Napkin vs Quick Journal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Napkin
Capture, organize, and develop your creative ideas and projects from inception to realization. This tool offers offline access, seamless syncing across Apple devices, and intuitive project visualization to bring structure to your creative process.
- Offline Access
- iCloud Syncing
- Idea Tracking
- Project Visualization
- Collaborative Feedback
- Privacy Focused
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Transform your flashes of creativity into fully fleshed-out projects with Napkin, the ultimate idea management tool designed for innovators, creators, and thinkers like you. Whether you're sketching out a novel concept, planning a startup, or developing a personal project, Napkin helps you capture, organize, and develop your ideas from inception to realization. Key Features: - Offline Access: Enjoy the freedom to work on your projects anywhere, anytime without the need for an internet connection. - iCloud Syncing: Seamlessly sync your ideas across all your Apple devices, ensuring your thoughts are always accessible and up-to-date. - Idea Tracking: Start with a simple idea and track its evolution through stages like 'Napkin', 'Up Next' and 'In Progress'. - Project Visualization: Use our intuitive interface to map out the journey of each idea. - Collaborative Feedback: Although primarily offline, Napkin offers the option to receive and incorporate feedback from trusted peers to refine your projects. - Privacy First: With no reliance on constant internet connectivity, your ideas stay private and secure within your device until you choose to sync them. Ideal for: Entrepreneurs, creative professionals, writers, project managers, and anyone looking to bring structure to their creative chaos. Download Napkin today and start transforming your ideas into reality!
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 Napkin's 1.0. Quick Journal also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (24 vs 1). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Napkin sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Quick Journal asks for nothing beyond the download.
Quick Journal holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quick Journal has 24 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Napkin | Quick Journal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.7 (24 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 86.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 24 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ben Douglas | Charlie Deets |
Customer experience
Napkin
Quick Journal
In-app purchases
Napkin
- Napkin Premium$7.99
Quick Journal
No in-app purchases









