YearlyQuest vs Brief Note
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
YearlyQuest
Visualize your life's progress with a heatmap calendar. Track and analyze trends in fitness, mood, and other daily activities. Gain insights into your habits and elevate your routine.
- Intuitive heatmap calendar
- Seamless trend tracking
- Life analysis and visualization
- Fitness and mood tracking
- Habit insights
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Elevate your daily routine with our intuitive heatmap calendar app. Seamlessly track, analyze, and visualize your life trends, from fitness to mood and beyond.
Brief Note
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Sometimes you are about to meet someone and cannot quite remember the last conversation. Brief Note is a local relationship notebook that brings the context back before you meet. 1. Add one person you want to remember. 2. Write one important line after you meet. 3. Scan the briefing before the next conversation. Pin the detail you never want to miss. Optional calendar briefings can remind you on the morning of a meeting. Event titles are matched with saved names entirely on your device. Your names and notes stay on your device, not in an account or content server. When choosing a contact, only that person's name is saved—never phone numbers, email addresses, or the full address book. Export a JSON backup whenever you want and restore it by replacing or merging local data. Store up to five people for free. Adding a sixth requires a one-time lifetime purchase, not a subscription.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Brief Note at Free against YearlyQuest's $1.99. YearlyQuest's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On update cadence, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Brief Note is free to download; YearlyQuest costs $1.99 up front. Brief Note sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. YearlyQuest asks for nothing beyond the download.
YearlyQuest ships an update every 8 days, Brief Note every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | YearlyQuest | Brief Note |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 11 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Todd Hertzelle | JeongHu Seo |
In-app purchases
YearlyQuest
No in-app purchases
Brief Note
- Lifetime Access$3.99
