Comparison

Monorial Diary vs The Month

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Monorial Diary

Record your daily life with photos and text in a personalized diary. Customize layouts, add photos as backgrounds, and apply effects. Plan for the future by writing down dreams and setting future dates. Share entries on social media and back up your memories to iCloud.

Highlights
  • Record daily life with photo and text
  • Customize photo and text layout
  • Use photos as background
  • Apply mono effect to photos
  • Write down future dreams and dates
  • Share entries on social media
  • Backup to iCloud
Features
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Monorial : Mono + Memorial Monorial is a diary for recording your daily life. One photo, one text and Mono Write down your beautiful moments. It is possible for you to change the position of photo and text. Every time new photo is shown in the writing part. You are able to put your photo into the background photo. You can decide whether or not you apply Mono Effect to your photo. Write your dream down for the future things. Fix a future date, and write down what you will be. You would get more closer to your future self. - Simple list - Seeing like card type - Can see each year and month - Writing easily - Download images - Sharing on SNS - Searching - Back up your contents to iCloud ● Share one of your pages 
on Facebook or Twitter, 
and you can use Monorial 
without Ads for 10 days. ● Thank you for using Monorial. If you have some stories and find some problems, please feel free to send your idea to below e-mail address. We check positively your idea and revise our app. email : monorial@eedler.com ● Please 'like' our facebook page, if you want to know the updates of Eedler, Monorial's development team facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/eedler.co

About

The Month

Create a visual diary of your month by collaging photos and writing daily thoughts on a digital canvas. Customize your creations with freeform editing, background removal, and text options. A new canvas refreshes monthly, with a personal canvas available for unlimited use.

Highlights
  • Daily photo and thought collages
  • Monthly refreshing canvas
  • Unlimited personal canvas
  • Background removal tool
  • Lasso tool for photo cutting
  • Photo layering
  • Customizable text fonts and colors
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▢ Collage today's photo on the canvas as you like! Write down your daily thoughts and stick today's photo on the canvas. ■ Capture your month in photos on the canvas! See how your month went with words and pictures. Create your unique photos beyond square frames and freely decorate the canvas. ■ Canvas refreshes every month! You get a new blank canvas on the first day of each month! Don't worry, last month's canvas is saved for you to view later! ■ Once a day not enough? Create your My Canvas! On My Canvas, add as many photos as you want, whenever you want! It's like a sandbox! My Canvas doesn't reset! ■ Smoother background removal within the app! Using Apple's own API, we've made background removal even smoother! Softer outlines! ■ Cut photos freely, like scissors through newspaper! Use the lasso tool to cut out just the parts you want from today's photo and stick them on the canvas! ■ Layer your photos! No need to always stack photos on top. You can place today's photo behind yesterday's! ■ Write with your favorite fonts and colors. Choose from at least 4 fonts per language to write your day in your style. You can even set a special color for your text. ● The Month grows with your feedback! If you have any inconveniences or suggestions while using the app, please contact us via "Settings"-"Feedback" or email us at pagersbusiness24@gmail.com! * Inquiries and partnership: pagersbusiness24@gmail.com * Instagram: @official_themonth Your month on canvas, The Month

Screenshots

Monorial Diary4 screens
The Month4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: The Month at 100% against Monorial Diary's 69%. The Month also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Monorial Diary's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Monorial Diary ships an update every 9 days, The Month every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Monorial Diary versus The Month: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMonorial DiaryThe Month
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews69.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS9.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB275 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperYongho YuKyubo Shim

Customer experience

Monorial Diary

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews52 reviews
Positive69.2%
Neutral11.5%
Negative19.2%

The Month

Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Monorial Diary

No in-app purchases

None

The Month

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Monorial Diary free?
Monorial Diary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Month free?
The Month is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Monorial Diary or The Month have ads?
Neither Monorial Diary nor The Month shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Monorial Diary or The Month?
Monorial Diary ships an update every 9 days, and The Month every 6 days. Most recently, Monorial Diary was updated on October 24, 2026 and The Month on October 9, 2026.

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