Comparison

Daylights vs Inkday Diary

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Daily highlight recording
  • Mood tracking with color
  • Daily reminders
  • Multiple theme colors
  • Widgets for easy access
Features
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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

About

Inkday Diary

Features
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Inkday is a private voice diary for iPhone. You speak one page a day. The recording becomes text on your device and stays there. There is no account and no cloud. Inkday has no developer servers, no analytics, and no subscription. Recording, transcription and mood detection run on Apple’s on-device frameworks. The last 30 days are always yours to read. Older pages stay on the phone and can be unlocked once. • One page a day, up to ten minutes • On-device speech-to-text • Original audio kept with each page • A haptic timeline through past days • A year of days as a quiet dot grid • Optional daily reminder — one, never a streak • Light and dark paper themes • Home-screen widget for the year Unlock the archive Pages older than 30 days can be unlocked with a single one-time purchase. Nothing is deleted if you wait. Restore Purchase is in Settings. Requires iOS 26 or later. — Unlock the archive (optional) One-time In-App Purchase to unlock diary pages older than 30 days, forever. No subscription. Price: $4.99 USD / €4.99. Price may vary by region. Restore purchases in Settings. — Privacy Policy: https://inkday-neon.vercel.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://inkday-neon.vercel.app/terms

Screenshots

Daylights4 screens
Inkday Diary4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Daylights at 17.4 against Inkday Diary's 26.5. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Daylights versus Inkday Diary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaylightsInkday Diary
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.4 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGood SnoozeFabian Gruss

In-app purchases

None

Daylights

No in-app purchases

None

Inkday Diary

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Daylights free?
Daylights is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Inkday Diary free?
Inkday Diary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Daylights or Inkday Diary have ads?
Neither Daylights nor Inkday Diary shows ads.

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