Jortessimo vs Diary! SmartDiary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Jortessimo
This app offers a vertical scroll calendar for quick event and task viewing. Personalize your calendar with custom themes, fonts, icons, and colors. Attach photos to events and set countdowns or notifications for important dates.
- Vertical scroll calendar view
- Event and task management
- Customizable color themes and fonts
- Event personalization with icons and colors
- Attach photos to events
- Countdown and notification features
- Calendar synchronization (Jorte Cloud, Google Calendar)
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A calendar viewer in vertical scroll format to check your events and tasks for today quickly and easily. ■Main Features■ Jortessimo is a vertical scroll calendar application that allows the management of events, tasks and other information in a list format. Customize your notebook by selecting the color theme and fonts that best suits your style. Easily specify the month and date to be displayed in a vertical list on the left side of the screen as well as switch list of dates and month calendars. Check your important events at a glance with personalization options for events like icons, symbols, and font color. Keep important memories in your notebook by attaching photos into your events. Use features like countdown and notification to know how many days are left until an event occurs and receive advanced notifications about it. Synchronize your calendar information with either Jorte Cloud or Google Calendar as well as sharing calendars with other users. *Offering of the Premium service is no longer available. Jorte Privacy Policy http://www.jorte.com/en/privacy.php
Diary! SmartDiary
Record daily life with photos and track your mood and schedule on a calendar. Secure your entries with a passcode and easily access past memories. Customize your diary with various settings for a personalized experience.
- Record memories with photos
- Track daily mood and schedule
- Passcode lock with biometric support
- iCloud backup and data migration
- Customizable calendar and diary settings
- Input forgetting notifications
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Simple and easy operation private diary application. ・Leave memories of daily life with photos easily. ・You can enter in the calendar the mood and schedule of the day. ・You can easily display past memories. ・Passcode lock (Touch ID, Face ID support) ・iCloud backup (iPhone, data migration between the iPad is also possible) [Other functions] ・Cover photo setting ・Calendar display setting (Start Week On, Calendar Position, Cover Photo Size, Transparency) ・Diary text setting (Font Size, Font Depth, Line Spacing) ・Theme color setting ・Notification of forgetting input ・Support for landscape orientation (iPad only) [Credit] ・Designed by Freepik and distributed by Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com) ・Icons8 (https://icons8.com) ・This software includes the work that is distributed in the Apache License 2.0.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Diary! SmartDiary at 93% against Jortessimo's 55%. Diary! SmartDiary also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.2) and ratings volume (45 vs 5). Jortessimo's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, 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. Diary! SmartDiary sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Jortessimo asks for nothing beyond the download.
Diary! SmartDiary holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Diary! SmartDiary has 45 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of Jortessimo's written reviews are positive against 93% of Diary! SmartDiary's.
Jortessimo ships an update every 2 months, Diary! SmartDiary every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Jortessimo | Diary! SmartDiary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (5 ratings) | 4.6 (45 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.8% of reviews | 93.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 45 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jorte Inc. | Hideki Okuno |
Customer experience
Jortessimo
Diary! SmartDiary
In-app purchases
Jortessimo
No in-app purchases
Diary! SmartDiary
- Remove Ads$2.99
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