Daily Notes vs Notes and Folders
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Daily Notes
Capture your thoughts and memories with a versatile note-taking app. It supports handwriting, image insertion, and voice recordings for quick and easy documentation. Organize your life with a calendar view, event reminders, and secure password protection.
- Handwriting input with customizable settings
- Voice recording and playback
- Calendar view with Lunar Calendar support
- Event creation and reminders
- Password protection for notes
- Notes backup and restore
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A kind of simple but powerful memo application, supports handwriting, picture and voice record, that you can record everything easily and quickly. 1. View the calendar conveniently, and support Lunar Calendar. 2. Create and edit event quickly, set reminder, and offers a variety of ring tone options. 3. Powerful handwriting input, waving a finger on the screen with your strokes to record things, while providing stroke size, color, kerning and other settings, make your writing colorful, you can save and modify the writing. 4. Record and play your voice with the event, you can also delete the voice by long pressing the voice button. 5. Provide password setting for security, and support notes backup and restore. Come on and enjoy it ! If any question and suggestion, please contact czh0766@163.com.
Notes and Folders
Organize your thoughts and memories with this app. Create folders for notes, attach photos, and even keep a dated diary. Secure your entries with password protection and access them easily with widgets and search functionality.
- Organize notes with folders and subfolders
- Attach photos to notes
- Dated diary entries
- Password lock (Passcode, Touch ID, Face ID)
- Widgets for quick access
- Search notes
- Backup to Dropbox, PC, or Mac
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180,000 downloads worldwide! Organize texts and photos with folders. FOLDERS - You can use folders to organize notes - Support subfolders NOTES - Attach photos to the note - Letter count - Auto save in editing - Internal browser that can easily link with notes DIARY - Diary that set date - Read monthly diaries at once OTHERS - Widget - Password lock (Passcode, Touch ID and Face ID) - Search notes - Share notes to other apps - Share texts and images from other apps - Theme color - Text size change - iPad support - Backup by Dropbox - Backup by PC or Mac URL Scheme notesandfolders:// About Backup by PC or Mac There is a backup support using PC or Mac. Please read FAQ "About backup" section in preferences screen. Full screen advertisement will come out only once a day (24 hours). (It will not come out if you charge for remove ad)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Daily Notes at none against Notes and Folders's 1. Daily Notes also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.7 vs 4.5). Notes and Folders's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and device support 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. Notes and Folders sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Daily Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.
Daily Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 143 and 300 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Daily Notes's written reviews are positive against 80% of Notes and Folders's.
Daily Notes ships an update every 3 months, Notes and Folders every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Daily Notes | Notes and Folders |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (143 ratings) — better | 4.5 (300 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.2% of reviews — better | 80.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 143 | 300 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Shenzhen Brown Bear Technology Co., LTD | KinkumaDesign |
Customer experience
Daily Notes
Notes and Folders
Bugs and requests
Daily Notes
Reported bugs
12 issues- Notes disappear after saving or later in the day
- App crashes when opening details for the first time
- Screen shifts up when typing, obscuring text
- Voice input causes app to freeze or lock up
- Photo attachment feature non-functional
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- Verification code form rejects valid email/phone formats
- App incompatible with iOS 13 and later
- Calendar dates greyed out and unwritable on certain days
- Back button displays ads with no way to navigate back
- Reminder feature doesn't work for certain months
- Text input lag and poor word processor performance
- Password prompt appears without user setting one
Requested features
14 requests- Cloud sync and backup functionality
- Better integration with other apps
- iPad landscape and split-screen support
- Ability to type instead of handwrite
- Tag or hashtag system for better organization
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- Print functionality for notes
- Calendar view with notes visible alongside dates
- Ad-free version option
- Improved handwriting recognition speed
- Week view option for iPad
- Sync across iPhone and iPad
- Select/copy functionality in details section
- Better error notifications when saves fail
- Recurring event indicators on calendar
Notes and Folders
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Daily Notes
No in-app purchases
Notes and Folders
- Remove Ads$3.99
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