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 emotions and improve mental well-being. Track your mood, reflect on your feelings, and gain insights through weekly surveys and visualizations. Your data is encrypted and secured with a passphrase.

Highlights
  • Distraction-free journaling
  • Mood tracking with two scales
  • Upload pictures and screenshots
  • Journaling and mood log reminders
  • Weekly mental health surveys
  • Mood change visualizations
  • Passphrase data lock
  • Financial support fund
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 guided journaling app prompts users with four daily questions to encourage reflection on learning, achievements, positive experiences, and areas for improvement. It helps users build a personal knowledge base for growth by recording thoughts and memories over time.

Highlights
  • Four daily reflection questions
  • Guided journaling prompts
  • Personal growth tracking
  • Memory collection
  • Learning and achievement logging
Features
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Welcome to DayNote. Our goal with DayNote is to help you discover something lost during the day - the moment to pause and answer some of life's most important questions. As a guided journal, DayNote becomes a place where thoughts are recorded and collected as answers to four significant questions. These questions are: What did you learn? What did you achieve? What were your good experiences? What can I improve? And that's all you have to do. Preferably daily, but if not, as often as you can, answer these questions to the best of your ability. Over time, as you create journal entries, a wealth of knowledge tailored to your experiences will grow and become increasingly valuable to your personal growth. With DayNote, remember what you learnt, be proud of your achievements and reminisce positive memories. 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 rating (4.7 vs 4.4). 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 106 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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
baseline versus DayNote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterbaselineDayNote
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (106 ratings) — better4.4 (10 ratings)
Positive reviews86.1% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings106 — better10
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS14.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB87 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerbaseline healthZaminiti Pty Ltd

Customer experience

baseline

All ratings106 ratings
Positive92.5%
Neutral1.9%
Negative5.7%
Written reviews36 reviews
Positive86.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative13.9%

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 106 ratings, while DayNote averages 4.4 from 10 ratings.
Do baseline or DayNote have ads?
Neither baseline nor DayNote shows ads.

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