Sidebar | Fast Notes vs Daily Compound
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sidebar | Fast Notes
Quickly capture thoughts and ideas without the need for organization. Entries are timestamped logs that can be tagged as to-dos or personal wins/losses. Syncs across devices with custom themes and a stealth mode.
- Instant note capture
- Timestamped entries
- To-do list integration
- Personal scoreboard
- Cross-device sync
- Custom themes
- Stealth mode
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Open. Type. Done. Sidebar opens with the keyboard ready, so you can catch an idea in seconds and get back to what you were doing. No folders, no file names, no formatting. Just get it down before it's gone. EVERY ENTRY IS A LOG Notes are quick, timestamped logs, not documents. Add a tag when one needs to do more: - Todo: adds it to your task list - Win or Loss: counts toward your scoreboard - Love: marks the ideas worth coming back to KEEP SCORE Track wins and losses for anything: running, flossing, screen time. Your scoreboard shows what's on track and what needs attention. MAKE IT YOURS Choose any color for your theme. AND A FEW EXTRAS - Widget: pin an idea to your home screen - Sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac - Stealth Mode: keep sensitive notes private - Time Travel: revisit a random day
Daily Compound
This app helps you build positive daily habits and achieve long-term goals by tracking your progress and offering motivating rewards. It also allows for net worth tracking and friendly challenges.
- Daily habit tracking
- Goal setting with rewards
- Automatic net worth calculation
- Weight tracking
- Friend challenges
- Home screen widget
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Daily Compound turns small daily habits into real long-term wins. Track the things you want to do every day, health, financial, personal, whatever matters to you, and watch your streaks build. Health goals can auto-check off using Apple Health data, so steps, workouts, and calories track themselves. REWARDS THAT ACTUALLY MOTIVATE Set long-term goals with real rewards attached. Link the exact item you're working toward (a trip, new shoes, a splurge) and see a preview image right on your goal. Hit $50K in savings? Treat yourself to that new laptop. Go 30 days without sugar? Book that spa day. The bigger the goal, the bigger the reward. NET WORTH, WITHOUT THE SPREADSHEET Add your accounts, checking, savings, investments, credit cards, and Daily Compound calculates your net worth automatically. Watch it climb on a simple chart, with monthly reminders to log the number and see it added to your history. WEIGHT TRACKING, DONE RIGHT Set a goal weight and log your progress with a smooth, tactile ruler picker. Get a small celebration every time the number drops, and see exactly how far you have left to go. CHALLENGE YOUR FRIENDS Start a challenge, pick the exact goals everyone will be compared on, and invite friends with a simple join code. Everyone checks off the same goals daily, so the leaderboard is always a fair comparison, not just who has the easier list. STAYS OUT OF YOUR WAY Color-coded categories keep everything organized. A home screen widget shows today's progress at a glance. Archive goals you're done with (they're never really gone) and pick back up whenever you want. Small habits, tracked consistently, compound into something bigger. That's the whole idea.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Daily Compound at free against Sidebar | Fast Notes's paid. Daily Compound also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. 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 Sidebar | Fast Notes against 5.0 for Daily Compound. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Sidebar | Fast Notes ships an update every 2 months, Daily Compound weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sidebar | Fast Notes | Daily Compound |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chris Woods | Lyubov Kaplanskaya |
Customer experience
Sidebar | Fast Notes
Daily Compound
In-app purchases
Sidebar | Fast Notes
No in-app purchases
Daily Compound
No in-app purchases
Questions
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