Simplife vs Pillowbook
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
Pillowbook
Record your dreams and receive personalized interpretations based on a vast library of symbols and your unique personal history. This app builds a knowledge graph of your dream elements to reveal recurring themes and connections.
- Dream journaling
- Personalized dream interpretation
- Symbol library
- Knowledge graph of dream elements
- Theme and connection analysis
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Pillowbook is a beautiful dream journal and personal dream decoder. Wake up, jot down whatever fragments of your dreams your sleeping mind leaves behind, and see a deep interpretation drawn from a built-in library of dream symbols and tuned to who you actually are. Most dream meaning apps hand you a generic one-size-fits-all dictionary. Pillowbook is different: every symbol, emotion, person, and place you log becomes a node in your own growing knowledge graph, so you can see which themes and people keep returning across nights and which symbols bind together to reveal the complex inner workings of your psyche.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Pillowbook at Free against Simplife's $1.99. Pillowbook also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On rating, ratings volume, 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
Pillowbook 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 Pillowbook. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively.
Simplife ships an update every 2 months, Pillowbook every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simplife | Pillowbook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sangmook Lee | AndyTech, Inc |
Customer experience
Simplife
Pillowbook
In-app purchases
Simplife
No in-app purchases
Pillowbook
No in-app purchases
