Fly Notes vs Dayception
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Fly Notes
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The capture app that files itself. Speak or type a thought, and ask your notes anything. INSTANT CAPTURE Take notes on the fly. Tap to type, hold to talk โ your voice note is transcribed and saved before the thought slips away. A clean timeline keeps your day in order. ORGANIZED INSTANTLY No folders to keep up. Fly Notes tags and dates each note as you enter it, and plain words become structure: "remind me to pick up meds in 10 mins" becomes a reminder that fires on time; "todo work send the invoice fri 9am" lands as a dated to-do filed under Work. NEVER MISS ANYTHING Reminders fire even when the app is closed. To-dos keep score until you check them off. And for the things that truly can't slip, Pro alarms cut through silent mode and Focus (iOS 26). SEARCH IN SECONDS Find anything by just asking. "What gift ideas do I have for Dad?" Fly Notes searches everything you've saved and answers in plain language โ with receipts: every answer links back to the exact notes it came from. ALWAYS WITHIN REACH Capture without opening the app: โข Apple Watch โ tap, talk, drop your wrist; your iPhone files it โข Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets โข Control Center and the Action Button โข Live Activity while you record โข Siri & Shortcuts โ capture or ask, hands free โข Apple Reminders mirroring, automatic YOUR LANGUAGE Capture in any language. Search and Ask understand English out of the box โ a free optional download adds 14 more: Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Indonesian. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your notes live on your iPhone โ not on our servers. When you use Ask, or turn on cloud transcription, the text or audio for that request goes to one of our AI providers (currently Google Cloud, Groq, Together AI, DeepInfra, or Anthropic; a retry may go to another of them) to produce the result โ through OpenRouter, Groq, and Anthropic. We only use providers that run under zero-data-retention terms or in safety retention mode: we tell you when, we don't store it, and they don't either โ at most a copy kept only to fix errors, stop abuse, or review safety, and never to train AI. FLY NOTES PRO Capturing, filing, and searching are free. Ask comes with a free allowance โ Pro raises the limits and adds iCloud sync across your devices and break-through alarms. Terms: https://flynotes.app/terms Privacy: https://flynotes.app/privacy
Dayception
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Some things are worth counting down to. Dayception turns the dates that matter โ birthdays, trips, launches, anniversaries, the big day โ into beautiful countdowns you'll actually want to look at. Counted in sleeps, with a live timer ticking to the second as the day nears, on your iPhone, iPad and Mac. Most countdown apps stop at "days until." Dayception keeps going. THE INSIGHTS ENGINE Under every countdown is a real analytics engine that reads the shape of your year. See where your months cluster on a year heat-map. Get smart cards that surface what's coming โ the next milestone, your busiest month, your longest countdown. Break the year down by category. And flip a date you've passed into a count-up, to mark the time since it mattered. ON EVERY SCREEN - Widgets for the Lock Screen and Home Screen โ and they show in StandBy - A live countdown in the Dynamic Island and on your Lock Screen - A countdown that lives in your Mac menu bar, always a glance away - Siri and Shortcuts: "how many sleeps until my holiday?" - Reminders that build as the day nears: a month out, a week out, the night before, the morning of THE DETAILS - Recurring birthdays and anniversaries roll over on their own - Working-days-until, aware of UK and US holidays - Sort by soonest, pin what matters to the top, archive what's done - Turn any countdown into a beautiful card for Stories or Messages in a single tap PRIVATE BY DESIGN Dayception is offline-first. Your countdowns live on your devices and sync only through your own private iCloud โ no account to create, nothing stored on our servers, and no analytics, ads or trackers. Ever. PAY ONCE Five countdowns are free, for as long as you like. Unlock unlimited countdowns and the full insights engine for a single price โ no subscription. During the launch window it's ยฃ14.99 as a Founder, which also gets you an exclusive Founder app icon and a Founder badge in the app. Made for people who like to anticipate.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Dayception at every 2 weeks against Fly Notes's every 2 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Fly Notes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Dayception sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Fly Notes ships an update every 2 months, Dayception every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fly Notes | Dayception |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks โ better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Mac โ better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 140 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | INNOV8 VENTURES COMPANY LTD | NetSmiths Ltd |
In-app purchases
Fly Notes
- Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Pro Annual$39.991 Year
Dayception
- Dayception Founder$14.99









