DateBook vs Text Diary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DateBook
This app provides a clean and beautiful interface for writing daily journals. Organize entries by topic, add your current mood, format text, and attach locations to make your memories vivid. Sync across devices with iCloud.
- Distraction-free writing interface
- Journal topics for organization
- Attach current mood with 6 emoji presets
- Text formatting tools (bold, italic, underline)
- Add location to journal entries
- iCloud sync across devices
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DateBook is a simple journal app for everyone who likes to write journals. It lets you write daily journals on a distraction free and beautiful interface. It saves all your journals with information like date, time, word count and presents them on a beautiful interface from where you can scroll through all your journal entries at a time. WHY DateBook IS UNIQUE? #1 JOURNAL TOPIC Each and every journal entry will be bookmarked at the left bar as a topic. You add as many journal entries as you can and save it as a single topic. All these journal entries will be saved on a scrollable interface under that topic. You can scroll through all your journal entries under each topic with date, time, current mood and read your journals. #2 CURRENT MOOD You can define your current mood from 6 emoji's presets and attach it with your journal. This is how you can make your journals more interesting, engaging and personal. When you will go back in time and read your journals, they will give the true perspective of your feelings. #3 TEXT FORMATTING TOOLS Decorate your journal with text formatting tools and make it more true to life. Bold, underline, italicise, strikethrough texts to express different feelings through your journals. #4 LOCATION Attach your current location with each journal entry and make your memories more vivid. You can allow DateBook to access your current location automatically and save it with your journal. You also have the option for searching for a location manually with a map and save the location with your journal. #5 iCloud SYNC Get your journals synced across all your macOS and iOS easily via iCloud. TOP FEATURES AT A GLANCE: - Easy to add new journals. - Write a detailed journals hassle free. - Add Journal Topics and save multiple Journal Entries under them. - Add location. - Add Tag - Quickly search through out the texts. - 6 Emoji's - iCloud Sync. DateBook is a very easy to use app for everyone. So, download DateBook today and start journaling.
Text Diary
A free and simple text-based journaling app that allows unlimited entries. Organize your thoughts with folders, colors, and tags, and easily search or filter your past entries. Enjoy a comfortable user experience with quick startup and dark mode.
- Unlimited daily diary entries
- Organize by folder, color, tag
- Searchable diary entries
- Filter by date or tag
- Quick startup and comfortable operation
- Dark mode support
- Completely free to use
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It's a simple text diary app. All features are completely free to use. Features: - Unlimited daily diary - Classified by folder, color, tag - Search diary - Filter by date or tag - Quick start-up, comfortable operability - Dark mode - All free URL scheme: textdiary://
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Text Diary at Free against DateBook's $1.99. Text Diary also leads on rating (4.6 vs 1.0) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 26 months). DateBook's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). On 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
Text Diary is free to download; DateBook costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Text Diary holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text Diary has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
DateBook ships an update every 26 months, Text Diary every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DateBook | Text Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.6 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 26 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sudip Bag | FugaPiyo Inc. |
Customer experience
DateBook
Text Diary
In-app purchases
DateBook
No in-app purchases
Text Diary
No in-app purchases
