Comparison

Grid Diary vs Recorda

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

Head to head
About

Grid Diary

This app offers a guided journaling experience to foster personal development and mindfulness. It helps users build positive habits, manage stress, and enhance various aspects of their lives through customizable prompts and unique layouts.

Highlights
  • Prompted journaling with custom questions
  • Unique grid and mandala layouts
  • Daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly planning
  • Supports various journaling methods
  • Mindfulness and self-care focus
  • Stress and anxiety alleviation techniques
Features
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Introducing Grid Diary: More than just a journaling app, it's your comprehensive personal development system. Embark on a personal growth journey that covers all aspects: • Embrace mindfulness & self-love • Establish morning & evening routines • Enhance personal health & wellbeing • Develop self-care habits • Alleviate stress and anxiety through Cognitive Behavioral Therapy • Acquire new skills • Boost productivity • Strengthen relationships • Ignite creativity ...and so much more. At Grid Diary, we understand that personal development is a holistic endeavor, not a singular pursuit. Grid Diary empowers you to create a diary system that goes beyond simple daily entries. By utilizing features such as custom prompts, tags, and categories, you can build a personalized framework for cultivating happiness and developing positive habits such as proactivity, optimism, and gratitude. Use Grid Diary to unlock the true power of keeping a diary and start your journey towards a happier, healthier you. # Feature Highlights • Prompted Journaling: Guided Self-Reflections Avoid writer's block with our question library or customize your own prompts for deeper self-reflection. • Unique Grid Format: Elegant and Comprehensive Organize all that matters to you on a single page with our customizable grid layout, fostering a holistic personal development system. • Mandala Layout: Journal like a Mind Map Our 9-grid Mandala-inspired layout, featuring a fixed center, emulates the artful representation of life's organization and connection to the cosmos. Journaling becomes intuitive and mirrors the way our minds work. • Day/Week/Month/Year Dimensions: Create Your Own Rituals Establish rituals that anchor you in time, crafting a framework for planning, acting, and reviewing on a daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly basis. • Compatibility with Various Journaling Methods Whether you prefer morning diaries, success diaries, manifestation journals, or bullet journals, Grid Diary's flexibility accommodates your preferred approach. Discover the transformative power of Grid Diary and unlock your full potential today! # Don't Just Take Our Word for It "New Apps We Love" - Apple "If you've wanted to journal but don't know where to start, meet Grid Diary. Swappable prompts in a lovely, flexible grid format invite you to record and reflect on life's happenings - from noting your habits and goals to sharing affirmation and gratitude." - Google "Grid Diary is a good option for journal writers pressed for time or inspiration." - The New York Times --- As a dedicated three-person team, we believe that privacy is paramount for a journaling app. With no venture capital or advertisers backing Grid Diary, our long-term development relies solely on our members' paid subscriptions. We never sell your data to third parties for profit. # Note about Health App integration: After you have authorized access to health data, you can insert information such as steps or activity energy into your diary. Additionally, you can save your journaling time as mediation minutes to Health app. Grid Diary won't use your health data for other purposes. Privacy Policy https://griddiaryapp.com/support/privacy Terms of Service https://griddiaryapp.com/support/terms

About

Recorda

Organize your life by combining a personal diary, to-do lists, notes, and reminders into one intuitive app. Quickly capture thoughts, plan future tasks, and attach media for comprehensive memory keeping.

Highlights
  • Create multiple organized lists
  • Unlimited memories with dates
  • Attach images and voice memos
  • Mark memories as favorites
  • Set memories as pending/completed
  • Timeline visualization
Features
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Remember everything you have done so far or what you have to do in the future. Recorda reinvents and merges your personal diary, your to-do list, your notes and reminders in a single app. It allows you to quickly, easily and intuitively write down what comes to your mind. From your day to day to what you have to do in a week, a month or a year. Use it as it suits you, maybe even as your shopping list. Some of the things you can do with the Recorda app are: • Create multiple lists, in case you want to organize what you write down in different topics (your personal life, business or shopping list, among others). • Create unlimited memories of past, future or undated dates. Either something you have done or anything you have to do. It may even be something you don't know when to do. • Attach images, voice memos and tags to your memories to see them again at any time. • Mark your memories as favorites to highlight those events that have impacted you the most or to not forget something very important that you have to do in the future. • Set your memories as pending and completed to know if it is something you have already done or something you have yet to do that you don’t want to forget. • Duplicate what you have noted to facilitate the entry of those events that are repetitive. • Visualize in a clear and intuitive way in timeline format with our own taste everything you have written down over time. And this is just the beginning, as we're working on a ton of other mind-blowing features. Do you remember what you did on the last month’s Saturday or what you have to do next Friday? With Recorda you will never forget again. For technical assistance and suggestions, email: hello@bocadil.com

Screenshots

Grid Diary4 screens
Recorda4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Recorda at none against Grid Diary's 4. Recorda also leads on review sentiment (73% vs 48%) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). Grid Diary's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (963 vs 11). 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. Grid Diary sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Recorda asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Grid Diary holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Grid Diary has 963 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 48% of Grid Diary's written reviews are positive against 73% of Recorda's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Grid Diary ships an update every 2 weeks, Recorda every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Grid Diary versus Recorda: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrid DiaryRecorda
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (963 ratings) — better4.3 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews48.3% of reviews72.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings963 — better11
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscriptionFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS26.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSumi InteractiveBocadil Infinite, S.L.

Customer experience

Grid Diary

All ratings963 ratings
Positive90.7%
Neutral3.3%
Negative6.0%
Written reviews497 reviews
Positive48.3%
Neutral9.3%
Negative42.5%

Recorda

All ratings11 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral9.1%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive72.7%
Neutral18.2%
Negative9.1%

Bugs and requests

Grid Diary

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Entries disappearing or not syncing properly
  • Password reset functionality not working
  • Subscription issues and inability to access premium features
  • Compatibility problems with newer iOS versions

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add Apple Pencil support
  • Improve sync reliability across devices
  • Provide more customization options for layouts and fonts
  • Integrate with other productivity apps and calendars
  • Implement a one-time purchase option
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  • Allow randomized daily prompts

Recorda

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Grid Diary

Subscriptions4
  • Monthly3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Monthly3 Months trial$4.991 Month
  • Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
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  • Annual6 Months trial$29.991 Year
None

Recorda

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Grid Diary free?
Grid Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Recorda free?
Recorda is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Grid Diary or Recorda?
Grid Diary is rated higher. Grid Diary averages 4.6 out of 5 from 963 ratings, while Recorda averages 4.3 from 11 ratings.
Do Grid Diary or Recorda have ads?
Neither Grid Diary nor Recorda shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Grid Diary or Recorda?
Grid Diary ships an update every 2 weeks, and Recorda every 4 days. Most recently, Grid Diary was updated on November 6, 2026 and Recorda on November 3, 2026.

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