Secure Daily Diary vs Scribio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Secure Daily Diary
Capture your thoughts and memories securely with a private journal. Protect your entries with a passcode, Face ID, or Touch ID. Enjoy a customizable experience with various themes and icons, all stored locally and synced via iCloud.
- Passcode, Face ID, or Touch ID protection
- Local storage and iCloud sync
- No third-party servers or sign-ups
- 20+ color themes
- Multiple app icons
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Secure Daily Diary is a simple, elegant, and secure way to capture your thoughts, memories, and daily moments. Your privacy comes first: your entries are protected by a passcode, Face ID, or Touch ID. Everything is stored on your device and synced via your personal iCloud — no third-party servers, no sign-ups. Only you have access to your diary. Customize your experience with 20+ thoughtfully designed color themes and multiple app icons. Make it feel truly yours. With Secure Daily Diary, the important moments of your life are always safe — and always just a tap away.
Scribio
This app provides an elegant interface for tracking emotions, thoughts, and photos. It helps users understand themselves better through daily journaling with customizable features and strong privacy controls.
- Track emotions and thoughts
- Add personal pictures
- Customize emotion colors
- Passcode and Touch ID privacy
- Intuitive and beautiful design
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Scribio is an elegant mood journal to track your emotions, thoughts, and photos. With an intuitive and beautifully designed interface, Scribio empowers you to learn more about yourself everyday! FEATURES • Create journal entries to keep track of your emotions • Add your favorite pictures • Customize emotion colors • Passcode and Touch ID for privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Scribio at none against Secure Daily Diary's 1. Scribio also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks) and review sentiment (100% vs 71%). Secure Daily Diary's advantage is ratings volume (456 vs 7). On price, rating, 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. Secure Daily Diary sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Scribio asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Secure Daily Diary against 4.6 for Scribio. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Secure Daily Diary has 456 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of Secure Daily Diary's written reviews are positive against 100% of Scribio's.
Secure Daily Diary ships an update every 3 weeks, Scribio every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Secure Daily Diary | Scribio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (456 ratings) | 4.6 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 456 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dmytro Vynokurov | Amarok Technologies Inc. |
Customer experience
Secure Daily Diary
Scribio
Bugs and requests
Secure Daily Diary
Reported bugs
9 issues- Entries disappear after app update or reinstall
- Entries fail to save properly
- Password protection bypassed when reopening app
- Search function causes app to freeze/lock up
- Paid upgrade not registering - asks to repay
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- Storage limit notification appears too early
- Partial entry saving (only portion of text saved)
- All entries deleted unexpectedly
- Password reset not working after reinstall
Requested features
7 requests- Photo/image upload and attachment capability
- Touch ID or biometric authentication
- Better background customization and decoration options
- Ability to write entries for past dates
- More creative design and styling options
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- Free or unlimited storage without paywall
- Improved search functionality
Scribio
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Secure Daily Diary
- Unlimited Diary$9.99
Scribio
No in-app purchases
Questions
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