Comparison

DayStack vs DocUpick

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

Head to head
About

DayStack

Features
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Stack your day with purpose. DayStack helps you organize tasks, build routines, and stay focused on what matters most. Simple, beautiful, and distraction-free.

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DocUpick

Features
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DocUpick turns paper into smart notes you can find, read, summarize and reuse โ€” all on your iPhone or iPad, with no account and nothing uploaded. NEW IN 4.0 โ€ข Import from Files: bring in PDFs and images, or share them to DocUpick from any app. PDFs that already contain text keep it exactly; scanned PDFs and photos are read on-device. โ€ข Tables to spreadsheet: DocUpick finds tables on your pages and shows them as a grid. Copy the cells straight into your spreadsheet app, or share a CSV file. โ€ข Read Aloud: listen to any document sentence by sentence, with the current sentence highlighted. Tap a sentence to jump there and set the speed you like. โ€ข Smart summary: on iPhones and iPads with Apple Intelligence, DocUpick writes a short summary, key points and a suggested title on-device. On other devices it picks the key lines from your document and pulls out merchant, total and date from receipts and invoices. Every summary says how it was made. โ€ข Search from the Home Screen: scanned text, titles, tags and folders show up in Spotlight, and a tap opens the note. โ€ข Siri and Shortcuts: "Scan a document with DocUpick", find documents by their text, or pass a document's text to other actions. Quick actions on the app icon start a scan, an import or a search. โ€ข App Lock: require Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode to open DocUpick, and hide its contents in the app switcher. โ€ข Add to Calendar: dates found in a document open a pre-filled event you can review and save. โ€ข Backup & Restore: save your whole library โ€” notes, page images, folders and tags โ€” as one file in Files, iCloud Drive or on a computer. Restoring adds what's missing and never overwrites anything. SCAN ANYTHING WITH TEXT Receipts, invoices, letters, forms, business cards, whiteboards and handwritten notes. Multi-page scanning with edge detection and perspective correction, or import from Photos and Files. Text recognition runs on-device in the languages you choose. SMART NOTES Every scan gets its recognized text, a detected document type, and tap-to-act phone numbers, emails, links, addresses and dates. Receipts and invoices show merchant, total and date. Business cards become a shareable contact card. QR codes and barcodes are detected too. FIND IT FAST Ranked full-text search across titles, recognized text, tags and folders, with the matching words highlighted. Folders with color and icon, tags, pins, filters and sort options. SHARE IT YOUR WAY Image PDFs, searchable PDFs with a hidden text layer, text-only PDFs, adjustable size and watermark, automatic file names from the document's content, CSV export of your library, and Packet Studio for ordered multi-document PDF packets with a cover and contents page. KEEP IT TIDY Page filters, rotation and reordering, merging notes, expiry dates with reminders, an Insights view of your library and a review queue for scans that need attention. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads, no tracking, no analytics and no servers. Your documents stay in DocUpick on your device until you choose to share or back them up. iPhone and iPad. Works offline. Apple Intelligence summaries require a supported device with Apple Intelligence turned on; everything else works on every supported device.

Screenshots

DayStack4 screens
DocUpick4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: DayStack at Free against DocUpick's $3.99. DayStack also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

DayStack is free to download; DocUpick costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DayStack ships an update weekly, DocUpick every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
DayStack versus DocUpick: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDayStackDocUpick
PriceFree โ€” better$3.99
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size45 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGowin Arachchige Shanuka ChandimalaRobert Corbin

In-app purchases

None

DayStack

No in-app purchases

None

DocUpick

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DayStack free?
DayStack is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DocUpick free?
DocUpick costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do DayStack or DocUpick have ads?
Neither DayStack nor DocUpick shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DayStack or DocUpick?
DayStack ships an update weekly, and DocUpick every 4 days. Most recently, DayStack was updated on September 26, 2026 and DocUpick on October 7, 2026.

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