Diary with lock vs Life
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Password & PIN code protection
- Customizable background colors
- Changeable font styles
- Easy-to-use interface
- Searchable entries
- Unlimited entries
- Multi-language support
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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
Life
Capture and preserve your life's journey with a secure digital journal. Record memories, notes, to-do lists, and daily plans with customizable themes and privacy features. This offline diary offers voice-to-text input and photo integration for a rich journaling experience.
- Password and fingerprint lock
- Photo memory collection
- Voice to text input
- Free themes and night mode
- Offline diary functionality
- Cloud sync
- Diary reminders
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Write your life journey and keep those memories forever. You can also write journals, notes, to-do lists, and your daily plans in this diary app. It is also a note keeper, you can keep your notes in this diary app. It is a pocket diary where you can express yourself. Write your secrets and feeling in this life diary. Keep your life memorable life moments and milestones in it. This personal diary comes with a password lock and it is also a diary with a fingerprint lock. You can add your photo memories to the photo collection in this personal diary with a lock. The passcode will protect your journal and notes forever. The life diary app will be your perfect companion to express yourself. This journal app works perfectly offline, it is an offline diary. We often write diaries in the nighttime, that is why we provide a free night theme in this diary app. With this, you can completely relax and write your diary at night time. Features * Free Themes * Free and unlimited cloud sync * Animated Themes * Widget with daily refreshing 'Quotes' * Hashtag support * Scribble support for iPad * Keyboard shortcuts for iPad * Password protection * Photo Memories * Voice to Text Input * Diary Reminder * Font Customization * Secure and Safe * Easy to Use We know font customization is very important for a better experience that is why we provide a complete set of font customization options like font size, font type, etc with free night mode. The app also supports voice input, you can just use your voice to write articles. Because not all people like to use keyboards but you can use your sweet voice to create a diary note. Speech to text option makes it very easy to use. You can also customize your diary with the collection of themes available including the special dark mode. Landscape support is also available for convenience. It is simple and easy to use. So why are you waiting, download, and start writing your good memories in a diary.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Diary with lock at none against Life's shown. Diary with lock also leads on ratings volume (1.2K vs 96). Life's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Diary with lock sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Life sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Life holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Diary with lock has 1.2K ratings behind it against 96, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 66% of Diary with lock's written reviews are positive against 83% of Life's.
Diary with lock ships an update every 6 weeks, Life weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Diary with lock | Life |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (1.2K ratings) | 4.7 (96 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 65.6% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.2K — better | 96 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tuyen Bui | Hitbytes Technologies |
Customer experience
Diary with lock
Life
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
Life
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Diary with lock
- Cloud Sync Monthly$9.991 Month
- Donate to Developer$5.99
- Diary with lock-No Advertising$8.99
Life
- Life Diary Premium$15.99
Questions
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