Palu vs Daily Diary Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Palu
This app allows you to create and share handwritten calendars with friends and family. Add notes, pictures, and colorful stamps to your calendar. Share with different access levels and sync across devices.
- Handwritten notes and pictures
- Colorful stamps
- Share with friends and family
- Full access and view-only sharing
- Overlap calendars
- Cut and paste content
- iCloud backup and restore
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Palu is a shared handwriting calendar app and service.The app allows you to connect with your friends and family through handwritten notes and pictures. IT IS FREE WITHOUT REGISTRATION. Basic Features: - No need to register with your email address or provide any personal information! - Paste images and write whatever you want on your calendar. - More colorful calendars using “Stamps” - Share your calendar simply and easily with friends and family. - Two modes of sharing: full access and view only - Three calendars available for free - Overlap two calendars with holding down on a tab - Cut and paste to move, copy and paste to duplicate daily content - The calendar shows the month view in portrait orientation and two weeks view in landscape orientation on iPhone. - Back up and restore your data using iCloud Drive Additional Features (Optional in-app purchases): - Remove advertisements to give more screen space - Increase the maximum number of calendars to thirty (Switching and sorting calendars to be displayed are available) Usage: - Mom can use her home iPad to write the night's schedule and Dad can check it on his iPhone. - Couples can share their work shifts and plan their next get-together. - Band members can arrange their practice days and their live event schedule. - Paste one picture of your kids per day on the calendar to make it easy to see how much they grow each day. Other uses are infinite and up to you! Notes When Sharing: - Please take note that when sharing your Palu calendar, it is made public to everyone who receives the invitation email (including those to whom it was forwarded). - By turning sharing off, the data is deleted from the server and will no longer be shared.
Daily Diary Notes
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A private diary that behaves like a real book. Paper has grain. Ink sits on the line. Leaves turn in 3D with weight and a whisper of haptics. Every volume is bound differently, with its own paper stock, its own ink and its own foil stamping on the cover. Nothing ever leaves your phone. No account. No sync. No server. No analytics. Your diary is a file on your device and nowhere else. BOUND, NOT TEMPLATED • Fourteen bindings: Midnight Velvet, Rose Gold, Sakura, Emerald Library, Vintage Parchment, Nordic Frost and more • Six paper textures and five rulings, from single line to dotted to blank • Foil-stamped titles, raised spine bands, silk ribbon markers • Bind as many volumes as you like, one for each part of your life WRITING THAT FEELS LIKE WRITING • Real page turns, with perspective, weight and haptics • Ink that sits on the ruled line rather than floating between • Write straight onto the paper, with no forms and no boxes • 42 prompts for the days you do not know where to start WHAT A DAY HOLDS • Mood and weather, place and tags • Photographs, and 32 decorations to place, drag and resize • Bookmark any page, favourite any entry • Per-page paper and ruling, when one entry wants its own FIND IT AGAIN • Search every volume at once, each result cut from its own book's paper • A calendar with a mood-coloured dot on every day you wrote • Streaks, word counts, a mood line and a 91-day heat map YOURS ALONE • Face ID or Touch ID lock • A daily reminder at whatever hour suits you • Export everything as plain text, whenever you want • Use your own photograph for the home screen and arrange it how you like Built entirely in SwiftUI, with no third-party code, no trackers and no ads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Daily Diary Notes at none against Palu's 2. Daily Diary Notes also leads on ads (none vs shown). Palu's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Palu sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Daily Diary Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.
Palu ships an update every 2 months, Daily Diary Notes every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Palu | Daily Diary Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (150 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 68.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 150 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MetaMoJi Corporation | Official Vishwateja |
Bugs and requests
Palu
Reported bugs
13 issues- iOS 16/26 update breaks color pen functionality - all text appears black
- Calendar entries not displaying in month view after updates
- Share feature crashes or fails to send invitations
- Copy/paste functionality broken after iOS 17 update
- Color pen selection not working properly
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- App crashes when writing or adding photos
- Data mysteriously disappears or gets reset
- Mobile data connectivity issues - only works on WiFi
- Eraser automatically switches back to pen mid-use
- Text character rendering issues on some devices
- Syncing delays between devices
- Photo upload functionality broken
- Touch responsiveness issues
Requested features
20 requests- Text input/typing capability
- Undo and redo buttons
- Adjustable pen thickness and more color options
- Ability to resize and position photos
- More diverse and higher-quality stickers
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- Notifications when shared calendars are updated
- Weekly and daily view options
- Emoji support
- Dark mode support
- Widget for home screen
- Backup options beyond iCloud
- Alarm/reminder notifications
- Palm rejection technology
- Split-screen support
- Custom calendar backgrounds
- Ability to delete calendars easily
- Language localization (Korean, Italian, Spanish, etc.)
- Copy and paste between days
- Password protection/security lock
- Increased writing area per day
Daily Diary Notes
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Palu
- Add More Calendars$2.99
- Remove Ads$2.99
Daily Diary Notes
No in-app purchases









