Comparison

Daily Notes Planner vs Daylist

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

Head to head
About

Daily Notes Planner

This app offers a straightforward way to jot down plain-text notes for each calendar date, with dates containing notes visually highlighted. It features robust search functionality, iCloud backup for seamless data transfer across devices, and customization options for text and appearance.

Highlights
  • Calendar date notes
  • Plain-text note entry
  • Searchable notes
  • iCloud backup and transfer
  • Customizable appearance
  • Folder and weekly schedule notes
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Simple and powerful, Daily Notes Planner is a revolutionary notes app that will upgrade your life. This app simplifies the iCalendar app by allowing you to type only plain-text-notes for every date. Tap on the date in the calendar to go into that date and type in notes. The dates with notes will be highlighted in the calendar. Notes are so easily and so effectively searchable with the search bar in the Calendar Page. Carefully formatted chronologically, the list of your notes can be seen immediately (today's note in the middle of the list will be seen first) after tapping once onto the search bar. With iCloud support, you can backup your all of yours notes in iCloud very fast. You can load the notes from iCloud from any devices (inside this app). App does not sync between devices automatically, but it gives you a manual option to sync if you so desire. The primary purpose of this feature is that the user can transfer the data to new iPhone from the old iPhone seamlessly. Undo and Redo are supported. Every character you type, that note is immediately saved. You can organize your notes by calendar dates, and in addition you can use Extras page to add notes in different formats. This single app will completely satisfy all of your iPhone-note-taking needs. IN "EXTRAS" (previously "Settings") PAGE You can customize the font and size of texts. Also, many different colors can be set to make the app look different---such as today's color, texts color, calendar highlight color, etc. . Password or touchID can be set to privatize your notes. You can turn on and off auto correction. You can input additional notes in three additional formats: "One Page Note", "Folder Notes", and "Weekly Schedule" (There are three large buttons in the top of the "EXTRAS" Page. ). "One Page Note" has one page of note. This is useful if you are recording temporary information that needs to be erased soon. You get one page of notes. This note can be added to Folder Notes, into a folder there if you want it to by pressing "Save To Folder" Button in the bottom. "Folder Notes" allows you to save your notes with folder and file name. Searching is easy and effective. You can change the color of texts in your notes dynamically; this helps you organize content of your notes when you write them down. "Weekly Schedule Notes" allows you to draw a nice, colorful chart of your schedule, classes, or weekly appointments. (You can change the color of texts in your notes dynamically; this helps you organize content of your notes when you write them down.)

About

Daylist

Create simple daily to-do lists with optional reminders. Tasks can be easily checked off when completed. Enjoy a fresh start each day with a minimalistic and private experience.

Highlights
  • Create daily to-do lists
  • Add tasks with one tap
  • Set task reminders
  • Check off completed tasks
  • No ads or signup required
  • Daily fresh start
Features
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The simplest and smoothest todo list for daily tasks. - No ads - No signup required - No subscription or payments How do you use Daylist? 1. Create lists for today with one tap - Grocery shopping, work tasks or anything else. 2. Write down the tasks you’d like to get done 3. Want to be reminded of a task? No problem, just another tap for that. 4. When you’re done with your task, check it off in the app. You’re going to love this step ;) You’ll have a fresh start each day - no need to manage long term lists. That’s it, nothing more, nothing less. Daily lists, as minimalistic and smooth as it gets. NO SIGNUP OR SPAM You just get right into the app. We don’t need to know your email or anything else for that matter. Also, anything you enter in the app stays right there, we don’t send your data to god knows where. Privacy first! NO SUBSCRIPTIONS Try the app for a week, and if it’s what you’re looking for, then you can continue using it forever with a one time purchase. Oh yea, no ads either. If you’re not sold by now, just give it a go. The app does a way better job of showing how wonderful todo lists can be than I can describe in text.

Screenshots

Daily Notes Planner4 screens
Daylist3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Daylist at 4.7 against Daily Notes Planner's 3.2. Daylist also leads on review sentiment (69% vs 50%) and ratings volume (88 vs 10). Daily Notes Planner's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Daily Notes Planner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Daylist sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Daylist holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Daylist has 88 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Daily Notes Planner's written reviews are positive against 69% of Daylist's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Daily Notes Planner ships an update weekly, Daylist every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Daily Notes Planner versus Daylist: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaily Notes PlannerDaylist
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.2 (10 ratings)4.7 (88 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews69.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1088 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS8.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTruth Honest Messaging, Inc.Buddy Budgeting AB

Customer experience

Daily Notes Planner

All ratings9 ratings
Positive44.4%
Neutral11.1%
Negative44.4%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral7.1%
Negative42.9%

Daylist

All ratings88 ratings
Positive92.0%
Neutral3.4%
Negative4.5%
Written reviews111 reviews
Positive69.4%
Neutral12.6%
Negative18.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Daily Notes Planner

One-time1
  • Full Version$4.99
1 purchases

Daylist

One-time1
  • Daylist Lifetime Unlocked$4.99

Questions

Is Daily Notes Planner free?
Daily Notes Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Daylist free?
Daylist is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Daily Notes Planner or Daylist?
Daylist is rated higher. Daily Notes Planner averages 3.2 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Daylist averages 4.7 from 88 ratings.
Do Daily Notes Planner or Daylist have ads?
Neither Daily Notes Planner nor Daylist shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Daily Notes Planner or Daylist?
Daily Notes Planner ships an update weekly, and Daylist every 9 days. Most recently, Daily Notes Planner was updated on October 21, 2026 and Daylist on October 24, 2026.

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