Comparison

baseline vs DayNote

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

Head to head
About

baseline

This app offers a distraction-free journaling experience to help you understand your feelings and mood patterns. It provides mental health surveys, visualizations, and secure, encrypted storage for your personal reflections. Start tracking your mood and gain self-awareness with this easy-to-use tool.

Highlights
  • Distraction-free journaling
  • Mood tracking with two scales
  • Upload pictures and screenshots
  • Journaling and mental health reminders
  • Visualizations of mood changes
  • Mental health surveys (anxiety, depression, stress)
  • Data encryption and passphrase lock
  • Free Gap Fund for financial support
Features
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Understanding what you’re feeling and why is often way harder than it should be. baseline is here to help. By giving you a distraction-free, easy way to journal and track your mood, baseline gives you easy opportunities to write and reflect on what you’re feeling throughout the day. With time, you’ll start to understand yourself and your brain better. baseline is designed not just to help you write and reflect more often, but also to help you understand more about yourself and your mood over time. You’ll get mental health surveys and reviews each week, and we have beautiful visualizations across our app that are designed to help you better see what you’re going through and when you’re struggling. We know we’re dealing with really sensitive information here, so we’re committed to keeping your personal information 100% secure. Everything you write and upload to baseline is encrypted, so we can’t even see what you’ve written. You can also protect your data in-app against people who might have access to your device. Start journaling and mood tracking today with baseline. Features: - Write about how you’re feeling whenever you want, and rate your mood with two different scales - Upload pictures and screenshots to remember important moments - Set reminders to keep yourself accountable to your journaling and mental health goals - View all of your mood logs at a glance, and see how your mood changes over time - Take mental health surveys to track things like anxiety, depression, and stress over time - Lock your data with a passphrase to stop people who might have access to your device from reading it - Find mental health support, including financially with the baseline Gap Fund, which can help users cover “gaps” in their finances - 100% free, forever.

About

DayNote

This app provides a guided journaling experience to help users reflect on their day. It prompts users with questions about learning, achievements, good experiences, and areas for improvement, allowing them to record thoughts via typing or voice. Users can revisit past entries to track their perspective and notice positive moments.

Highlights
  • Guided daily reflection questions
  • Voice and text entry options
  • Review past entries
  • Focus on positive experiences
  • Track personal growth
Features
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End your day with a clearer head. Some days pass in a blur. Others leave you with plenty on your mind. DayNote gives you a place to pause, put your thoughts into words, and remember what mattered. Start with four simple questions: • What did you learn? • What did you achieve? • What were your good experiences? • What can you improve? Your answers don’t need to be profound. A small win, an unexpected lesson, or a moment you want to remember is enough. WRITE IT DOWN. TALK IT THROUGH. Type your thoughts or record them in your own voice. NOTICE THE GOOD. Give the little things a place alongside the big ones. A kind conversation. Something you finally finished. A day that turned out better than you expected. MAKE ROOM FOR REFLECTION. Explore what went well and what you’d like to do differently. Write a few words or take your time. LOOK BACK ON YOUR DAYS. Revisit your entries to remember experiences, rediscover lessons, and see how your perspective has changed. COME BACK WHEN YOU CAN. Reflect each evening or whenever you need a moment to yourself. You don’t need a perfect routine to begin. Take a moment for today. Leave something for tomorrow. You may read more about our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy here: Terms of Service: https://goo.gl/qKXvYk Privacy Policy: https://www.zaminiti.com/daynote-privacy-policy

Screenshots

baseline4 screens
DayNote4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: baseline at 86% against DayNote's 50%. baseline also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (monthly vs every 49 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. DayNote sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. baseline asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

baseline holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: baseline has 115 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of baseline's written reviews are positive against 50% of DayNote's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

baseline ships an update monthly, DayNote every 49 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
baseline versus DayNote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterbaselineDayNote
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (115 ratings) — better4.4 (10 ratings)
Positive reviews86.5% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings115 — better10
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 49 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB82 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerbaseline healthZaminiti Pty Ltd

Customer experience

baseline

All ratings115 ratings
Positive93.0%
Neutral1.7%
Negative5.2%
Written reviews37 reviews
Positive86.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative13.5%

DayNote

All ratings10 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Bugs and requests

baseline

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Hourly logging reminders delete old ones after the 11th
  • App tells user they are not connected to the internet when they are
  • Audio recordings are erased instead of saved when internet connection fails
  • Blank white screen after opening app through notification and writing an entry
  • Entries deleted without warning

Requested features

9 requests
  • AI short summary of rants with generalized headlines
  • Sort notes by topic/category and tags
  • Aesthetic themes for personalization
  • Ability to edit recent logs
  • More interactive features like emoticons or affirmations
Show 4 more
  • Randomize notification time
  • Option to go back and log a skipped day
  • Allow Apple Silicon Macs to download the app
  • More advanced weekly recap features for healthcare team reporting

DayNote

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

baseline

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

DayNote

Subscriptions2
  • DayNote Premium (1 Month)$1.491 Month
  • DayNote Premium (1 Year)$8.991 Year

Questions

Is baseline free?
baseline is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DayNote free?
DayNote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, baseline or DayNote?
baseline is rated higher. baseline averages 4.7 out of 5 from 115 ratings, while DayNote averages 4.4 from 10 ratings.
Do baseline or DayNote have ads?
Neither baseline nor DayNote shows ads.
Which is updated more often, baseline or DayNote?
baseline ships an update monthly, and DayNote every 49 months. Most recently, baseline was updated on November 7, 2026 and DayNote on November 11, 2026.

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