Quick Journal vs Don't You Dare
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/
Don't You Dare
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One brave thing a day. That's the whole app. Every morning Don't You Dare gives you a dare, the same one everyone else gets. Ask a stranger for a book tip. Order the dish you can't pronounce. Wear the color you never wear. Go somewhere without GPS. Small, real, a little scary. BEFORE: rate how scary it feels. AFTER: rate how scary it actually was. Watch the gap. That gap is courage, measured. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT - Can't do it today? Tell us why (at work, no money, alone, stuck indoors) and pick from two dares that fit. No shame, no streak loss. - Hold to dare. Commit to it, feel the buzz, get the stamp. - Forgiving streaks: two freezes every week, and a bonus freeze when you come back. - Courage Levels from Warm-up to Fearless. You unlock Fearless by earning it. - The 14-day Fear Sprint: two weeks of dares that get braver as you go. - Running on empty? The 14-day Recharge sprint swaps dares for random feel-good stuff for your body and mind. End it anytime. - 366 dares across social, food, style, nature, learning, switch-ups and more. - Dare a friend, or share your result in one tap. - Win log: streaks, a 35-day heatmap, and your fear shrinking over time. HONEST BY DESIGN Free. No account. No ads. No subscription. Your progress stays on your phone. Not therapy, not a grind. Just daily proof you're alive.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Quick Journal at every 9 days against Don't You Dare's every 6 months. Quick Journal also leads on ratings volume (24 vs 1). Don't You Dare's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.4). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Don't You Dare 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.
Quick Journal ships an update every 9 days, Don't You Dare every 6 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Quick Journal | Don't You Dare |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (24 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 86.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Charlie Deets | Mind Games Lab LLC |
Customer experience
Quick Journal
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In-app purchases
Quick Journal
No in-app purchases
Don't You Dare
No in-app purchases
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