你的日记 vs Time Caps
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
你的日记
This app provides a digital journaling experience with a focus on emotional connection and shared experiences. It offers a smooth writing interface, allows for shared diaries with a partner, and connects users with strangers through anonymous entries. All content is cloud-saved for accessibility.
- Smooth writing experience
- Multi-image uploads
- Shared diary for two
- Anonymous stranger matching
- Cloud backup
- Weather and mood tracking
- Calendar view
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「你的日记」—— 写给生活的一封信。 受启于动画《你的名字》，我们希望把那份关于生活、情绪、人与人之间微妙连接的温度，带进真实世界。 8 年来，「你的日记」持续陪伴无数用户记录每天的故事。而这一次，我们用 SwiftUI 重新打造了整个应用 —— 更轻，更快，更美，也更贴近心里的那份柔软。 主要功能 【极致顺滑的写作体验】（全新打造） • 全新草稿系统 • 支持多图上传 • 图片可自由缩放 • 离线写作 • 自动保存 • Liquid Glass 设计，轻盈透明 【平行空间】两个人的共享日记世界 开启“平行空间”，你们就能互相看到彼此的日记。 像动画里那样，悄悄窥见对方的日常、情绪与心事。 【随机匹配】遇见陌生人的生活 加入“涡旋”，你会被随机匹配到一位完全陌生的人。 你能看到 TA 的一篇日记，也能让 TA 看到你的。 温柔而克制，让世界的角落悄悄相连。 【树洞】世界的另一面 写下你的故事，也看看别人正在经历什么。 匿名、温柔、安全的分享方式。 【你的日记】永不丢失 所有内容云端保存。换设备、删 App 也不会失去。 【记录天气、心情】让日记更完整 每一天都有自己的颜色。 【日历模式】 以时间为线索，重新遇见过去的自己。 会员系统重大升级（重要！） 为了让更多人自由表达，我们**完全取消了“查看图片需要会员”**的限制。 现在—— 所有用户都可以免费查看图片。 我们花了几个月优化存储方案，把成本降到了最低，最终决定把这项能力完全开放给用户。 会员依然存在，用于支持我们继续运营，但不会限制日常的核心体验。 我们坚持的事 「你的日记」不是一个工具，是一个会陪伴你的地方。 我们相信： 每个人的生活都有记录的价值。 每一段心情，都值得被温柔对待。 如果你也这么想。欢迎加入这里。
Time Caps
Capture your thoughts and memories in digital time capsules to send to your future self. Organize your entries by mood and revisit past moments with unique features like 'Old Time' and 'Time Fortunes'.
- Daily mood-based journal entries
- Send messages to your future self
- Organize entries by timeline or calendar
- Collect 'Time Fortunes' for writing
- Voice message recording
- Shake to reveal past entries
- Siri and Shortcuts integration
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＊＊＊Featured on App Store＊＊＊ Features: ＊ Daily Caps: One day one cap, different colors for your different moods. ＊ Today Card: Today's cap, On This Day, Old Time and fortune in one place. ＊ Flow & Grid: Display journals in a timeline or a calendar. Fill your lovely life with colorful daily caps. ＊ Years: Revisit each year from the sidebar, with all its caps and moods. ＊ Time Fortunes: Collect fortunes by writing daily caps. Share in your mood color. ＊ Future Caps: Write to your next birthday, to next Christmas, to the time after the exam/enrollment/entry, to the dear future you. ＊ Echo Caps: Send yourself a piece of voice from the present. ＊ Old Time: Shake your phone like a jar full of caps and meet your old days by serendipity. ＊ Workshop: Regain cap pieces every day to craft more future caps. ＊ Widgets: Meet your lovely widgets, glanceable anytime on your device. ＊ Siri & Shortcuts: Write and open caps with Siri, Spotlight and Shortcuts. ＊ iPad: Better on big screens, with multiple windows. ＊ Account System: No more worry about accidentally removing the app or switching to a new phone. ＊ Privacy Protection: Secure your journals with passcode lock or Touch ID/Face ID. ＊ Daily Reminder: One day one cap! ＊ Offline Use: Everything works well under no network connection. ＊ Export & Share: Export your favorite caps to your albums or share them with your friends. ＊ Time Traveler Pro: Subscribe to unlock exclusive features, enhance Daily Caps, double regaining Pieces, and enjoy premium sync. Your lovely designer and developer (same person :D) is working hard to explore and create more cool and useful features. Thanks for your liking and support! If you like it, don’t forget to come back for rating, encouraging your developer and helping Time Caps become better. Ideas or feedback are always welcome. Please email us at: hi.pol.chen@gmail.com. Crafted with love by Pol Terms of Use: https://timecaps.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://timecaps.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Time Caps at 4.8 against 你的日记's 4.0. Time Caps also leads on review sentiment (84% vs 68%) and ratings volume (156 vs 29). 你的日记's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). 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. 你的日记 sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Time Caps sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Time Caps holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Time Caps has 156 ratings behind it against 29, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of 你的日记's written reviews are positive against 84% of Time Caps's.
你的日记 ships an update weekly, Time Caps every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 你的日记 | Time Caps |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (29 ratings) | 4.8 (156 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.9% of reviews | 83.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 29 | 156 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Haoqiang Chai | 灿海 陈 |
Customer experience
你的日记
Time Caps
User reviews
你的日记
From 29 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💡 Creative and unique concept
- 💖 Heartwarming and sweet experience
- ✨ Aesthetically pleasing design
- 👍 Easy to use interface
- 💌 Great for sharing with others
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
- ⚠️ Login and connection issues
- 📉 Loss of data/diaries
- 🚫 Lack of essential features
- 📱 Poor iPad/tablet compatibility
Time Caps
From 156 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💡 Unique concept of time capsules
- 👍 Easy and simple to use
- 💖 Encourages journaling habit
- 😊 Calming and beautiful design
- ✨ Helps self-reflection and growth
Room to improve
- 💰 In-app purchases for features
- 💸 High cost for capsules/features
- 🔒 Password lock feature requires subscription
- 📈 Difficulty in exporting data
- 😔 Word cap can be restrictive
Bugs and requests
你的日记
Reported bugs
16 issues- App crashes on launch
- Diaries disappear or are lost
- Cannot log in or connect
- White screen on opening app
- App freezes or becomes unresponsive
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- Incorrect dates displayed
- Matching errors (e.g., wrong gender)
- Unable to upload images
- Password reset not working
- Syncing issues leading to disconnection
- App not compatible with newer iOS versions
- App not optimized for iPad
- Push notifications not received
- Login issues after setting password
- Data loss after updates or re-registration
- Connection errors despite stable internet
Requested features
17 requests- Add photo/image functionality
- Web version availability
- English language option
- Export diary feature
- iPad/tablet optimized version
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- Improve account recovery
- Add more fonts and customization
- Restore 'New' and 'Best' features
- Allow users to choose not to share diaries
- Improve matching system (gender)
- Add a 'switch identity' button
- Allow users to hide certain entries from partner
- Add stickers and illustrations
- Fix date bugs
- Improve UI for landscape mode
- Allow users to delete entries
- Make Pro features buyable instead of time-based
Time Caps
Reported bugs
2 issues- 🐛 Interface issues with updates
- 🐛 Face ID issues reported
Requested features
9 requests- Ability to export previous posts
- Lower gem prices for capsules
- More options for describing the day
- Add template feature
- Support dark mode
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- Ability to add photos to daily journal entries
- Option to get one future cap a week
- Allow editing of old time caps without currency
- More descriptive options for daily mood
In-app purchases
你的日记
- 「你的日记Pro」1个月$1.99
- 「你的日记Pro」6个月$9.99
- 「你的日记Pro」12个月$9.99
Time Caps
- Time Traveler Pro (Monthly)$3.991 Month
- Time Traveler Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- 1200 Cap Pieces$0.99
- 2888 Cap Pieces$1.99
- 3600 Cap Pieces$2.99
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- 5000 Cap Pieces$3.99
