Comparison

Skrive vs EverDay

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

Head to head
About

Skrive

A straightforward and secure journaling app focused on daily writing. It offers a clean interface with no distractions, allowing users to easily record thoughts and memories. Entries are encrypted and can be exported as plain text.

Highlights
  • One entry per day
  • Plain text writing
  • Clean interface
  • Searchable history
  • Device encryption
  • Plain text export
  • Cross-device sync (Pro)
Features
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Skrive is a simple, secure journal built for daily writing. One entry per day, plain text, nothing in the way. Keeping a daily journal is one of the most rewarding habits you can build. It sharpens how you think and write, helps you process stress, and gives you a record of your life to look back on. Regular journaling has been shown to improve memory, boost mental clarity, and support mental health. Skrive exists to make that habit as easy as possible to keep. There are no tags, no folders, no formatting options. Just a clean writing surface that opens fast and gets out of the way. The focus is entirely on the words you write. Every entry is dated, and your full journal history is always at your fingertips. Scroll back through past entries or search for a specific memory, moment, or thought you wrote down months ago. Skrive is free to use with no limits on how much you write. Your entries are encrypted and stored securely on your device, and you can export everything as plain text at any time. Your journal belongs to you. Skrive Pro adds sync across all your devices. Write on your iPhone, continue on your iPad or your Mac. Everything is encrypted end to end before it ever leaves your device, and stored on servers in Europe. Only you hold the key. Only you can read what you write. Skrive is made by an independent developer who journals every day. It is a small app, built with care. Website: https://skrive.app Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

EverDay

Features
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Your week, in one calm view. EverDay is a weekly planner for iPhone that brings work, personal tasks, time blocks and reminders together. See what is coming up, move plans between days, and keep the details with the task. YOUR WEEK, WITHOUT THE CLUTTER • See all seven days on one continuous weekly board • Drag tasks between days when plans change • Add notes, start and end times, reminders and color-coded tags • Keep undated tasks in your Inbox until you are ready to plan them • Get started with a short, skippable introduction QUICK CONTEXT THROUGHOUT THE DAY • Check your plans with Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • Add and complete tasks with Siri and Shortcuts • Set optional Morning Agenda and Weekly Review notifications • Sync planner content through your private iCloud account when available GO FURTHER WITH EVERDAY PRO The weekly planner, widgets and planning notifications are free. The optional EverDay Pro one-time purchase adds month view, recurring tasks, subtasks, automatic rollover, unlimited tags and all 13 themes. Repeat a task on the weekdays you choose, break a larger plan into smaller steps, or look ahead across the month. Pro is a lifetime non-consumable purchase, not a subscription. Existing Pro purchases remain valid and can be restored using the same Apple Account. PRIVATE PLANS, CLEAR PURCHASES No EverDay account or advertising. Your planner content stays on your iPhone and, when enabled, in your private iCloud. RevenueCat manages Pro purchase validation and restoration, using purchase information, an anonymous purchase identifier and limited paywall analytics. Your tasks, notes and other planner content are not sent to RevenueCat. Apple processes payment. Privacy Policy: https://everday.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://everday.app/terms Support: https://everday.app/support Requires iOS 18 or later.

Screenshots

Skrive4 screens
EverDay4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Skrive at every 2 weeks against EverDay's monthly. Skrive also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Skrive sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and EverDay sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Skrive ships an update every 2 weeks, EverDay monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Skrive versus EverDay: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSkriveEverDay
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIsak SolheimKrishna Sagar

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Skrive

Subscriptions2
  • End-to-end encrypted sync$3.991 Month
  • End-to-end encrypted sync$29.991 Year
1 purchases

EverDay

One-time1
  • EverDay Pro$9.99

Questions

Is Skrive free?
Skrive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is EverDay free?
EverDay is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Skrive or EverDay have ads?
Neither Skrive nor EverDay shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Skrive or EverDay?
Skrive ships an update every 2 weeks, and EverDay monthly. Most recently, Skrive was updated on October 10, 2026 and EverDay on October 23, 2026.

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