DailyWall vs LockNotes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
DailyWall
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Your day, on a wall. A to-do list isn't a list โ it's paper you stick on a wall. Write it, draw it, tape it up. In the evening, that wall becomes your Lock Screen. TOGETHER, ON ONE WALL Create a shared wall and invite friends with a link or a QR code. Creating and joining are free. Everyone hangs paper; you're notified when someone does, and every paper shows who put it up. Free gives each person two notes per wall; Pro removes the limit. HANG IT, DON'T LIST IT Tap an empty spot and a sheet of paper opens. Type on it, or draw straight onto it with Apple Pencil or a finger โ both layers stay on the same sheet. Drag the note where you like, turn it with two fingers, pick its colour and its tape. YOUR WALL ON THE LOCK SCREEN Set it up once. From then on, every time you leave the app, that day's wall becomes your wallpaper: the same paper, in the same places, at the same size. Nothing is rescaled, shifted or cropped. DailyWall never writes to your photo library on its own, and it never deletes anything. PAPER THAT BEHAVES LIKE PAPER 12 paper shapes, 96 tapes, 146 stickers, 43 walls, 24 strings and 20 handwriting styles โ and any paper colour you like. Torn edges, curled corners, notebook pages, cork, slate, brick, graph paper โ or a photo of your own behind it all. When a sheet is full, it is genuinely full. STRINGS BETWEEN PAPERS Drag from the top of one paper to another and a string is pulled between them, under the tape. Yarn, twine, fairy lights, neon, candy โ 24 kinds. Tap a string to change it, hold it to cut it. Strings work on shared walls too. EVERY DAY HAS ITS OWN WALL Arrows step through the days. For anything further back, a calendar opens from the corner of the wall and takes you straight there โ dots underneath show which days have paper on them. THE DRAWER Somewhere to put "I don't know when yet". The drawer holds every note without a day, and it is the only place that searches across every wall you have made: titles, the writing on the paper, and the items inside a list. WRITE IT THE WAY YOU'D SAY IT "dentist tomorrow at 2" arrives as a note on tomorrow's wall, at 14:00. A shopping list typed on one line comes back as a checklist. AND EVERYWHERE ELSE Home Screen widgets, Apple Watch, a Lock Screen control for writing a note in one tap, and iCloud backup that carries your handwriting with it. DAILYWALL PRO Free: five notes a day, the free papers, tapes, stickers and strings, and the Lock Screen wall. Pro: unlimited notes a day, iCloud backup, and every pack โ Pro stickers, tapes, walls and strings, with a new one in every update. Invite friends to a shared wall and unlock three gift packs for free, yours to keep. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled. You can cancel anytime in Settings. Privacy Policy: https://dailywall.app/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
LockNotes
Keep important notes and to-dos visible directly on your phone's Lock Screen. Quickly check off tasks, organize projects with boards and lists, and personalize your notes with various styles and handwriting options. Collaborate with friends in real-time on shared notes.
- Lock Screen notes and widgets
- Task completion without unlocking
- Boards and lists for project organization
- Customizable paper and ink styles
- Handwriting and drawing tools
- Real-time collaborative notes
- Home Screen widgets and Live Activities
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Your notes live on the Lock Screen. You see them every time you pick up your phone โ nothing to unlock, no app to open, nothing to forget. You wrote it down and never looked at it again. LockNotes fixes that by putting the note where your eyes already go. โ Tick off tasks without unlocking Today's to-do list, the groceries, the thing you keep forgetting. Tap it right on the Lock Screen and it's done โ the widget updates instantly. โ Boards and lists for the bigger stuff A trip, a move, a school project. Make a board, add lists and cards, and pin the one that matters to your Lock Screen. Use it as a planner, or as a simple checklist. โ 150 papers to pick from Paper color, ink color, grid or lines or dots. Pinch through 150 designs until one sits right on top of your wallpaper. โ Handwrite, draw, doodle Seven pens โ pencil, crayon, marker, fountain, watercolor and more. Scribble the way you would on a real sticky note. Drop in doodles and photos from your library as stickers. โ 34 fonts Handwritten faces that read like a real notebook, and clean ones for when you want it tidy. Latin, Japanese, Korean and more. โ Write together, live Share a note or a board with a friend using one code. You both write on the same paper and you both watch it change โ live, on both Lock Screens. โ A nudge, if you want one Set a daily reminder and pick the time. Or don't โ the note sits there patiently either way. โ Yours by default Notes stay on your device. Only what you choose to share goes to the cloud, only after you agree, and ending a share deletes it. Also inside: a Home Screen widget, a Live Activity, a diary of everything you have written, and 50+ hand-drawn app icons to match your mood. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LockNotes at none against DailyWall's 3. DailyWall's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS
Both are free to download. DailyWall sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. LockNotes asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | DailyWall | LockNotes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | โ | 100.0% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Daily | โ |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No โ better |
| Monetization | โ | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 197 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Serkan Kaplan | HiPups inc. |
In-app purchases
DailyWall
- DailyWall Pro โ Monthly3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- DailyWall Pro โ 6 Months$9.996 Months
- DailyWall Pro โ Yearly$17.991 Year
LockNotes
No in-app purchases
Questions
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