Folio Planner vs Dayleaf
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Folio Planner
This app consolidates your social feed, chats, files, and contacts into a single platform. Manage updates, communicate with contacts, and access files with 2GB of free storage, all under one account.
- Unified social feed
- Integrated chat and messaging
- Centralized contact management
- File access and organization
- 2GB free storage
- Verified domain names for identity
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FOUR APPS IN ONE LOGIN. Folio Planner connects your social life, chats, files and contacts because they shouldn't live in four different places. One app, one account, most of what you need under one roof. Not everything. Just what matters. 1. CIRCLES: Your social feed, your way. Post updates, share moments, and catch up on news with the people in your circle. Ads may come from brands you follow. Don't want them? *Opt out at any time. No algorithm decides what you see. And, with verified domain names, your identity on Folio is uniquely yours. Not just a username, but your name, your domain. From small businesses and community groups to corporate, think Gretel@bakery, Mary@church, or JP@holdings. Every domain on Folio goes through verification and authentication, so what you claim is genuinely yours. 2. CHATTER: Your people, in one place. Message the people already in your Circles and contacts. Just share files within the Folio ecosystem without additional exporting, importing or switching to or from other apps. 3. CONTACTS: The right people, when you need them. Your contacts don't live in isolation. They are connected through your Circles, Chatter and Files, so reaching anyone in your Folio network means never leaving the app. 4. FILE MANAGER: Your files, in your pocket. Access, organize, and share your files from wherever you are. Pick up where you left off. 2GB free storage included. Upgrade when you need more. ONE ACCOUNT. ONE ECOSYSTEM. Most of what you need. Folio Planner is part of the broader Folio platform, a cloud-based environment built for people who want everything in one place. Your circle, your files, your conversations; all in one account, one ecosystem. Sign in once. Everything else follows. *You control what you see. A few things worth knowing: Free to download. 2GB storage included. Paid storage tiers available when you need more space. One Folio account connects everything. Available on iPhone. iPad support coming soon. Android coming soon.
Dayleaf
This app offers a digital journaling experience that mimics a physical paper planner. It features multiple calendar views, customizable planners for different life areas, and quick entry options. Cloud backup and export capabilities ensure your notes are safe and accessible.
- Monthly, Weekly, and Day calendar views
- Multiple color-coded planners
- Quick entry and editing
- Instant search functionality
- Cloud backup and restore
- Printable calendar views
- Email export of entries
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The warmth of a paper planner, the power of your iPhone. Write your days, stick stickers on your dates, and watch your life fill a beautiful calendar: journal, diary, goals, and planner in one quiet, ad-free app. Free to start; Pro is a one-time purchase or a subscription, your choice. Open it to a calendar, not a blank page: your entries, photos, and stickers live right inside the month, week, and day views, so every glance tells the story of your life. **New: Your Second Brain in an Agentic World** Switch on Headless Dayleaf and Meta Muse, Claude, Gemini or your own scripts can write the day's weather, your steps and sleep, or a summary of what you shipped into the right planner, labelled "via muse" so your words and theirs never blur, and read back what you wrote. Your whole journal also exports as Markdown files, one note per day, ready for Obsidian and any AI tool. Off by default; text only, never your photos or audio. **Switching from Day One?** Bring your entire journal home in minutes: every entry, photo, and voice recording. Choose your export in Settings → Import and Dayleaf does the rest, even for journals with a decade of memories. Free, forever. **Photos & Voice Notes** Attach photos to any entry and see them right on your calendar. Tap the mic to capture a voice note on the spot. Some days deserve to be heard, not typed. **Planner Stickers** Birthday, Pay day, Trip, Deadline, Date night… stick them on any date like a real paper planner, or design your own with your choice of icon and color. **Twenty Hand-Crafted Themes** Paper, Forest, Ocean, Lavender, Rosé, Ink & Gold, Sunset, Olive, Retro, Clay, Frost, Linen, Kraft, Pop: each tuned by hand with a light and a dark face, several with their own page construction. Your journal, your mood. **Set Goals. Reflect. Grow.** Daily, weekly, and monthly goals with a Notes & Reflection space to look back and write how it really went, just like the review pages of a great paper planner. **Private Diary with Lock. Your Year in Review.** App Lock (Pro) guards your diary with a 4-digit passcode; forgot it? A code sent to your email resets it. Year in Review (Pro) shows streaks, words written, busiest days and a globe lit by every city you've written from. Tag entries with your location, write your own reminder messages, and switch on a persistent reminder that nudges until you open the app. **Private. Backed Up. Always Yours.** One-tap backups to your own iCloud: entries, photos, voice notes, stickers, everything. No account required, no tracking, and your journal stays in your own Apple account. Restore anywhere, anytime. Key Features: - Day One import: entries, photos & audio, free forever - App Lock passcode, Year in Review, places globe, blog-post entries (Pro) - Headless Dayleaf: local API, `dayleaf` command line and MCP server (Mac); cloud access for Meta Muse and other agents - Markdown export: one note per day, ready for Obsidian and AI tools - Photo attachments with calendar thumbnails - On-the-spot voice notes - 20 planner stickers + design your own - 20 hand-crafted themes, each with light & dark - Per-planner icons, fonts, and text sizes - Daily, weekly, and monthly goals with reflection - Monthly, Weekly, and Day calendar views with zoom - Daily reminder at your chosen time - Instant search and a fast, beautiful Timeline - iCloud backup and restore: no account needed - Print your calendar; export by email (text/CSV) DAYLEAF EVERYWHERE Capture on Apple Watch: dictate an entry, record voice memos with automatic transcripts, tick off goals from your wrist, and add the watch-face complication. And with the Mac app, your whole journal is at home on your desktop too. Perfect for daily journaling, gratitude and mood tracking, habit reflection, work notes, reading lists, travel plans, and memory keeping. Your memories deserve a beautiful home. Start today. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Folio Planner at none against Dayleaf's 3. Folio Planner also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (15.4 vs 17.0). Dayleaf's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Dayleaf sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Folio Planner asks for nothing beyond the download.
Folio Planner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dayleaf has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Folio Planner ships an update every 4 days, Dayleaf weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Folio Planner | Dayleaf |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.8 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 13 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 284 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Folio Software | iMobiApp |
Customer experience
Folio Planner
Dayleaf
In-app purchases
Folio Planner
No in-app purchases
Dayleaf
- Dayleaf Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Dayleaf Pro Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Dayleaf Pro$19.99









