Comparison

Microsoft OneNote vs Dayweave

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

Head to head
About

Microsoft OneNote

Capture thoughts, ideas, and plans in a digital notepad. Organize, search, and secure your notes, memos, and sketches. Sync across devices for access anywhere, anytime. Collaborate with others on shared notepads.

Highlights
  • Capture thoughts and ideas
  • Digital sketchbook
  • Organize and search notes
  • Sync notes via OneDrive
  • Collaborate on shared notepads
  • Handwritten notes and drawings
Features
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Supercharge your productivity with OneNote. Organize thoughts and ideas, and simplify planning important moments with your digital note-taking. Smart notes on your phone can sync across all your devices with Microsoft OneNote. Combine the power of digital ink with the natural feel of a pen to help you sketch out your inspirations. Take smart notes and capture every detail with voice transcription. Our writing tools make it easy to capture your notes, review your content later, and access AI studying. Take smart notes, share writing ideas, organize note-taking, and collaborate on your creative ideas and writing - all with Microsoft OneNote. ONENOTE APP FEATURES: AI-POWERED COPILOT NOTEBOOKS • Make sense of your files with AI chat • Summarize meetings, classes, and discussions easily from your notes • Listen to audio overviews, created directly from the notes you take AI NOTE-TAKING WITH HOMEPAGE AND QUICK CAPTURE • Streamlined writing: Find notes from your connected accounts in one place to easily create, find, & act on your notes. Now with Samsung Notes integration. • AI workflows with Copilot: Capture text, voice, ink or images to your notepad with Quick Capture • Smart notes: Capture smart notes in ink. Click the pen button & write down thoughts • Write smart notes, draw & clip things from the web to add to your writing notebook SCAN PICTURES & EXTRACT TEXT FROM WRITING • Note-Taking Scanner: Scan documents, pictures, or files to extract writing • Capture images to extract text from documents & more • Apply different filters to change colors, add ink, crop images & more SMART NOTES & AUDIO TRANSCRIPTION • Voice smart notes: Take accurate notes with voice dictation • Click the Mic button to record, then click it again to end recording & save the file • Dictate smart notes in 27 languages (note some languages are in preview) & use Auto-Punctutation to format NOTE-TAKING THAT HELPS YOU ACHIEVE MORE • Organize writing using to-do lists, follow-up items, marks for what’s important & custom labels • Use OneNote as a notebook, journal or a notepad for work or AI studying • Notepad badge hovers on screen & lets you quickly write your thoughts down any time • NEW Sticky notes - Make quick memos & note-taking COLLABORATE WRITING & SHARE SMART NOTES • Write meeting notes, brainstorm projects, & draw attention to important points • Take notes & save ideas across your favorite devices, no matter what device your team likes to use BETTER TOGETHER WITH MICROSOFT OFFICE • OneNote is part of the Office family & works great with your favorite apps, such as Excel or Word, to help you do more Write notes, save ideas & keep up with your to-do list with Microsoft OneNote. APP REQUIREMENTS: OneNote is free on iPhone and many other devices. Get started today! Download OneNote and sign in with your Microsoft Account or the account assigned to you by your work or school. Monthly Microsoft 365 subscriptions purchased from the app will be charged to your App Store account and will automatically renew within 24 hours prior to the end of the current subscription period unless auto-renewal is disabled beforehand. You can manage your subscriptions in your App Store account settings. This app is provided by either Microsoft or a third-party app publisher and is subject to a separate privacy statement and terms and conditions. Data provided through the use of this store and this app may be accessible to Microsoft or the third-party app publisher, as applicable, and transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States or any other country where Microsoft or the app publisher and their affiliates or service providers maintain facilities. Please refer to the Microsoft Software License Terms for Microsoft 365. See “License Agreement” link under Information. By installing the app, you agree to these terms and conditions.

About

Dayweave

Features
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Dayweave brings your tasks, calendar, notes, and loose thoughts into one calm place. Plan your day without fighting your tools. Move naturally between focused daily planning, a complete seven-day week, scrolling months, and a chronological agenda. PLAN YOUR WAY • Day, Week, Month, and Agenda views • A complete seven-day weekly timeline • Compact, Stacked, Detailed, and List month modes • Jump back to today from any planner view • Organize work with categories, priorities, durations, and time blocks CAPTURE THOUGHTS NATURALLY Use Brain Dump to write what is on your mind in everyday language. Dayweave can organize it into suggested tasks, events, and notes for you to review before saving. TASKS AND EVENTS THAT WORK TOGETHER • Create an event directly from a task • Add linked tasks to calendar events • Keep linked schedules aligned when plans change • Create recurring events and edit individual occurrences • Add dates, times, locations, priorities, categories, and detailed notes NOTES WITH STRUCTURE Write and format notes without leaving your flow. Use headings, bold, italic, underline, checklists, bullet lists, numbered lists, and indentation. REMINDERS THAT STAY CURRENT Receive notifications for your actual tasks and events. When something is edited, completed, rescheduled, or removed, Dayweave updates its reminder plan accordingly. USE DAYWEAVE YOUR WAY Keep your workspace on your device or sign in for cloud-backed access. Dayweave is designed for both iPhone and iPad with one consistent interface. THE CORE WORKSPACE IS FREE Tasks, events, notes, planner views, reminders, and organization tools are available without limits. Free accounts include 3,000 estimated Smart Parser tokens each week. Dayweave Pro removes the Smart Parser limit. Eligible new subscribers can begin with a seven-day free trial. Monthly and annual subscription options are available through the App Store. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://brain-dump-ashy-seven.vercel.app/privacy/

Screenshots

Microsoft OneNote4 screens
Dayweave4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is chart position: Microsoft OneNote at #127 against Dayweave's unranked. Microsoft OneNote also leads on device support (4 vs 2). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Microsoft OneNote sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Dayweave sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 9 level
Microsoft OneNote versus Dayweave: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMicrosoft OneNoteDayweave
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.1M ratings) — better—
Positive reviews44.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.1M — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#127 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size411 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMicrosoft CorporationAditya Agrawal

Bugs and requests

Microsoft OneNote

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • Cursor positioning is erratic
  • Search function does not work well
  • Ink to text conversion missing on iPad
  • Syncing issues, notes not syncing properly across devices
  • Crashing, freezing, and performance issues
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  • Scrolling issues, page jumping to top unexpectedly
  • Eraser tool deletes more than intended
  • Formatting issues when importing/exporting
  • Inconsistent behavior between desktop and mobile versions

Requested features

11 requests
  • Native Markdown support and merged cell support
  • Ruler, ability to choose or create notebook covers
  • Ability to password protect app or individual notebooks
  • Option to open on last opened page instead of Home
  • Ability to turn note into task that appears on To Do and Planner
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  • Search for tags, more Evernote-like search features
  • Ability to select text using 3D Touch
  • Option to limit page to A4 size with framing
  • Pencil feature like Notes app for drawing
  • Ability to delete notebooks
  • Ability to delete notes from Apple devices

Dayweave

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Microsoft OneNote

Subscriptions3
  • Microsoft 365 Personal1 Month trial$9.991 Month
  • Microsoft 365 Personal$11.991 Month
  • Microsoft 365 Family$12.991 Month
2 purchases

Dayweave

Subscriptions2
  • OPUS PRO - 1 Month7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription7 Days trial$34.991 Year

Questions

Is Microsoft OneNote free?
Microsoft OneNote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dayweave free?
Dayweave is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Microsoft OneNote or Dayweave have ads?
Neither Microsoft OneNote nor Dayweave shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Microsoft OneNote or Dayweave?
Microsoft OneNote ships an update weekly, and Dayweave weekly. Most recently, Microsoft OneNote was updated on October 25, 2026 and Dayweave on October 10, 2026.

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