Subnotes vs DayCommand
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Subnotes
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Subnotes is a plain-text notes and to-do list app for iPhone, iPad & Mac. Any line you write can become a task. ⢠Thoughts and tasks, side by side ā jot things down like a paper notebook, then switch views to see everything organized by priority, automatically. ⢠Editing a task is just editing text ⢠Recurring tasks and due dates ⢠Link notes together to connect related thinking ⢠Templates for weekly reviews, meeting notes, habit tracking, trip planning, and more. Note-taking and task planning are deeply personal ā so Subnotes stores everything as plain text, not a proprietary format. Copy, paste, or export anytime. It also syncs privately over your own iCloud account: no signup, no account creation, no servers but Apple's. For iPhone, iPad, and Mac
DayCommand
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DayCommand understands what you type or say ā no forms, no menus, no tapping through a dozen fields. "standup every weekday 9am" creates a recurring event on every calendar you've connected. "move lunch to 3pm" finds it and moves it. "cancel gym tomorrow" removes it ā with an undo. "am I free at 3?" and "find 30 min for a run" answer questions your calendar app has never been able to. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT ⢠On-device, not cloud. Parsing runs entirely on your phone ā no message limits, no monthly quota, no round-trip to a server. It works on a plane. ⢠One command, every calendar. Connect Apple, Google, and Outlook calendars at once, and a single command writes to all of them ā moves, renames, and deletes fan out everywhere automatically, so your calendars never drift out of sync with each other. ⢠Real mutations, not just creation. Most "smart" calendar apps can only parse new events. This one moves, renames, resizes, and cancels existing events by fuzzy-matched title ā and answers scheduling questions directly. ⢠Genuinely private. Your calendar data goes only to the accounts you connect. Voice dictation runs on-device (Apple CoreML). Nothing about how the app understands your commands is sent anywhere. FEATURES ⢠Natural-language create, move, rename, resize, and cancel ā with a confirm card before anything destructive happens ⢠Recurring events: daily/weekly/monthly, intervals, ordinal weekdays ("first Monday of the month"), end dates ⢠Free-time finder: "find 30 min for a run" returns bookable time slots ⢠60-day agenda with a week strip, live parse preview as you type ⢠Voice dictation, fully on-device ⢠Home Screen widgets ⢠Siri quick-add ⢠Conflict detection when two events would overlap ⢠Time-zone awareness for events created while traveling DayCommand connects to Apple Calendar (iCloud), Google Calendar, and Outlook/Microsoft 365 Calendar. Connect one or all three ā everything works the same either way.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Subnotes at weekly against DayCommand's every 4 weeks. Subnotes also leads on device support (3 vs 1). DayCommand's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Subnotes ships an update weekly, DayCommand every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Subnotes | DayCommand |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly ā better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac ā better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 ā better |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Martin Ramsin | Sadd Tech LLC |
In-app purchases
Subnotes
No in-app purchases
DayCommand
No in-app purchases









