Daily Notes vs Daily Planner
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.
Daily Planner
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Daily Planner is a calm notebook for the day in front of you. Paper tones, one page per day, and room to think. ONE FOCUS A DAY Pin the single thing that matters. A new focus only replaces the previous focus of the same day, so the page never fills up with priorities. FOUR KINDS OF ENTRY A to-do, a free note, something left from the day, or a letter to your future self. Progress is counted from open to-dos only, so a note never turns into a chore. DAY, WEEK, MONTH, YEAR Move between four calendar views. Touch any day to open its page, and search every note you have written. EXPLORE - SMALL TOOLS FOR REAL DAYS Move, split, let go: carry an unfinished task to another day, break it into two to eight steps, or set it down on purpose. Nothing is deleted, and what you let go can be taken back. Match your energy: choose how you feel and how much time you have. Up to three suggestions are worked out from the effort and duration you entered yourself - nothing is estimated for you. A page from the past: revisit the note from a month ago and the one from last week, then write down what has changed since. Letters to yourself: leave a few lines for a future date. The letter stays hidden from search, the calendar and the editor until that day arrives on the device clock. Your ideas, growing: see the tasks and follow-up entries that grew out of one note, in date order. Weekly reflection: what you completed, what is still waiting, what you postponed again, and what stayed with you. YOUR NOTES STAY ON YOUR DEVICE Everything is saved locally, with no account and no sync between devices. Your notes are never uploaded: the only request the app makes is a version check that carries no data of yours. Letters open inside the app on their date; no notification or email is sent. The app is supported by ads. Turkish and English are both fully supported.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Daily Notes at none against Daily Planner's shown. Daily Planner's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). On price, in-app purchases, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Daily Notes ships an update every 3 months, Daily Planner weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Daily Notes | Daily Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (143 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 83.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 143 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shenzhen Brown Bear Technology Co., LTD | Murat Erkam Yalcn |
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
Daily Planner
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Daily Notes
No in-app purchases
Daily Planner
No in-app purchases
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