Daily Notes vs Opus
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.
Opus
This app offers five distinct journaling experiences focused on gratitude, personal growth, manifestation, financial awareness, and wellness. Each journal provides tailored prompts and features to help users reflect, track progress, and understand their patterns.
- Five specialized journals (gratitude, growth, manifestation, finance, wellness)
- Tailored prompts for each journal theme
- Mood tagging for entries
- Searchable entry history
- Progress dashboard with charts and heatmaps
- Customizable themes and reminders
- Export entries to PDF
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Most journals ask you to write. Opus asks you to think. Five purpose-built journals — gratitude, growth, manifestation, financial awareness, and wellness. Not one blank page for everything. A different practice for wherever you are right now. FIVE JOURNALS. ONE APP. Today I Choose Joy — A daily gratitude practice. Not toxic positivity. The discipline of noticing what's good, even on hard days. Obsess with Growth — For the gap between who you say you want to be and what you actually did today. Goals, wins, honest recaps. Obsess with Manifesting — Desire, visualization, affirmations, aligned action. Show up daily, stay curious, see what happens. Aligned With Wealth — Your relationship with money starts in your head. Surface the beliefs underneath your spending and earning. The Daily Pause — Energy, sleep, stress, movement, nourishment. Your body keeps score whether you check in or not. WRITE WITHOUT STARTING FROM SCRATCH Every journal opens with a prompt tailored to your theme Tag your mood on each entry — happy, okay, low, or anywhere between Swipe through past entries organized like a publication Search every entry you've ever written — instantly. SEE YOUR PATTERNS A calendar that marks every day you showed up Streak counter to track your consistency Progress dashboard with activity charts and a 30-day heatmap Mood breakdown and theme distribution so you can see what you actually write about most YOUR JOURNAL, YOUR WAY Choose from five themes — each with its own color, prompts, and identity Set reminders on your schedule — morning, evening, or streak alerts before you break your run Swipe to delete entries. Restore them from the Recycle Bin if you change your mind Export everything to PDF whenever you want it out PRIVATE AND SECURE Everything stays on your device iCloud sync keeps your entries across all your devices (Pro) No account required to start writing One entry. See how it feels. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://opus-privacy.netlify.app/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Daily Notes at none against Opus's 6. Daily Notes also leads on ratings volume (144 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.2). Opus's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Opus sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Daily Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.
Opus holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Daily Notes has 144 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Daily Notes | Opus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (144 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 144 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shenzhen Brown Bear Technology Co., LTD | Edwin Asuma |
Customer experience
Daily Notes
Opus
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
Opus
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Daily Notes
No in-app purchases
Opus
- Pro Monthly$5.991 Month
- Opus Premium1 Month trial$29.991 Year
- Donate $5$4.99
- Donate $10$9.99
- Donate $25$24.99
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- Donate $50$49.99









