Comparison

Personal Journal vs Keepstone

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Instant search for entries
  • Auto-save functionality
  • Password and Touch ID protection
  • Mood selection
  • Image addition
  • Backup and iCloud sync
  • Customizable color themes
Features
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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.

About

Keepstone

Features
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Keepstone is a private journal for memories you want to preserve, seal, and rediscover later. Write a memory, add photos or voice notes, lock it until a future date, or create a letter to your future self. Your journal stays local on your device: no account, no cloud sync, no social feed. WRITE Capture daily thoughts, meaningful moments, photos, and voice notes in a calm writing space. SEAL Lock memories until a future date. Create personal time capsules or letters to your future self. ORGANIZE Use tags, search, themes, typography, and journal statistics to shape your archive over time. EXPORT Create password-protected .kstone files, encrypted backups, and PDF exports for unlocked memories. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your data stays local on your device. Keepstone does not require an account to write, seal, import, export, or read your memories. SUPPORTER Keepstone includes an optional one-time Supporter upgrade for premium themes, typography, full journal statistics, and PDF export. Keepstone is built for memory, privacy, and time.

Screenshots

Personal Journal4 screens
Keepstone4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Keepstone at Free against Personal Journal's $0.99. Keepstone also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 weeks). Personal Journal's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.0). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Keepstone is free to download; Personal Journal costs $0.99 up front. Keepstone sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Personal Journal asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Personal Journal ships an update every 2 weeks, Keepstone every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Personal Journal versus Keepstone: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPersonal JournalKeepstone
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.2 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews54.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS10.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBogdan FilippovPablo Silva

In-app purchases

None

Personal Journal

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Keepstone

One-time1
  • Keepstone Supporter$0.99

Questions

Is Personal Journal free?
Personal Journal costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Keepstone free?
Keepstone is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Personal Journal or Keepstone have ads?
Neither Personal Journal nor Keepstone shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Personal Journal or Keepstone?
Personal Journal ships an update every 2 weeks, and Keepstone every 6 days. Most recently, Personal Journal was updated on October 29, 2026 and Keepstone on October 24, 2026.

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