Comparison

Diary with lock vs My Diary Plus

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

Head to head
About

Diary with lock

Create a secure personal journal to record daily events, thoughts, and secrets. Protect your entries with a password or PIN code and customize the look with different colors and fonts. This app offers a simple, fast, and user-friendly way to document your life.

Highlights
  • Password & PIN code protection
  • Customizable background colors
  • Changeable font styles
  • Easy-to-use interface
  • Searchable entries
  • Unlimited entries
  • Multi-language support
Features
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Use "Diary with lock" app to make your own personal journal of daily events, appointments, secrets and feelings. ****************FEATURES**************** • Diary with lock: Password & pin code protection • Diary with lock: Personalize background color (Pink, Purple, Blue, ++) • Diary with lock: Change font-style • Diary with lock: Easy to use • Diary with lock: Search entries • Diary with lock: Make unlimited entries • Diary with lock: Support 3 languages: English, Japanese, Vietnamese. • Diary with lock: The most downloaded diary app on AppStore! ******************************************* Build from the ground up to be simple and user friendly, the user interface is designed to allow you to enter new notes quickly and easily. With this Diary you can write all your private notes and secure them with a pin code or password. * Track and write about your daily activities Make it a habit to quickly write one or more mini-notes during your day. Simply leave a few words about your workout session, what happened at school or in the office during your day. In weekends, you can write about all the fun you had walking your dog, meeting with friends, or being social with your family. Make it a unique travel diary, or road journal that documents your journey. This can be the daily activity log you always have wanted. Make it your personal journal and have fun reading it over in few year, and share a few laughs with your friends. As this app is pure textual, and contains no images or photos, it runs ultra fast and smooth on any iOS device, and consumes minimal of available memory and disk-space! * This diary is perfect to use as: 1. Diet journal A food diary is a daily record of all food consumed as a means of tracking calorie consumption, weight loss or other nutritional monitoring. 2. Dream journal Or dream diary is a journal in which dream experiences are recorded for later analysis and possibly oneiromancy. 3. Sleep diaries A sleep log is a tool used in diagnosis of sleep disorders. 4. Travel journals A travel diary, or road journal, is valuable documentation of a journey. (only textual, no images or photos) 5. Write your own Autobiography This diary app can easily fit the purpose of a writing down your memoir or chronicle. Keep a log or logbook to record history. Do like famous Anne Frank, make daily records, document life in your own daybook. Never forget a journal entry again, setup a reminder to alert you when it is time to write. Protect all personal notes by adding a pin code when it starts up. Never worry about losing memories again. Easily send a backup of diary entries directly to email for extra protection. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://privacy-policy-site-five-nu.vercel.app

About

My Diary Plus

This application provides a simple and practical way to keep a digital diary. You can write entries, customize text appearance, add images, and even draw. It offers a browsing window for easy navigation and allows exporting entries as TXT files.

Highlights
  • Text entry and editing
  • Font and text appearance customization
  • Add images to entries
  • Drawing tools with adjustable line color and thickness
  • Diary browsing window
  • Export entries as TXT files
  • File transfer via iTunes
Features
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My Diary Plus is a diary-keeping software. The program that is simple and practical. The software allows you to enter, change, and edit text; to adjust text appearance and font to your needs. Add images to text and draw graphical images. The colour and thickness of the lines can be easily changed. If you only want to read a diary, you can use the browsing window. This window allows you to navigate between the diary entries. Use the iTunes Apple app to transfer files. The diary entries are located in the iTunes Documents folder, in a folder called the ‘List’. You can save the last folder on MACOS media or you can add an existing ‘List’ folder to the IOS device, into ‘My Diary Plus’ documents folder. The application allows you to save all diary entries in the TXT file format. You can read the format of the TXT file using the standard text editor.

Screenshots

Diary with lock4 screens
My Diary Plus3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Diary with lock at 4.3 against My Diary Plus's 1.0. Diary with lock also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 24 months) and ratings volume (1.2K vs 1). My Diary Plus's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads 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. Diary with lock sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. My Diary Plus asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Diary with lock holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Diary with lock has 1.2K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Diary with lock ships an update every 6 weeks, My Diary Plus every 24 months. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Diary with lock versus My Diary Plus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDiary with lockMy Diary Plus
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (1.2K ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews65.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.2K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 24 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTuyen BuiJanek Soomets

Customer experience

Diary with lock

All ratings1,247 ratings
Positive81.7%
Neutral5.0%
Negative13.3%
Written reviews160 reviews
Positive65.6%
Neutral8.1%
Negative26.3%

My Diary Plus

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Diary with lock

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Entries randomly disappearing
  • Constant redirects to ads when trying to write
  • Login/password reset not working properly

Requested features

4 requests
  • Backup and sync entries across devices
  • Fingerprint/Face ID support for locking
  • Ability to change font size and color
  • Option to disable ads for paid users

My Diary Plus

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Diary with lock

Subscriptions1
  • Cloud Sync Monthly$9.991 Month
One-time2
  • Donate to Developer$5.99
  • Diary with lock-No Advertising$8.99
None

My Diary Plus

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Diary with lock free?
Diary with lock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is My Diary Plus free?
My Diary Plus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Diary with lock or My Diary Plus?
Diary with lock is rated higher. Diary with lock averages 4.3 out of 5 from 1.2K ratings, while My Diary Plus averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Diary with lock or My Diary Plus have ads?
Neither Diary with lock nor My Diary Plus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Diary with lock or My Diary Plus?
Diary with lock ships an update every 6 weeks, and My Diary Plus every 24 months. Most recently, Diary with lock was updated on October 5, 2026 and My Diary Plus on September 22, 2026.

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