Comparison

Daily Notes vs Notes Writer Pro

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 Writer Pro

This app is a versatile writing and note-taking tool that supports rich text and Markdown. It allows users to annotate PDFs, fill out forms, and organize their work into unlimited notebooks. The app also includes scanning capabilities and various export options for seamless sharing and backup.

Highlights
  • Rich text and Markdown writing
  • PDF annotation and form filling
  • Unlimited notebook organization
  • Document scanning
  • Cloud sync and multiple export formats
  • Distraction-free writing mode
Features
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You have lecture notes to take, a story to tell, article to publish, whether it’s today’s journal entry, tomorrow’s thesis, highlight important things in ebooks and PDFs, fill out a PDF form or get the most from your business meetings. Notes Writer is an excellent assistant in study and business, also being effective for writing down your ideas and thoughts and sharing them! Students, teachers, writers, doctors, journalists, scholars and business professionals use Notes Writer daily to store notes, annotations, memos, signed PDFs, papers, highlighted PDF text-books, lectures and more. With Notes Writer Pro you can: + WRITE. EDIT. FORMAT · Write Everywhere: Use Notes Writer as an stand-alone writing app even if you don’t have a computer or you are offline in the wilds · Create rich text format (RTF) and advanced Markdown (MD) documents · Define margins, headers/footers, paper sizes, MLA and APA style format · Live counters: characters, words, sentences, lines, Avg. Word length, Words per sentence & reading time · Text to Speech for proofreading · Dictation lets you speak text instead of typing · Typewriter: Distraction-Free mode, letting you focus on what you’re writing · Over 30 languages typing support including Japanese, Chinese, Arabic & Hebrew · Extra keys: tab, forward delete, cursor up/down/left/right, etc. + ANNOTATE PDFs. FILL FORMS. SIGN DOCUMENTS. · PDF Annotations: highlight, strikeout, underline, notes, voice notes, pencil, stamp, sign... · Fill out forms. Supports PDF AcroForms standard · Sign with your own signature documents, contracts, forms · Digital Signature Validation + ORGANIZE. STRUCTURE. FIND. · Organize your work in unlimited notebooks, folders and subfolders · Create notebooks and projects in your own tree-like structure: Sections, Classes, Lectures, Grades, Drafts, Folders, Chapters, Research, etc. · Design the cover of your notebooks · Full-text search your library of documents and projects + SCAN NOTES. RESEARCH. PDF LIBRARY · Split view: Open two PDFs or handwritten notes simultaneously on screen. Compare or use them as book and paper · Full PDF reader and manager included for reference files, text books, ebooks, articles, resources, papers, etc. · Use the camera of your iPad/iPhone to scan documents, notes, recipes, tickets, etc. as PDF · Open PowerPoint, Word and Excel files + SHARE NOTES. EXPORT PDF, HTML… · Open attachments directly from the Mail app · Sync via iCloud, Dropbox, Box, WebDAV and Google Drive · Convert to multiple formats RTF, Markdown, PDF, ePub, HTML, RTFD, TXT, etc. · Zip folders/notebooks and email them + AUTOMATIC BACKUPS. BE SAFE. PROTECT YOUR WORK · Protect your work with an app security passcode · Protect any folder or project with a passcode · Automatic Backups of your notes and notebooks Notes Writer is more than an innovative, fast and reliable note-taking, PDF annotator and writing app designed for anyone who take notes or writes. This is a smart notepad and writing workspace for your iPad and iPhone. Privacy Policy http://www.noteswriter.com/Kairoos_Privacy_Policy.html EULA https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Daily Notes4 screens
Notes Writer Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Daily Notes at Free against Notes Writer Pro's $9.99. Daily Notes also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (83% vs 48%). Notes Writer Pro's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (3.2K vs 143). On rating, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Daily Notes is free to download; Notes Writer Pro costs $9.99 up front. Notes Writer Pro sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. 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 4.6 for Notes Writer Pro. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Notes Writer Pro has 3.2K ratings behind it against 143, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of Daily Notes's written reviews are positive against 48% of Notes Writer Pro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Daily Notes ships an update every 3 months, Notes Writer Pro every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Daily Notes versus Notes Writer Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaily NotesNotes Writer Pro
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating4.7 (143 ratings) — better4.6 (3.2K ratings)
Positive reviews83.2% of reviews — better48.3% of reviews
Number of ratings1433.2K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB375 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShenzhen Brown Bear Technology Co., LTDKairoos Solutions SL

Customer experience

Daily Notes

All ratings143 ratings
Positive91.6%
Neutral2.8%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews113 reviews
Positive83.2%
Neutral6.2%
Negative10.6%

Notes Writer Pro

All ratings3,193 ratings
Positive91.0%
Neutral2.6%
Negative6.4%
Written reviews785 reviews
Positive48.3%
Neutral15.2%
Negative36.6%

User reviews

Daily Notes

From 143 App Store ratings

What 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

Notes Writer Pro

From 3.2K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Excellent note-taking app
  • 📁 Great folder organization
  • 🎨 Customizable notebook covers
  • 🔍 Useful PDF annotation tools
  • 🤖 Impressive AI capabilities

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
  • 🔄 Sync and file transfer issues
  • 🕰️ Slow performance and lag
  • 🔒 Poor customer support
  • 💰 Misleading upgrade pricing

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 Writer Pro

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Notes randomly disappearing
  • Formatting issues with text and images
  • Unreliable audio recording and playback
  • Compatibility problems with newer iOS versions
  • Inability to transfer files between free and pro versions

Requested features

5 requests
  • Handwriting recognition
  • Improved eraser and shape tools
  • Customizable keyboard and toolbar
  • Better integration with cloud storage
  • Ability to rotate and resize images

In-app purchases

None

Daily Notes

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Notes Writer Pro

Subscriptions1
  • Notes Writer Pro AI Assistant3 Days trial$2.991 Month

Questions

Is Daily Notes free?
Daily Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Notes Writer Pro free?
Notes Writer Pro costs $9.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Daily Notes or Notes Writer Pro?
Daily Notes is rated higher. Daily Notes averages 4.7 out of 5 from 143 ratings, while Notes Writer Pro averages 4.6 from 3.2K ratings.
Do Daily Notes or Notes Writer Pro have ads?
Neither Daily Notes nor Notes Writer Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Daily Notes or Notes Writer Pro?
Daily Notes ships an update every 3 months, and Notes Writer Pro every 2 weeks. Most recently, Daily Notes was updated on September 19, 2026 and Notes Writer Pro on September 22, 2026.

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