Diary vs PassCards
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!
PassCards
Easily create and manage digital versions of your physical cards, including boarding passes, event tickets, and loyalty cards. Add barcodes by scanning, manual entry, or importing from photos. Your data remains private within your iCloud account.
- Create scannable digital passes
- Boarding pass, ticket, and loyalty card support
- Add barcodes via camera scan or manual entry
- Modern, elegant design
- Add passes to device wallet
- Full Arabic and English support
- Private iCloud data storage
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PassCards is your go-to app for creating and managing digital passes with ease, turning your physical cards into digital ones you carry everywhere. Create passes of every type with real, scannable barcodes: - Boarding Pass - Event Ticket - Store & Loyalty Card - Coupon - Generic Card - Full Customization — design your own card from scratch Features: - Add barcodes by scanning with the camera, entering manually, or importing from photos - A modern, elegant design with its own identity - Easily add your passes to your device's wallet - Full Arabic and English support - Complete privacy — your data stays in your own iCloud account, with no external servers - A "Ready" section — a library of ready-to-use cards Download PassCards now and keep all your cards in one elegant, secure place. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://ibsleman.com/privacy-policy-wallet-cards/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Diary at 4.5 against PassCards's 1.0. Diary also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (1.7K vs 1). PassCards's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (monthly vs every 5 months). On price, monetization model 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. PassCards sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.90 per 7 days. Diary asks for nothing beyond the download.
Diary holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Diary has 1.7K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Diary ships an update every 5 months, PassCards monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Diary | PassCards |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (1.7K ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.7K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Monthly — 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, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aurel Criste | Ibrahim Ali |
Customer experience
Diary
PassCards
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
PassCards
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Diary
No in-app purchases
PassCards
- Weekly3 Days trial$2.907 Days
- Monthly3 Days trial$4.901 Month
- Yearly3 Days trial$19.901 Year
Questions
Is Diary free?
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