Checklist vs DayJournal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Checklist
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Checklist is a simple system to help you build habits, stay consistent, and take control of your life. Track your daily actions, measure your progress, and turn small routines into meaningful results. Whether you're building discipline, improving focus, or organizing your life, Checklist gives you a clear way to stay on track. Build and track habits - Create your own daily checklist and stay consistent with what matters most. Measure your progress - Log your actions and see how your daily effort adds up over time. Stay focused - A clean, distraction-free design keeps you focused on doing, not planning. Daily scoring system - Understand your day at a glance with simple progress tracking. Flexible and personal - Use it your way ā habits, routines, or daily systems. Checklist is designed to be simple, intentional, and effective. Start small. Stay consistent. Build something that lasts. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
DayJournal
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DayJournal is a planner you write in. Pick up Apple Pencil and write directly on the calendar ā in the day, the week, the month or the year ā and your handwriting belongs to the date you wrote it on, not to a spot on the screen. Write a note in a day's box on the month grid and it's there, larger, at the top of that day in the week and in the day view. Zoom in to write, zoom out to see the whole month. Travel across time zones and Monday's note is still on Monday. A CALENDAR THAT'S ALSO PAPER ⢠Day, week, month and year views, each laid out like a printed page and zoomed like one ā the writing, the dates and the lines grow together ⢠Scroll straight through the months, weeks and years ⢠Write across several days and the line runs across them, in every view ⢠Tap a date in the header to jump anywhere; Today is one tap away ⢠Each view remembers where you left it, like a ribbon in a paper planner YOUR EVENTS, IN SYNC ⢠Two-way sync with the calendars already on your device ā iCloud, Google, Exchange and more ⢠Events show as blocks on the same page you write on ⢠Press and drag down the hours to create an event exactly as long as you need, or tap + for timed and all-day events A SHEET OF PAPER FOR EVERY DAY ⢠Add full A4 pages to any day ā as many as you like ⢠Blank, ruled or dotted, on white or a soft tint, chosen per page ⢠Layouts to fill in: Cornell notes, checklists, a habit tracker and more ⢠Expand a page to fill the whole screen when you want room to think NOTEBOOKS ⢠Notebooks for everything that isn't about a date ā meeting notes, lists, sketches ⢠File them in folders and sort by name or last edited ⢠Browse every page you've written, by month, in the Notes library ON YOUR HOME SCREEN, AND ON PAPER ⢠Widgets for this month, today's note and the hour you're in, with DayJournal Plus ⢠Export a page or a whole notebook as a PDF ā to print, save to Files or send ā with DayJournal Plus ⢠Color themes for the app around your pages, with DayJournal Plus A PENCIL CASE THAT'S YOURS ⢠Three pen slots, each set to a pen, a pencil or a highlighter, in any color and width ⢠A pencil that looks like graphite on paper ā press harder to go darker ⢠Pressure-sensitive ink that follows your hand, with gentle smoothing that keeps your handwriting yours ⢠Draw a line, arrow, rectangle, ellipse or triangle and it snaps into a clean shape, with an optional fill ⢠Text boxes for notes you want to type, with bold, italic, lists, alignment and any font on your device ⢠Object or pixel eraser ⢠Stickers: a free pack, and every other pack with DayJournal Plus MOVE THINGS AROUND ⢠Lasso any handwriting to move, resize, rotate or recolor it ⢠Cut, copy, paste and duplicate ā and copy on iPhone, paste on iPad with Universal Clipboard MADE FOR THE HAND THAT WRITES ⢠Palm rejection, so resting your hand never scrolls the page ⢠Lock the page while you write ⢠On iPhone, write with your finger; on iPad, Apple Pencil writes and your finger scrolls YOURS, AND PRIVATE ⢠Works completely offline ā no account needed ⢠Your planner lives on your device ⢠Optional sign-in syncs your handwriting between your iPhone and iPad DAYJOURNAL PLUS ⢠Free: every view and tool, sync, and up to five notebooks ā each day with paper counts as one, and the pages inside never count ⢠DayJournal Plus adds unlimited notebooks, every color theme and sticker pack, home screen widgets and PDF export ⢠Monthly or yearly, starting with a 7-day free trial ⢠Payment is charged to your Apple Account. The subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed or canceled in your App Store account settings ⢠Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ ⢠Privacy Policy: https://dayjournal.app/privacy In English, Spanish, Japanese, Korean and Thai. Requires iOS 18 or later. Apple Pencil is recommended on iPad; on iPhone, everything works with a finger.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Checklist at 13.0 against DayJournal's 18.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Checklist sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and DayJournal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Checklist ships an update every 4 days, DayJournal every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Checklist | DayJournal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 3 days ā better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod ā better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 ā better | 18.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 85 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jaehun Lee | Pathompong Puengrostham |
In-app purchases
Checklist
- Checklist Pro$4.991 Month
- Checklist Pro$29.991 Year
- Checklist Pro$79.99
DayJournal
- DayJournal Plus Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- DayJournal Plus Yearly1 Year trial$19.991 Year









