Comparison

Daylio Journal vs My Daily Diary ‎

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

Head to head
About

Daylio Journal

This app helps you track your moods and activities to understand your well-being. It offers a private micro-diary experience without requiring extensive typing, allowing you to identify happiness triggers and build positive habits.

Highlights
  • Mood tracking with icons and emojis
  • Activity logging
  • Private journaling without typing
  • Statistics and charts for habit analysis
  • Goal setting and habit building
  • Customizable themes and dark mode
  • Secure data backup and PIN lock
Features
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Self-Care Bullet Journal with Goals - Mood Diary & Happiness Tracker Daylio enables you to keep a private journal without having to type a single line. Try this beautifully designed & stunningly simple micro-diary app right now for FREE! ** WHAT IS DAYLIO ** Daylio is a very versatile app, and you can turn it in whatever you need to track. Your fitness goal pal. Your mental health coach. Your food log. Your gratitude diary. Mood tracker. Exercise, meditate, eat, and be grateful. Take care of your mental, emotional, and physical health. Good self-care is a key to improved mood and reduced anxiety. This is the time for your wellbeing, self-improvement, and self-care. Use Daylio as your daily bullet journal. We build it on three principles: 1.) Reach happiness and self-improvement by being mindful of your days. 2.) Validate your hunches. How does your new hobby influence your life? 3.) Form a new habit in an obstacle-free environment—no learning curve. Daylio is super simple to use, create your first entry in two steps. For anxiety and stress relief, make sure to include activities that help you to cope with negativity. Everybody can use a mood boost! You can measure their impact on your mood in stats. ** HOW DOES IT WORK ** Pick your mood and add activities you have been doing during the day. You can also add notes and keep an old school diary. Daylio is collecting recorded moods and activities in the statistics and calendar. This format will help you to understand your habits better. Keep track of your activities and create patterns to become more productive! You can review all entries in the statistics on charts or the calendar and share them with your friends. To make it even better, Daylio allows you: - Make reflection a daily habit - Discover what makes you happy - Use a big database of beautiful icons for your personalized activities - Mix and match your own moods using funny emojis - Explore exciting statistics about your life on weekly, monthly or yearly charts - Deep dive into advanced statistics for every mood, activity or group - Customize color themes - Enjoy nights with dark mode - See your whole year in 'Year in Pixels' - Create daily, weekly or monthly goals and motivate yourself - Build habits and collect achievements - Share statistics with your friends - Safely back up and restore your entries via your private Google Drive - Set reminders and never forget to create a memory - Turn on PIN lock and keep your diary safe - Export PDF and CSV documents to share or print your entries ** PRIVACY AND SECURITY ** We are a top private journal since we do not store or collect your data. At Daylio, we believe in transparency and honesty. Your data is stored locally on your phone. You can optionally schedule backups to your private cloud storage or take your backup file with you anywhere. Data are entirely under your control at all times. Data stored in the app's private directories are not accessible by any other apps or processes. Your backups are transferred to the iCloud Drive via the secure (encrypted) channels. Journaling has never been easier! --- Read our full Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy: Terms of Use: https://daylio.net/faq/terms-of-use/ Privacy Policy: https://daylio.net/faq/privacy-policy/

About

My Daily Diary ‎

This app offers a private and flexible journaling experience. Track your mood, dreams, or experiences with customizable entries. Secure your thoughts with a built-in lock system for ultimate privacy.

Highlights
  • Private journaling
  • Mood tracking
  • Customizable entries
  • Picture import
  • Calendar navigation
  • App lock
Features
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A simple, flexible and private diary. Keeping a journal helps in many ways. You can be more aware of your feelings and thoughts, keep track of your mood, dreams or experiences. Many influencing people love keeping a diary since it helps in so many ways! -- “People who keep journals have life twice.” -- Jessamyn West We've made this app as simple to use as possible. Everything is easy to discover and we'll guide you through the most advanced features. Our users love a simple and polished experience and that's what we give them. -- “In the journal I am at ease.” -- Anais Nin We give you all the flexibility you need. We won't tie you to any strict structure or force you to track anything you don't care about. You can add entries to the diary, like a mindfulness session or an area to list reasons for gratitude. You may even configure the diary as a travel journal or a dreams journal! That's easy to setup too: the only limit is your imagination. -- “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” -- Anne Frank Your diary should be as private as you want. We do not upload your data anywhere, we don't track you and we value your privacy. And you get even more: we included a system to lock the app, so that no intruder can see your diary without your consent. Your diary is yours, private and secure. -- “Whether you’re keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it’s the same thing. What’s important is you’re having a relationship with your mind.” -- Natalie Goldberg You are using an advanced device, so we're providing advanced and easy to use features. Like a cute mood tracking system. Or a way to import pictures in your journal. But also a calendar to navigate your memories... You can feel at ease, with a simple and familiar diary in your hands but also feel the power of the new tech you are using. We hope you will enjoy the balance. -- “I don’t journal to ‘be productive.’ I don’t do it to find great ideas or to put down prose I can later publish. The pages aren’t intended for anyone but me. It’s the most cost-effective therapy I’ve ever found.” -- Tim Ferriss Download and try it, you will not regret it! --- Terms Of Service for the subscription: To unlock the app you may need to subscribe to the service. This helps us pay development costs and provide a better experience. Please consider supporting us if you like the app. You can check if you like the app and the premium content before making any commitment by using the free trial. It's free and easy to manage from within the app. We're always here to help anyway. Here are a few more details: - Free trial: You can use the app for free for a trial period. After that period you can subscribe to have full access to the app. You can cancel the subscription before the free trial period expires and you won’t be charged. - Subscription is auto-renewable. It will renew automatically 24h before expiration and it will be billed to your iTunes Account - You can cancel from the subscription anytime from settings > Your Name > iTunes & App Store > Apple Id > Subscriptions. Instructions and a link to the management page are also included inside the app (settings > support) - When cancelling, the subscription will stay active until the end of the period. Auto-renewal will be disabled but the current subscription period can't be refunded. WARNING: uninstalling the app will NOT cancel the subscription! Please make sure to follow the instructions above, check the support section inside the app or follow this link: https://crazyhorseapps.com/support. Privacy Policy: https://crazyhorseapps.com/apps-privacy-policy Terms Of Service: https://crazyhorseapps.com/apps/my-journal/my-journal-terms Support Page: https://crazyhorseapps.com/support

Screenshots

Daylio Journal4 screens
My Daily Diary ‎4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Daylio Journal at 62K against My Daily Diary ‎'s 1.1K. Daylio Journal also leads on review sentiment (92% vs 75%) and update cadence (every 9 days vs monthly). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Daylio Journal sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and My Daily Diary ‎ sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Daylio Journal against 4.7 for My Daily Diary ‎. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Daylio Journal has 62K ratings behind it against 1.1K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 92% of Daylio Journal's written reviews are positive against 75% of My Daily Diary ‎'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Daylio Journal ships an update every 9 days, My Daily Diary ‎ monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and August 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Daylio Journal versus My Daily Diary ‎: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaylio JournalMy Daily Diary ‎
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (62K ratings) — better4.7 (1.1K ratings)
Positive reviews91.6% of reviews — better75.5% of reviews
Number of ratings62K — better1.1K
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#186 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size215 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRelaxio s.r.o.Alain caltieri

Customer experience

Daylio Journal

All ratings61,519 ratings
Positive95.5%
Neutral2.9%
Negative1.6%
Written reviews2,362 reviews
Positive91.6%
Neutral3.2%
Negative5.2%

My Daily Diary ‎

All ratings1,126 ratings
Positive92.5%
Neutral2.8%
Negative4.6%
Written reviews326 reviews
Positive75.5%
Neutral4.9%
Negative19.6%

User reviews

Daylio Journal

From 62K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Easy to use
  • 👍 Customizable moods and activities
  • 📊 Helpful statistics and analytics
  • 🗓️ Consistent daily logging
  • 💡 Motivating goal-setting features

Room to improve

  • 🔒 Backup feature locked behind premium
  • 🔍 Limited mood/activity options in free version
  • 📱 No Apple Watch app
  • 🧠 Difficulty tracking mood changes throughout the day

My Daily Diary ‎

From 1.1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💻 Simple and intuitive interface
  • 📝 Helpful journaling features
  • 🔒 Secure with password/biometric lock
  • 🖼️ Ability to add photos to entries
  • 🙏 Prompts for gratitude and reflection

Room to improve

  • 💰 Paid subscription required for full access
  • 🔍 Difficult to navigate past entries
  • 🔒 Issues with password/lock functionality
  • 🔄 Lack of syncing across devices

Bugs and requests

Daylio Journal

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Occasional app freezing and notification issues
  • Difficulty restoring data after device change

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to log voice recordings
  • Implement color-coding for activity groups
  • Allow syncing across multiple devices
  • Provide more detailed mood/emotion tracking options
  • Add option to schedule future activities

My Daily Diary ‎

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Entries randomly disappearing
  • App crashing or freezing

Requested features

4 requests
  • Search functionality for past entries
  • Ability to print or export journal entries
  • More customization options for layout and appearance
  • Sync entries across multiple devices

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Daylio Journal

Subscriptions6
  • Daylio Premium$4.991 Month
  • Daylio Premium7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Daylio Premium7 Days trial$17.991 Year
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  • Daylio Premium$17.991 Year
  • Daylio Premium$23.991 Year
  • Daylio Premium7 Days trial$35.991 Year
One-time1
  • PREMIUM$59.99
7 purchases

My Daily Diary ‎

Subscriptions6
  • Journal - Weekly Subscription7 Days trial$0.997 Days
  • Diary weekly$0.997 Days
  • Journal - Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$3.991 Month
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  • Journal - Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • Diary yearly NT$19.991 Year
  • Diary yearly 2WT14 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • My personal daily diary 4life$29.99

Questions

Is Daylio Journal free?
Daylio Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is My Daily Diary ‎ free?
My Daily Diary ‎ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Daylio Journal or My Daily Diary ‎?
Daylio Journal is rated higher. Daylio Journal averages 4.8 out of 5 from 62K ratings, while My Daily Diary ‎ averages 4.7 from 1.1K ratings.
Do Daylio Journal or My Daily Diary ‎ have ads?
Neither Daylio Journal nor My Daily Diary ‎ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Daylio Journal or My Daily Diary ‎?
Daylio Journal ships an update every 9 days, and My Daily Diary ‎ monthly. Most recently, Daylio Journal was updated on September 24, 2026 and My Daily Diary ‎ on August 21, 2026.

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