Diary vs Mind Mapped
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Diary
This app provides a secure and beautiful space to record your thoughts, plans, and life moments. Protect your entries with a password and enjoy a customizable interface with features like image support and PDF export.
- Password protection with PIN
- Add/edit/remove images
- Search functionality
- Export entries to PDF
- Customizable color and font styles
- Reminders
- Auto-lock for privacy
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Secret thoughts and moments should always remain secret and a private diary should always be intimate, beautiful and safe. With that in mind, we dedicated our efforts to create a simple and beautiful diary application that helps you lock your secrets with your own password. Use this diary and put down all your thoughts or even future plans and follow them as the time passes. Make it your trustworthy friend who never judges you and who's always there for you. A good diary required good features, so here are some of the great features especially created for you: EASY TO USE & BEAUTIFUL - very easy to use yet very comprehensive - beautiful view off all your notes right on the main screen - easy navigation between your diary entries - image add/edit/remove functionality - image library with great gallery view - great overview of your daily entries - quick entry add, edit & delete - beautiful emojis(emoticos) - highlight your mood and feelings - search functionality - quickly & easily search through your journal - export to PDF functionality - save all your entries whenever you want SAFE & PRIVATE - PASSWORD PROTECTED - password lock functionality to keep your secret save - 4 digit PIN code - functionality for password update, recovery and removal - auto lock after more than 5 minutes of inactivity CUSTOMIZABLE - multiple color styles from which you can choose - multiple font styles - customizable font-size - reminders functionality OTHER COOL FEATURES - data reset functionality - beautiful design - can be easily used as a diet journal or even travel diary - totally free Regardless you want to write your love story or you just want to write down your thoughts and moments from your life, we hope this diary will turn out to be your best friend and confidant. Enjoy your life and create amazing stories!
Mind Mapped
This app helps you stay organized and improve productivity with a straightforward list and task management system. Easily create, monitor, and finish tasks to ensure your daily objectives stay on track.
- Create tasks
- Track progress
- Complete tasks
- Stay organized
- Boost productivity
- Intuitive interface
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Stay organized and boost productivity with our simple and intuitive list and task manager. Easily create, track, and complete tasks to keep your daily goals on schedule.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Diary at none against Mind Mapped's 1. Diary also leads on ratings volume (1.7K vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). Mind Mapped's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.5). On price 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. Mind Mapped sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Diary asks for nothing beyond the download.
Mind Mapped holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Diary has 1.7K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Diary ships an update every 5 months, Mind Mapped every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Diary | Mind Mapped |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (1.7K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.7K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aurel Criste | FS Blocks |
Customer experience
Diary
Mind Mapped
Bugs and requests
Diary
Reported bugs
4 issues- Password not working consistently
- Entries disappearing or not saving properly
- Scrolling/jumping text when writing longer entries
- Inability to recover deleted entries
Requested features
6 requests- Backup and sync across devices
- More customization options (fonts, colors, backgrounds)
- Ability to export entries
- Night mode/dark theme
- Voice-to-text entry
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- Ability to organize entries by tags or categories
Mind Mapped
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Diary
No in-app purchases
Mind Mapped
- Mind Map Premium$0.99









