Simplife vs Daymood
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simplife
This minimalist note-taking app prioritizes a clean interface for focused writing. It offers robust features like passcode protection, calendar views, and media attachments to help you organize and store all your thoughts and ideas.
- Multiple notes support
- Passcode lock for app and notes
- Calendar view for notes
- Attach photos and map locations
- Search across all notes
- Backup and restore options
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Incredibly Simple, Functional and Easy to use. Meet the note app haven't experienced until now. Simplife is minimally designed so you can focus on writing. With Simplife, you can keep everything what you want. [Features] - Support Multiple notes - Passcode lock(start-up screen and for each note) - Calendar view for each note - Change date of entries - Attach photos and map - Change font type and size - Share to E-mail and Twitter - Duplicate to other note in your Simplife - Backup/Restore with Dropbox and iTunes - Search entries in the all notes [With Simplife, try like this] - Daily journal - Private diary - Drafts for your ideas - Scrap book of your favorites - Wish list - Travel note
Daymood
Track your daily emotions using five distinct feelings and their intensity levels. Log your experiences alongside your feelings and visualize your emotional patterns through various views and monthly statistics. Share your emotional journey as images.
- Record emotions with intensity
- Log daily experiences
- Emoji, calendar, and list views
- Monthly emotion statistics
- Share feelings as images
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Record your day with five emotions. You can record feelings of joy, sadness, anger, irritability, or fear. Each emotion can also record the intensity from 1 to 100. Just press the emoji just as you feel it. You can record not only feelings but also what happened at that time. Record what emotions and things you have experienced. You can view your emotions in emoji, calendar, and list views. Choose a viewing mode that is comfortable or enjoyable. Provides statistics of monthly emotions. You can see how you felt for a month. You can share your feelings alone. Share your emoji and calendar as images and share with your friends.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Daymood at Free against Simplife's $1.99. Daymood also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.6). Simplife's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1). On rating, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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
Daymood is free to download; Simplife costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Simplife against 5.0 for Daymood. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of Simplife's written reviews are positive against 93% of Daymood's.
Simplife ships an update every 2 months, Daymood every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simplife | Daymood |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | 92.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sangmook Lee | Sung Sil Oh |
Customer experience
Simplife
Daymood
In-app purchases
Simplife
No in-app purchases
Daymood
No in-app purchases
