Comparison

Stickier Mobile vs DayCast

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Stickier Mobile

Create and manage digital sticky notes with rich text formatting, checkboxes, and links. Sync your notes across macOS and iOS devices and access them via widgets. Customize the look with fonts, colors, and background images.

Highlights
  • Cross-device sync (macOS/iOS)
  • Rich text formatting (bold, italic, underline, strikethrough)
  • Checkboxes and links
  • Customizable fonts and colors
  • Custom background images
  • Home/Today/Lock screen widgets
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Old-school sticky notes with a few new tricks. • sync notes between all of your macOS and iOS devices • browse recent revisions of notes • italic/bold/underline/strikethrough text • checkboxes and links • customizable font and colors • custom background images • Home/Today/Lock widget included The companion Stickier app is available in the Mac App Store.

About

DayCast

This app consolidates your daily planning, note-taking, journaling, and financial tracking into a single, private space. It features on-device AI for reflections and summaries, with robust PDF annotation and editing capabilities. All data is encrypted locally for maximum privacy.

Highlights
  • Task and event planning with reminders
  • Rich text notes with sketches and photos
  • Mood-aware journaling with AI reflections
  • Multi-currency spending and net worth tracking
  • PDF annotation, markup, and text extraction
  • On-device AI for summaries and prompts
  • Encrypted local-first data storage
Features
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Your planner, notes, journal and spending tracker in one private app, on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and the web. Keep only the sections you use. PLANNER • Today shows your day at a glance, with a Weekly Review of tasks, habits, mood and spending • Today, Upcoming, Anytime and Someday views, plus a Logbook of what you finished • Type naturally: "Call Sam Friday 3pm !!" fills in the date, time and priority • Plan My Day, Paste as Tasks, and import from Reminders • Time and location reminders, and repeating tasks you can pause • Day, week, month and timeline views; projects, energy levels and a completion heatmap • Habits with streaks and daily reminders NOTES • Type / for headings, checklists, tables, photos and callouts; type # to tag as you write • An Inbox for everything you share, clip or email in, until you file it in a notebook • Rich text with highlight colors, collapsible headings, code blocks and inline math • Notebooks, tags, saved searches, links, flashcards and version history • List or card view, a daily note, handwriting and document scanning • Paper, color or photo backgrounds, and color labels • Search shows the date, amount or code you need first • Import your notes from Evernote (ENEX) JOURNAL • Moods, activities and custom scales, with Apple Health mood logging • Photos, video with transcripts, maps and a calendar view • Prompt packs, On This Day, Life Patterns and a Year in Review • Breathing sessions saved as Mindful Minutes, and a First Aid Kit for hard days • Import from Apple Journal SPENDING • Apple Card and Wallet auto-import: purchases arrive on their own, already categorized • Safe to Spend: what's really free today, from your balance or this month's income, and from Siri • Zero-based budgeting with Ready to Assign, budget history and burndown • Scan receipts with line items • Import bank files (OFX, QFX, QIF); transfers stay out of your totals • Subscriptions with trial reminders, bills calendar, savings goals • Budget alerts, Hide Amounts and Month in Review REPORTS HUB Spending trends, cash-flow forecast, merchant insights, tax report and reimbursements. PDFs Read, mark up, fill forms, reorder pages, listen aloud, and ask questions about any PDF. LABS Switch on extras in Settings: priority matrix, duplicate day, note map, net worth, debt payoff and product prices. EVERYWHERE YOU WORK • A real Mac app with menus, multiple windows, an inspector and Handoff • Apple Watch app for quick tasks, expenses and moods • DayCast on the web, unlocked with your own passphrase • Email things in, or save pages into a notebook with the web clipper • Widgets, Control Center controls including Quick Note, Live Activities and Siri SHARE WHEN YOU WANT Share a note or a journal with other iCloud users and comment together. Only the people you invite can read them. PRIVACY FIRST • No DayCast account, no ads, no tracking • Your data is encrypted on your devices before it syncs; Apple only stores ciphertext • iCloud sync is optional; DayCast works fully offline • Face ID or passcode lock ON-DEVICE AI Summaries, proofreading, translation, journal reflections, a spending coach and Ask DayCast run on your device with Apple Intelligence. Ask DayCast can also use Private Cloud Compute, only if you turn it on. PREMIUM DayCast is free to use. Premium unlocks Apple Card and Wallet import, the AI tools, Reports Hub, advanced PDF tools, extra journals, unlimited budgets and goals, custom repeats and more. One subscription covers iPhone, iPad, Mac and the web app. Monthly or yearly, with a free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://jcmobileappstudio.com/apps/daycast/privacy Website: https://jcmobileappstudio.com

Screenshots

Stickier Mobile4 screens
DayCast4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: DayCast at Free against Stickier Mobile's $4.99. DayCast also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months) and device support (4 vs 2). Stickier Mobile's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On rating, ratings volume and ads 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

DayCast is free to download; Stickier Mobile costs $4.99 up front. DayCast sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Stickier Mobile asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Stickier Mobile against 5.0 for DayCast. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stickier Mobile ships an update every 2 months, DayCast every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Stickier Mobile versus DayCast: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStickier MobileDayCast
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCamazotz LLCJC Mobile App Studio LLC

Customer experience

Stickier Mobile

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%

DayCast

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Stickier Mobile

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

DayCast

Subscriptions2
  • DayCast Premium Monthly$5.991 Month
  • DayCast Premium Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Stickier Mobile free?
Stickier Mobile costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is DayCast free?
DayCast is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Stickier Mobile or DayCast?
Stickier Mobile and DayCast are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Stickier Mobile or DayCast have ads?
Neither Stickier Mobile nor DayCast shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stickier Mobile or DayCast?
Stickier Mobile ships an update every 2 months, and DayCast every 5 days. Most recently, Stickier Mobile was updated on November 3, 2026 and DayCast on October 28, 2026.

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