Comparison

Daily Notes vs Onlynote

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

Onlynote

This productivity app helps users organize their thoughts and tasks. It allows for the simple creation, modification, and removal of notes, to-do lists, and memos directly from a mobile device.

Highlights
  • Create notes
  • Manage to-do lists
  • Write memos
  • Easy editing
  • Simple deletion
Features
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Onlynote is a simple, free note-taking and to-do list app. No account or sign-up required — everything is stored privately on your device. FEATURES - Home Screen widget: see pinned and recent notes without opening the app, and tap New to start writing - Folders: organize notes into folders, switch between them from the title bar, and manage them in Settings - Search: quickly find notes by title or content - Trash: recover deleted notes or delete them forever - Notes & checklists: write free-form notes or create to-do/checklist items - Photos: attach photos to any note - Reminders: set a reminder with a local notification so you never forget - Swipe to delete: swipe any checklist item to delete it, in any order - Auto-sort: checked items automatically move to the bottom of the list - Drag to reorder: long-press and drag notes on the home screen to reorder them - Share as image: export and share any note as an image - Customize: choose note colors, font style, font size, and card size in Settings - Privacy controls: read the privacy policy and change ad personalization any time in Settings - Fast & offline: works fully offline, with no internet connection required Whether you need a shopping list, a daily task manager, a quick memo, or a place to keep photos with notes, Onlynote keeps it simple and private.

Screenshots

Daily Notes4 screens
Onlynote4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Daily Notes at none against Onlynote's 1. Daily Notes also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (83% vs 75%). Onlynote's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Onlynote 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 4.8 for Onlynote. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 143 and 92 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of Daily Notes's written reviews are positive against 75% of Onlynote's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Daily Notes ships an update every 3 months, Onlynote monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Daily Notes versus Onlynote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaily NotesOnlynote
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (143 ratings)4.8 (92 ratings) — better
Positive reviews83.2% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings143 — better92
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShenzhen Brown Bear Technology Co., LTDAPPS BAY LIMITED

Customer experience

Daily Notes

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

Onlynote

All ratings92 ratings
Positive94.6%
Neutral3.3%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral18.8%
Negative6.3%

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

Onlynote

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Daily Notes

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Onlynote

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99

Questions

Is Daily Notes free?
Daily Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Onlynote free?
Onlynote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Daily Notes or Onlynote?
Onlynote is rated higher. Daily Notes averages 4.7 out of 5 from 143 ratings, while Onlynote averages 4.8 from 92 ratings.
Do Daily Notes or Onlynote have ads?
Onlynote shows ads; Daily Notes does not.
Which is updated more often, Daily Notes or Onlynote?
Daily Notes ships an update every 3 months, and Onlynote monthly. Most recently, Daily Notes was updated on September 28, 2026 and Onlynote on September 29, 2026.

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