Comparison

Daily Notes Planner vs Calendar Notes

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

Calendar Notes

Capture your thoughts and plans directly on a calendar. This straightforward app lets you add notes, ideas, and personal agendas to specific dates with customizable colors. View your entries by month or year in a clean, lightweight interface.

Highlights
  • Save notes and ideas to calendar dates
  • Add color to notes
  • View notes by month or year
  • Perpetual calendar functionality
  • Lightweight and small app size
Features
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An very easy app to save your idea and your notes in a calendar date form * beautiful & simple application without any pretension/requirement * add a note, idea, personal agenda, diary into calendar * perpetual calendar * swipe left and right to change month * you can view list of notes by monthly or yearly * multicolor note. add color to a note * optimized & lightweight app * small size App Don't let your idea gone, write it down with this calendar notes app !

Screenshots

Daily Notes Planner4 screens
Calendar Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Calendar Notes at 93% against Daily Notes Planner's 50%. Calendar Notes also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Daily Notes Planner's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 11 months). On price 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. Calendar Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Calendar Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Calendar Notes has 74 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 93% of Calendar Notes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Daily Notes Planner ships an update weekly, Calendar Notes every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Daily Notes Planner versus Calendar Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaily Notes PlannerCalendar Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (9 ratings)4.9 (74 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews93.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings974 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 11 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS8.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTruth Honest Messaging, Inc.Edi Ermawan

Customer experience

Daily Notes Planner

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

Calendar Notes

All ratings74 ratings
Positive97.3%
Neutral1.4%
Negative1.4%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive93.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.7%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Daily Notes Planner

One-time1
  • Full Version$4.99
None

Calendar Notes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Daily Notes Planner free?
Daily Notes Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Calendar Notes free?
Calendar Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Daily Notes Planner or Calendar Notes?
Calendar Notes is rated higher. Daily Notes Planner averages 3.0 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while Calendar Notes averages 4.9 from 74 ratings.
Do Daily Notes Planner or Calendar Notes have ads?
Calendar Notes shows ads; Daily Notes Planner does not.
Which is updated more often, Daily Notes Planner or Calendar Notes?
Daily Notes Planner ships an update weekly, and Calendar Notes every 11 months. Most recently, Daily Notes Planner was updated on September 17, 2026 and Calendar Notes on September 28, 2026.

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