Colored Note vs DAILY NOTE
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
DAILY NOTE
Capture your daily thoughts and memories with this digital journal. Easily write entries, add photos, and customize your experience with various themes. Organize and find your notes effortlessly through calendar views and search.
- Easy and fast writing
- Attach photos
- Customizable themes
- Calendar view for notes
- Searchable content
- Backup and restore
- Password and biometric lock
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Write today's diary [ DAILY NOTE Features ] ● Easy and fast writing ● Attach photos when writing ● Support for various themes (font, background) ● Read your all notes in calendar ● Monthly / Tag / Overview ● Type words to search contents ● Backup / Restore function ● Password & Biometric lock
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Colored Note at none against DAILY NOTE's 1. Colored Note also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). DAILY NOTE's advantage is review sentiment (83% vs 53%). On price, rating, device support and iOS requirement 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. DAILY NOTE sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Colored Note asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Colored Note against 4.6 for DAILY NOTE. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Colored Note has 5K ratings behind it against 310, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 53% of Colored Note's written reviews are positive against 83% of DAILY NOTE's.
Colored Note ships an update weekly, DAILY NOTE every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Colored Note | DAILY NOTE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (5K ratings) — better | 4.6 (310 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 53.4% of reviews | 83.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5K — better | 310 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Veniamin Gribkov | youngjin seo |
Customer experience
Colored Note
DAILY NOTE
User reviews
Colored Note
From 5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🎨 Variety of colors and fonts
- 📝 Helpful for note-taking
- 🌟 Great app overall
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional crashes or data loss
- 🔍 Difficulty finding or organizing notes
- 🔒 Lack of security features (e.g., password protection)
- 🔧 Issues with recent updates
DAILY NOTE
From 310 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and intuitive interface
- 📅 Useful calendar view and date tracking
- 🔒 Secure with password protection
- 🖼️ Ability to add photos to entries
- 💻 Seamless cross-device usage
Room to improve
- 📢 Excessive advertisements
- 🔍 Limited search functionality
- 🔖 Inability to create multiple entries per day
- 🔄 Lack of automatic backup/sync options
- 🖍️ Limited customization options for text formatting
Bugs and 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
DAILY NOTE
Reported bugs
3 issues- Occasional app crashes
- Inconsistent behavior when saving notes
- Delayed or missing notification alerts
Requested features
5 requests- Add support for bullet points, bold, and italic text
- Implement iCloud/Google Drive sync for cross-device access
- Allow creation of multiple notes per day
- Introduce a dark mode option
- Provide more font and color customization options
In-app purchases
Colored Note
No in-app purchases
DAILY NOTE
- Premium$9.99
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