notes and duck vs Nowadays
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
notes and duck
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Welcome to your new favorite cozy space to relax, create, and organize! Transform your device into a warm, aesthetic canvas where you can customize notes, pin photo memories, decorate with cute stickers, and interact with Pato, your virtual duck companion! Whether you want to leave quick reminder notes, build a digital vision board, or simply unwind in a cute, soothing environment, Pato is here to keep you company. INTERACTIVE DUCK COMPANION Watch Pato wander around your canvas, react to your taps, and express his thoughts! Call him over whenever you need a friend, or tap the party speaker to watch him dance! CUSTOMIZABLE AESTHETIC NOTES Create beautiful digital sticky notes! Choose from multiple paper textures, pastel colors, cute fonts, and custom text colors to match your mood. PHOTO FRAMES & MEMORIES Turn your canvas into a personal photo board. Add mini photostrips and aesthetic polaroid frames with your favorite memories. STICKERS & COZY FURNITURE Express your style! Place custom emoji stickers, cozy cushions, speakers, and cute room accessories anywhere on your screen. CUSTOM CANVAS BACKGROUNDS Make it uniquely yours! Select from soft pastel colors and relaxing textures like grid paper, dotted pages, notebook lines, and subtle patterns. DEDICATED TO A RELAXING EXPERIENCE No intrusive ads. Unwind and enjoy a calm, creative space at your own pace. Bring warmth, organization, and a little bit of duck fun to your screen today.
Nowadays
This app offers a private daily check-in for relationships, asking one question per day. Users respond by rating their feelings, creating a visual history of relationship patterns over time. It's designed as a personal reflection tool, not for professional advice.
- Daily one-minute check-in
- Rate feelings with a slider
- Tag life events
- Add personal notes
- Visualize relationship patterns
- Track progress by area
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Nowadays is a quiet, private daily check-in for your relationship. Once a day it asks one plain question and you answer by dragging a face, warmer or heavier, in a few seconds. Over time those small check-ins become a picture of how things have actually felt, so you can see the patterns memory tends to blur. A mirror, not a judge. Nowadays never scores your relationship, never gives advice, and never tells you to stay or leave. It keeps your record and shows you its shape, warm days rising in peach, heavier days settling in blue, never red-and-green, because you are not being graded. WHAT YOU DO • A one-minute daily check-in, a gentle question and a face you drag, frown to smile. • Mark a moment, tag what happened (time together, a good talk, closeness, a fight) if you like. • Add a note in your own words. Everything optional, always. WHAT YOU SEE • A timeline where each day leans warm or heavy, with life events on the day they happened. • A calendar of how each day felt, and a "lately" line of your overall warmth. • Progress by area, connection, communication, intimacy, respect, appreciation, quality time. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Your entries are encrypted and stay on your device. We can't read them. • Face ID or a PIN locks the app before you write anything, and it auto-locks when you leave. • A decoy PIN can open an empty version of the app. Notifications never reveal the question. • No ads. Nothing sold. No partner access, ever. FREE, AND HONEST ABOUT IT Nowadays is free to use for the daily check-in, the full timeline and calendar, notes, and every privacy feature. Nowadays More (optional) adds deeper chart views and PDF export. Nowadays is a personal reflection tool, not medical or professional advice, and not a crisis service. If you are in danger or crisis, please contact your local emergency services. Terms of Use (EULA): https://nowadays.love/terms Privacy Policy: https://nowadays.love/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Nowadays at 16.4 against notes and duck's 26.5. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. notes and duck sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Nowadays sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | notes and duck | Nowadays |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.5 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zulmy Linda Loo Cordova | Alexander Jacobs |
In-app purchases
notes and duck
- Pato Premium$2.99
Nowadays
- Nowadays More Monthly$3.991 Month
- Nowadays More Yearly$29.991 Year









