Comparison

Daily Notes Planner vs SyncOnSet 5.0

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

SyncOnSet 5.0

This Emmy Award-winning tool streamlines TV and film production for creative departments. It digitally manages script breakdowns, continuity photos, inventory, and approvals from prep to wrap, optimizing workflows and communication.

Highlights
  • Digital script breakdowns
  • Continuity photo management
  • Inventory tracking
  • Approvals and notes
  • Department-specific workflows
  • Pre-production to wrap management
Features
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SyncOnSet is an Emmy Award-winning digital continuity and collaboration tool that helps streamline TV and Film production from prep to wrap. With SyncOnSet, your whole team can digitally manage script breakdowns, continuity photos, inventory, approvals, notes, and much more! Designed for Costume, Hair, Makeup, Props and Set Dec departments, SyncOnSet helps optimize workflows and secure communication throughout the life of a project. Creative departments use SyncOnSet production apps from pre-production (script breakdown and budgeting) to principal photography (continuity notes and photos), through wrap (wrap labels and reports).

Screenshots

Daily Notes Planner4 screens
SyncOnSet 5.04 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Daily Notes Planner at 50% against SyncOnSet 5.0's 3%. Daily Notes Planner also leads on rating (3.0 vs 1.7) and update cadence (weekly vs monthly). SyncOnSet 5.0's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (61 vs 9). On price, ads 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. Daily Notes Planner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. SyncOnSet 5.0 asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Daily Notes Planner holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SyncOnSet 5.0 has 61 ratings behind it against 9, 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 3% of SyncOnSet 5.0's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Daily Notes Planner ships an update weekly, SyncOnSet 5.0 monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Daily Notes Planner versus SyncOnSet 5.0: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaily Notes PlannerSyncOnSet 5.0
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (9 ratings) — better1.7 (61 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews — better2.5% of reviews
Number of ratings961 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB43 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTruth Honest Messaging, Inc.wymsee Inc.

Customer experience

Daily Notes Planner

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

SyncOnSet 5.0

All ratings61 ratings
Positive18.0%
Neutral3.3%
Negative78.7%
Written reviews40 reviews
Positive2.5%
Neutral5.0%
Negative92.5%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Daily Notes Planner

One-time1
  • Full Version$4.99
None

SyncOnSet 5.0

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Daily Notes Planner free?
Daily Notes Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SyncOnSet 5.0 free?
SyncOnSet 5.0 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Daily Notes Planner or SyncOnSet 5.0?
Daily Notes Planner is rated higher. Daily Notes Planner averages 3.0 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while SyncOnSet 5.0 averages 1.7 from 61 ratings.
Do Daily Notes Planner or SyncOnSet 5.0 have ads?
Neither Daily Notes Planner nor SyncOnSet 5.0 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Daily Notes Planner or SyncOnSet 5.0?
Daily Notes Planner ships an update weekly, and SyncOnSet 5.0 monthly. Most recently, Daily Notes Planner was updated on September 17, 2026 and SyncOnSet 5.0 on September 18, 2026.

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