Comparison

Monthly vs footnotes

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

Head to head
About

Monthly

This app transforms your monthly schedule into a personalized canvas. Organize appointments, tasks, and notes, then decorate each day with photos, emojis, and stickers to create a visual diary of your month.

Highlights
  • Monthly calendar view
  • Organize schedules, tasks, notes
  • Decorate with stickers and photos
  • Categorize records with tags and colors
  • Home screen widgets
  • Export as PDF
Features
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Monthly is a custom monthly calendar with the feel of a paper calendar — photos pasted on, plans written in by hand. It turns your month into a canvas: not just a schedule, but a record of your days and your taste. Jot down appointments, to-dos, memos and repeating events in seconds, then place photos, emoji and stickers anywhere on the date. Little moments add up until the whole month looks like a diary you made yourself. ■ Built around the month view See the whole month at a glance, with no screen switching. Add events, write notes and decorate — all from the same view. ■ Paste, write, decorate Drop stickers, emoji and photos exactly where you want them. Curated sticker packs are built in, and you can turn stickers you make yourself into packs of your own. ■ Make it yours Combine types, tags, accent colors, fonts and layout to build a calendar that fits how you live. Start simple, then go as detailed as you like. ■ Widgets that look like your calendar Home screen widgets show today, this week and this month exactly as you decorated them. Your calendar is always in front of you, even without opening the app. ■ Works with your existing calendars See events from iOS Calendar, Google Calendar and other external calendars, plus public holidays, right inside Monthly. Keep your schedule where it is — just add the decoration. ■ iPhone, iPad and Mac Jot things down on your phone, then decorate on the bigger screen of your iPad or Mac. Monthly runs on all three. ■ More - Tags and colors to group and color-code your records - Collections to view only work, personal, family or hobby entries - Search to find past entries fast - Export a finished month as a PDF Monthly isn't about cramming in more events. It's built so you can look back and see what color your days were, what filled this month, and which moments you wanted to keep. Don't let this month slip by. Record it, decorate it, and revisit it in Monthly. Some features require Monthly Premium (monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase). Contact: contact@lmnop.im

About

footnotes

Capture the full texture of everyday moments with words, photos, video, and voice. Organize these memories into notebooks and create a timeline of your life. Share your moments as little stories.

Highlights
  • Capture moments with text, photos, video, and voice
  • Organize notes into different notebooks
  • Build a timeline of life's moments
  • Create shareable stories from moments
  • Edit and add to old notes
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footnotes is a quiet notebook for the photographs, voices, passing thoughts, ideas, and ordinary moments that make up a life. you can: - capture the full texture of a moment: in words, photos, video, and voice, all together. - return to old notes, add new moments, and watch a timeline of your life slowly take shape. - make notebooks for different parts of your life, and - turn moments into little stories to share. slices of light sizzling on a wall. laughter of friends sloppy and gold. the loosey goosey fragments. all of which you look back on with tenderness, kept whole. footnotes makes space for the footnotes of a life. the little things that become the story of who you are.

Screenshots

Monthly4 screens
footnotes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: footnotes at none against Monthly's 3. footnotes also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days) and review sentiment (97% vs 85%). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Monthly sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. footnotes asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Monthly ships an update every 5 days, footnotes every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Monthly versus footnotes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMonthlyfootnotes
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.8 (158 ratings) — better
Positive reviews84.6% of reviews97.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—158 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size136 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperlmnopDoppler HQ, Inc

Customer experience

Monthly

Written reviews13 reviews
Positive84.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative15.4%

footnotes

All ratings158 ratings
Positive96.8%
Neutral0.6%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews38 reviews
Positive97.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative2.6%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Monthly

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly 월간 프리미엄 구독7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Monthly 연간 프리미엄 구독7 Days trial$11.991 Year
One-time1
  • Monthly 프리미엄 평생 이용권$17.99
None

footnotes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Monthly free?
Monthly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is footnotes free?
footnotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Monthly or footnotes have ads?
Neither Monthly nor footnotes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Monthly or footnotes?
Monthly ships an update every 5 days, and footnotes every 2 days. Most recently, Monthly was updated on October 21, 2026 and footnotes on October 23, 2026.

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