Comparison

Dayleaf vs Folio Planner

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

About

Folio Planner

Features
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Folio — 종이 다이어리의 감성을 담은 미니멀 플래너. 캘린더, 메모, 할 일을 한 곳에서. 계정도 광고도 추적도 없이. 모든 데이터는 오직 내 기기에만 저장됩니다. • 캘린더 — 월간 보기, 일정 추가·수정, 반복 일정(매일/매주/매월), 한국 공휴일·대체공휴일 자동 표시, 좌우 스와이프로 월 이동 • 메모 — 폴더로 분류, 길게 눌러 순서 변경·휴지통 삭제, 스프링 노트 디자인 • 할 일 — 오늘/이번 주/언젠가, 진행률 표시, 완료 항목 일괄 정리 • 홈 화면 위젯 — 이번 달 달력 + 오늘 일정을 한눈에 (Small / Medium / Large) • 라이트 & 다크 모드 • 100% 오프라인 — 인터넷 없이 동작, 데이터는 기기에만 보관 빈티지 에디토리얼 무드의 따뜻한 디자인으로, 매일의 기록을 가볍고 단정하게. Folio — a minimal planner with the warmth of a paper diary. Calendar, notes, and to-dos in one place. No accounts, no ads, no tracking. all your data stays only on your device. • Calendar — month view, add/edit events, repeating events (daily/weekly/monthly), Korean public & substitute holidays, swipe to change months • Notes — organize in folders, long-press to reorder or drop into the trash, spiral-notebook design • To-dos — Today / This Week / Someday, progress bar, clear completed in one tap • Home-screen widget — this month's calendar + today's schedule at a glance (Small / Medium / Large) • Light & dark mode • 100% offline — works without internet, data never leaves your device A warm, vintage-editorial design that keeps your daily planning light and tidy.

Screenshots

Dayleaf4 screens
Folio Planner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Folio Planner at none against Dayleaf's 3. Folio Planner also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Dayleaf's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly) and device support (4 vs 2). On price and ads 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. Dayleaf sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Folio Planner asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dayleaf ships an update weekly, Folio Planner fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Dayleaf versus Folio Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDayleafFolio Planner
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (12 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperiMobiAppflovah

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Dayleaf

Subscriptions2
  • Dayleaf Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Dayleaf Pro Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Dayleaf Pro$19.99
None

Folio Planner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dayleaf free?
Dayleaf is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Folio Planner free?
Folio Planner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Dayleaf or Folio Planner have ads?
Neither Dayleaf nor Folio Planner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dayleaf or Folio Planner?
Dayleaf ships an update weekly, and Folio Planner fortnightly. Most recently, Dayleaf was updated on October 31, 2026 and Folio Planner on October 28, 2026.

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