Comparison

Question Diary vs Typing

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

Typing

Capture and retain important words, quotes, or ideas encountered daily. This app allows you to type and save these valuable pieces of text, helping them to become memorable and deeply ingrained.

Highlights
  • Type and save text
  • Capture important words
  • Save memorable quotes
  • Engrave text in your heart
  • Aid memory retention
Features
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Type it down to remember it. We come across many words in a day, but we can't remember them all.
 Do you have a quote that you want to hold onto in your heart?
 Don't let any good quotes slip away. 
Now, type them out and engrave them in your heart. As you write, let them also sink into your soul. So, take a moment, type them out with care, and engrave them in our hearts.

Screenshots

Question Diary4 screens
Typing4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Typing at 94% against Question Diary's 34%. Typing also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and ads (none vs shown). Question Diary's advantage is ratings volume (184 vs 7) and iOS requirement (13.2 vs 16.2). On price, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Typing holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Question Diary has 184 ratings behind it against 7, 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 94% of Typing's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Question Diary ships an update every 3 months, Typing every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Question Diary versus Typing: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuestion DiaryTyping
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (184 ratings)5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.5% of reviews94.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings184 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.2 — better16.2
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB78 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPIONEDongwon Ahn

Customer experience

Question Diary

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

Typing

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews50 reviews
Positive94.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative2.0%

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

Typing

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Question Diary

No in-app purchases

None

Typing

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Question Diary free?
Question Diary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Typing free?
Typing is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Question Diary or Typing?
Typing is rated higher. Question Diary averages 4.4 out of 5 from 184 ratings, while Typing averages 5.0 from 7 ratings.
Do Question Diary or Typing have ads?
Question Diary shows ads; Typing does not.
Which is updated more often, Question Diary or Typing?
Question Diary ships an update every 3 months, and Typing every 2 weeks. Most recently, Question Diary was updated on October 4, 2026 and Typing on October 7, 2026.

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