Comparison

DayPilot vs Notes

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

Head to head
About

DayPilot

This AI-powered assistant helps organize your life through natural language commands. It can create reminders, break down tasks, capture notes, build habits, and facilitate daily reflection, streamlining your productivity without complex manual input.

Highlights
  • Create reminders and tasks with natural language
  • Break down goals into actionable steps
  • Organize ideas into notes and lists
  • Record journals and reflections
  • Build and track habits
  • Focus timers integrated with tasks
Features
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DayPilot is an AI tool for tasks, schedules, countdowns, and reminders. Share a rough idea, plans from a conversation, or your plans for the week, and let AI turn them into tasks, reminders, events, notes, and reflections. EXAMPLE REQUESTS Schedules: "Schedule a workout every Tuesday and Thursday from 7 to 8 PM. Set an alarm 15 minutes before and tell me if it conflicts with an existing event." Task breakdown: "Turn 'prepare for a weekend trip' into a checklist." Countdowns: "My mom's birthday is May 20. Create a birthday countdown and remind me one day before every year." Note search: "Find the notes about home renovations that I saved a long time ago." Weekly journals: "Turn this week's journal entries into a weekly reflection with key experiences, lessons, and thoughts." Habits: "Create a daily reading habit and remind me at 9 PM. I've also practiced vocabulary today; check that habit off." Focus: "Review my focus records this week and summarize them." Daily overview: "Show today's events, unfinished tasks, and habits I still need to check in on." WHAT AI CAN HELP YOU DO Schedules: Plan, adjust, view, and complete events. Tasks: Create, break down, search, organize, and complete tasks. Countdowns: Manage target dates, birthdays, and anniversaries, see days remaining, and set reminders. Notes: Create, organize, and search notes. Daily and weekly journals: Record your days, review your week, and turn daily entries into a weekly journal. Habits: Create habits, set goals and reminders, log check-ins, and track progress. Focus: Start, pause, and end sessions, review records, and add time spent focusing. APP HIGHLIGHTS - Reliable AI: say what you need and let it organize the details, without filling out lengthy forms. - A calm, comfortable interface with no pop-ups or interruptions and thoughtful interactions. - Clear features that are easy to use from the moment you open the app. - A small download, very low memory use, and fast performance. - Seven tools in one app: calendar, notes, journals, habits, tasks, focus, and countdowns. No need to install seven separate apps. - The free version includes most features that similar apps charge for, with a more affordable paid version. SUBSCRIPTIONS AND TERMS Membership subscriptions are available through App Store in-app purchases. Manage or cancel automatic renewal in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://daypilot.meita.app/en/privacy SERVICE REGIONS For new iOS installations, a mainland China App Store storefront suggests Mainland China service; other storefronts, including Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, suggest International service. You can choose your service before signing in. Existing installations keep their service selection. Accounts, data, and memberships belong to the selected service and do not transfer when you switch. Language is a separate setting. Mainland China service may show ads; International service does not show domestic ads. APP LANGUAGES The app interface is available in English and Simplified Chinese.

About

Notes

Features
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If you want a notes app that's “open and write, tidy as you go, never lose a word,” Mini Notes is built for you. **Auto-save, so every quick note is safe** Even if a call comes in, the app is interrupted, or your phone runs flat, anything you hadn't saved is brought back automatically. No hunting for a save button—just write. **Flexible organization, your own knowledge base** Manage things as “Notebook → Group → Note” with multi-level nesting for complex setups—or skip filing entirely and just jot things down. **One-tap sharing, capture ideas on the spot** When you spot a passage or link in Safari or another app, just tap Share and choose Mini Notes. It drops straight into your inbox—no copying back and forth. **Effortless formatting, clear at a glance** The rich-text editor gives you bold, strikethrough and a 12-color preset palette, and remembers the last color you used so you don't set it again. Titles inherit the body's formatting, keeping list previews clean and readable. **Home Screen widget, no need to open the app** Put your most recently edited notes on your Home Screen and see what you wrote today at a glance. Tap one to jump straight back into it. **Recently Deleted, for when you delete by mistake** Deleted notes stay in Recently Deleted for 30 days, so you can restore them anytime. Sure you don't need them? Clear them out in one tap. **Text Size, so everything is easy to read** Drag a slider in Settings to resize the text and icons throughout the app, without changing the setting for any other app. **Markdown checklists for quick to-dos** Type "# checklist" to turn the current line into a tappable checkbox. Press Return and the next line starts with a checkbox too. Tap to tick it off—tapped the wrong one? Just undo it. We'll keep updating Mini Notes. If there's something you'd like improved, or a feature you'd love to see, please leave a review on the App Store or get in touch via Send Feedback in the app. Your support and encouragement keep us building a better product. Thank you!

Screenshots

DayPilot4 screens
Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Notes at none against DayPilot's 2. On price, update cadence, ads 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. DayPilot sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 3 months. Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DayPilot ships an update every 8 days, Notes weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
DayPilot versus Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDayPilotNotes
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysWeekly — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size95 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHangzhou Meita Technology Co., Ltd.ZHONGCHENG YANG

In-app purchases

2 purchases

DayPilot

Subscriptions2
  • 季度会员$4.993 Months
  • 年度会员$14.991 Year
None

Notes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DayPilot free?
DayPilot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Notes free?
Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do DayPilot or Notes have ads?
Both DayPilot and Notes show ads.
Which is updated more often, DayPilot or Notes?
DayPilot ships an update every 8 days, and Notes weekly. Most recently, DayPilot was updated on October 24, 2026 and Notes on October 22, 2026.

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