Comparison

Daily Notes vs Notes and Folders

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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Over 240,000 downloads worldwide! Notes and Folders is a simple notepad that lets you organize notes and photos with folders. You can also lock your notes with a passcode. FOLDERS - Organize your notes with folders - Create folders inside folders NOTES - Attach multiple photos to a note - Character count - Auto-save while editing - Editing buttons: copy & paste, undo, select, and arrow keys - Built-in web browser to add text and screenshots of web pages to your notes DIARY - Write a diary entry for any date - Read a whole month of entries at once OTHERS - Widget - Passcode lock (Face ID and Touch ID supported) - Search notes - Share notes to other apps - Save text and images from other apps (Share Extension) - Theme colors - Adjustable text size - iPad support - Backup with Dropbox - Backup with a computer URL SCHEME notesandfolders:// BACKUP You can back up your notes with Dropbox, or with a computer (Finder on Mac, or the Apple Devices app or iTunes on Windows). For details, see FAQ > "About Backup" in the app's settings. ADS This app shows banner ads, and a full-screen ad only once a day (every 24 hours). Ads are not shown after purchasing ad removal.

Screenshots

Daily Notes4 screens
Notes and Folders4 screens

Verdict

The call

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 iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). Notes and Folders's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Notes and Folders sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Daily Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Daily Notes against 4.5 for Notes and Folders. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 144 and 302 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 84% of Daily Notes's written reviews are positive against 80% of Notes and Folders's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Daily Notes ships an update every 3 months, Notes and Folders every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Daily Notes versus Notes and Folders: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaily NotesNotes and Folders
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (144 ratings) — better4.5 (302 ratings)
Positive reviews83.8% of reviews — better80.4% of reviews
Number of ratings144302 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB17 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperShenzhen Brown Bear Technology Co., LTDKinkumaDesign

Customer experience

Daily Notes

All ratings144 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral2.8%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews117 reviews
Positive83.8%
Neutral6.0%
Negative10.3%

Notes and Folders

All ratings302 ratings
Positive87.4%
Neutral6.0%
Negative6.6%
Written reviews97 reviews
Positive80.4%
Neutral12.4%
Negative7.2%

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

None

Daily Notes

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Notes and Folders

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$3.99

Questions

Is Daily Notes free?
Daily Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Notes and Folders free?
Notes and Folders is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Daily Notes or Notes and Folders?
Daily Notes is rated higher. Daily Notes averages 4.7 out of 5 from 144 ratings, while Notes and Folders averages 4.5 from 302 ratings.
Do Daily Notes or Notes and Folders have ads?
Notes and Folders shows ads; Daily Notes does not.
Which is updated more often, Daily Notes or Notes and Folders?
Daily Notes ships an update every 3 months, and Notes and Folders every 3 weeks. Most recently, Daily Notes was updated on October 29, 2026 and Notes and Folders on October 26, 2026.

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