Simplife vs Quick Journal
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
Quick Journal
This app offers a straightforward journaling experience with extensive customization options. Personalize themes, fonts, icons, and layouts to create your ideal digital notebook. Widgets and draft saving features enhance usability for daily reflection.
- Customizable themes and fonts
- App icon and layout personalization
- Home screen widgets
- Save entries as drafts
- Copy and share entries
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Quick Journal is the simplest way to keep a journal. You can customize your journal's theme, fonts, app icon, layout, and even where the composer button is placed. To help you write or keep track of your entries, the app features widgets you can put on your home screen. You can copy or share your entries. You can always come back to an entry later by saving it as a draft, just swipe down and the entry will be saved. Hope you enjoy! EULA https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Quick Journal at Free against Simplife's $1.99. Quick Journal also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (24 vs 4). Simplife's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On review sentiment, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Quick Journal is free to download; Simplife costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Simplife holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quick Journal has 24 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 86% and 86% positive.
Simplife ships an update every 2 months, Quick Journal every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simplife | Quick Journal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 4.7 (24 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | 86.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 24 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 17.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sangmook Lee | Charlie Deets |
Customer experience
Simplife
Quick Journal
In-app purchases
Simplife
No in-app purchases
Quick Journal
No in-app purchases
