Comparison

Onuri vs Daopen

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

Head to head
About

Onuri

Organize your thoughts and memories with a powerful note-taking app. It offers advanced search, filtering by people, places, and topics, and connects related entries. Premium features provide deeper insights and customization options.

Highlights
  • Advanced text search
  • Filter by people, places, dates, topics
  • Connected terms and related entries
  • Automatic draft saving
  • iCloud sync
  • TXT and CSV export
  • Premium insights and patterns
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Search across your writing with text, type filters and connected terms. Filter by people, places, dates, times and topics, and see related entries with similar meaning. FREE FEATURES • Unlimited notes and journal entries • Fast text search • Person, place, date, time and topic filters • Connected terms and filters • Related entries based on similar meaning • Automatic draft saving • Light and dark mode • Original colour theme and app icon • Optional Sign in with Apple • iCloud sync • TXT and CSV export ONURI PREMIUM • Insights into momentum, streaks, recurring themes and returning topics • People and place patterns across your writing • Semantic clusters and strongest connections • Mark entries as Ongoing or Done • Filter entries by status • Meadow, Dusk, Ocean, Ink and Blossom themes • Light and dark variants for every premium theme • Matching alternate app icons PRIVACY • Processing happens on-device • Your notes are stored on-device and synced through your iCloud • No ads • No analytics • No tracking Terms of Use (EULA): https://jhr1986.github.io/onuri-legal/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://jhr1986.github.io/onuri-legal/privacy.html

About

Daopen

Features
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Daopen opens the documents other readers give up on - and converts them to PDF. HWP to PDF, ODT to PDF, Pages to PDF, right on your iPhone. No upload, no account, no subscription. FORMATS OTHER READERS REFUSE - OpenDocument - ODT, ODS and ODP from LibreOffice and OpenOffice. Tables, images and bullet lists stay intact. - Apple - Pages and Keynote with their full text (and Pages to PDF), Numbers tables with values, dates and merged cells. - Hangul - HWP and HWPX, the Korean office format, including old HWP 3.x files from before Hangul 97. - Old Office files - Word .doc, Excel .xls and .xlsb, PowerPoint .ppt, and RTF. SIGNED FILES, E-INVOICES AND EMAILS - .p7m signed files and Italian e-invoices (fattura elettronica, FatturaPA) - opened and summarised - .asice, .bdoc, .edoc, .ddoc signature containers - see the documents inside - .xsig and .xades signatures, Spanish FacturaE invoices - .zfo data box messages (Czech datová schránka) with their attachments - .eml emails and Outlook .msg files - body and attachments - Chinese OFD documents - text view AND EVERYTHING ORDINARY - PDF - Word (.docx) - Excel (.xlsx) - number and date formats, frozen headers, pinch to zoom - PowerPoint (.pptx) - Plain text (.txt) IT LOOKS INSIDE THE FILE, NOT AT THE NAME A file with the wrong extension still opens correctly. And when a format really cannot be opened, Daopen says so plainly and hands the file to another app, instead of showing you an error you cannot act on. NO ADS WHILE YOU READ Other readers put a banner across the page you are trying to read. Daopen does not. The document screen is the document, edge to edge. No ad when you close a file, and no video ads. The free version shows a small banner on the file list, and a short full-screen ad when you open a document - at most every third file, never twice within a minute. A one-time purchase removes all ads for good. No subscription. EVERYTHING HAPPENS ON YOUR DEVICE Your files are never uploaded to a server. Daopen has no login, no cloud account and no sync. Open the app in airplane mode and it still works. CONVERT TO PDF WITHOUT UPLOADING - HWP to PDF, ODT to PDF, Pages to PDF, Word to PDF - any document to PDF - Document pages to images, saved straight to Photos - Text, Markdown or CSV out of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Hangul files - Photos into a single PDF - useful for receipts and paperwork The conversion runs on your iPhone. Nothing is sent anywhere. ONLY THE FILES YOU CHOOSE Daopen opens only the files you pick in the Files app or share to it from another app. No contacts, no location, no analytics profile. Made by Mung Works.

Screenshots

Onuri4 screens
Daopen4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Onuri at none against Daopen's shown. Daopen's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Onuri sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month and Daopen sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Onuri ships an update every 2 months, Daopen every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Onuri versus Daopen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOnuriDaopen
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB65 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJohn Henry RocheMeongmungi

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Onuri

Subscriptions1
  • Onuri Premium$2.991 Month
1 purchases

Daopen

One-time1
  • Remove Ads Forever$19.99

Questions

Is Onuri free?
Onuri is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Daopen free?
Daopen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Onuri or Daopen have ads?
Daopen shows ads; Onuri does not.
Which is updated more often, Onuri or Daopen?
Onuri ships an update every 2 months, and Daopen every 4 days. Most recently, Onuri was updated on October 11, 2026 and Daopen on October 19, 2026.

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