Simple 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.
Simple Daily Diary
Capture your everyday moments with a fast, easy, and beautifully designed journaling app. Add custom titles, personalize with themes, and easily find past entries with smart search. Sync across devices and enjoy local backups for peace of mind.
- Add custom titles to entries
- 20+ handpicked color themes
- Smart search by date or keywords
- Share thoughts and memories
- iCloud sync between iPhone and iPad
- Local device backup
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Looking for a simple and delightful way to keep a daily journal? Simple Daily Diary is exactly what you need — fast, easy to use, and thoughtfully designed to capture your everyday moments. Just download and see for yourself. With Simple Daily Diary, you’ll never forget the moments that matter most. Revisit your memories anytime in a space that feels truly yours. Key features: • Add custom titles to highlight your most meaningful entries. • Make it your own with 20+ handpicked color themes. • Find what you wrote in seconds using smart search by date or keywords. • Share your thoughts and memories without leaving the app. • Sync seamlessly between iPhone and iPad using iCloud. • And for extra peace of mind, your diary is also backed up locally on your device. No subscriptions, no clutter. Just a beautifully simple diary that fits right into your everyday life.
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: Simple Daily Diary at none against Personal diary with password's shown. Simple Daily Diary also leads on ratings volume (1.3K vs 143). Personal diary with password's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 50 months) and review sentiment (74% vs 52%). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Simple 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 — 4.5 for Simple Daily Diary against 4.6 for Personal diary with password. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple Daily Diary has 1.3K ratings behind it against 143, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 52% of Simple Daily Diary's written reviews are positive against 74% of Personal diary with password's.
Simple Daily Diary ships an update every 50 months, Personal diary with password every 10 days. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.
| Parameter | Simple Daily Diary | Personal diary with password |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (1.3K ratings) | 4.6 (143 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.3% of reviews | 73.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.3K — better | 143 |
| Update frequency | Every 50 months | 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 | 9 MB | 106 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dmytro Vynokurov | Aleksandr Alekseev |
Customer experience
Simple Daily Diary
Personal diary with password
Bugs and requests
Simple Daily Diary
Reported bugs
3 issues- Paid upgrade not working as expected
- Entries disappearing or not saving properly
- Freezing or crashing when using certain features
Requested features
5 requests- Add password/lock feature
- Increase storage space or make it truly unlimited
- Allow editing and adding of past entries
- Provide cloud backup/sync option
- Offer more customization options (colors, fonts, etc.)
Personal diary with password
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Simple Daily Diary
- Unlimited Diary$6.99
Personal diary with password
- Personal diary: Month premium$0.991 Month
- Personal diary: Year premium3 Days trial$8.991 Year
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