Comparison

Simple Vertical Calendar Notes vs Daynote

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

Head to head
About

Simple Vertical Calendar Notes

This app offers a clear and intuitive way to manage your daily schedule. Easily switch between a monthly grid and a chronological list view, with features like holiday support and flexible recurring events.

Highlights
  • Switchable grid and list views
  • Holiday calendar support
  • Flexible recurring events
  • Powerful search function
  • Intuitive design
  • Color-coded events
Features
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A new calendar app designed for both clarity and ease of use. Seamlessly switch between a monthly grid view and a vertical scrolling list view. Make your schedule management more intuitive and comfortable. 【Key Features】 ■ Switchable Display Formats ・Grid View: A traditional calendar view that shows your entire month's schedule at a glance. ・List View: A vertical scrolling view that allows you to see your appointments in chronological order, making it easy to see what's ahead. ■ Holiday Calendar Support ・Automatically displays holidays for your country. You can easily add them from the calendar settings. ■ Flexible Recurring Events ・Set up complex recurring events with ease, such as "every Tuesday," "on the 15th of every month," or "every two weeks." ■ Powerful Search Function ・Quickly find past and future appointments with a keyword search. ■ Intuitive Design and Usability ・A simple and sophisticated design. Color-code your events to visually manage your personal and work schedules. 【Recommended for people who】 ・Find the default calendar app to be insufficient. ・Want to manage their schedule digitally with the feel of a paper planner. ・Want to manage both work and personal appointments in a single app. ・Want a clear list view to keep track of future appointments. Start your new schedule management experience with this app!

About

Daynote

Features
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One page a day. If you have ever kept a diary for four days and then stopped, it was probably the app asking too much. Choose a folder, add tags, pick a template — and the day you meant to write about is still unwritten when you close it. Daynote has no folders, no tag hierarchies and no template to fill in. There is a date, and there are your words. Open it and the cursor is already sitting on the paper. There is no save button anywhere, because it saves as you write. ■ Writing, within three seconds · One tap on Write today and you are typing · No save button and no cancel — what you type stays, even if you back out · Five moods and eight kinds of weather, one tap each. Skip them and the page still saves ■ Stickers stick to sentences, not to the screen Put a star beside the thing that went well, draw a wave under the line you want to read again. Later you can raise the text size or rewrite an earlier sentence — the sticker travels with the words it belonged to. What you meant when you placed it survives. ■ Change the theme, keep the diary Paper, Clay, Pixel, Pastel. The typeface, corners, shadows and writing paper all change together. A star you placed on Paper becomes a dotted star in Pixel — same spot, same angle, same count. The same diary in another edition. ■ A drawer, not a report card Lookback never counts your streak or grades you on a completion rate. Twelve weeks of heat, the hours you tend to write in, the words you reach for most — and every one of those numbers opens the entry it came from. ■ For your eyes only Lock it with a six-digit passcode or your fingerprint or face. While locked, even the widget shows nothing. Entries live on this device; there is no account and no sign-in. Back up to a file or to your own cloud whenever you want to. ■ Only two things cost money Of the four themes, Paper is free and the other three come as a one-time bundle. Removing ads is also one-time. There is no subscription. All twenty papers and every sticker are free from the start. 한국어 · English · 日本語

Screenshots

Simple Vertical Calendar Notes4 screens
Daynote4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Simple Vertical Calendar Notes at none against Daynote's 2. Simple Vertical Calendar Notes also leads on ads (none vs shown). Daynote's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence 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. Daynote sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Simple Vertical Calendar Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Simple Vertical Calendar Notes ships an update every 9 days, Daynote every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Simple Vertical Calendar Notes versus Daynote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple Vertical Calendar NotesDaynote
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB65 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNaoyuki RikijiJunhyuk Lee

In-app purchases

None

Simple Vertical Calendar Notes

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Daynote

One-time2
  • All themes$4.99
  • Remove ads$9.99

Questions

Is Simple Vertical Calendar Notes free?
Simple Vertical Calendar Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Daynote free?
Daynote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Simple Vertical Calendar Notes or Daynote have ads?
Daynote shows ads; Simple Vertical Calendar Notes does not.
Which is updated more often, Simple Vertical Calendar Notes or Daynote?
Simple Vertical Calendar Notes ships an update every 9 days, and Daynote every 2 weeks. Most recently, Simple Vertical Calendar Notes was updated on September 23, 2026 and Daynote on September 22, 2026.

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