Quick Diary vs Transom Note
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Quick Diary
This free application combines quick notes, sticky notes, and diary entries into a single, convenient tool. Easily save, edit, delete, search, and share your written thoughts and daily life moments.
- Quick note taking
- Sticky note functionality
- Diary entries
- Instant saving
- Edit and delete notes
- Search by text or date
- Share notes
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Quick note, sticky note and diary - in one free application. Get the part of your daily life with you from now on.... You can save any writing instantly, edit later or delete, search by text or date and share any note whenever you wish. Please visit support URL for detail on how to use.
Transom Note
Capture, tag, and organize your writing ideas effortlessly. This app helps writers keep track of every thought, project, and tag, making it easy to retrieve them when inspiration strikes. Export your notes in various formats for seamless integration into your writing workflow.
- Capture and tag ideas
- Organize thoughts by project
- Search by tag or project
- Archive or delete notes
- Export notes as PDF, CSV, or rich-text
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Made for writers, by writers, Transom lets you capture and tag every little scrap of an idea so that you can easily find it whenever you're ready to write — without having to fumble through emails-to-self, messy notebooks, and clunky multi-purpose apps. How it works: create a Thought to add it to your Transom notes. Easily add Tags and file it under a Project. When it's time to sit down and write, all those brilliant little gems will be right at your fingertips (and not buried in that old notebook — no, the other one. Or was it in an email?). Search by Tag, Project name, or use simple keyword search. Once you've used a Thought, archive or delete it to declutter your list. And if you want to copy your Thoughts to something long-form, export a custom list of Thoughts as PDF, CSV, rich-text file. Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: help@wearetransom.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Transom Note at 4.6 against Quick Diary's 2.5. Transom Note also leads on ratings volume (82 vs 14). Quick Diary's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 12.1). On price, review sentiment, 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. Quick Diary sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Transom Note sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Transom Note holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Transom Note has 82 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of Quick Diary's written reviews are positive against 70% of Transom Note's.
Quick Diary ships an update every 5 weeks, Transom Note every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 15, 2026.
| Parameter | Quick Diary | Transom Note |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (14 ratings) | 4.6 (82 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.3% of reviews | 69.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 82 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 12.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TopOfStack Software Limited | VoidMedia |
Customer experience
Quick Diary
Transom Note
User reviews
Quick Diary
From 14 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🔒 Password protection
- 📝 Simple and straightforward to use
- 🗓️ Useful for journaling and note-taking
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes and stability issues
- 🕰️ Incorrect date/time stamps
- 🔒 Lack of password recovery options
- 🔧 Inability to edit or delete entries
Transom Note
From 82 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Beautifully simple interface
- ✍️ Indispensable for writers
- 💡 Great for organizing thoughts
- 🚀 Easy to use and capture ideas
- ✅ Helpful for multiple projects
Room to improve
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 📉 Data loss after updates
- 🔒 Login required for data access
- 🗄️ Older versions preferred by some
- 🚫 Lacks export options
Bugs and requests
Quick Diary
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes when trying to open
- Entries not syncing correctly across devices
- Unable to access old data after updates
Requested features
3 requests- Ability to add photos and customize backgrounds
- Option to export/email entire diary
- Sync across devices via iCloud or other cloud services
Transom Note
Reported bugs
12 issues- App crashes while writing
- App crashes when holding on a tag
- App crashes when adding emojis
- App crashes upon opening after updates
- Notes doubled up after login
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- Unable to change associated email/password
- Notes not saving
- App crashes immediately on startup
- All notes disappeared
- New update made app inaccessible
- App crashes on 9.3.2
- App won't open, flashes back to home screen
Requested features
16 requests- Add image support
- Word count per day display
- More font choices
- Emoji support
- Assign tags to projects
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- Set category for tags
- Dark mode
- Filter by multiple tags
- Export in text/document format
- Add photos to places and pin to map
- Change work title
- Group notes/books
- Add 'Idea' section within projects
- Add new categories of notes to a project
- Settings menu functionality
- Working feedback link
In-app purchases
Quick Diary
- Purchase Ad Free$4.99
Transom Note
- Prompt Credit$0.99
