DayNote vs Guided Alchemy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Four daily reflection questions
- Guided journaling prompts
- Personal growth tracking
- Memory collection
- Learning and achievement logging
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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
Guided Alchemy
This app helps you recall dreams and achieve lucidity through daily voice journaling. It transforms your spoken reflections into narrated summaries, fostering self-awareness and a deeper connection to your subconscious.
- Daily voice note recording
- Personal narrated reflections
- Dream recall assistance
- Lucid dreaming trigger
- Private dream journal collection
- Subconscious connection
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Speak your dream before it fades. Guided Alchemy is a voice-first dream journal. Each morning you talk for a minute or two about whatever you remember. Settings, characters, feelings, fragments. Later that day, at a time you choose, a narrated reflection comes back to you. The gap between those two moments is the point. You catch the dream while it is still raw, then meet it again hours later, in the middle of an ordinary Tuesday. WHY VOICE Dreams go strange the moment you start typing them. Speaking is faster and looser, and it keeps the feeling in. Guided Alchemy asks you to talk before words harden. WHAT COMES BACK A personal reflection, narrated, delivered at the moment you picked. Lunchtime. The dead hour at four. Whenever you might appreciate a little grounding. It draws only on what you actually said. Noticing how a dream's emotion moves through your waking hours is a practice. It may sharpen your recall over time. For some people that noticing becomes a trigger for lucidity, the moment of recognizing you are dreaming while you are still inside the dream. SOME MORNINGS THERE IS NOTHING Speak the residue instead. How you woke up. What was still sitting in your chest. Blank mornings are part of the practice, and it builds over weeks. YOUR ARCHIVE Every entry is saved and searchable. Look up a person, a place, a recurring object, and see every dream it appears in. Patterns surface on their own once there is enough to look across. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your recordings stay on your device or in your personal iCloud. Sign in with Apple. Download a copy of everything, any time you want. Two minutes in the morning. One reflection in the afternoon. That is the whole practice.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Guided Alchemy at 100% against DayNote's 50%. Guided Alchemy also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4). DayNote's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.4). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. DayNote sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month and Guided Alchemy sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Guided Alchemy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of DayNote's written reviews are positive against 100% of Guided Alchemy's.
| Parameter | DayNote | Guided Alchemy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | — | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 208 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Zaminiti Pty Ltd | Remind Voice LTD |
Customer experience
DayNote
Guided Alchemy
In-app purchases
DayNote
- DayNote Premium (1 Month)$1.491 Month
- DayNote Premium (1 Year)$8.991 Year
Guided Alchemy
- Monthly subscription$5.991 Month
- Annual subscription$34.991 Year
- Lifetime patron$700.00









