Comparison

Daily Notes vs Habit Stacking

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

Habit Stacking

Features
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Big goals fail because they start too big. Cubit starts with the moment after your coffee. Habit stacking is the one technique behind every routine that actually lasts: take a moment you already own (after coffee, after lunch, when you climb into bed) and attach a chain of tiny actions to it. Cubit is built around that single idea. You never track a lonely habit again; you run a stack, one block after another, and the anchor moment does the remembering for you. WHAT YOU GET • Routines that run themselves: every stack hangs on a real anchor moment, so you stop relying on willpower and start relying on sequence. • A first stack in under a minute: pick from 24 built-in micro-habits such as one push-up, box breathing, a gratitude note or phone face-down. • Momentum you can see: check off each block and watch the progress ring close in real time, stack by stack. • Streaks that mean something: current and best streaks per stack, plus a seven-day consistency score that tells you the truth about your week. • A nudge at exactly the right moment: an optional daily reminder fires at each stack's anchor time, not at some random hour. • Your own habit library: add any micro-habit with an icon and an estimated time, search it, and drop it into as many stacks as you like. PERFECT FOR • Anyone who has downloaded a habit tracker before and quietly abandoned it by week three. • Morning people and night owls building a ritual that fits their actual day. • Readers of Atomic Habits and Tiny Habits who want the method, not another checklist. • Busy parents, students and shift workers who only have two spare minutes at a time. WHY NOT JUST USE A HABIT TRACKER? A tracker gives you a grid of empty boxes and hopes you remember. Cubit gives each habit a home: a trigger, a place in the sequence, and a ring that fills as you move through it. Three tiny actions chained to one anchor beat one big resolution every time. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account. No sign-up. No sync servers. No analytics sent anywhere. Every stack, habit and check-off lives on your iPhone and nowhere else. The only permission Cubit ever asks for is notifications, and only if you switch on a reminder. FULL ACCESS Cubit is a premium app. Unlimited stacks and blocks, the full habit library, per-stack progress rings, streaks and reminders are unlocked with a Weekly or Yearly subscription. Pricing is shown in the app in your local currency before you confirm. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed or cancelled at any time in your Apple ID settings. Build your first stack tonight: anchor it to "after dinner", add three blocks, and check them off before you sleep. Terms of Service: https://pnkl26.web.app/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://pnkl26.web.app/privacy-policy Support: pnkhanhlinh0206@gmail.com

Screenshots

Daily Notes4 screens
Habit Stacking4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Daily Notes at none against Habit Stacking's 2. Daily Notes also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence and ads 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. Habit Stacking sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days. Daily Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Daily Notes ships an update every 3 months, Habit Stacking every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Daily Notes versus Habit Stacking: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaily NotesHabit Stacking
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (143 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings143 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShenzhen Brown Bear Technology Co., LTDLinh Phan Nhat Khanh

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

Habit Stacking

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Daily Notes

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Habit Stacking

Subscriptions2
  • Cubit Habit Stack Weekly$9.997 Days
  • Cubit Habit Stack Yearly3 Days trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Daily Notes free?
Daily Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Habit Stacking free?
Habit Stacking is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Daily Notes or Habit Stacking have ads?
Neither Daily Notes nor Habit Stacking shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Daily Notes or Habit Stacking?
Daily Notes ships an update every 3 months, and Habit Stacking every 2 months. Most recently, Daily Notes was updated on October 7, 2026 and Habit Stacking on October 5, 2026.

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