Quick Journal vs Daylights
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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/
Daylights
This app helps you record your daily highlights and track your mood with color. Set reminders and use widgets for easy access to your visual journal.
- Daily highlight recording
- Mood tracking with color
- Daily reminders
- Multiple theme colors
- Widgets for easy access
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Daylights is a lightweight visual bullet journal for daily highlights Jot down your highlight of the day, mark the mood with a color and keep a visual journal over time! Features - Setup daily reminders to never forget to jot down the highlight of your day - Choose from five different theme colors, with more coming - Different widgets to keep your Daylights top of mind and for easy access If you have any suggestions for how we can improve the app, don’t hesitate to email us at jordi@goodsnooze.com! Thanks, Jordi & Annabel
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Quick Journal at 86% against Daylights's 50%. Quick Journal also leads on ratings volume (24 vs 1). Daylights's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 9 days). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Daylights holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. 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. Written reviews complicate that: 86% of Quick Journal's written reviews are positive against 50% of Daylights's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Quick Journal ships an update every 9 days, Daylights every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and August 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quick Journal | Daylights |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (24 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 86.4% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 17.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Charlie Deets | Good Snooze |
Customer experience
Quick Journal
Daylights
In-app purchases
Quick Journal
No in-app purchases
Daylights
No in-app purchases
