Comparison

Fobble Notes vs plainday

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

Head to head
About

Fobble Notes

Features
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Fobble Notes is a warm, focused place for thoughts, plans, and everyday ideas. WRITE YOUR WAY Create clean notes, rich text, and checklists. Format what matters and keep your writing easy to scan. STAY ORGANIZED Use folders, tags, favorites, pins, and archive tools to keep every idea in its place. FIND THINGS FAST Search across notes, folders, and tags whenever you need to return to something. MADE FOR IPHONE AND IPAD Enjoy a quick mobile workflow on iPhone and a spacious sidebar-based workspace on iPad. WIDGETS Choose a note to keep visible on your Home Screen. BACKUP AND RESTORE Export your notes, folders, and tags as a JSON backup and restore them without replacing newer notes on your device. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Fobble Notes works without an account, ads, analytics, or tracking. Your notes stay on your device.

About

plainday

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plainday is a calm planner that keeps your day clear. Your day is one list in time order: tasks, classes and calendar events together. The biggest number tells you how long until what's next. JUST TYPE IT • Write a plain sentence in the bar below: “Friday 2:30pm anatomy lab exam”. It finds the day, the time, the repeat and which list it belongs to. • It understands repeats like “every morning at 8”, “weekdays” or “every Monday”. • After you add something it shows where it went, and you can undo with one tap. WEEKLY TIMETABLE • Enter things that happen at the same time every week, such as classes, shifts or workouts, on one screen: name, days, time, place. • It shows up in each day's plan on its own, with the free time in between. • A holiday or a cancelled class? Mark it “not on this day only”; the weekly timetable stays the same. ANYTIME • A plain checklist for things with no day that you don't want to forget. Write it, do it, tick it; move any of them to today with one tap. YOUR DAY, WEEK AND MONTH • Today: a countdown to what's next, the day's plan and anything overdue. • Week: seven short day plans, one under the other. Month: how many tasks each day holds. • In the evening, move what's left to tomorrow with one tap. STEPS AND REPEATS • Break a big task into small steps; it moves along as you tick them off. • A repeating task is completed day by day, and you can skip a single day. ALARMS • Set an important task to ring as an alarm: it sounds even in silent mode and can be snoozed. Just say “alarm” as you type: “tomorrow 7am alarm”. (iOS 26) NOTIFICATIONS • A morning summary and an optional evening summary that shows tomorrow a day ahead. Empty days send nothing. • Reminders for tasks with a time; complete or snooze right from the notification. ALONGSIDE YOUR CALENDAR • If you like, events from your iPhone calendar appear in your day, read-only. plainday never writes to your calendar. WIDGETS AND SIRI • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets: what's next and today's tasks. • Add tasks without opening the app, with Siri, Shortcuts or the Action button. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS • No account needed. No ads, no tracking. • Your data lives only in your own iCloud account and syncs between your iPhone and iPad (it runs as an iPhone app on iPad). • Dark mode and larger text sizes are supported. Available in English and Turkish. Privacy Policy: https://plainday-app.github.io/privacy.html

Screenshots

Fobble Notes4 screens
plainday4 screens

Verdict

The call

Fobble Notes and plainday are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Fobble Notes versus plainday: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFobble Notesplainday
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFEHMI BULDUKRıza Kerem SAHIN

In-app purchases

None

Fobble Notes

No in-app purchases

None

plainday

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fobble Notes free?
Fobble Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is plainday free?
plainday is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Fobble Notes or plainday have ads?
Neither Fobble Notes nor plainday shows ads.

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