Simple Daily Diary vs Text Diary
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.
Text Diary
A free and simple text-based journaling app that allows unlimited entries. Organize your thoughts with folders, colors, and tags, and easily search or filter your past entries. Enjoy a comfortable user experience with quick startup and dark mode.
- Unlimited daily diary entries
- Organize by folder, color, tag
- Searchable diary entries
- Filter by date or tag
- Quick startup and comfortable operation
- Dark mode support
- Completely free to use
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It's a simple text diary app. All features are completely free to use. Features: - Unlimited daily diary - Classified by folder, color, tag - Search diary - Filter by date or tag - Quick start-up, comfortable operability - Dark mode - All free URL scheme: textdiary://
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Text Diary at none against Simple Daily Diary's 1. Text Diary also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 50 months). Simple Daily Diary's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (1.3K vs 7). On price, rating 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. Simple Daily Diary sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Text Diary asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Simple Daily Diary against 4.6 for Text Diary. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple Daily Diary has 1.3K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Simple Daily Diary ships an update every 50 months, Text Diary every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Daily Diary | Text Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (1.3K ratings) | 4.6 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.3K — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 50 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dmytro Vynokurov | FugaPiyo Inc. |
Customer experience
Simple Daily Diary
Text Diary
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.)
Text Diary
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Simple Daily Diary
- Unlimited Diary$6.99
Text Diary
No in-app purchases
Questions
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