Comparison

Note Together vs Daypen

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

Head to head
About

Note Together

Collaborate on shared lists, tasks, expenses, and calendars in real-time. Organize groups for home, trips, or projects, and easily split costs. Offers customization and an ad-free experience with optional premium.

Highlights
  • Real-time shared lists
  • Group organization
  • Expense splitting
  • Customizable notifications
  • Daily overview
  • Home screen widgets
  • Multi-language support
Features
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Plan everyday life with the people who matter. Note Together brings shared lists, tasks, expenses, groups, calendars, and reminders into one clear workspace. PLAN TOGETHER IN REAL TIME • Create shopping, to-do, event, note, and workout lists • Share lists with friends, family, roommates, or teammates • Assign items, add due dates, and see what is complete • Send reminders and custom notifications to list members KEEP GROUPS ORGANIZED • Create a group for home, trips, projects, or workouts • Manage members, shared lists, notes, and a group calendar • Keep important plans visible from one group dashboard SPLIT EXPENSES WITHOUT CONFUSION • Add expenses to shared shopping lists • Record who paid and who participated • Review balances and settle up clearly • Include guests without giving them account access MAKE IT YOURS • See today’s priorities in Daily Overview • Keep plans visible with Home Screen widgets • Use Note Together in English, Turkish, German, Spanish, Italian, or French • Unlock more customization and an ad-free experience with optional Premium Your shared plans stay synchronized so everyone sees the same up-to-date information. Some features require an internet connection and an account. Free users may see ads. Optional monthly and yearly Premium subscriptions, as well as a one-time Lifetime purchase, are available in the app. Apple Standard Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://notetogether.laplaceapps.com/privacy

About

Daypen

Features
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Take notes. Daypen gets you ready for the exam. Take notes with Apple Pencil or your finger on iPad and iPhone. Daypen Learn turns them into a summary, flashcards and a quiz, and your planner keeps lectures, deadlines and revision in one week. One purchase covers your iPhone, your iPad and your Mac. HANDWRITTEN NOTEBOOKS • Apple Pencil or finger, with fountain pen, ballpoint, pencil, highlighter and crayon • 380 templates: Cornell notes, lined and grid paper, 2026–2027 calendars and exam planners • 137 covers, stickers and labels • Handwriting to text, and search inside your handwriting • Your notebooks in sync on iPhone and iPad, and shared notebooks you write in together, live • Record audio while you write, then tap your writing to hear that moment • Bring in a PDF, or add one to any notebook, and write on it: slides, past papers, worksheets • Write a formula by hand and Daypen solves it step by step • Shapes that complete themselves, a laser pointer, and a lasso that turns writing into a task or a calendar entry Your first launch opens with a ready Anatomy notebook and a Daypen Guide, so you can try everything at once. DAYPEN LEARN Pick a page, a notebook or everything you wrote. Daypen Learn makes a summary, key terms, flashcards and a quiz from your own notes. Cards you miss come back sooner, the ones you know wait longer. Take a timed practice exam from your sets and see the three topics to study next. Set a daily goal, keep a streak, follow your scores, and share a quiz as an image with your study group. STUDY ROOMS Study with friends wherever they are: one shared timer, what everyone is working on, and who is focusing or on a break. A PLANNER FOR YOUR WEEK Block out lectures, study sessions and deadlines. Drag a block to move it, tap the circle to finish it, and let it repeat. Get a reminder on time or when you arrive somewhere. Any plan can have its own notebook page. SUMMARISE Record a lecture, open an audio file, a PDF or a Word document, or share a link. Daypen gives you the summary, the key points, the to-dos and the dates, and every line drops into your plan with one tap. HABITS Reading, revision, sleep, the gym. Tap a ring to complete it, watch the streak grow, and see the week, month and year in charts. AN ASSISTANT THAT KNOWS YOUR PLANS Ask what is due, how the week went, or what a plan still needs. It reads only your own plans, habits and notes. THE VAULT Expiry dates with reminders, passwords and IBANs, opened with Face ID or a code of its own. Passwords and IBANs stay in your device's keychain. TOGETHER One book with your flatmates, partner or family: a shared list, habits you keep as a group, and a spending log you can fill from a photo of the receipt. ALSO • Widgets for the home and lock screen, and Siri • A record button in Control Center • Your Apple Calendar events beside your own plans • 28 languages FREE AND PRO Free for good: three notebooks with the basic papers and every pen, the planner, the list, notes, five habits, one shared book, the widgets, and your first five questions to the assistant. After the tour you get a free sample quiz. Daypen Pro adds unlimited notebooks, the full template library and every cover, handwriting to text and handwriting search, Daypen Learn, PDF and audio in notebooks, Summarise, the vault, the unlimited assistant, unlimited habits, and backup across devices. One purchase covers every iPhone, iPad and Mac on the same Apple Account: • A monthly or yearly subscription • Or a one-time lifetime purchase, which also covers every feature added to Pro from here on Payment is charged to your Apple Account. A subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends; manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Lifetime is a single payment and does not renew. Terms of Use: https://gepgo.com/daypen/en/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://gepgo.com/daypen/en/privacy/

Screenshots

Note Together4 screens
Daypen4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Daypen at none against Note Together's shown. Daypen also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks) and device support (4 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Note Together sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Daypen sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Note Together ships an update every 2 weeks, Daypen every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Note Together versus Daypen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNote TogetherDaypen
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size108 MB70 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEkin DEVECILERAli Can

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Note Together

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Access (Monthly)$0.991 Month
  • Premium Access (Yearly)14 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • NoteTogether Lifetime Premium$19.99
3 purchases

Daypen

Subscriptions2
  • Daypen Pro$4.991 Month
  • Daypen Pro Year$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Daypen Pro Lifetime$99.99

Questions

Is Note Together free?
Note Together is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Daypen free?
Daypen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Note Together or Daypen have ads?
Note Together shows ads; Daypen does not.
Which is updated more often, Note Together or Daypen?
Note Together ships an update every 2 weeks, and Daypen every 3 days. Most recently, Note Together was updated on October 21, 2026 and Daypen on October 25, 2026.

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