjoy learning random things for no particular reason. Curiosity doesn't need a goal attached to it. - want to stay mentally sharp. Reading something unfamiliar is a small habit that keeps the mind working. - want to find their way back to reading. Short pieces are easier to start with than a book you've been meaning to open for months. - want to have more to say — about art, history, or why the sky is blue. Why it works: There's no way to measure general knowledge and no point where you have enough. But it's what you're using when you read the news, or decide whether something sounds true, or find a solution that came from somewhere unrelated. Hardly any of us sets out to work on our knowledge. Nobody ever taught us how — there's no course in general knowledge, nowhere obvious to begin. So it stays on the list of things you'd like to do. Nerdish works because the mechanism is already there. Curiosity is what built your general knowledge in the first place, and it doesn't need much — an interesting question and ten minutes. And knowledge doesn't stay in separate piles. We write science with its history in it, history with its culture, and culture with the people behind it — nothing is only about one thing. Pick a topic, read or listen, learn something you'd never thought to look up. That's how general knowledge grows. Learn with us about: - Health and the human body: sleep, memory, ageing, and how the body actually works. - History: ancient empires, revolutions, great discoveries, and the people who changed things. - Science and technology: space, evolution, physics, AI, inventions, and everyday phenomena explained properly. - Daily things: why déjà vu happens, how coffee was discovered, where common ideas come from. - Art and culture: painting, music, architecture, design, literature, and the movements behind them. - Food: where dishes come from and why we like what we like. - Famous people: the lives behind the names. Welcome to being Nerdish with us! Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

My Daily Input4 screens
Nerdish4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Nerdish at none against My Daily Input's shown. Nerdish also leads on ratings volume (2.6K vs 10) and update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks). My Daily Input's advantage is review sentiment (92% vs 60%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. My Daily Input sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Nerdish sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Nerdish holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Nerdish has 2.6K ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 92% of My Daily Input's written reviews are positive against 60% of Nerdish's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

My Daily Input ships an update every 5 weeks, Nerdish weekly. The most recent releases landed on June 9, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
My Daily Input versus Nerdish: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMy Daily InputNerdish
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (10 ratings)4.8 (2.6K ratings) — better
Positive reviews92.5% of reviews — better60.0% of reviews
Number of ratings102.6K — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#84 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size69 MB62 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperMy Daily Input GmbHNerdish OU

Customer experience

My Daily Input

All ratings10 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews53 reviews
Positive92.5%
Neutral5.7%
Negative1.9%

Nerdish

All ratings2,640 ratings
Positive96.2%
Neutral2.2%
Negative1.6%
Written reviews105 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral12.4%
Negative27.6%

Bugs and requests

My Daily Input

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Nerdish

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Incomplete articles with missing content
  • Frequent app crashes and freezes
  • Subscription issues and billing problems

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add audio narration option
  • Implement bookmarking and note-taking features
  • Improve search and filtering capabilities
  • Provide more free content without ads

In-app purchases

6 purchases

My Daily Input

Subscriptions2
  • Pro-Monthly IOS$0.991 Month
  • Pro-Annual IOS$8.991 Year
One-time4
  • Thanks$0.99
  • Thank you very much$1.99
  • Thank you$3.99
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  • Great, keep it up!$8.99
5 purchases

Nerdish

Subscriptions5
  • Monthly Subscription14 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Nerdish Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Easy Quarterly Plan$11.993 Months
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  • Nerdish Annual Special$29.991 Year
  • Nerdish Premium Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is My Daily Input free?
My Daily Input is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Nerdish free?
Nerdish is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, My Daily Input or Nerdish?
Nerdish is rated higher. My Daily Input averages 4.6 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Nerdish averages 4.8 from 2.6K ratings.
Do My Daily Input or Nerdish have ads?
My Daily Input shows ads; Nerdish does not.
Which is updated more often, My Daily Input or Nerdish?
My Daily Input ships an update every 5 weeks, and Nerdish weekly. Most recently, My Daily Input was updated on June 9, 2026 and Nerdish on September 26, 2026.

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