Placify vs Dayletter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Placify
Consolidate travel ideas, saved places, and memories onto a single, personal map. Organize inspiration, plan efficient routes, and transform your journeys into animated videos. This app acts as a digital travel journal, keeping your experiences private and accessible offline.
- Save places from any source
- Organize and filter saved locations
- Plan and optimize routes
- Create animated travel videos
- Digital travel journal with memories
- Offline access to data
- Shareable trip posters and videos
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The most beautiful things in life are not just things. They’re people, places, memories, and pictures. Placify is a personal map, travel planner, and itinerary maker for the places that matter to you. Save restaurants, hidden gems, travel ideas, and “places to visit” from anywhere. Turn social saves into real trip plans. Plan smarter routes. Turn routes into animated travel videos. Let your map become a living travel journal. In a world where places are scattered across apps, screenshots, messages, and links, Placify brings everything back to one map: yours. --- ※ Save Places from Anywhere Travel ideas are everywhere: a restaurant in an Instagram Reel, a viewpoint in a TikTok video, a cafe from a friend, or a saved pin from a map app. Instead of rewatching clips, digging through saved folders, or pinning places one by one, send them to Placify. Placify turns scattered social saves, map shares, links, screenshots, notes, and photos into saved places on your personal map. Search, filter, group, and plan around them when the next walk, weekend, or trip begins. --- ※ Search, Filter & See the Whole Map Search by place name or address. Switch between list and map views. See where your saved spots cluster across cities and regions. Create dynamic views like: ・ “Rooftop Bars in Tokyo” ・ “2026 Solo Trip” ・ “Places Visited Twice” Your world, organized the way you think. --- ※ Plan Routes from the Places You Find Turn travel guides, shared links, social saves, trip notes, and saved ideas into a route you can edit. Placify helps connect scattered places into one path, so you can adjust the order, stops, and route details as your plan takes shape. Add multiple stops. Reorder freely. Use Smart Route to optimize the most efficient order. Visualize distance and travel time instantly. Perfect for turning online inspiration into road trips, city walks, weekend plans, and multi-day itineraries. --- ※ Bring Your Routes to Life Turn a route into an animated travel video with the path, stops, and memories you saved along the way. Use it to share a trip, a city walk, or a favorite route with friends. Your map becomes a simple visual story that is easy to save, watch, and share. --- ※ Travel Journal, Memories & Stats Automatically link photos to places. See where you were “on this day” in previous years. Receive gentle memory reminders. Track visit counts for every location. Your map becomes a timeline you can return to. --- ※ Smart Organization Automatic categorization and tag suggestions keep your archive tidy and searchable. Future you can always find the places that mattered. --- ※ Private, Offline, Yours Your data stays on your device. Access saved places and itineraries offline. Your map belongs to you. --- ※ Share Beautifully Turn trips and collections into posters, image cards, story templates, and route videos. Share inspiration while keeping your own perspective. --- ※ Widgets & Reminders Access favorite views, routes, and memories directly from your home screen. Set reminders for places you want to visit again. --- Whether you plan trips with tools like Wanderlog or Tripsy, or discover inspiration through Instagram, TikTok, Rednote, Tabelog, or local map apps, Placify brings everything together into one elegant personal map. Built around your places, routes, memories, and the way you experience the world. Rediscover your world, one place at a time. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Dayletter
This private journal app creates dated Markdown entries in your chosen Obsidian folder. It safely merges new content with existing files and allows categorization by type, such as investing or exercise. Capture moments, manage tasks with due dates, and access your journal locally without accounts or ads.
- Obsidian-compatible Markdown and tags
- Dated Markdown entry creation
- Safe merging with existing files
- Categorization by type (investing, exercise, etc.)
- Task management with start and due dates
- Local drafts and iCloud Drive support
- No accounts, ads, or data uploads
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Dayletter is a private journal made for capturing the moment. Choose your Obsidian journal folder and Dayletter writes dated Markdown entries into it. If a daily file already exists, Dayletter merges its own section safely and leaves your existing writing intact. Capture moments under a type such as investing, exercise, or reading—or keep Tasks with start and due dates. - Obsidian-compatible Markdown and tags - Read by day or category, plus a task list - Consecutive notes under one type are naturally grouped - Use any local or iCloud Drive folder - Local drafts are kept when a file is downloading, syncing, or conflicted - No accounts, no ads, and no data uploads Send this moment to your future self.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Dayletter at 5.0 against Placify's 4.3. Dayletter also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). Placify's advantage is ratings volume (56 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. Placify sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Dayletter asks for nothing beyond the download.
Dayletter holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Placify has 56 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Placify ships an update every 2 weeks, Dayletter every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Placify | Dayletter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (56 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 56 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.1 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 247 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | WHITESSPACE SDN. BHD. | 磊 徐 |
Customer experience
Placify
Dayletter
In-app purchases
Placify
- Placify Pro - Monthly Flexi$4.991 Month
- Placify Pro - Annual Saving7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Placify Pro - Lifetime$29.99
- Placify Pro - Lifetime$49.99
Dayletter
No in-app purchases









