Secure Daily Diary vs Personal diary with password
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.
Personal diary with password
Securely store your thoughts, ideas, dreams, and recipes in a private digital journal. This app offers password protection, photo attachments, and offline storage for your personal reflections and life story.
- Secure login with password
- Searchable entries
- Add photos to entries
- App icon disguise
- Daily reminders
- Offline storage
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A simple journal for storing your thoughts. All your ideas, dreams, recipes, reflections in one place. A useful tool for mindfulness. It has everything to make keeping a diary as comfortable as possible: - Secure login to the app, no one can read your entries - Search, find memories. - Add photos to your entries - Icon change, disguise the app from prying eyes - Daily reminders - All records are stored offline on your device Write your life story in your personal journal.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Secure Daily Diary at none against Personal diary with password's shown. Secure Daily Diary also leads on ratings volume (456 vs 143). Personal diary with password's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 14.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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 and Personal diary with password sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Secure Daily Diary against 4.6 for Personal diary with password. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 456 and 143 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of Secure Daily Diary's written reviews are positive against 74% of Personal diary with password's.
Secure Daily Diary ships an update every 3 weeks, Personal diary with password every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Secure Daily Diary | Personal diary with password |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (456 ratings) | 4.6 (143 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.2% of reviews | 73.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 456 — better | 143 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 106 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dmytro Vynokurov | Aleksandr Alekseev |
Customer experience
Secure Daily Diary
Personal diary with password
User reviews
Secure Daily Diary
From 456 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🔒 Password protection keeps entries secure
- 👍 Simple and intuitive user interface
- ✍️ Allows long, detailed diary entries
- 🎨 Customizable background colors
- 📋 Clean, condensed entry list view
Room to improve
- 💰 Severely limited free storage (only 5 entries)
- 💸 Expensive paid upgrade ($4.99-$7.99)
- 🐛 Entries not saving or disappearing after updates
- 🔐 Password protection fails to work on app restart
- 🆘 Poor developer communication and support
Personal diary with password
From 143 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and clear design
- 👍 Easy to use interface
- 👍 Great for writing everyday
- 👍 Cool app
- 👍 Ideal application
Room to improve
- 💸 Too much premium content
- 🗑️ Trash bucket doesn't work
- 💸 Forcing premium subscription
- 💸 Free trial requires card details
- 🚫 Cannot change font
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
Personal diary with password
Reported bugs
6 issues- App crashes on startup
- Cannot delete daily entries
- Last written lines disappear
- Entries disappear
- Numbers disappear, cannot make numbered list
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- Cannot choose different photos for each page
Requested features
4 requests- Backup option for data
- Ability to change font
- Personal password for diary
- Option to lock the app
In-app purchases
Secure Daily Diary
- Unlimited Diary$9.99
Personal diary with password
- Personal diary: Month premium$0.991 Month
- Personal diary: Year premium3 Days trial$8.991 Year
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