i vs Daily Mind Diary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
i
This app helps you maintain a healthy and balanced life by motivating you to reach your daily step goals. It integrates with HealthKit to track your activity and encourage a more active lifestyle.
- Motivates healthy lifestyle
- Tracks daily steps
- Monitors step goals
- Integrates with HealthKit
- Encourages active living
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Get ready to take charge of your health and kick it up a notch ! We know you want to have a healthy and balanced life, but we all need a little help to stay on track or take things to the next level. That's why we created SWITCH - your everyday companion that motivates you to keep an optimal healthy life. This app accesses the HealthKit to track user steps. This will help to monitor if users reach their daily targeted steps and goals to lead a more active lifestyle
Daily Mind Diary
Cultivate mindfulness by tracking moments of awareness and distraction. This app helps you notice when your mind is present, allowing you to live more intentionally and gain command over your thoughts and life.
- Track heedful and unheedful moments
- Quick recording via home screen widget
- Record moments from Apple Watch
- View statistics to observe patterns
- Share records with friends
- Write personal diary entries
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We are excited to introduce Daily Mind Diary. Daily Mind Diary is a reflection and training app for cultivating heedfulness—the practice of being aware of one’s thoughts and actions, a concept rooted in Won-Buddhist teachings. Rather than being carried away by habits and distractions, this app helps you notice moments when your mind is present and moments when it wanders. By recording these moments, you can gradually learn to live guided by your thoughts, instead of letting circumstances and impulses guide them. Through consistent reflection, Daily Mind Diary supports you in becoming more aware, more intentional, and ultimately more in command of your mind and your life. Key Features - Track heedful and unheedful moments - Quick recording via home screen widget - Record moments directly from Apple Watch - View statistics to observe patterns in your awareness - Share records with friends using iCloud - Write a personal diary entry for each record Thank you for choosing Daily Mind Diary as your companion on the path of awareness. Privacy Policy: https://gist.github.com/gus1819/22eebca969bc352bdea6794c6f814812 Standard Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Daily Mind Diary at 100% against i's 33%. Daily Mind Diary also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 6 weeks). i's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). On price 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. Daily Mind Diary sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per month. i asks for nothing beyond the download.
i ships an update every 6 weeks, Daily Mind Diary every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | i | Daily Mind Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MiCare Sdn Bhd | SHCSoftware |
Customer experience
i
Daily Mind Diary
In-app purchases
i
No in-app purchases
Daily Mind Diary
- Remove ads for 1 month$0.491 Month
- Remove ads for 3 months$0.793 Months
- Remove ads lifetime$0.99









