Daily Notes vs ColumnCalendar and Memo
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.
ColumnCalendar and Memo
A straightforward vertical calendar app for managing daily schedules and notes. It offers customizable sticky notes for marking dates and allows for multiple calendar views for different purposes. Easily share your schedule by taking screenshots.
- Vertical calendar display
- Daily memo writing
- Customizable sticky notes
- Multiple calendar views
- Full-screen viewing mode
- Memo privacy option
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No complex function! This is a simple and easy reading vertical calendar application. You can also use it as a schedule book, such as writing down the meeting schedule! Main Functions - There is a memo function that can be written by each day - Memo can switch between simple display of headings only and full text display - 5 sticky notes can be attached as marks for each date. Convenient for shift management and so on! - Sticky notes can be selected from casual type of landmark type and button type that can write down letters - Three calendars can be switched for different purposes, such as for work or private use Full screen mode which can display all day without scroll from 1st to end! It is also useful to take screenshots of full screen mode and share the schedule to family etc! If you are using a memo as a diary, and you want to show only the sticky note to the other people, only the memo will be hidden if you tap the icon in the upper right of the screen. * Full screen mode is for viewing only. Please edit the memo from the normal mode. * If you want to delete the already entered memo, please long press the prescribed line. "ColumnCalendar and Memo" can be used for free at all.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Daily Notes at none against ColumnCalendar and Memo's shown. Daily Notes also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). ColumnCalendar and Memo's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.7). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ColumnCalendar and Memo holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 144 and 108 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 84% of Daily Notes's written reviews are positive against 82% of ColumnCalendar and Memo's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Daily Notes | ColumnCalendar and Memo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (144 ratings) | 4.9 (108 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.8% of reviews — better | 82.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 144 — better | 108 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shenzhen Brown Bear Technology Co., LTD | Shigeo Fukuda |
Customer experience
Daily Notes
ColumnCalendar and Memo
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
ColumnCalendar and Memo
From 108 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and easy to use
- 📝 Flexible for notes and schedules
- 📅 Clear and readable layout
- ✨ Vertical display is convenient
- 🎨 Color-coded tags for organization
Room to improve
- 💸 Ads can be intrusive
- 🐛 Occasional app crashes/freezing
- 🚫 No recurring event function
- 🗄️ Lacks backup/sync options
- 📱 Incompatible with older devices
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
ColumnCalendar and Memo
Reported bugs
5 issues- App freezes mid-sentence, page doesn't save
- OK button not working, app exits and reopens
- App crashing, nothing saving
- App disappearing after update on older iPads
- Flicker sound unstable during input
Requested features
17 requests- Option to pay to remove ads
- Change font color
- Automatic display of recurring events (e.g., bill payments)
- Multiple color options for tags/stickers
- Option to change deletion method (e.g., from menu bar)
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- Continuous month display for easier viewing across month boundaries
- Change text color and daily background color
- Search function for entries
- Recurring functions for events
- Link to other calendars
- Copy-paste functionality
- Backup and sync options (Gmail, Apple ID)
- Paid version without ads
- Option to share on other devices
- Add multiple tags on one calendar
- Checkbox feature
- Jump to specific months/years for navigation
In-app purchases
Daily Notes
No in-app purchases
ColumnCalendar and Memo
No in-app purchases
Questions
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