SkyJournal vs Colored Note
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SkyJournal
Easily record life's memorable moments with rich media like photos, videos, drawings, and voice notes. Organize entries with categories and tags, and revisit them with slideshows or map views. Offers privacy settings, social sharing, and iCloud backup for a comprehensive journaling experience.
- Multimedia entries (photo, video, drawing, voice)
- Organize with categories and tags
- Map locations of entries
- Photo and video slideshows
- Search and filtering
- Privacy settings
- iCloud backup and sync
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SkyJournal makes journaling your life's memorable moments easy and fun. From taking simple notes to recording special events, activities, projects and travels, SkyJournal is the most complete Journal writing app that has all the features you need to create journal entries with photo, video, drawing or voice recording, add time-sequenced events, organize with categories and tag with keywords and people. Then, enjoy it any time with photo and video slideshow or check out the map locations of where you've been. The bookmark, search and filtering features allow you to find or list the journal entries quickly and there are tons of options such as theme color and background you can customize it the way you like. It is also loaded with managing features such as privacy setting, share on social media accounts, backup and synchronize with other devices through iCloud and much more. You'll love writing journal once you start using this app.
Colored Note
Capture your thoughts, ideas, and experiences with a versatile diary and notepad. Add photos, color-code entries, and organize with tags for easy retrieval. Share your notes with friends or keep them private with passcode protection.
- Add photos to notes
- Color-code notes for organization
- Assign tags for searching
- Sort notes as desired
- Share notes with friends
- Secure notes with a passcode
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Color Note is a diary and notepad just for everyone! Record interesting thoughts, inspires ideas, inspirational quotes, recent experience, write notes about life, share your thoughts and mood with your friends. Or just write memos. PHOTOS You can add some images to your note. COLORS You can mark your note with a color. The color can be used for searching. TAGS You can assign one or more tags to a note. The tags can be used for searching. ORGANIZE Sort your note as you want. SHARE YOUR NOTE WITH YOUR FRIENDS Send it to your friends or publish in social networks! SAFETY You can restrict access to your notes with a passcode. AND You can delete a note by swiping it to the left.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Colored Note at weekly against SkyJournal's every 2 months. Colored Note also leads on ratings volume (5K vs 11). SkyJournal's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (67% vs 54%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SkyJournal holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Colored Note has 5K ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of SkyJournal's written reviews are positive against 54% of Colored Note's.
SkyJournal ships an update every 2 months, Colored Note weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SkyJournal | Colored Note |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (11 ratings) — better | 4.7 (5K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 53.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 5K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Auroresoft | Veniamin Gribkov |
Customer experience
SkyJournal
Colored Note
Bugs and requests
SkyJournal
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Colored Note
Reported bugs
3 issues- Notes disappearing or not saving properly
- Cursor jumping or text selection issues
- Glitches with recent app updates
Requested features
4 requests- Add checklist/to-do list functionality
- Improve note sorting and search options
- Implement password protection or biometric security
- Provide more font and customization options
In-app purchases
SkyJournal
No in-app purchases
Colored Note
No in-app purchases
