Time Caps vs DearFutureMe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
DearFutureMe
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DearFutureMeは、日常のふとした瞬間を、未来の自分にそっと贈る日記アプリです。 気まぐれに写真を撮り、テキストや音声でその時の気持ちを記録します。 でも、すぐに見返すことはできません。 数週間後、数ヶ月後、あるいは1年後 あなたが設定したその日、スマホにひとつの通知が届きます。 それは、忘れていた小さな記憶との再会の合図です。 検索機能も、フィルターもありません。 ただ、偶然に出会う思い出が、心をふいにあたためてくれる。 そんな静かでやさしい日記体験を。
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DearFutureMe at none against Time Caps's 6. DearFutureMe also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). Time Caps's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.5). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Time Caps sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. DearFutureMe asks for nothing beyond the download.
Time Caps ships an update every 2 months, DearFutureMe every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Time Caps | DearFutureMe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (156 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 83.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 156 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 灿海 陈 | Yoshito Usui |
Bugs and requests
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
DearFutureMe
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
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
DearFutureMe
No in-app purchases
