Comparison

Lilnotes vs Records

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

Head to head
About

Lilnotes

A minimalist note-taking application designed for daily reflections and future planning. It features a calendar view, an enforced character limit for concise entries, and optional reminders. All your notes can be easily exported as a text file.

Highlights
  • Calendar view for daily writing
  • Enforced character limit
  • Optional daily reminders
  • Export notes as text file
  • Minimalist design
Features
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Lilnotes is a minimalist note taking app for daily reflections. Features - A calendar format to inspire daily writing (or future planning). - Enforceable character limit to encourage short, concise entries. - Optional notifications for daily reminders and upcoming notes. - Export all your notes as a convenient text file. Challenge yourself to write something every day.

About

Records

Features
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How long has it been since that day? The day you quit smoking. The day you met them. The day you decided. Records keeps your life's turning points and counts the time since each one โ€” in years, months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds, ticking in real time. ## Ways to use it - Stay on track: watch your smoke-free, sober, or saving streak grow - Keep the dates that matter: anniversaries, first meetings, memorial days - Add as many records to a year as you like โ€” got married and changed jobs in 2020? Keep them both - Get a reminder every year for each record โ€” tap it to jump straight in - Share a milestone card ("3 years since I quit") to social media ## A timeline of your years Scroll through every year from 1868 to today and see at a glance how many years ago each one was. ## Simple enough to stick with A record is just a title, a date, and an emoji. No sign-up, no clutter. Glance back anytime, and remember why you started.

Screenshots

Lilnotes3 screens
Records3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Records at every 4 days against Lilnotes's every 2 months. Lilnotes's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.6). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Lilnotes costs $1.99 and Records $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lilnotes ships an update every 2 months, Records every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 5 level
Lilnotes versus Records: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLilnotesRecords
Price$1.99$1.99
Positive reviews100.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 โ€” better18.6
Further details โ€” not scored
Size25 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJacob Stanley-JonesRhinoapp.dev

In-app purchases

None

Lilnotes

No in-app purchases

None

Records

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lilnotes free?
Lilnotes costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Records free?
Records costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Lilnotes or Records have ads?
Neither Lilnotes nor Records shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lilnotes or Records?
Lilnotes ships an update every 2 months, and Records every 4 days. Most recently, Lilnotes was updated on October 6, 2026 and Records on September 29, 2026.

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