Daily Notes App Reviews

Easy to customize, syncs well. Email from app. Just awesome. Use it daily! Hopefully it never goes away or I will be sad!

I’ve used this app for several years and found it useful because of folder management and journaling life. When I updated my iPad Air 2 with 12.2 I am no longer able to get into the App. Once the App launches I see the interface for about 3 seconds before it crashes. Sadly I have no way to determine if my most current data has synced to Dropbox or iCloud. I have to see if I can get the data off the device through iTunes. I tried closing all Apps that were running and restart the iPad, but that didn’t work. I believe it is an issue with synching. While I enjoyed taking notes in this app, this experience has left me to review where I should be storing my thoughts and it might be better within a direct connection of documents in a cloud service.

Not at all what I thought it’s not very seamless. For $5.99 totally not worth it!

I just want to use the Apple Pencil to write in that giant area that screams write on me !!! Other than that the app is great although it looks like it has lost support ☹️

All of a sudden, I can’t email my notes. It opens, but the send button is grayed out. I email my notes daily and would love to see it fixed. The app support link on the app page says the support page no longer exist. Help!

Love this app it is very flexible and can be used as a journal, planner, scheduler, basic documentation for legal purposes. They have thought of everything and organized it very nicely giving the user control & flexibity

I don’t know why note taking apps are so difficult to perfect but I have been searching for a long time to find a good one. A planner is not really what I am looking for but I have used this one a long time ago as a dream diary. Once I upgraded phones or ran out of room, I deleted it. Somehow it showed up on my phone again and I was surprised it was still working. Most app developers abandon their apps searching for new money makers. For someone wanting to keep their logs this is disastrous. I decided to give it a go and was excited to see an attractive user interface. It was somewhat complicated to find past notes but I had faith that I would find and get use to interface. The more I explored, I found the abilities rich with possibilities. Tabs, Tags (big fan), Sketch creator (OMG), tasks, audio, photo and documents! Then being able to sync with my phone. Looking forward to putting this on my all time favorite apps.

I love everything about it, but I feel like some added features could take it over the top. Like, giving the app permission to my contacts so you can someone’s contact information in your note. Also, it would great if you could use handwritten notes vs keyboard only.

I tried so many applications😓😓 This one finally puts it together. It works efficiently, love the feature to add documents/ pictures. Planning is done on Ipad, execution during day on iphone. Please keep up the work! - Update : after new IOS Update : constantly crashes, unable to update - please fix. I will leave current 5 star rating, but will update if developer is able to address issue . - Update:very responsive developer after description of IOS 11 issue , fixed everything in a short time frame. Thank you - highly recommend application! 12/18 App still works without any flaws. But : last update was one year ago - is developer still supporting the App.?. Brief Response would be appreciated.

I have one major problem. When I do a search and need to go back multiple events, the search keeps bouncing back to most current event. Eg.I track migraines on here. When I need to go back to write them down on paper, as soon as I take my finger off the screen, it bounces back to most current occurrence, so I have to keep going back to find where I was at. It’s very frustrating. Please fix this glitch! I really like this app. Like the tabs, the ability to change colors of text and backgrounds. I keep a daily journal and a medical journal using this app.

After wasting tons of money on other subpar apps this one is simple, elegant, and does exactly what I need! Love that I can color code my tabs and my favorite part is the fact that you can turn the page the the previous page or the one after it. Vertical scrolling is cool and all but horizontal page turning is where it at! Developers you’ve done an amazing job please don’t give upon this app! Continue to give it the time, love and updates it needs! Please I don’t want to look anymore. Plus it’s looks AMAZING on the iPad especially the latest one! Thank you!

This app does everything I want for note taking, journaling, scheduling, etc. It's a keeper! Also, there is a real support staff who responded to my "how to" question within a few days. I'm pleased!

I've been using this for a week now and it's a great tool for keeping track of all of the different construction jobs.

I use this app on two different iPads and rely on the app’s sync feature to keep the two identical. Unfortunately syncing is not reliable if I wait for the app to do so on its own, even if I wait for a very long time. Even attempting to sync manually by opening the sync dialog is not reliable. The potential for data loss is very high if you sync between different devices. Even using one device, I would doubt your data is being reliably backed up to the Cloud. You may see lines run across the sync icon, suggesting that a sync has taken place, but in my experience syncing often has not occurred. I have experienced enough data loss that I have deleted the app. This is a shame since, other than syncing problems, it is a well designed and potentially useful note taking app.

Have had it for a long time and have so many uses for it. Recently I use it to track/record my workouts via my phone during my workouts (machines I am using, seat positions, etc, weight and reps) very handy! Wish there was a version for my MacBook!

I am a mother who juggles being a full time student and leading a program and contracting for out side agencies on a few other projects. This app has helped me be so much more productive and on it! It helps me compartmentalize my life and keep track of progress, notes, meetings, and my thoughts and ideas. I can also protect confidential information with the password entry. I love all the different features it has with a built in to-do list, photo upload and APPLE Pencil written notes are fun. Thanks to this app, I can stay engaged at long meetings and conferences.

Really needs to sync somehow with outlook and would also like to be able to take handwritten notes in place of typing in the main note

Everything is terrific about this app. The only thing I do wish is that when a drawing or photo is placed within the notes the visual attachment could be moved around near the text. Maybe this can be done but I haven't found the information. Anyhow it will keep my life organized. Thank you creating this app and I have no doubt that there was a lot of hard work involved.

***** Updated review***** i have used this Daily Notes app over 8 years on/off. I recently came back to this system as it works the best for me with ease and functionality. I was concerned i would not be able to retrieve my previous notes. I was thankfully wrong!!! I have been able to sync everything from the previous years on both my ipad and iPhone. Thankyou so much DN for this great app. I have downloaded many of the productivity apps since I got my IPad. I always come back to this one because of it's simplistic interface yet great functionality. I use it most for a daily journal in my personal and business life. The search function is great. What I would like to see is an app for the ITouch and IPhone so I can sync all the info together. ****update notes... Love the new Dropbox backup feature as well as the additional colors and fonts You have a great app, now just make it awesome

This is exactly what I was looking for. If only it would sync with my OneNote. Easy to use and figure out. Thank you!

5 star all the way. Typing is crisp and clean without any drag or delay. Easy and practical journal, add the Apple Pencil application and a split screen ability and it will be peerless.

Back to 2 stars. The app won't store photo's from the photo library. The store as boxes in the media tab, and just show a black box if you click on the "box". ================== I don't know if the syncing issues have been resolved or not. But I've made sure to wait a little to ensure that one device syncs before I go to the other. It may be been an issue with the WiFi I must use because it goes out all the time. Aside from this, this app is exactly what I needed. It has the flexibility to handle even my insane schedule and workload. My only problem is sometimes I'm too busy to update it. But that is not the apps fault. I'm cautiously optimistic and if it continues to perform, it will be 5 stars. ================= This app appears to be exactly what I've been wanting for a long time. I purchased it today and I have been working hard to enter in my notes. The nature of my job, I need to track many things and I generate a large amount of notes. I use the iCloud to sync my devices. But unfortunately I lost an entire note when my iPad evidently did not update iCloud. I was away from my iPad and attempted to add a task in my iPhone Daily Notes. The note was empty on the phone app where I had written a great deal on my iPad. When I went back to the iPad, my entry was empty and I can't retrieve it. The syncing function MUST be solid, I can't afford to lose entries due to a faulty synchronizer. Please check in to this and may set a way to force sync.

I have tried now I couple of these programs and I found that I can come back to this one. I just upgraded to an iPad Pro from an air and it worked great on both devices. It's an extra fun now with the pencil but it worked great without it. this is a thoughtful app. I did purchase a pair of apps the notebook and this calendar they are good together.

I just wrote a long note on my iPad Pro. I opened this program on my iPhone. Since my iPhone page was blank, it synced all right; it's synced the blank page on my iPhone to my ipad and, of course, all my notes were gone. Who writes code like this? Monsters.

Keep track of work, life and want to be life. replace paper and pen. No time voice your note and give more details later. I would like

This is an outstanding app and allows me to maintain some order in the many facets of life. Thank you.

I would like to use the I pencil to cross items off my list or to add to the notes. The list is good but would be more like a bullet journal if that feature was available. I bought Noteshelf with daily notes but they do not seem to work together as I hoped.

Great app! I’ve had this app for several years & still prefer it over the other similar note apps. Hope you can continue to keep it up to date over time. This has always been my favorite for journaling.

I am trying to also put this on my iPhone but I can't without paying for it again. What a waste of $$

I have used this program for quite sometime, and the biggest reason I love it is because I have different groups set up and I can add notes to each of those categories any day of the week and not lose them. Yay

This is my daily goto App for notes I like the simplicity I like the calendar features Thank you for your constant attention to details Thank you MnVacMan

Need help solving why it crashes so much and will not open until many times trying to open up.

I've been looking for something like this ever since I bought my first iPad 4 years ago. The only thing that would make this better is if I could write my notes rather than having to type everything.

I contacted the developers but did not receive a response.

I just downloaded this app. However, the tasks have very limited capabilities in the repeat function. Im unable to select every 4th day or every 2 or 6 months. Please give me my money back

I like the functioning of this app. Multiple calendared notebooks with associated basic task management. Perfect for my need to use it as the first layer of reading notes management. However, I wish the app can be prettier and more apple-like. In my opinion, there is a lot of room to improve in the appearance of the app.

Used to be great, now a broken mess that is utterly unusable. No contact from tech support. Save your money and avoid this time wasting rip-off that will easily erase months of hard work!

I started using the app just occasionally, but got addicted as to the power and ease of tracking my project and work days. When I don't type my day in, I am almost lost. Thank you for your efforts.

I purchased this b/c I needed a daily log for personal and professional reasons and wanted one that was TextExpander enabled. DailyNotes has so much promise, but it's got real design problems and emails to customer support have yielded zero response. As another reviewer noted, it's got an ungainly aesthetic. That wouldn't be so bad if it were customizeable, but that's simply not possible. The app imposes folders/projects on the user, even if they're not ones the user wants. It even restricts color options and choices of fonts/capitalization. For example, the app doesn't use point fonts -- there's no such thing as a 10pt font or a 14pt font. DailyNotes' "innovation" is to restrict the user to what it calls xsmall, small, medium and large. And color choices are limited and painfully washed out. In this day and age, an app developer has to go out of their way to create such strangely limited options, no? It's even got irritating features that most app developers have eliminated -- like not permitting you to close settings windows unless you hit the big u*** X in the corner, rather than permitting you to return to the main menu by simply tapping on the main screen. -- UPDATE/EDIT: I've been having a rotating series of keyboard issues. I couldn't get the app to recognize apostrophes in any consistent manner. Now that is functioning okay. At first, all of my snippets worked, including those that begin with an "x" without any trouble. That stopped working the other day. Here's what I've since discovered: it looks like the app is aggressively initial capping things -- and my snippets were case sensitive. I just edited my snippets so that they ignore case. But even after re-syncing the snippets from within DailyNotes, the only way I can get the snippets to work is if I fake it out by doing some random typing before each snippet -- that is, DailyNotes is interfering with the snippets even though they're no longer case sensitive. Finally, I forgot to mention that the app doesn't permit any keyboard commands. Want to put something in BOLD or ITALICS? You'll have to take your hands off the keyboard and tap on the screen to activate and de-activate those formatting features. Really annoying.

I download this app looking for an electronic format for tracking daily notes like a daily planner is typically used for. I have been extremely happy with the layout and functionality. Concerned that the sync option seems to be sluggish and you cannot force a sync. In addition, developer seems to have abandoned the app as the support page no longer works and there hasn't been any updates in over 5 months. It would be a disaster for me to lose this app due to a future device or IOS update

This is the only app that automatically manages notes by day. This is great for work as I take notes in meetings and throughout the day. I can transfer them to my desktop to incorporate into reports or emails without issue. I can also flip back through the calendar to find notes from days of months prior. Truly a paperless solution. One request, incorporate the Apple Pencil with text recognition. Typing is ok, but to write naturally would be better.

This is an extremely useful productivity tool! I am glad I found it! Synching to EN is an added benefit!

It jumps. I use it all the time. It is my favorite note taking app but lately, as I am reading my notes it jumps down below what I am reading constantly. The page jumping has me worried. Back to 5 stars when it is fixed. Using an iPad Pro in horizontal mode with a keyboard, the best way to go!

I tried so many applications😓😓 This one finally puts it together. It works efficiently, love the feature to add documents/ pictures. Planning is done on Ipad, execution during day on iphone. Please keep up the work! - Update : after new IOS Update : constantly crashes, unable to update - please fix. I will leave current 5 star rating, but will update if developer is able to address issue . - Update:very responsive developer after description of IOS 11 issue , fixed everything in a short time frame. Thank you - highly recommend application!

This is a get app I use it at work and at home. I hope they develop an integration with Mac as well as iPhone & iPad. It really works get with Evernote.

I was looking for an app that would allow me to take Notes, Journal, create action items for follow up and this hit the mark. It is very intuitive and yet powerful enough to create separate tabs for my different projects. I utilize the color coding of the tabs to separate Work and Personal. I love that you can arrange them in any order too... The search function works great and you can also tag items and create new tags to use. I recently used this to capture notes and calculations from a meeting and then e-mailed them (via PDF), very helpful!!! Maybe I just haven't figured it out yet, but I would like to be able to choose the default e-mail sending from within this app different than what is defaulted on my iPad. Minor complaint but would be a good addition to the list of options.

I wanted an app I can use Apple Pencil with — can this be returned ?

So, i'm still struggling to figure out how this app works so i can use it I didn't check off tasks for a couple days and now i cannot make it show me all my tasks for today!!! This is useless as it is currently written, and i cannot keep track of my protocols!! Why would you make a task list that doesn't show all of today's tasks no matter how i filter the list? REFUND MY $6 I cannot use this app and you have not responded to any of my requests for help for over a week now

After using this app for a few months I ran to rate it. It is simply the best app if you are an organized, detailed person or strive to be one. EVERYTHING you need is in this app. I absolutely love it. I applaud the person who created it. Thank you. And by the way, I have hundreds of apps so I know a great app when I come across one. This one is my top app.

I've tried so many calendars, and they are always lacking something. This one is different and has helped me the most in my productivity.

I've been searching and spending for years trying to find a digital equivalent to my Franklin Planner. While this is a very close approximation, it isn't an exact fit. It does what I need it to do in an efficient way, though. And it syncs with my phone, which seems like it should be simple, but surprisingly is the the feature that fails in most of the apps that I've tried. I plan on my iPad but track execution on my iPhone. I use it for work, home, kids and it allows me to keep track of those areas separately but displays an integrated task list. I've tried a few web based applications, the most used and this is the one I've come back to as most useful and the best fit for how I work.

It also gives me a new page each day without having to do much. It is simple to use. Have been using it to take notes each day and write my daily goals.

I just bought this today and spent some time setting it up. For help with that go to settings, then tap help at the bottom and go to Knowledge base. It gives all the help you need to set this up. I have found this much easier to use than the TO DO app I have been using. Everything is right there - no moving from place to place to find tasks - just hit the task button and it lists everything by date due - even tells you what tab it is listed under in case you made some special notes there. I think this app is going to help me to be better organized. Also it syncs to my iPhone. Terrific!! One of my tabs is Pets and I was able to include a picture of each of my 3 "boys."

Daily notes does a lot of things but there are so many apps like this. What Wood said he’s a pirate would be here and riding with Apple Pencil. Without that it’s just another task, list making app.

Use it all the time Keeps things organized

Honestly, this app has been a godsend for me. As a teacher, I've got to keep track of multiple classes, two coaching gigs and an evening job. This app allows me to keep a journal for each, complete with attachments and todos. Each notebook presents the day as a fresh page for me to record what I did. The bold and text highlight options are awesome. If I want to quickly know what I previously entered, say my last class entry, the handy outline view allows me to quickly see past days in that particular notebook. That helps me keep track of what I've completed on previous days, so I track assignments and incrementally increase my class count without much fuss. The app looks great and works great on both iPhone and iPad. The only real weak point is that sync can occasionally be problematic. Probably that's because I don't have wifi access for the iPad, so it is often offline when I make entries. Perhaps, that's why when I do turn on tethering or reconnect, it takes time to sync. But that's a very minor annoyance in an otherwise elegant experience.

Came across by accident and it is one of the best business notes taking app I have used so far. Of course this can be used for other purposes however the best features are the notes are automatically in date order. Plus you can add a task list with a due date reminder and finally, you can add handwritten notes taking the best advantage of the Apple Pencil. I highly recommend this app!

When will you be able to make to use Apple Pencil to write directly in the app?!?!

This app has just about everything I would want to use as a Journaling app. It is well organized with a friendly user interface. I like that opposed to other apps your data is backed up to iCloud as opposed to 3rd party servers. Please add Apple Pencil and split view support and I will give it 5 stars.

I've used a lot of similar apps but none has the look, feel, and the intelligent UI of this one. I use it as an idea keeper and a journal/diary. We'll designed. Thanks!