Daily Notes vs 笔尖日记
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.
笔尖日记
A digital journaling app offering a visually appealing timeline for past entries. It supports rich media like photos and videos, diverse font and stationery options, and robust privacy features. Users can categorize entries, set reminders, and export their journals.
- Timeline view
- Customizable stationery and fonts
- Add photos and videos to entries
- Calendar view for daily entries
- Categorization of entries
- Password and fingerprint lock
- Export to Word document
- Daily writing reminders
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Daily Notes at none against 笔尖日记's 1. 笔尖日记's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (95% vs 84%). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. 笔尖日记 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Daily Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.
笔尖日记 holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 144 and 119 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 84% of Daily Notes's written reviews are positive against 95% of 笔尖日记's.
Daily Notes ships an update every 3 months, 笔尖日记 every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Daily Notes | 笔尖日记 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (144 ratings) | 4.9 (119 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.8% of reviews | 94.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 144 — better | 119 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 7.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Shenzhen Brown Bear Technology Co., LTD | 舒济 何 |
Customer experience
Daily Notes
笔尖日记
User reviews
Daily Notes
From 144 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and intuitive user interface
- 📝 Easy daily note-taking and tracking
- 🎤 Voice recording feature for hands-free notes
- ✍️ Handwriting option for input
- 🔍 Search functionality to find past entries
Room to improve
- 🐛 Notes randomly disappear or fail to save
- 🐛 App crashes on startup or when opening details
- 🐛 Screen shifts up when typing in details section
- 🐛 Voice input causes app to lock up
- 🐛 Photo feature doesn't work properly
笔尖日记
From 119 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 Simple and clean UI
- 👍 Good for daily notes
- 👍 Cute icon
- 👍 Versatile font choices
Room to improve
- 🐛 App crashes after update
- 🐛 Cannot select photos from album
- 🐛 Cannot share to WeChat Moments
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
笔尖日记
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes after Apple phone upgrade
- Cannot select photos from album
- Cannot share to WeChat Moments
Requested features
9 requests- Add a highlighter function
- Change individual font or color
- Set night mode
- Choose theme or full-screen color, or custom theme
- Use Touch ID and password for double security
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- Display diary previews according to background image and selected font
- Make the website URL directly clickable
- Ability to see notes when clicking on a date
- Distinguish past and future notes with color or other methods
In-app purchases
Daily Notes
No in-app purchases
笔尖日记
- 高级账户/半年$0.99
