Piary vs My Diary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Piary
Combine photos and journal entries to create a visual diary of your daily life. See your memories fill a calendar with personalized backgrounds. A simple way to document your experiences.
- Photo and diary entries
- Calendar view of memories
- Customizable calendar background
- Daily recording
- Personalized memory calendar
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Picture × Diary = Piary! Piary is an application like a picture diary that can record events of the day in photos and diaries. Since registered pictures are displayed in the list in the calendar, if you record every day, the calendar will be filled with more and more photos. You can change the background of the calendar to your favorite picture. Record every day and make your own my calendar!
My Diary
Securely record your thoughts, memories, and daily experiences. Personalize your journal with photos, location check-ins, and custom themes. Offers daily tarot insights and extensive widget customization.
- Password and biometric app lock
- Add photos, location, and emotions
- Daily tarot card readings
- Customizable themes, icons, and widgets
- iCloud backup and multi-device sync
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[DIary] We have made a secure and most convenient diary app that will allow you to back up on icloud with your apple account. You can download and use it on any device without lost data. [Fetures] # Security You can lock the app with a password. Of course, It corresponds also to Face ID, Touch ID. # Content You can add pictures, recording, check-in your location and emotion of the day. #Tarot Get your daily insights # Theme Customize home screen with a unique collection of icons, wallpapers and widgets # Widget Customize each widget fully. Add pictures to your widgets, edit their font, create your own color-scheme, and so much more. Frequent updates constantly add new widgets you'd love. # Icon Customize each Icon fully # Data backup Your data will be saved in iCloud and sync with other devices. Premium Subscription is an auto-renewing subscription. It’s available for monthly or yearly periods. USD$1.99 1 month, named as 1 Month Premium; USD$5.99 6 months, named as 6 Months Premium; USD$9.99 1 yearly, named as 1 Year Premium 3-days free trial for both subscriptions. Or But once 14.99$ to get Premium Forever Price may vary by location. Subscriptions will be charged to your credit card through your iTunes account. Your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You will not be able to cancel the subscription once activated. Manage your subscriptions in Account Settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://wp.me/p3UvbG-g Terms of Use: https://wp.me/p3UvbG-l
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: My Diary at 100% against Piary's 75%. Piary's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Piary sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and My Diary sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Piary holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 9 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of Piary's written reviews are positive against 100% of My Diary's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Piary ships an update every 3 weeks, My Diary every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Piary | My Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | 4.8 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 214 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Haruki Saburi | Thanh Nguyen |
Customer experience
Piary
My Diary
In-app purchases
Piary
- Remove Ads$1.99
My Diary
- 1 Month Premium3 Days trial$0.991 Month
- 6 Months premium3 Days trial$2.996 Months
- 1 Year Premium3 Days trial$5.991 Year
- Forever$6.99









