Pet Growth Notes vs Pet's Diary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pet Growth Notes
This app helps you meticulously record and manage all aspects of your pet's life. From daily activities and health logs to appointments and vaccinations, keep a comprehensive diary for each animal. It's an invaluable tool for veterinarians, pet sitters, and preserving precious memories.
- Pet diaries and milestone tracking
- Weight and height logs
- Photo albums and sharing
- Veterinary and appointment management
- Medication and vaccination reminders
- Allergy tracking
- Passcode protection and data export
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Use this app to track your pets’ personal and daily info separately. You can write diaries for them to record their daily interesting life, record the milestones with time, track their height and weight logs, create albums, manage veterinaries and check the appointment by calendar, create pill taken reminders and keep the logs, set the vaccinations schedule and add alerts for each one, track allergies and other things. This will be very usefully when veterinarian asks, or when your pets need to be cared by others, also this will be a precious file for you and your pets. Key Features: ⁃ Write diaries for each pet. ⁃ Record milestones with age, date and content. ⁃ Track weight and height. ⁃ Create albums and share pictures by Facebook, Twitter and email. ⁃ Manage veterinaries info. ⁃ Create and check appointment by calendar and set alert. ⁃ Create medications taken reminders and keep the taken logs. ⁃ Set schedule for vaccinations and set reminder for each one. ⁃ Track allergies and the reaction. ⁃ Track other things you want. ⁃ Passcode protection. ⁃ Export data by email. ⁃ Print data directly from this app. ⁃ Dropbox backup and restore. ⁃ Track unlimited pets info separately. Please contact us by email for any feedback or suggestion: linklinksapp@tom.com.
Pet's Diary
Monitor your pet's daily food intake to manage their weight. Track feeding history, view nutritional goals, and manage diets with mixed products. Share data with your vet for better care.
- Track and manage feeding history
- View daily nutritional goals in %
- Support for multiple pets
- Customizable food options and limits
- Share feeding data with veterinarians
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Pet’s Diary is designed to monitor your pet’s feeding so that you can keep its weight under control. With the help of this app you can not only save the feeding history, but be notified about how much of the daily nutrition goal is left or see an overeaten amount. The app also supports a diet that is a mixture of different products calculating consumed daily amount in % based on nutrition limits for each product. Pet’s diary is not just a good tool to control your pet feeding each day, but a way to collect feeding data that can be shared with your vet and can help to get the right veterinary care. Key features: 1. track and manage feeding history 2. view % of consumed daily amount (incl. mixture of different food) 3. ability to track feeding for multiple pets 4. add food to choose from and set daily amounts from them 5. add different food for different pets More to come with next versions of the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pet Growth Notes at 4.4 against Pet's Diary's 3.0. Pet Growth Notes also leads on ratings volume (108 vs 3). Pet's Diary's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). On price, review sentiment, device support and iOS requirement 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. Pet Growth Notes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 6 months. Pet's Diary asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pet Growth Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pet Growth Notes has 108 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of Pet Growth Notes's written reviews are positive against 75% of Pet's Diary's.
Pet Growth Notes ships an update every 7 months, Pet's Diary every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pet Growth Notes | Pet's Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (108 ratings) — better | 3.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 77.2% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 108 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LINKLINKS LTD | Mikhail Kavaleuski |
Customer experience
Pet Growth Notes
Pet's Diary
Bugs and requests
Pet Growth Notes
Reported bugs
11 issues- Cursor not visible in some input fields
- App crashes when switching to other apps
- Data loss after entering pet information
- Diary entries appear blank until clicked back into
- Dropbox sync crashes on iPhone
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- Misleading ad/purchase button (charged $39.99 unexpectedly)
- Cannot input historical weight data from past years
- Reminders only work for currently active pet
- Cannot edit original pet description without deleting entry
- Growth graph doesn't display full curve on mobile
- Dates and weight fields cannot be typed in (picker only)
Requested features
15 requests- Cloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices
- Monthly recurring reminders for medications (not just daily/weekly)
- Date-specific reminders instead of 'every X days' format
- Video upload support in addition to photos
- Dark mode theme option
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- Web/desktop version for data entry on computer
- Auto-fill for previously used entries
- Ability to edit pet profile information
- Share access with family members or pet sitters
- WhatsApp or push notification reminders
- Metric units support (grams, centimeters) for small animals
- Ability to input historical/past medical records
- Custom tracking categories
- PDF editing capability for vet documents
- One-time purchase option instead of subscription
Pet's Diary
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pet Growth Notes
- Premium - 6 months14 Days trial$4.996 Months
- Pro Version$49.99
Pet's Diary
No in-app purchases
Questions
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