Comparison

FloatNotes vs Diaryx

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

Head to head
About

FloatNotes

This app allows you to create and sync sticky notes across your Apple devices in real time. It offers customizable note colors and prioritizes user privacy with no trackers or analytics, syncing securely via iCloud.

Highlights
  • Spatial sticky notes
  • Real-time syncing across devices
  • Customizable note colors
  • Privacy-focused with no trackers
  • iCloud sync integration
  • Available on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro
Features
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FloatNotes is your spatial sticky note app! Keep your reminders close at hand. 5 different note colors to help separate your ideas. Jot down quick memos on a note, or type out a quick note on your iPhone to have it available on all your other devices (Now including Apple Vision Pro) in real time! FloatNotes puts your privacy first - there is no trackers or analytics, your notes are securely synced to other devices via your iCloud account. FloatNotes is a paid app on iPhone & iPad, and available for free on Apple Vision Pro. Privacy Policy: https://swiftfox.co/floatnotes-privacy/ EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Diaryx

Securely store, transcribe, and share your important life documents. This app uses archival techniques to ensure your files are safe and accessible, allowing collaborators to add remarks and build a shared history.

Highlights
  • Secure plaintext storage
  • Content-addressed history
  • Shareable circles with filtered views
  • Collaborative remarking on pages
  • Archivist-inspired fixity checks
  • Polyhierarchy for flexible organization
  • Self-repairing file detection
Features
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Diaryx is your very own "papers project"---a place for the most important documents in your life, so they can be kept safe, transcribed, annotated, and safely shared with friends and family. IF DIARYX DISAPPEARED, YOU WOULD LOSE NOTHING Your files are stored as readable plaintext on your device. You don't need an app to view them or understand them. So, your files stay yours. CIRCLES: SHARE WITH THE RIGHT PEOPLE Mark any page with a circle, such as "family" or "friends." Share with them a filtered view of your papers. Invite one person at a time. The person you invite does not need an account or app—only a link to your website. THEY WRITE BACK Any reader, given access, can sign in and leave a remark on a page: a note, a highlight, a correction, a memory of their own. BORROWED FROM ARCHIVISTS Libraries and archives use techniques to keep documents trustworthy across generations. Diaryx brings that to the scale of one family. - FIXITY: Diaryx records a fingerprint of every attachment, so damage from a failing drive or a bad sync can be detected immediately. Entries themselves are kept in a content-addressed history, and can be fingerprinted too by turning on Content checksums in Settings. - HISTORY: Every save can be kept as a snapshot, and every circle gets its own history containing only what its readers were shown. Forgetting something removes it from every history that quoted it. - EMBEDDED METADATA: Each file contains its own metadata, which means a document is never separated from its most important information. - POLYHIERARCHY: Arrange the same collection by year, person, place, or any arbitrary thing, without moving a single file. One archive may have many different ways to look at it. - SELF-REPAIRING: Detect issues with your files on-demand (such as fixity drift) and choose to fix it either automatically or manually. Note: Diaryx does *not* currently automate backups or automatically scan your files for issues. It is recommended to regularly do the following for best possible outcomes for your files: - Backup your folder via the Files app to a variety of locations - Run Check Library (in Settings) to detect sync or bitrot issues. DIARYX PLUS — $4.99/MONTH Closest, Family, Friends and Everyone, with their own diaryx.org address, are included free. A Diaryx Plus subscription allows you to share up to 50 circles, publish up to 10 sites, and use custom domains. Diaryx Plus is an auto-renewable subscription, $4.99/month. It includes 100 GB of photos and files, synced or published (free accounts get 1 GB), photos and files up to 100 MB each (free accounts get 10 MB), up to 10 published sites (free accounts get 1), up to 50 circles to share them with (free accounts get 1, with Closest, Family, Friends and Everyone counting as one), and up to 10 custom domains (free accounts get none). Writing and reading in Diaryx are free and need no subscription, and the text you write never counts against storage on any plan. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the period; manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. - Terms of Use: https://diaryx.org/terms.html - Privacy Policy: https://diaryx.org/privacy.html

Screenshots

FloatNotes3 screens
Diaryx4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Diaryx at Free against FloatNotes's $0.99. Diaryx also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days). FloatNotes's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Diaryx is free to download; FloatNotes costs $0.99 up front. Diaryx sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. FloatNotes asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Diaryx holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FloatNotes has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FloatNotes ships an update every 5 days, Diaryx every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 2 level
FloatNotes versus Diaryx: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFloatNotesDiaryx
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size0 MB106 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSwift Fox Software LLCAdam Harris

Customer experience

FloatNotes

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%

Diaryx

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

FloatNotes

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Diaryx

Subscriptions1
  • Diaryx Plus—Monthly$4.991 Month

Questions

Is FloatNotes free?
FloatNotes costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Diaryx free?
Diaryx is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, FloatNotes or Diaryx?
Diaryx is rated higher. FloatNotes averages 4.6 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Diaryx averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do FloatNotes or Diaryx have ads?
Neither FloatNotes nor Diaryx shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FloatNotes or Diaryx?
FloatNotes ships an update every 5 days, and Diaryx every 2 days. Most recently, FloatNotes was updated on November 4, 2026 and Diaryx on October 31, 2026.

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