# Diary, Journal, Notes - Diaro — user reviews > 344 indexed App Store user reviews of Diary, Journal, Notes by Abhishek Kumar, rated 4.70/5 from 4,483 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/diary-journal-notes-diaro/id882519460/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/diary-journal-notes-diaro/id882519460.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 3,679 · 4★ 504 · 3★ 151 · 2★ 52 · 1★ 97 ## What do users think of Diary, Journal, Notes? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 👍 Consistent for years - 🚀 Excellent app - 🚀 Great app and great support - 👍 Love this app - 👍 Fantastic replacement to a physical diary - 👍 Exactly what I needed **Cons** - 🐛 Suddenly become useless - 🐛 Terrible app - 🐛 Doesn't work anymore - 🐛 Horrible, don't work - 🐛 PIN protection doesn't work - 🐛 Crashes and won't let me add a single entry - 🐛 Bad, horrible and worse **Commonly reported bugs** - Reminders broken on iOS - Crashes after activating Touch ID - Stuck on blue logo page after Touch ID stopped working - Sync issues between devices - Entries disappearing or not saving properly - Inability to export entries as PDF **Most requested features** - 💡 Add bold, underline, italics formatting - 💡 Add ability to add captions to images - 💡 Add ability to customize moods - 💡 Add Face ID, iCloud sync, and additional fonts - 💡 Add ability to format text, add bullet points, link to calendars ## Newest reviews (13 of 344) ### 3/5 — Could be perfect but for two things *2026-07-25, version 2.0.2* Decent diary apps are hard to come by. Many charge large subscritions but not an awful lot, while most of the free ones are too basic or full of ads. This ticks most of the boxes for me: very reasonable subscription, mobile apps and web so you can use it on all your devices, and you control the data - not the app developer or cloud provider, plus a simple clear interface that allows you to add tags, location and photos. Its plain text only - no formatting, bold. italics etc but that is fine for me. There are two big problems for me though: One is search. I keep an electronic diary so I can find things again but this has only sinple word search. So if you want to find entries containing, say Christmas Tree, it will find Christmas tree but also Christmas, Tree, Christ, Chris etc etc. This makes it pretty useless in terms of ability to find things. You can add tags and search by them as well as by date but that only gets you so far. The other issue is that there appears to be no support or development. It rarely if ever goes wrong (once or twice its been briefly unavailable online) but if you have a problem/issue you are unlikely to get any response and the Facebook page is pretty barren. I’d happily pay more for a decent search and to get rid of the feeling that it might just disappear one day. In the meantime, take regular backups! ### 3/5 — Useful, but missing important elements *2026-06-02, version 2.0.2* I enjoy using this diary. I use it mainly as an annotable Calendar, which allows me to write extensively on whatever appointments or information I wish to record for that day. It is set up in a convenient way. It is easy to figure out how to add and remove elements from postings. However, for my uses, it should open up to the current date, not just show a calendar of all dates from sometimes one month back from the current date. Also, the small calendar does not advance from one month to the next, so in June, I am still seeing half of the calendar of May. And it would be helpful to have a way to select which month to show. Rather than just scrolling and scrolling. The main box scrolling function is useful, but it should start at the current date, not start by showing postings from August or whatever. ### 2/5 — Fun *2026-04-30, version 2.0.2* Non sue issue ### 4/5 — Almost perfect! *2026-03-13, version 2.0.2* The gifs don’t always work and I wish I could put a small video in it as well! Otherwise it is pretty good! Thank you. ### 4/5 — Bom com ressalvas *2026-03-12* O próprio dono Abhi uma vez falou comigo no whats para resolver uma questão de sincronização. Mas agora ninguém responde nem os e-mails, mas enfim, o app é bom e eu vou pagar novamente agora para exportar em PDF tudo o que escrevi. ### 2/5 — Как купить pro? *2026-03-05* Ненавижу подписки. Как сделать единоразовую покупку? ### 2/5 — Please get markdown or rich text editing *2026-01-27, version 2.0.2* Love the app except for this. It doesn’t seem like the app is updated much anymore. 5 stars if it has that! ### 4/5 — How to make it better *2026-01-11, version 2.0.2* I have found that creating new categories is easy, but there is no way to edit them or delete them, so this need to be added to the next update. ### 5/5 — The Best Journal App Avaiable *2025-12-05, version 2.0.2* I have been using Diaro for years on my androids. Now I have it on my new iPhone. ### 5/5 — Супер! *2025-11-26* Привет) отличное приложение. Пользуюсь ни один год. Можно запаролить, поставить геометку, добавить фото и писать текст. Ни разу не подвел. Спасибо большое всем, кто участвовал в создании данного приложения ### 5/5 — Дневник *2025-11-25* Не пользуюсь пока что Все ок!!! ### 5/5 — Consistent for years *2025-11-12, version 2.0.2* I have been using Diario for years and years. I never thought to look for it on my M1 MacBook Pro. When I found it and realized I could sync it with my Android app on my phone, that was a treat. I had been looking for a cross platform journaling app and I gladly paid the 9.99/yr fee. It works! ### 5/5 — Perfect *2025-09-29, version 2.0.2* This app is perfectly set up for keeping track of my work day and location. Perfect. I would pay more than what they are asking just to ensure it’s always around. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — 10 лет назад купил *2026-07-03* 10 лет назад купил пытался вести, потом пропали записи на телефоне. Фиг знает как синхронизировать. Так нельзя делать мы верили вам а по итогу получили пропажу записей. ### 1/5 — Still love this app... But UI on iPhone has really bad bug *2026-05-15, version 2.0.2* Every character I type in a diary entry causes uncontrollable scroll jumping up and down. EVEY CHARACTER. After maybe typing a paragraph and the window becomes scrollable, every character pressed causes the whole screen to jump to a different scroll level. First up then down again. Sometimes it jumps so far you can't even see the words you're typing. ### 1/5 — o app não faz backup. *2025-12-15* troquei de celular e perdi minhas notas que fiz durante anos, não dá pra recuperar fiquei muito triste o aplicativo deveria estar configurado para esse tipo de troca, me decepcionei muito porque eu tinha muitas coisas importantes escritas. ### 1/5 — WORST ONE! *2025-12-03, version 2.0.2* It just completely opened without my pin after new update. Ridiculous. ### 1/5 — Its suddenly become useless *2025-11-07, version 2.0.2* I purchased the app for £8.99 5 months ago but it has now gone back to the basic version and Im getting ads etc. ### 1/5 — WORST APP EVER *2025-10-24, version 2.0.2* Don’t download ### 1/5 — Don’t Waste Your Time *2025-10-03, version 2.0.2* Older photos not visible ### 1/5 — Разработчик забросил приложение! *2025-08-21* Вела записи в этом приложении несколько лет. Поначалу все устраивало, кроме некоторых несущественных моментов. Но пару лет назад приложение стало глючить и с каждым днем все больше и больше. Сейчас с ним работать совсем не возможно! Полгода назад оплатила годовую подписку, думала проблем меньше будет. Увы! Обещанной синхронизации данных нет! В iPad приложение практически перестало работать - сначала выбрасывало только при работе с фото (добавление, просмотр), теперь выбрасывает при наборе текста. Приходится текст набирать в Блокноте и копировать в дневник. На мои неоднократные обращения разработчик ни разу не ответил!!! Жаль терять деньги, перечисленные разработчику за не оказанные услуги, но главное жаль терять информацию записей с 2022 года!!! Куда еще обращаться за помощью не представляю… ### 1/5 — Good and Bad *2025-06-17, version 2.0.2* Good product. Support never responds to requests for help. ### 1/5 — проблемы с входом в аккаунт *2025-04-24* не могу зайти в аккаунт через войти через diero. не могу войти в свою учетную запись по почте и паролю ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Love it! *2026-08-26, version 2.0.2* I use this every day for many memories & just general information. Can search for info later and it comes in handy. ☺️ ### 5/5 — Perfect Journal App *2026-07-23* I love using Diaro. I find it easy, good looking and secure. I have the premium version and having the chance to open it across devices really helps and the backup is great as well. As improvements I would suggest the possibility to record audio entries as it would help for days when we don’t want to type, printing with different fonts (currently printing to PDF with a standard font), and to be able to choose where to backup it (Dropbox or google drive). As I already pay for google storage I should be able to use it to store all of my stuff. Great app anyhow. I’m very satisfied ### 5/5 — Great backbone but unfriendly user interface *2026-07-23, version 2.0.2* It has great features. You can tag, store in folders, have multiple entries on same day. But There is something very imperfect about its layout - It doesn’t link up tags in a manner that ensures continuity. It destroys flow between days and months. In summary, diaro checks all the boxes of desired features but the sum of the parts has much room for improvement. If renovated, it’ll likely be the best one around! ### 5/5 — 2000 entries and going *2026-07-14, version 2.0.2* As the title suggests, I’ve been keeping a daily diary for over 5 years and am up to about 2000 entries: Diaro has been perfect for me. Great tagging, ability to add photos, etc… couldn’t ask for more. ### 5/5 — Best Journal Notes *2026-05-23, version 2.0.2* This is the best diary Journal out there. I’ve been using it for over four years now. I use it as my Personal journal very simple, lovely and friendly user interface. And all my notes are stored in the cloud accessible anywhere. The subscription is affordable (mind blowing). I highly recommend it. Thank you guys keep up the good work. ### 5/5 — Diaro is fantastic! *2026-04-15, version 2.0.2* I have been using Diaro for nearly ten years and I find it extremely useful. I use it to track important events, health issues and vaccinations, my pets health issues, my horse’s training progress and foot care progress. I love that I can add photos to my entries and I can sort my entries into folders. I highly recommend this software. ### 5/5 — Cool. *2026-03-25, version 2.0.2* Nice. ### 5/5 — Best diary and journal app by far and cheap as chips. *2026-03-07, version 2.0.2* Using tags and folders allows one to brilliantly separate different ideas, brainstorms, diary events and journaling and all can be accessed from the one page. Brilliant. ### 5/5 — Great Simple App *2026-01-16* Its been more than 2 years I have been using this app. And it’s good, simple and has lots of options for pic, date, feelings. ### 5/5 — Great *2026-01-10, version 2.0.2* Good app --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-03.*