Time Caps vs 五年日記 Diary5
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
五年日記 Diary5
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寫下今天,回顧每一年。 五年日記 Diary5 是一款簡單的日記 App,讓你每天記錄生活,並在未來的每一年同一天,看見過去的自己。 每天一則日記 專注於當下,簡潔無干擾的書寫體驗。 回顧歷年的今天 一眼查看過去幾年同一天的紀錄,感受時間帶來的變化。 隨時開始書寫 當天日記以黃色標記,也可補寫過去的日期。 加入照片,記錄更多細節 用圖片保存生活片段,讓回憶更完整。 快速簡單的操作體驗 打開就能寫,沒有複雜設定。 每日提醒功能 可設定是否提醒,以及設定提醒時間。 多裝置同步 在不同設備上隨時查看你的日記,也可透過網站:https://diary5.com。 無論是記錄日常、整理思緒,還是回顧成長,五年日記都能陪伴你走過每一天。 從今天開始,寫給未來的自己。
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 五年日記 Diary5 at none against Time Caps's 6. 五年日記 Diary5 also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Time Caps's advantage is device support. On price 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. 五年日記 Diary5 asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Time Caps | 五年日記 Diary5 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| Ads | No | — |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | — |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 灿海 陈 | Gino Liu |
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
五年日記 Diary5
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
五年日記 Diary5
No in-app purchases









