Comparison

Question Diary vs Ask Yourself Everyday

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Question Diary

This app provides a daily self-reflection question to encourage personal growth. It stores your answers on a server, allowing you to revisit them a year later and compare your responses over time. Explore a variety of thought-provoking questions to help you discover yourself.

Highlights
  • Daily self-reflection questions
  • Answer or skip questions
  • Yearly question repetition
  • Answers stored on server
  • Access answers from anywhere
  • Variety of life questions
Features
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Is this your first time using Question Diary? Question Diary will give you one question every day. Are you happy right now? You can answer the question, or choose not to if you'd rather not. You will get one question like this, every day. Then, one year later, you will be asked the same questions. Are you happy right now? If you were shown your answer from a year ago, and asked this question again, what would your answer be? Would it be the same as it was last year? Would it be a different answer? Are you happy right now? WnA Diary, life questions, Question Diary with questions that help me find myself, An application that allows you to find your answers quickly, hand-written in a diary. All answers are stored on the server. Answers can been seen from anywhere, and the application can be used from anywhere. I have another question for you today. What were you thinking about the most today? What would you like to protect the most in your life? How is it to be an adult? What is the coolest thing that you can do now? If you had enough money, what would be the most worth-while thing you could do? If you could have a superpower, what would it be? What are your strengths? What challenges have you taken on recently? What do you think is the purpose of life? What is a 'better life' to you? I hope that your life will become even just a little bit warmer.

About

Ask Yourself Everyday

This app helps you understand your life better by answering custom or community-suggested questions daily. It provides advanced statistics and trends to offer insights into your well-being and life changes. Set daily reminders to make self-reflection a habit without the time commitment of traditional journaling.

Highlights
  • Create custom questions
  • Community question suggestions
  • Advanced statistics and trends
  • Daily reminders
  • Journaling alternative
Features
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TRACK ANY ASPECT OF YOUR LIFE WITH "ASK YOURSELF EVERYDAY" "Ask Yourself Everyday" is a unique tool that lets you understand your life better with a simple act of answering questions daily. What questions? Well, questions that matter to YOU, really! You can create your own questions, or you can select one from from the list suggested by our community. Keep answering daily and in just 18 days you'll unlock powerful statistics and insights that will let you see your life at a glance! "I've been tracking how happy I am on my job with this app for a few month - once I started noticing that my job satisfaction score was quickly going down, I realized that I needed to take a vacation. Helped a lot!" "At some point this year, I was struggling with severe anxiety. I felt like I was going nowhere. I started to use this app to track my symptoms - I hoped that I would eventually see it trending down in the app. And, of course, it soon did." "It's easy to stop caring for yourself when you're immersed by something. I was working on this new project for a few weeks pretty much non-stop, and just ignoring everything else. But once I saw that my 'How do you feel today physically?' score was heading down rather dramatically, I realized that I had to at least go for a walk once a day." "Helped me escape a toxic relationship - I was responding 'this sucks' pretty much every single day. Data doesn't lie" FEATURES: • Create your own questions, whatever's important to you! "Did I drink too much coffee today"? "How's my pet turtle doing"? "Did I go for a run this morning"? Whatever you need! • Need inspiration? Find your next question in our curated list of Community Suggestions. It might have just what you need. And if you're in a sharing mood - please submit your own too! • Your life at a glance: explore trends and advanced statistics to better understand yourself, your life and how it's changing. • Never miss a day: make simple daily self-reflection a habit by setting a daily reminder - we'll remind you daily at 9:15pm. • Self-reflection without a journaling! Yes, we love journaling, but we also understand that it takes lots of time and effort. Answering questions with predefined answers though takes none! It's a simplest form of self-reflection there is. For more information, see our Privacy Policy: https://askyourself.app/privacypolicy Terms of Use: https://askyourself.app/termsofuse

Screenshots

Question Diary4 screens
Ask Yourself Everyday4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Ask Yourself Everyday at 100% against Question Diary's 34%. Ask Yourself Everyday also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.8 vs 4.4). Question Diary's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and ratings volume (184 vs 15). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Ask Yourself Everyday sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Question Diary asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Ask Yourself Everyday holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Question Diary has 184 ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 34% of Question Diary's written reviews are positive against 100% of Ask Yourself Everyday's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and August 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Question Diary versus Ask Yourself Everyday: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuestion DiaryAsk Yourself Everyday
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (184 ratings)4.8 (15 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings184 — better15
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.2 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB15 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperPIONEOleg Dreyman

Customer experience

Question Diary

All ratings184 ratings
Positive84.2%
Neutral6.0%
Negative9.8%
Written reviews200 reviews
Positive33.5%
Neutral12.0%
Negative54.5%

Ask Yourself Everyday

All ratings15 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral6.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Question Diary

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashing on launch
  • Disappearing/lost entries
  • Keyboard issues (text going under)
  • Compatibility problems with iOS updates

Requested features

5 requests
  • Password reset option
  • Dark mode
  • Ability to view/edit past entries
  • Community features (forums, sharing)
  • Multilingual support

Ask Yourself Everyday

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Question Diary

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Ask Yourself Everyday

Subscriptions4
  • Ask Yourself PRO Monthly1 Month trial$5.991 Month
  • Ask Yourself PRO Annual$19.991 Year
  • Ask Yourself Annual1 Month trial$29.991 Year
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  • Ask Yourself Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Ask Yourself PRO Lifetime$34.99

Questions

Is Question Diary free?
Question Diary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ask Yourself Everyday free?
Ask Yourself Everyday is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Question Diary or Ask Yourself Everyday?
Ask Yourself Everyday is rated higher. Question Diary averages 4.4 out of 5 from 184 ratings, while Ask Yourself Everyday averages 4.8 from 15 ratings.
Do Question Diary or Ask Yourself Everyday have ads?
Question Diary shows ads; Ask Yourself Everyday does not.
Which is updated more often, Question Diary or Ask Yourself Everyday?
Question Diary ships an update every 3 months, and Ask Yourself Everyday every 3 months. Most recently, Question Diary was updated on September 21, 2026 and Ask Yourself Everyday on August 21, 2026.

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