Digital Diaries vs SurveyIRIS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Digital Diaries
This platform allows researchers to gain deep insights by immersing themselves in the lives of their respondents. Participants can complete activities, answer questions, and share media conveniently, even on the go. It facilitates exploration of emotions, behaviors, and contexts through interactive diaries and discussions.
- Activity-based market research
- Respondent immersion
- On-the-go participation
- Open and closed-ended questions
- Photo and video uploads
- Participant discussions
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Digital Diaries is an activity-based market research platform that enables researchers to immerse themselves in the lives of their respondents and research subjects. Research participants can engage in series of activities and respond to diaries and other questions whenever convenient for them, even while they are on the go. They can answer open-ended and closed-ended questions, upload photos and videos, and participate in discussions, which allow for researchers to explore emotions, behaviors, and contexts for deep insights. This mobile app works with the Digital Diaries web-based research platform and is not intended as a stand-alone product.
SurveyIRIS
This application helps consumers understand their motivations, moods, and desires related to brands. It delves into the underlying mindsets that influence attitudes and actions.
- Understand consumer motivations
- Analyze underlying mindsets
- Identify moods and desires
- Trigger analysis for attitudes
- Brand perception insights
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IRIS (Interactive Research Intelligent System) is an application, developed for consumers, to understand why they care for the brand as well as their underlying mindsets, moods, motivation, desires, aspirations, and motivates that trigger their attitude and actions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Digital Diaries at 4.8 against SurveyIRIS's 1.0. Digital Diaries also leads on ratings volume (217 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Digital Diaries holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Digital Diaries has 217 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Digital Diaries ships an update every 5 weeks, SurveyIRIS monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Digital Diaries | SurveyIRIS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (217 ratings) — better | 1.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 217 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 94 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Forsta, Inc. | Firmenich SA |
Customer experience
Digital Diaries
SurveyIRIS
In-app purchases
Digital Diaries
No in-app purchases
SurveyIRIS
No in-app purchases
