Comparison

NoteGarden vs Sylvo

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

Head to head
About

NoteGarden

Easily capture your day with mood icons, photos, and short notes. Revisit past moments through a calendar view, photo timeline, and "On This Day" memories. Secure your entries with app lock and sync across devices via iCloud.

Highlights
  • Mood tracking with icons
  • Photo and short note entries
  • Calendar and timeline views
  • Search and favorites
  • iCloud sync
  • App lock security
  • 30-day trash recovery
Features
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NoteGarden is a gentle journaling app that lets you quickly save today’s mood, photos, and notes, then look back on them later. It is designed to feel lighter than a traditional diary, while keeping your records safely stored. Choose your mood, add photos, and write a short note — your entry is saved automatically. [ Key Features of NoteGarden ] Record today in under a minute • Quickly choose today’s mood with 10 mood icons • Add photos and notes to simply capture your day • Write notes neatly line by line with bullet lists • Organize entries more easily with tags • Keep your writing safe with automatic saving Look back with calendar and timeline views • Review past entries with daily moods and previews • Browse older records more easily with monthly section headers • Jump quickly to a specific year when you have entries across multiple years • See the time written and whether an entry was edited • Find the records you need with favorites and search • Revisit memories from the same date with the “On This Day” card Photo timeline • View photos added to your entries by date • Look back on past moments in chronological order from the Photos tab • Keep photos safely stored together with your records Reflect on your records with statistics • View your records by This Month, Last Month, This Year, Last Year, or All Time • Check record count, photo count, character count, and average character count • See your mood distribution at a glance with a donut chart • Track your journaling habit with your writing streak Safe backup and sync • Continue viewing your records and photos across devices with iCloud sync • Keep a single backup file with file export and import • Protect your private records with app lock • Restore deleted entries from the 30-day trash NoteGarden is made for people who find it hard to write a long diary every day. A mood, a photo, and a short note can be enough to remember your day. Save today in a small way, and quietly return to it later.

About

Sylvo

Features
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Sylvo turns your daily check-in into a garden. Pick how your day felt. A seed drops, takes root and grows into a plant that belongs to that day — its species, colour and shape all come from the mood you chose. WHY A GARDEN A list of past moods is a record. A garden is something you tend. Plants from earlier days keep maturing for two weeks, so today’s entry quietly grows everything behind it. NO GUILT Miss a day and nothing dies. Your streak pauses, your plants stay. Sylvo is built for the days you don’t feel like opening an app. WHAT’S INSIDE • 71 plant species to discover in 398 colour variants, each tied to a mood, a season and a rarity • A living sky — weather, seasons and time of day change how your garden looks • Streaks, badges and a herbarium of everything you have grown • An evening reminder at a time you choose • Six languages PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No sign-up. No server. Your moods, notes and garden live on your device and are never uploaded. Delete the app and they go with it. SYLVO PREMIUM • Four extra garden themes • A rare bonus seed every day • Detailed statistics — your trend, your best and hardest weekdays, your consistency Monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Terms: https://cnrpltcll.github.io/sylvo-legal/terms.html Privacy: https://cnrpltcll.github.io/sylvo-legal/privacy.html

Screenshots

NoteGarden4 screens
Sylvo4 screens

Verdict

The call

NoteGarden and Sylvo are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. NoteGarden sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Sylvo sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
NoteGarden versus Sylvo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNoteGardenSylvo
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB65 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChanGyu KangCANER POLAT

In-app purchases

1 purchases

NoteGarden

One-time1
  • NoteGarden Pro Lifetime$1.99
3 purchases

Sylvo

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Yearly3 Days trial$79.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$199.99

Questions

Is NoteGarden free?
NoteGarden is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sylvo free?
Sylvo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do NoteGarden or Sylvo have ads?
Neither NoteGarden nor Sylvo shows ads.

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