MooDay Diary vs LayerYear
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MooDay Diary
This app allows users to easily record their daily moods and thoughts through a cute and intuitive interface. It offers features like mood icons, photo uploads, and automatic recording of weather and location to enrich journal entries. Users can also search their entries, back them up, and protect their privacy with passcode and Touch ID.
- Six mood icons (Joy, Anger, Sadness, Disgust, Fear, Surprise)
- Journal entries with photos and content
- Automatic weather and location recording
- Calendar and map views for moods and locations
- iCloud backup and restore
- Passcode and Touch ID protection
- Unlimited photo uploads
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Mooday Diary is funny,cute and easy to use ,lets you keep a diary becomes a hobby. +FEATURES - Six Characters Six Moods. Joy,Anger,Sadness,Disgust,Fear and Surprise. - Keep a diary use cute moods icon,express your moods in every day. - List your journal with slide photos & content,content can automatic sliding. - Slide Menu Function - Search journal with content,tags & date. - Automatically record the weather and location. - Waterfall photos style with journal date. - Calendar style let you know your moods quickly. - Map style show your journal location. - iCloud Backup & Restore. - Six Passcode & Touch ID protection. - Change font style & size. +SPECIAL FEATURES - Unlimited photos upload,photos direct connect your photo albums. - Not to worry app will get more hard disk space when you upload photos.
LayerYear
This app lets you create a visual journal by lining up the same date across multiple years. It automatically populates your entries with photos, locations, and weather, allowing you to scroll through a timeline of your past. You can also create video montages of your memories.
- Yearly date comparison
- Automatic photo and location import
- Timeline scrolling
- Route mapping
- Timeline video creation
- Habit tracking
- iCloud sync
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A journal you can start writing right away, with no sign-up. Open the app, jot down a line and your mood, and today is saved. Your photos, places and weather fill in on their own, and as the years add up, the same date lines up across all of them. Your daily routines live right alongside. Writing your journal is free. Keep today Write a short note, add a mood, and tag it. Photos from your library appear on the day they were taken. Keep up daily routines Turn the habits you want to keep — taking medicine, a workout, learning a few words — into routines for the days you choose. Check them off right from Today, and get a reminder if one isn't done by the time you set. Your 7-day and 30-day completion rates and streaks show how consistent you've been. When you're sick or traveling, rest for today or pause for a while. See your years side by side Scroll a timeline where each year sits on its own row. Open any day to read what you wrote and look through its photos. Retrace where you went Days with location show a map of your route and the countries and cities you passed through, worked out on your device from boundary data built into the app. Make a timeline video Turn a stretch of your journal into a short video of your photos and the places they came from, then save it to your library. Expenses Turn on Expenses in Bits & Bobs to note what you spent right on each day's page. Enter amounts in the currency you paid in, and see totals per currency alongside totals converted to your main currency. Steps Turn on Steps in Bits & Bobs → Logs to see your daily step counts from Apple Health alongside your journal. Each day’s steps appear on its page and in the timeline, and you can look back at daily averages by period and at the same date in earlier years. Steps are only read on your iPhone to show them, never saved or sent anywhere. Create a Places Video Make a video where the fog lifts from each place you've been, then save or share it. Places you return to grow deeper in color, and it ends on a world map of everywhere you've gone. Yours alone There is no LayerYear account, and no server that stores your records. Your records stay on your device and sync through your own iCloud. Photo access is required, but you can allow only the photos you choose instead of your whole library. Location access is optional. Available in 11 languages, in light and dark. Subscription LayerYear Subscription is an optional monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription. It unlocks subscriber-only screen themes and record colors, and supports the developer. Writing and revisiting your journal stays free without it. The same subscription also works in the Mac app with your Apple Account. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://layeryear.com/en/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: LayerYear at 5.0 against MooDay Diary's 4.0. LayerYear also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 11 days) and review sentiment (100% vs 90%). MooDay Diary's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, ads 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
Both are free to download. LayerYear sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.00 per month. MooDay Diary asks for nothing beyond the download.
LayerYear holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of MooDay Diary's written reviews are positive against 100% of LayerYear's.
MooDay Diary ships an update every 11 days, LayerYear every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MooDay Diary | LayerYear |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 12+ |
| Developer | TIEN TA LEE | BAMSEM |
Customer experience
MooDay Diary
LayerYear
In-app purchases
MooDay Diary
No in-app purchases
LayerYear
- LayerYear Monthly$1.001 Month
- LayerYear Yearly$10.001 Year









