Comparison

Daily Notes vs Daily Planner

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

Daily Planner

Features
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Daily Planner is a simple daily planner for your to-dos and notes: one page per day, one clear focus, and a quick place for every to-do and thought. One place for your to-do list, schedule, routine and journal. No account, no clutter. ADD IN A SECOND Type a to-do on today's page and press Return. The next line is ready, so a whole list takes seconds. Not sure where to start? Pick "Today's priority", "On my mind" or "For tomorrow". Close a half-written entry and it waits for you as a draft. ONE FOCUS A DAY Pin the single thing that matters today. A new focus only replaces that day's previous one, so the page never fills up with priorities. FOUR KINDS OF ENTRY To-dos, free notes, reflections and letters to your future self. Progress counts open to-dos only, so a note never turns into a chore. PLAN TODAY, WRAP UP TONIGHT Writing streak: see how many days in a row you have written. Close the day: in the evening, move open to-dos to tomorrow, so tomorrow's page is ready when you wake up. Weekly recap: what you finished, what is still open, and the moments worth remembering. Daily reminder: optional, at the hour you choose. A TIME WHEN YOU NEED ONE Give any to-do an optional time and get an alert when it is due. Bring unfinished to-dos from earlier days over to today. DAY, WEEK, MONTH, YEAR Move between four calendar views, open any day's page and search everything you have written. EXPLORE - SMALL TOOLS FOR REAL DAYS Move, split, let go: carry an unfinished task to another day, break it into steps, or set it down on purpose. Nothing is deleted. Match your energy: up to three suggestions based on how you feel and how much time you have. A page from the past: revisit what you wrote a month and a week ago, and note what has changed. Letters to yourself: leave a few lines that stay sealed until a future date. Your ideas, growing: follow the tasks and entries that grew out of one note. Weekly reflection: what you completed, what is waiting, and what you postponed again. YOUR NOTES STAY ON YOUR DEVICE Everything is saved on your device, with no account. Your notes are never uploaded. Export a free backup file whenever you like and restore it on a new phone. IN YOUR LANGUAGE English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Turkish and Korean. DAILY PLANNER PRO Writing notes and to-dos is always free. Every tool is free for your first 3 days. Pro removes all ads and unlocks Letters to yourself, A page from the past, Weekly reflection and Match your energy. Choose Pro Yearly with a 7-day free trial, Pro Monthly, or a one-time Lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; payment is charged to your Apple Account, and you can manage or cancel subscriptions in your App Store account settings. The free version is supported by ads. Terms of Use: https://m2lab.tech/en/daily-planner/terms Privacy Policy: https://m2lab.tech/en/daily-planner/privacy

Screenshots

Daily Notes4 screens
Daily Planner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Daily Notes at none against Daily Planner's 3. Daily Notes also leads on ads (none vs shown). Daily Planner's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 months). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Daily Planner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Daily Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Daily Notes ships an update every 3 months, Daily Planner every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Daily Notes versus Daily Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaily NotesDaily Planner
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (144 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings144 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB54 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShenzhen Brown Bear Technology Co., LTDMurat 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

None

Daily Notes

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Daily Planner

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Daily Notes free?
Daily Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Daily Planner free?
Daily Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Daily Notes or Daily Planner have ads?
Daily Planner shows ads; Daily Notes does not.
Which is updated more often, Daily Notes or Daily Planner?
Daily Notes ships an update every 3 months, and Daily Planner every 4 days. Most recently, Daily Notes was updated on November 1, 2026 and Daily Planner on November 5, 2026.

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