Comparison

Doodle notes and write ideas vs First Days

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

Head to head
About

Doodle notes and write ideas

Capture your thoughts and organize your life with this intuitive notepad app. Create to-do lists, shopping lists, memos, and sketches with a variety of colors and line thicknesses. Save, edit, and share your notes easily.

Highlights
  • Write notes, memos, and messages
  • Create shopping and to-do lists
  • Scribble, sketch, or draw drafts
  • Fifteen color options
  • Three line thickness options
  • Eraser and undo functionality
  • Share or save notes as images
Features
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Use our practical and simple interactive notepad app to write down your ideas, create shopping lists or to-do lists and organize them. Take notes, scribble or sketch a draft, do the grocery list, draw or do whatever you want with this notebook! Write notes, memos, messages, sticky notes, shopping lists, check list and to-do lists. It is an easy-to-use note-taking app. This is a simple to-do list and task manager app that helps you get all your lists done. Download it and organize your quick notes in this simple notepad. It is perfect for organizing your work ideas as if it were a notebook. And you can you access your notes whenever you want. Anywhere and anytime create notes, to-do lists, shopping list, edit or save a note! Share this app via social media or any other program on your phone. If you liked the app, please rate it. It helps us improve our work. Thank you! Features: • Fifteen colors or markers • Three types of line thickness (thin, medium, thick) • White background • Erase whatever you want with the eraser • Delete the image with the undo-arrow • Share the note or save it in the images gallery https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

First Days

This app simplifies newborn tracking for new parents, allowing easy logging of feeding, diapers, and sleep. It offers voice command integration with Siri and provides clear data visualization through interactive charts. Privacy is a core focus, with data syncing via iCloud and no advertisements or invasive tracking.

Highlights
  • Track feeding, diapers, and sleep
  • Siri voice command integration
  • Interactive data charts
  • iCloud data syncing
  • Data export to CSV
  • Customizable notifications
  • Caregiver sharing (Premium/Pro)
Features
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First Days is a simple, private newborn tracker made by a new parent, for new parents.
 Being a new parent is its own challenge, the last thing you should need to worry about is a pen-and-paper spreadsheet to track the last time they ate and for how long, when they made a dirty diaper… 
In First Days, with just a tap, you can track all the essentials; - Feeding - Diapers - Sleep And for those times when baby is being extra spicy and it’s “all hands on deck”, you can use voice commands with Siri to add events or start a session. 
Reviewing your baby’s data in the app couldn’t be simpler, with clean, interactive charts. Privacy is a fundamental human right, and First Days was built with this principle front and center. - Your data syncs to your other devices automatically through your iCloud account - No signing up for yet-another online service; your iCloud *is* your account - No advertisements, in-app usage tracking, or any other invasive nonsense - Your data is YOURS; export all your baby’s data any time to a simple CSV format In addition to everything above, First Days comes loaded with great features. To name a few: - Customizable Feeding notifications - Daily and Weekly Smart Charts - Various accessibility features - Dark/Light mode - App Icon customization - Left-handed mode - Shortcuts integration To support ongoing development, First Days offers two subscription tiers that unlock even more. For the price of a few cups of coffee a year, the Premium subscription unlocks the following: - Caregiver Sharing! Securely share your baby’s profile with other caregivers, so they can view and log events for your baby as well. Share with a simple link, and revoke access any time. - 5 baby profiles (up from 2) - Smart Daily Goals that grow with your baby, based on recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics (aap.org) - More than 30 days of history visualized in-app (all data remains exportable with or without a subscription) - Trends and Insights, to help you see how your baby’s metrics are changing over time at a glance A Pro subscription unlocks all of the above, plus unlimited baby profiles. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Doodle notes and write ideas4 screens
First Days4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: First Days at 100% against Doodle notes and write ideas's 25%. First Days also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.1) and ads (none vs shown). Doodle notes and write ideas's advantage is ratings volume (16 vs 2) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 27.1). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Doodle notes and write ideas sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days and First Days sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

First Days holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Doodle notes and write ideas has 16 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of Doodle notes and write ideas's written reviews are positive against 100% of First Days's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Doodle notes and write ideas ships an update every 3 months, First Days every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Doodle notes and write ideas versus First Days: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDoodle notes and write ideasFirst Days
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (16 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews25.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings16 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS14.0 — better27.1
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaria GasconGabrielle Miseroy

Customer experience

Doodle notes and write ideas

All ratings16 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews67 reviews
Positive25.4%
Neutral7.5%
Negative67.2%

First Days

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Doodle notes and write ideas

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly plan$7.997 Days
  • Annual plan3 Days trial$34.991 Year
One-time2
  • Remove Ads$2.99
  • Lifetime plan$49.99
5 purchases

First Days

Subscriptions4
  • First Days Premium (Monthly)$0.991 Month
  • First Days Premium$9.991 Year
  • First Days Pro (Monthly)$9.991 Month
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  • First Days Pro$99.991 Year
One-time1
  • Icon Pack 1$0.99

Questions

Is Doodle notes and write ideas free?
Doodle notes and write ideas is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is First Days free?
First Days is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Doodle notes and write ideas or First Days?
First Days is rated higher. Doodle notes and write ideas averages 4.1 out of 5 from 16 ratings, while First Days averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Doodle notes and write ideas or First Days have ads?
Doodle notes and write ideas shows ads; First Days does not.
Which is updated more often, Doodle notes and write ideas or First Days?
Doodle notes and write ideas ships an update every 3 months, and First Days every 6 days. Most recently, Doodle notes and write ideas was updated on November 11, 2026 and First Days on November 10, 2026.

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