Holonote vs Quick Journal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Holonote
This app automatically logs your daily activities, including places visited and routes taken, and integrates your photos and journal entries. It allows you to revisit and share your experiences privately on your device.
- Automatic place and path logging
- Photo integration
- Journaling with voice notes
- On-device data privacy
- Memory timeline
- Sharing capabilities
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Holonote is a travel diary that is automatic and private. Automatic. Keep your phone in your pocket. Holonote saves the places you visit and draws your paths, whether you're on foot, in a car, or on a flight. The photos you take show up in the moments you took them. At the end of each day you have a timeline of where you went. Private. Everything is saved on your phone. Photos stay in your library, never copied or uploaded. We have no servers. Only you can see your diary. Email us at aloha@forpedestrians.com for questions or feature requests.
Quick Journal
This app offers a straightforward journaling experience with extensive customization options. Personalize themes, fonts, icons, and layouts to create your ideal digital notebook. Widgets and draft saving features enhance usability for daily reflection.
- Customizable themes and fonts
- App icon and layout personalization
- Home screen widgets
- Save entries as drafts
- Copy and share entries
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Quick Journal is the simplest way to keep a journal. You can customize your journal's theme, fonts, app icon, layout, and even where the composer button is placed. To help you write or keep track of your entries, the app features widgets you can put on your home screen. You can copy or share your entries. You can always come back to an entry later by saving it as a draft, just swipe down and the entry will be saved. Hope you enjoy! EULA https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Quick Journal at 4.7 against Holonote's 4.4. Quick Journal also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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.
Quick Journal holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 24 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 91% of Holonote's written reviews are positive against 86% of Quick Journal's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Holonote ships an update weekly, Quick Journal every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Holonote | Quick Journal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (11 ratings) | 4.7 (24 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.9% of reviews — better | 86.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 24 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | For Pedestrians LLC. | Charlie Deets |
Customer experience
Holonote
Quick Journal
In-app purchases
Holonote
No in-app purchases
Quick Journal
No in-app purchases
