Comparison

Diarium Journal vs Fasting Timer Pro

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

Head to head
About

Diarium Journal

Capture and organize your life's moments with a feature-rich journaling app. Securely store memories, attach media, and receive daily prompts. Enjoy cross-platform syncing and robust export options for a comprehensive digital diary.

Highlights
  • Cloud Sync across devices
  • Daily writing reminders
  • Attach photos, audio, and files
  • Password and biometric lock
  • Social media and fitness integration
  • Export entries to various formats
  • Map view for travel entries
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Keep a private diary and daily journal for memories, photos, mood, travel, gratitude, and everyday notes—with no ads or subscriptions. Diarium helps you capture what happened today and build a personal timeline you can return to for years. Write a quick reflection or a detailed entry, enrich it with the moments that matter, and protect everything with a password, PIN, Face ID, or Touch ID. Make each entry your own • Keep a personal diary, gratitude journal, bullet journal, photo diary, or travel journal • Add photos, drawings, audio recordings, files, tags, people, ratings, and locations • Track your mood with star ratings and tracker tags • Revisit memories through calendar, timeline, and travel map views • Organize thoughts with lists and text formatting • Set daily reminders to support your writing routine Bring the details of your day together. Diarium can add useful context from your camera roll, calendar events, weather, completed tasks, Apple Health and other fitness activity, social activity, and entertainment activity. Moving from another journal? Import from Apple Journal and supported diary apps including Day One, Diaro, Journey, Daylio, Diarly, Daybook, and Evernote. You can also back up your diary database and export entries as Word, HTML, JSON, or plain text. Continue your journal across supported phone, tablet, laptop, and desktop versions. Optional sync uses your own iCloud, OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, or WebDAV storage, so you do not need a separate Diarium account. Diarium is made for the story of everyday life: reflections, family memories, trips, photos, gratitude, feelings, and small moments worth remembering. It remains personal, flexible, and secure whether you write daily or only when inspiration strikes. Diarium is free to use, with optional Diarium Pro for advanced features such as sync, unlimited attachments per entry, Word export for printing, connected feeds, custom fonts, widgets, and weather in entries. You can evaluate Pro features for 7 days after installing. Diarium Pro is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. It is linked to your Apple ID and unlocks Pro for iOS and iPadOS; a separate Pro purchase may be required on other platforms.

About

Fasting Timer Pro

Easily track your fasting sessions with flexible timing options and a clean interface. Monitor your progress with session history and educational insights into your body's stages. Receive local notifications for important milestones.

Highlights
  • Preset and custom fasting durations
  • Retroactive start time setting
  • Extend active fasts
  • Educational body stage timeline
  • Session history and progress tracking
  • Local notifications
Features
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Fasting Timer Pro helps you track fasting sessions with a clean, calm interface and flexible timing options. Key features • Preset fasts (12h, 16h, 18h, 24h, 36h, 48h, 72h) • Custom fasting duration (including extended durations) • Retroactive start — set the start time if you forgot to begin the timer • Extend an active fast (+1h, +6h, +12h, +24h or custom) • Simple, educational “what’s happening in your body” stage timeline • Session history and progress tracking • Local notifications for milestones and stage changes (if enabled) Educational notice Fasting Timer Pro is for educational and informational tracking only. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult a qualified professional for health decisions.

Screenshots

Diarium Journal4 screens
Fasting Timer Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Diarium Journal at Free against Fasting Timer Pro's $5.99. Diarium Journal also leads on ratings volume (2K vs 1). Fasting Timer Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 9 days). On review sentiment, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Diarium Journal is free to download; Fasting Timer Pro costs $5.99 up front. Diarium Journal sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Fasting Timer Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Fasting Timer Pro holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Diarium Journal has 2K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 95% of Diarium Journal's written reviews are positive against 100% of Fasting Timer Pro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Diarium Journal ships an update every 9 days, Fasting Timer Pro every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Diarium Journal versus Fasting Timer Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDiarium JournalFasting Timer Pro
PriceFree — better$5.99
Rating4.8 (2K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews95.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.417.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTimo PartlPOWER SATELLITE LLC

Customer experience

Diarium Journal

All ratings2,045 ratings
Positive96.3%
Neutral1.9%
Negative1.8%
Written reviews945 reviews
Positive95.0%
Neutral2.0%
Negative3.0%

Fasting Timer Pro

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Diarium Journal

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Sync issues between devices
  • Crashes when adjusting settings
  • Photos not displaying correctly in some cases

Requested features

7 requests
  • Ability to embed photos within entries
  • More font and color options
  • Checklist/task functionality
  • Multiple journal/diary support
  • Export to PDF or other formats
Show 2 more
  • Improved search with highlighting
  • Focus mode for distraction-free writing

Fasting Timer Pro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Diarium Journal

One-time1
  • Pro version (iOS)$14.99
None

Fasting Timer Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Diarium Journal free?
Diarium Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fasting Timer Pro free?
Fasting Timer Pro costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Diarium Journal or Fasting Timer Pro?
Fasting Timer Pro is rated higher. Diarium Journal averages 4.8 out of 5 from 2K ratings, while Fasting Timer Pro averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Diarium Journal or Fasting Timer Pro have ads?
Neither Diarium Journal nor Fasting Timer Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Diarium Journal or Fasting Timer Pro?
Diarium Journal ships an update every 9 days, and Fasting Timer Pro every 2 days. Most recently, Diarium Journal was updated on October 19, 2026 and Fasting Timer Pro on October 12, 2026.

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