Diary! SmartDiary vs Text Diary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Diary! SmartDiary
Record daily life with photos and track your mood and schedule on a calendar. Secure your entries with a passcode and easily access past memories. Customize your diary with various settings for a personalized experience.
- Record memories with photos
- Track daily mood and schedule
- Passcode lock with biometric support
- iCloud backup and data migration
- Customizable calendar and diary settings
- Input forgetting notifications
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Simple and easy operation private diary application. ・Leave memories of daily life with photos easily. ・You can enter in the calendar the mood and schedule of the day. ・You can easily display past memories. ・Passcode lock (Touch ID, Face ID support) ・iCloud backup (iPhone, data migration between the iPad is also possible) [Other functions] ・Cover photo setting ・Calendar display setting (Start Week On, Calendar Position, Cover Photo Size, Transparency) ・Diary text setting (Font Size, Font Depth, Line Spacing) ・Theme color setting ・Notification of forgetting input ・Support for landscape orientation (iPad only) [Credit] ・Designed by Freepik and distributed by Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com) ・Icons8 (https://icons8.com) ・This software includes the work that is distributed in the Apache License 2.0.
Text Diary
A free and simple text-based journaling app that allows unlimited entries. Organize your thoughts with folders, colors, and tags, and easily search or filter your past entries. Enjoy a comfortable user experience with quick startup and dark mode.
- Unlimited daily diary entries
- Organize by folder, color, tag
- Searchable diary entries
- Filter by date or tag
- Quick startup and comfortable operation
- Dark mode support
- Completely free to use
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It's a simple text diary app. All features are completely free to use. Features: - Unlimited daily diary - Classified by folder, color, tag - Search diary - Filter by date or tag - Quick start-up, comfortable operability - Dark mode - All free URL scheme: textdiary://
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Text Diary at none against Diary! SmartDiary's 1. Diary! SmartDiary's advantage is ratings volume (45 vs 7) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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! SmartDiary sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Text Diary asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Diary! SmartDiary against 4.6 for Text Diary. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Diary! SmartDiary has 45 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Diary! SmartDiary ships an update every 3 months, Text Diary every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Diary! SmartDiary | Text Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (45 ratings) — better | 4.6 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 93.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 45 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hideki Okuno | FugaPiyo Inc. |
Customer experience
Diary! SmartDiary
Text Diary
In-app purchases
Diary! SmartDiary
- Remove Ads$2.99
Text Diary
No in-app purchases
