Comparison

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.

Head to head

你的日记

Free

🌟 Lifestyle

★ 4.029 ratingsView app →

Time Caps

Write to my dear future

Free

🌟 Lifestyle

★ 4.8153 ratingsView app →

About

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.

Highlights

Smooth writing experience
Multi-image uploads
Shared diary for two
Anonymous stranger matching
Cloud backup
Weather and mood tracking
Calendar view

Features

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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。

About

Time Caps

This app allows users to create a digital diary with various types of entries, including daily reflections, future messages, and voice notes. It offers features like mood-based coloring, serendipitous retrieval of past entries, and secure privacy protection. Users can also subscribe for enhanced functionalities and premium features.

Highlights

Daily mood-based journal entries
Write messages to your future self
Record voice notes for the future
Serendipitous retrieval of past entries
Secure passcode and biometric lock
Daily reminders and widgets
Offline functionality

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＊＊＊Featured on App Store＊＊＊ Features: ＊ Daily Caps: One day one cap, different colors for your different moods. ＊ Day Grid: Display journals in grids. Fill your lovely life with colorful daily caps. ＊ Time Fortune: 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. ＊ 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

Screenshots

你的日记4 screens

Time Caps4 screens

Verdict

The call

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 (153 vs 29). 你的日记's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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 153 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

你的日记 ships an update weekly, Time Caps every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level

你的日记 versus Time Caps: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter	你的日记	Time Caps
Price	Free	Free
Rating	4.0 (29 ratings)	4.8 (153 ratings) — better
Positive reviews	67.9% of reviews	83.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings	29	153 — better
Update frequency	Weekly — better	Every 6 weeks
Ads	No	No
In-app purchases	Yes	Yes
Monetization	Freemium	Freemium
Devices	iPhone, iPad	iPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS	26	15.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size	12 MB	18 MB
Age rating	4+	4+
Developer	Haoqiang Chai	灿海陈