Diary Secret vs Secret Diary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Diary Secret
This app provides a private and secure space to record personal thoughts, moments, and plans. It offers password protection, customizable themes, and easy navigation to ensure your entries remain confidential and accessible.
- Password protection
- Customizable themes and fonts
- Easy entry creation and editing
- Search functionality
- Reminders
- Multiple diary uses (diet, travel)
Read full descriptionHide full description
Personal thoughts and moments need to be kept secret and the diary needs to be private, beautiful and safe. With that in mind, we tried to create a beautiful and simple diary application that helps you hide your secrets with password protection. Use this diary to record all your thoughts or even future plans and pursue them as time goes by. Make your diary a trusted friend who never judges you and stays with you. A quality diary requires ownership of outstanding features. Here are some great features designed for you: EASY TO USE & BEAUTIFUL - Easy to use and very comprehensive - View all your notes right on your home screen - Easily navigate between your diary entries - An overview of your daily entries - Add, edit and delete entries quickly Emoji's emotion icon and emotion - Search - search easily and quickly through your diary SAFETY & PRIVACY - SECURITY SECURITY - Lock your password logs to protect your privacy - 4 digit PIN OPTIONAL CARE - There are many colors to choose from - There are many types of fonts - Fonts are customizable - Reminders feature OTHER FEATURES - Reset data - Beautiful design - Can be used as a diet diary or even a travel diary - all free Whether you want to write a love story or just want to record your thoughts and moments in life, we hope that the diary will become your best friend and confidante. Enjoy your life and create great stories! Terms of Use (EULA): https://demngayyeu.vn/policy/nhatkycuatoi_en.html#terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://demngayyeu.vn/policy/nhatkycuatoi_en.html#privacy-policy
Secret Diary
Securely record your thoughts, daily events, and journeys with this private diary app. It offers robust security features like Face ID, Touch ID, or passcode lock, and allows for extensive personalization with themes, fonts, and backgrounds. All entries are stored locally for maximum privacy.
- Face ID, Touch ID, passcode lock
- iCloud backup and restore
- Unlimited editing options
- Add photos, backgrounds, fonts
- Personalize with artistic themes
- Local data storage
Read full descriptionHide full description
Secret Diary is a free diary journal app with high security. Your data is safe with iCloud backup and restore. This app use Face ID, Touch ID, or passcode lock to protect the security of your secret thoughts, daily diary and journeys. To ensure privacy and security, all your entry will only be saved on your device and not sent to any servers. Secret Diary provide unlimited dairy editing options, adding photos, backgrounds, fonts, moods, etc. Also, you can personalize this app with multiple artistic and kawaii themes. Everything is free! This App will protect your memories securely. Please try and enjoy it!
Screenshots
Verdict
Diary Secret and Secret Diary both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 85% of Secret Diary's written reviews are positive against 42% of Diary Secret's. Secret Diary also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). Diary Secret's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume and monetization model 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 Secret sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per year. Secret Diary asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Diary Secret against 4.7 for Secret Diary. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 158 and 98 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 42% of Diary Secret's written reviews are positive against 85% of Secret Diary's.
Diary Secret ships an update weekly, Secret Diary every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Diary Secret | Secret Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (158 ratings) | 4.7 (98 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 41.9% of reviews | 85.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 158 — better | 98 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dat Hoang | Trang Le Thi |
Customer experience
Diary Secret
Secret Diary
Bugs and requests
Diary Secret
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Secret Diary
Reported bugs
5 issues- Cannot get back to previous background themes
- Lock screen appears after entries are visible
- App crashes when phone is on airplane mode
- Difficulty entering or recovering passcode
- Passcode not visible or functional at times
Requested features
5 requests- Allow autocorrect while typing
- Ensure lock screen appears first
- Recover passcode when forgotten
- Add backup feature
- Enable Face ID/Touch ID for login
In-app purchases
Diary Secret
- My Diary Premium$4.991 Year
Secret Diary
No in-app purchases
