Comparison

Daily Notes vs ThreeDay Calendar

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

ThreeDay Calendar

Features
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ThreeDay Calendar is built around the next three days: today, tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow. Instead of opening a full month grid every time, you can scan what matters now in a simple 3-day timeline. Key features - See today, tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow at a glance - Show events from calendars connected to your device, including iCloud, Google, Exchange, local, and shared calendars - Create local events or save directly to writable device calendars - Add title, start time, end time, repeat, location, reminder, and description - Search titles and notes across local and device calendar events - Hide calendars you do not need and rename calendar labels inside the app - Use event templates for repeated forms of events - Choose light, cream, or dark theme - Premium: home screen widgets for today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and event cards - Premium: replace the ad area with a memo, photo frame, or D-Day display Privacy and data Your schedule data stays on your device. The app does not store your events on a separate server. Calendar access is used to show and write events through iOS device calendars when you allow it. Note Calendar sharing permissions are managed in Apple iCloud Calendar, Google Calendar, Exchange, or the calendar service you use; this app displays shared calendars that are already connected to your device. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Daily Notes4 screens
ThreeDay Calendar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Daily Notes at none against ThreeDay Calendar's 2. Daily Notes also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). ThreeDay Calendar's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months). On price 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. ThreeDay Calendar sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Daily Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Daily Notes ships an update every 3 months, ThreeDay Calendar fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Daily Notes versus ThreeDay Calendar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaily NotesThreeDay Calendar
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (144 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings144 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShenzhen Brown Bear Technology Co., LTDHoein Song

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

ThreeDay Calendar

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Daily Notes

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

ThreeDay Calendar

Subscriptions2
  • ThreeDay Premium Monthly$0.991 Month
  • ThreeDay Premium Yearly$9.991 Year

Questions

Is Daily Notes free?
Daily Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ThreeDay Calendar free?
ThreeDay Calendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Daily Notes or ThreeDay Calendar have ads?
ThreeDay Calendar shows ads; Daily Notes does not.
Which is updated more often, Daily Notes or ThreeDay Calendar?
Daily Notes ships an update every 3 months, and ThreeDay Calendar fortnightly. Most recently, Daily Notes was updated on November 1, 2026 and ThreeDay Calendar on October 25, 2026.

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