Comparison

Time Diary vs Hearty Journal

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Time Diary

Record daily activities, experiences, thoughts, and ideas in a digital diary. Organize and easily find past entries with powerful search and filtering options. Sync your data across all your devices for seamless access.

Highlights
  • Record activities, experiences, thoughts, and ideas
  • Organize diary entries and notes
  • Powerful search by keyword, date, folder, and tags
  • Sync data across all devices
  • Filter entries by date, folder, and tags
Features
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Time is a great diary app, designed to record activities, experiences, thoughts and ideas throughout a day and sync data across all your devices. It lets you organize your created diary / lentries or notes from the past in the easiest way.Powerful search helps to find diary entries by any keyword in the title or text and filter results by date, folder and tags Learn more: -Weibo- Time Diary -QQ- 489066141 -Wechat-Time Diary

About

Hearty Journal

Capture and preserve precious memories through diary writing. Personalize entries with text, stickers, photos, and a variety of fonts. Securely back up your journal across devices with cloud synchronization.

Highlights
  • Ad-free writing experience
  • Cross-platform journaling
  • 4-digit passcode security
  • Cloud backup and sync
  • Export posts as PNG or text
  • Customizable book and post titles
  • Over 1,000 stickers and 20+ fonts
Features
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*** Beautiful Diary App, made with love in Taiwan *** *** 200,000+ Global Happy Users *** *** Editors' Pick of App Store *** *** Available on Both Mobile & Desktop *** ◆ Tenderly collect every inch of your precious moments ◆ Through diary writing, you can preserve fragments of time. Express your truest feelings, treasure each moment by adding words, stickers & photos. So that you can revisit those meaningful memories in the future. ・Beautiful diary with a hand-drawn style. Its aesthetic looks like a piece of notebook paper with handwritten words on it. Its clean and ad-free interface ensures a distraction-free writing experience. The app is crafted to serve as a permanent repository for cherished memories, allowing you to capture and preserve them in a delightful and visually pleasing format. ・Create an account and begin writing, knowing that entries will be seamlessly and automatically saved as you type. ・With 20+ luxury fonts and 1,000+ lovely stickers to choose from, you can effortlessly adorn daily entries according to your preferences. ・Highly secure cipher suite (TLS 1.3) is implemented in every connection, ensuring the same level of security used for online transactions and banking. ・All entries in Hearty Journal are encrypted and synced to the cloud, ensuring the protection of precious memories. ・Works seamlessly with computer, tablet and phone. ◆ Features ◆ [Ad-free] Focus on writing [Cross-platform] Comfortably journal across multiple devices - computer, tablet, and phone [Passcode] Secure diary with a 4-digit passcode, providing peace of mind and ensuring protection against unauthorized access [Backup] Hearty Journal is hosted on 2 prominent cloud providers, AWS and Google, to guarantee the utmost data safety. Additionally, daily off-site backups are conducted to ensure the security and protection of data. Your data will be safe even in the case of app uninstallation or device replacement. [Export] You can export posts as PNG images or the entire diary as a text file on the computer. [Customize] You have the flexibility to modify the book title, post titles and post dates to suit your preferences. You can also write multiple entries throughout the day, capturing different moments and experiences. [Personalize] Design your very own style by uploading your favorite cover and background! [Organize] By changing the dates of posts, you can rearrange the order of entries within the diary. Moreover, by assigning a future date to a post, you can pin it to the top, ensuring it remains prominently displayed and easily accessible. This feature is useful for organizing memos, wish lists and goal lists. [Fonts] Black, rounded, handwritten and fountain pen fonts are just a few examples of the 20+ luxury fonts available. [Stickers] Hearty Journal features 1,000+ handcrafted and lovely stickers that enhance the beauty of special moments in your life. [Photos] Enrich your posts with up to 10 captivating photos. [Videos] Collect favorite songs & videos by adding YouTube links to posts. [Hashtags] Add #tags in posts for easy categorization and searching within your diary. [Search] Easily find specific posts by swiftly searching for keywords. [Privately Shared Posts] Share intimate thoughts with your close friends, besties and loved ones by privately exchanging diaries. Express feelings that are difficult to verbalize by quietly confiding them in your diary. [Music] Cook up a playlist for favorite songs, and enjoy the soothing melodies as you immerse yourself in writing. [Period Tracker] [Question & Feedback] For questions, please check the FAQ in the menu for detailed guides. If you need assistance, feel free to contact us at www.ht.mk. When reporting any issues, screenshots or recordings can be useful. Your feedback is greatly appreciated as we value your input and strive to enhance your experience. .Terms of Services: https://hearty.app/terms .Privacy Policy: https://hearty.app/privacy

Screenshots

Time Diary4 screens
Hearty Journal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Hearty Journal at none against Time Diary's shown. Time Diary's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (429 vs 40). On price, rating, review sentiment and in-app purchases 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. Time Diary sells 17 one-off in-app purchases and Hearty Journal sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Time Diary against 4.9 for Hearty Journal. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Time Diary has 429 ratings behind it against 40, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 99% of Time Diary's written reviews are positive against 92% of Hearty Journal's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Time Diary ships an update monthly, Hearty Journal every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Time Diary versus Hearty Journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTime DiaryHearty Journal
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (429 ratings)4.9 (40 ratings) — better
Positive reviews98.5% of reviews — better92.1% of reviews
Number of ratings429 — better40
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size225 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNanjing LeMeng Network Technology Co., LtdHearty Creative Inc.

Customer experience

Time Diary

All ratings422 ratings
Positive97.9%
Neutral1.9%
Negative0.2%
Written reviews206 reviews
Positive98.5%
Neutral1.5%
Negative0.0%

Hearty Journal

All ratings40 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews101 reviews
Positive92.1%
Neutral3.0%
Negative5.0%

In-app purchases

17 purchases

Time Diary

One-time17
  • 3元素材$0.99
  • 6元素材$0.99
  • 订阅-月卡优惠$0.99
Show 14 more
  • 300时光贝$0.99
  • 600时光贝$0.99
  • 时光月卡$0.99
  • 1元素材$0.99
  • 云端容量-2G$1.99
  • 1200时光贝$1.99
  • 云端容量-5G$2.99
  • 时光年卡$3.99
  • 永久VIP(折扣)$3.99
  • 永久VIP$5.99
  • 永久VIP(折扣)$5.99
  • 时光年卡(优惠)$5.99
  • 4000时光贝$5.99
  • 永久VIP(折扣)$9.99
1 purchases

Hearty Journal

Subscriptions1
  • 溫度日記 VIP版$4.491 Month

Questions

Is Time Diary free?
Time Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hearty Journal free?
Hearty Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Time Diary or Hearty Journal?
Hearty Journal is rated higher. Time Diary averages 4.9 out of 5 from 429 ratings, while Hearty Journal averages 4.9 from 40 ratings.
Do Time Diary or Hearty Journal have ads?
Time Diary shows ads; Hearty Journal does not.
Which is updated more often, Time Diary or Hearty Journal?
Time Diary ships an update monthly, and Hearty Journal every 3 months. Most recently, Time Diary was updated on October 9, 2026 and Hearty Journal on October 14, 2026.

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