Personal Diary vs Diary with Lock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Personal Diary
Document your life with this private journaling app. Set daily reminders to write and secure your entries with a passcode. Get daily writing motivation through quotes and widgets.
- Daily journaling
- Passcode security
- Daily writing reminders
- Writing motivation quotes
- Today Widget
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Personal Diary is an app to help you document your life. It reminds you to update your journal and write a few words every day. You can then read the previous posts. - It is completely secret. If you would like to, you can set a passcode for the app as well, which you have to enter every time you want to use the app. Therefore, no one else can read your journal! - You can also set a reminder to write every day. - Get motivation to write from out Today Widget or from the main screen of the app, which shows you a quote about writing every day. If you are interested, please download the application and check yourself!
Diary with Lock
Capture and cherish life's moments in a secure, beautifully designed digital journal. Add text, photos, and videos, track your mood and weather, and protect your entries with a passcode. Back up your memories to iCloud and export them as PDFs.
- Photo and text diary entries
- Lock screen passcode protection
- iCloud backup
- Mood and weather tracking
- Font customization
- Intruder snapshots
- PDF export
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Welcome to iDiary – the ultimate diary app that combines the classic art of journaling with modern technology! With iDiary, you can easily capture and cherish all your precious moments in a beautifully designed and secure platform. Here are some of the key features that make iDiary the perfect diary app for you: - Photo and Text Diary Entries: Create rich and engaging diary entries by mixing text and photos and videos together. iDiary lets you capture your life's moments in an expressive and immersive way. - Lock Screen Passcode: Keep your diary entries safe from prying eyes with a secure lock screen passcode. Your secrets are safe with iDiary! - iCloud Backup: Never lose a single moment of your life again. iDiary automatically backs up your diary entries to iCloud, ensuring that all your memories are safe and secure. - Mood and Weather: Capture your mood and the weather each day to add an even deeper level of detail to your diary entries. - Font Customization: Choose from a variety of fonts to make your diary entries even more unique and personal. - Intruder Snapshots: iDiary automatically captures a photo of anyone who tries to access your diary without your permission. Keep your diary safe and secure at all times. - PDF Export: Export your diary entries as PDFs for easy sharing, printing, or archiving. Download iDiary today and start capturing all your precious moments in a secure and beautiful diary app! Privacy Policy: https://www.bytecrazy.com/common_privacy_en.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Contact Us: trudutton@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Personal Diary at every 9 days against Diary with Lock's every 3 months. Personal Diary also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.2) and review sentiment (19% vs 0%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Personal Diary sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Diary with Lock sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Personal Diary holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Personal Diary has 362 ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 19% of Personal Diary's written reviews are positive against 0% of Diary with Lock's.
Personal Diary ships an update every 9 days, Diary with Lock every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Personal Diary | Diary with Lock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (362 ratings) — better | 4.2 (19 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 18.8% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 362 — better | 19 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Teleprompter LLC | Heyou Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Personal Diary
Diary with Lock
Bugs and requests
Personal Diary
Reported bugs
10 issues- App opens and closes immediately
- App doesn't open after Pro purchase
- Entries disappear
- Screen freezes
- Cannot access app after setting passcode
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- Pro version doesn't work
- App crashes at launch
- Paid for premium, app doesn't work
- App closes every time it's opened
- App goes black and returns to home screen after purchase
Requested features
9 requests- Export to PDF
- Save to computer
- Cloud backup
- Import/export functionality
- Syncing across devices
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- Account with username and password
- Login on phone and tablet
- Ability to write in past dates
- Search reviews by keywords
Diary with Lock
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Personal Diary
- Plus mode$4.99
Diary with Lock
- iDiary Pro7 Days trial$9.991 Year
Questions
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