Personal Journal vs Crocheting Patterns
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Personal Journal
Record your thoughts, emotions, and memories in a secure and private digital journal. Add text, images, and track your mood with password and Touch ID protection. Back up your entries and sync across devices.
- Instant search for entries
- Auto-save functionality
- Password and Touch ID protection
- Mood selection
- Image addition
- Backup and iCloud sync
- Customizable color themes
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A private journal or a diary is a fine mobile application for recording one’s thoughts, emotions, songs, poems and mood. Take the liberty to repeat your dead secrets you’ve never told anybody, let loose your thoughts and self-expression. Private Journal or Diary Features: · Finding of previous entries by Instant Search through your Journal or Diary. · Auto save of recordings shall prevent the loosing of your thoughts, texts, mood and images. · When making entries complete only those fields as you like. No restrictions. · Assign a password to enter your Private Journal or Diary and nobody may have access to your entries. · Enter your Private Journal or Diary by using Touch ID. · Make your backup Private Journal or Diary and do not bother about your private entries safety. · When making entries you may use the text entry, mood selection and image addition. · Choose a color for your Private Journal or Diary. · Neither advertising nor in-app purchases, you pay only once and for ever. · All data are stored in your iPhone without transfer through Internet. Your thoughts will be perfectly safe. · iCloud Sync - Synchronize your personal data and private entries on several Apple devices. (Sync is disabled by default). · Perhaps it is the most convenient diary in the whole App Store, make sure of it right now.
Crocheting Patterns
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Have you ever tried going on a shopping spree for new yarn (in physical stores or online), only to feel completely lost by not knowing exactly how you would use that nice-looking skein of yarn, and end up purchasing the wrong thing - or purchasing the right thing, but in the wrong quantity - or worse, still: Leaving empty-handed? If your answer is "yes", then Crocheting Patterns will be your indispensable companion in the future. The inspiration in the form of your pattern library is right at your fingertips, wherever you go, and you can easily make sure that you purchase the right yarn in the right quantity - and with the right accessories. The app also helps you find inspiration on how to best make use of your current stash of yarn. The app lets you gain the perfect overview in a single place, whether your patterns are purchased, found in magazines, or your own creations entirely. You can categorize your patterns based from standard garment types, or create as many of your own categories as you like. You can have your patterns sorted alphabetically, by most recent usage, or in any particular order you like. Each pattern can be associated with as many categories as you wish. It is entirely up to you how many details you want to register for your individual patterns, but the more details you supply, the more help you will find in the built-in filtering function. When browsing your patterns, only the filled-in information is shown, so you won't have to deal with lots of empty fields. Using the camera, you can supply your pattern details with pictures of the model, attach PDF files for the instructions, or perhaps add pictures of the finalized garments. You can add as many attachments as you like, both for your categories, your patterns and your yarns. Use the Filter function if you need to search for a specific pattern in your pattern library, or just need inspiration for your next project, based on a specific yarn. In all aspects, Crocheting Patterns is an indispensable app, for the experienced crocheter and the newcomer alike!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Personal Journal at every 2 weeks against Crocheting Patterns's every 2 months. Personal Journal also leads on price ($0.99 vs $4.99) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.6). On ads, 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
Personal Journal costs $0.99 and Crocheting Patterns $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Personal Journal ships an update every 2 weeks, Crocheting Patterns every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Personal Journal | Crocheting Patterns |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.2 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 54.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bogdan Filippov | Claus Krogholm Pedersen |
In-app purchases
Personal Journal
No in-app purchases
Crocheting Patterns
No in-app purchases
Questions
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