Quiet Almanac vs JotBox

Quiet Almanac is a personal life recorder — for the rhythms you keep and the moments that matter. Track your daily habits, mark important dates, and log one-time appointments. Everything in one calm, distraction-free space. Daily habits — Check off the things you do every day, every week, every two weeks, or on the last day of every month. Quiet Almanac handles the irregular months automatically. See your progress in Stats. Important dates — Never forget a birthday or anniversary. Quiet Almanac reminds you every year, automatically. Appointments & one-time tasks — Add a reminder, complete it, and it moves to your Archive — with a record of whether it happened. Archive — Every one-time task lives here after it's done. Add notes, look back, remember. Lock screen widget — See today's tasks without unlocking your phone. No ads. No subscriptions. No noise.

JotBox is a fast, local-first scratchpad for the notes that don't need a whole filing cabinet. Open the app and start writing. JotBox keeps a blank page ready, stores notes in a simple timeline, and adds just enough structure when you need it. Use JotBox to: - capture quick notes, measurements, reminders, drafts, and lists - format text with bold, italic, underline, colors, highlights, links, bullets, numbered lists, checkboxes, and indentation - add images from your photo library or pasteboard, with camera capture on iPhone and iPad - save text and links from the Share Sheet where supported - pin, reorder, and find notes with full-text search, snippets, filters, and highlights - lock individual notes locally with a JotBox privacy password and optional biometric unlock where available - mark reference notes read-only so they stay viewable without accidental edits - recover deleted notes from the Recycle Bin - export notes as text, Markdown, PDF, or a restorable backup file - optionally sync through your private iCloud account - optionally create iCloud Drive backup snapshots No account is required. Notes stay on your device unless you turn on Apple's private iCloud sync or iCloud Drive backup. JotBox includes a 7-day app-managed trial. After the trial, JotBox Pro is a one-time $3.99 unlock for editing, creating and managing notes, and rich attachments. Existing notes remain viewable, copyable, shareable, and exportable.