jihye MEMO vs Waddle Diary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
jihye MEMO
Capture and organize your daily life using photos, albums, and simple scribbles. This app helps you create visual memories and record your experiences.
- Daily photo recording
- Album creation
- Simple scribbles
- Visual life journal
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In Korea, the name ji-hye means wise. This is a memo that leaves your daily life as a picture. You can record your life with photos, albums, and simple scribbles.
Waddle Diary
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Like a turtle — slow but steady, gathering your days one by one. Videos, dramas, movies, books, even papers — capture everything you watch and read with star ratings, notes, and photos. Daily diaries, and exchange diaries to share with friends, all in one app. ■ Record anything · YouTube, dramas, movies, books, papers, and more · Just paste a link and the preview image and title fill in automatically · Star ratings, notes, photo attachments ■ Daily diary · Record each day by date, with photos too ■ Smart search · Search the way you talk: "movies I watched last week", "5-star dramas" · All your entries spread out as tiles, narrowing as you type ■ Secret exchange diary · Tap the message below 3 times to unlock Shared Diary. (Tap it 3 times again to hide it.) · Swap diaries with friends over AirDrop · Organized by nickname, so you know who sent what ■ Make it yours · 5 pastel themes · Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese supported ■ Privacy first · No servers, no accounts. All data stays only on your phone · Works offline, and you can export a backup anytime Thank you for today. Let's keep gathering, one by one.
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Verdict
jihye MEMO and Waddle Diary are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | jihye MEMO | Waddle Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JI HYE KWON | JUNSUNG KIM |
In-app purchases
jihye MEMO
No in-app purchases
Waddle Diary
No in-app purchases









