EZDiary vs Simple Daily Diary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EZDiary
This app offers a stylish and intuitive way to journal your thoughts and memories. It supports rich text formatting, emojis, and powerful search capabilities to easily find past entries. Personalize your diary with custom fonts, colors, and styles, and keep your entries secure with passcode protection.
- Intuitive diary writing interface
- Markdown formatting (italic, bold, headings)
- Emoji support
- Powerful search with various options
- Customizable fonts, colors, and styles
- Passcode protection for privacy
- Image and block quote support
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Tired of writing diaries in the same old style? Searching through all your diaries is a pain in the neck? You just can't find what you want to find? EZDiary is for YOU! EZDiary provides a simple, intuitive and elegant interface for dealing with your diaries! Just tap on a date, and write your diary with style: italic, bold, titles, block quotes, code blocks, emojis... In addition, EZDiary has a powerful search feature. You can fiddle around with search options: search in the last year? Last month? Or search in title only? Show earlier diaries first? You can adjust all these bits and bobs! Sounds interesting? Give it a try! Major features: - Intuitive design! - Formatting with Markdown! - Italic! - Bold! - Headings! - Block quotes! - Code blocks! - Emojis! - Search options - Exact match - Date Range - Sorting - And more! - Cool fonts! - Images! - Background Colors! - Cool-looking diary styles! - Passcode protection!
Simple Daily Diary
Capture your everyday moments with a fast, easy, and beautifully designed journaling app. Add custom titles, personalize with themes, and easily find past entries with smart search. Sync across devices and enjoy local backups for peace of mind.
- Add custom titles to entries
- 20+ handpicked color themes
- Smart search by date or keywords
- Share thoughts and memories
- iCloud sync between iPhone and iPad
- Local device backup
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Looking for a simple and delightful way to keep a daily journal? Simple Daily Diary is exactly what you need — fast, easy to use, and thoughtfully designed to capture your everyday moments. Just download and see for yourself. With Simple Daily Diary, you’ll never forget the moments that matter most. Revisit your memories anytime in a space that feels truly yours. Key features: • Add custom titles to highlight your most meaningful entries. • Make it your own with 20+ handpicked color themes. • Find what you wrote in seconds using smart search by date or keywords. • Share your thoughts and memories without leaving the app. • Sync seamlessly between iPhone and iPad using iCloud. • And for extra peace of mind, your diary is also backed up locally on your device. No subscriptions, no clutter. Just a beautifully simple diary that fits right into your everyday life.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Simple Daily Diary at 52% against EZDiary's 0%. Simple Daily Diary also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (1.3K vs 1). EZDiary's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 50 months). On price, 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. Simple Daily Diary sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. EZDiary asks for nothing beyond the download.
Simple Daily Diary holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple Daily Diary has 1.3K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of EZDiary's written reviews are positive against 52% of Simple Daily Diary's.
EZDiary ships an update every 10 days, Simple Daily Diary every 50 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EZDiary | Simple Daily Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 4.5 (1.3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 52.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1.3K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 50 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Xiu Cheng | Dmytro Vynokurov |
Customer experience
EZDiary
Simple Daily Diary
Bugs and requests
EZDiary
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Simple Daily Diary
Reported bugs
3 issues- Paid upgrade not working as expected
- Entries disappearing or not saving properly
- Freezing or crashing when using certain features
Requested features
5 requests- Add password/lock feature
- Increase storage space or make it truly unlimited
- Allow editing and adding of past entries
- Provide cloud backup/sync option
- Offer more customization options (colors, fonts, etc.)
In-app purchases
EZDiary
No in-app purchases
Simple Daily Diary
- Unlimited Diary$6.99
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