Comparison

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.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Track and manage feeding history
  • View daily nutritional goals in %
  • Support for multiple pets
  • Customizable food options and limits
  • Share feeding data with veterinarians
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Pet Growth Notes4 screens
Pet's Diary4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Pet Growth Notes versus Pet's Diary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPet Growth NotesPet's Diary
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (108 ratings) — better3.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews77.2% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings108 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.614.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLINKLINKS LTDMikhail Kavaleuski

Customer experience

Pet Growth Notes

All ratings108 ratings
Positive84.3%
Neutral7.4%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews101 reviews
Positive77.2%
Neutral9.9%
Negative12.9%

Pet's Diary

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

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

2 purchases

Pet Growth Notes

Subscriptions1
  • Premium - 6 months14 Days trial$4.996 Months
One-time1
  • Pro Version$49.99
None

Pet's Diary

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pet Growth Notes free?
Pet Growth Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pet's Diary free?
Pet's Diary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pet Growth Notes or Pet's Diary?
Pet Growth Notes is rated higher. Pet Growth Notes averages 4.4 out of 5 from 108 ratings, while Pet's Diary averages 3.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Pet Growth Notes or Pet's Diary have ads?
Pet Growth Notes shows ads; Pet's Diary does not.
Which is updated more often, Pet Growth Notes or Pet's Diary?
Pet Growth Notes ships an update every 7 months, and Pet's Diary every 2 months. Most recently, Pet Growth Notes was updated on September 21, 2026 and Pet's Diary on September 13, 2026.

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