EZDiary vs Text 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!
Text Diary
A free and simple text-based journaling app that allows unlimited entries. Organize your thoughts with folders, colors, and tags, and easily search or filter your past entries. Enjoy a comfortable user experience with quick startup and dark mode.
- Unlimited daily diary entries
- Organize by folder, color, tag
- Searchable diary entries
- Filter by date or tag
- Quick startup and comfortable operation
- Dark mode support
- Completely free to use
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It's a simple text diary app. All features are completely free to use. Features: - Unlimited daily diary - Classified by folder, color, tag - Search diary - Filter by date or tag - Quick start-up, comfortable operability - Dark mode - All free URL scheme: textdiary://
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Text Diary at 4.5 against EZDiary's 4.0. Text Diary also leads on ratings volume (6 vs 1). EZDiary's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months). On price, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Text Diary holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text Diary has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
EZDiary ships an update every 10 days, Text Diary every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EZDiary | Text Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 4.5 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Xiu Cheng | FugaPiyo Inc. |
Customer experience
EZDiary
Text Diary
In-app purchases
EZDiary
No in-app purchases
Text Diary
No in-app purchases
