Comparison

Diamond Diary Notes With Lock vs Reflect Journal & Diary

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

Head to head
About

Diamond Diary Notes With Lock

Securely record your thoughts, memories, and ideas in a private digital journal. Personalize entries with photos, emoticons, and custom fonts. Protect your secrets with password, pattern, or biometric locks.

Highlights
  • Password/Biometric Lock
  • Add Photos & Emoticons
  • Customizable Fonts & Backgrounds
  • iCloud Sync
  • Search & Calendar View
  • Write & Edit Entries
Features
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Looking for a safe place for your secrets and memories? Diamond Diary Notes With Lock is the perfect journal app for you! Write about your dearest moments, ideas, write your love story and lock your notes! Have a cute glitter daily planner that will help you organize your life! Your new best friend is here, write all special thoughts and moments in a diamond diary that will be safe and well-hidden. You can attach photos, cute emoticons and say everything that's on your mind – without anyone judging you! Don't leave out a single detail and have the cutest glitter diamond diary that you can use to write new entries anytime and anywhere on your phone! How to use: ** Open your diary to write a new entry whenever you want ** ** Write a title for a new entry and add cute emoticons ** ** Choose fancy fonts and set font color ** ** Set cute backgrounds for your notes ** ** Add photos to your entries ** ** Search, modify and delete entries as you wish ** ** Lock the diary using a pattern, pin code, touch ID/ face recognition ** ** Set a recovery question and answer ** ** All notes will be saved on iCloud and available on both iPhone or iPad** ** You can share your notes with friends online, or post on social networks! ** With the most amazing diamond secret journal, you can share all your thoughts and write about your precious moments spent with family and friends! Something exciting happened at school today? Write it all out so you don't forget it! Search through your journal quickly and easily and have a calendar view of all your writings! Personalize your diary with emoticons, photos and selfies – create amazing stories that you will be happy to read over and over again. Have fun! Diamond Diary Notes With Lock is free to download but some of its options require additional payment and are available through In-App purchases. --------------- - Your subscription lasts 1 month, 6 months, or 1 year, depending on the subscription level chosen at the time of purchase. - You will be charged $2.99 for 1 month, $14.99 for 6 months, $23.99 for 1 year, depending on the subscription level chosen at the time of purchase. - Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. - Your subscription automatically renews unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription. - Your account will be charged for a renewed subscription within 24 hours prior to the end of current subscription. You will be charged $2.99 for 1 month, $14.99 for 6 months, or $23.99 for 1 year, depending on your subscription level. - You can manage your subscription and switch off the auto-renewal by accessing your account settings after purchase. - You cannot cancel the current subscription during the active subscription period. - Any unused part or time-span of a free trial period will be forfeited, as soon as you purchase a subscription. - You can view our Privacy Policy here: https://www.appmastersstudio.com/privacy-policy/ - You can view our Terms of Service here: https://www.appmastersstudio.com/terms-of-use/

About

Reflect Journal & Diary

This app helps you document your life's journey through a private daily journal and mood tracker. Capture your progress, understand your emotions, and create a time capsule for the future. Features include text, image, and video entries, an AI reflection assistant, and customizable logs.

Highlights
  • Private daily journaling
  • Mood tracking
  • AI self-reflection assistant
  • Text, image, and video entries
  • Customizable logs
  • Time capsule for future messages
  • Automatic backups and encryption
Features
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Because we are all different, ULY provides a unique Daily Journal and Mood Tracker experience. ULY is carefully designed to be reliable, private, and easy to use. A Daily Journal and Mood Tracker are powerful tools for moving forward in life. With ULY, you can record your daily progress, reflect on your moods, and capture your motivations. Not only does a Daily Journal help you see your development over time, but our Mood Tracker also allows you to better understand your well-being and emotional patterns. Leave a trace of who you are today for your children and for yourself to remember. Because we forget. We change. We won’t be the same in 1 year, 5 years, or 10 years. That’s why documenting your journey with a Daily Journal and Mood Tracker is so important. SIMPLE, COMPLETE INTERFACE Meticulous design for effortless Daily Journal and Mood Tracker entries Video mode, or text with images: enrich your Daily Journal and easily track your mood Advanced formatting Create different logs for your objectives, whether for a Daily Journal or specialized mood tracking PRIVATE AND SECURE Automatic backups keep your Daily Journal and Mood Tracker logs confidential End-to-end encryption ensures your journal and Mood Tracker entries remain private ROUTINE Activity chart helps you stay motivated and track your Daily Journal and mood changes over time Set up regular notifications to keep up with your Daily Journal and Mood Tracker routine SELF-REFLECTION MADE SIMPLE To help you get even more from your Daily Journal and Mood Tracker, ULY now features an intelligent self-reflection assistant. Every day, an improved AI asks a thoughtful daily question designed to spark deeper personal insight. This AI assistant gently guides you, encouraging meaningful and honest self-reflection—always without judgment. The process helps you explore your thoughts and emotions, making each Daily Journal and Mood Tracker entry more valuable for your personal growth. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced journaler, ULY’s reflective prompts give you new ways to understand yourself every day.Widgets that integrate into your system for quick, daily Daily Journal and mood tracking entries A TIME CAPSULE For each diary or Daily Journal, choose a release date and contacts (optional) Create small recordings of your life and emotional journey today a gift for your loved ones or your future self to receive in 5 or 10 years More than a simple diary. Compose a film of your life and emotions to share with future generations Let your children, loved ones, or future self relive your journey through your Daily Journal and discover your emotional growth with the Mood Tracker over time Record your motivation and inspire your future self never to give up on their dreams, all captured in your Daily Journal and Mood Tracker Use of ULY is indefinitely FREE with a limited number of Daily Journal entries and Mood Tracker logs. Terms of use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Diamond Diary Notes With Lock4 screens
Reflect Journal & Diary4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Reflect Journal & Diary at none against Diamond Diary Notes With Lock's shown. Reflect Journal & Diary also leads on review sentiment (84% vs 50%) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 5 months). Diamond Diary Notes With Lock's advantage is ratings volume (8.9K vs 46). On price, rating, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Diamond Diary Notes With Lock sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $3.49 per month and Reflect Journal & Diary sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Diamond Diary Notes With Lock against 4.5 for Reflect Journal & Diary. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Diamond Diary Notes With Lock has 8.9K ratings behind it against 46, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of Diamond Diary Notes With Lock's written reviews are positive against 84% of Reflect Journal & Diary's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Diamond Diary Notes With Lock ships an update every 5 months, Reflect Journal & Diary every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Diamond Diary Notes With Lock versus Reflect Journal & Diary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDiamond Diary Notes With LockReflect Journal & Diary
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (8.9K ratings)4.5 (46 ratings) — better
Positive reviews49.6% of reviews84.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings8.9K — better46
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size123 MB179 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMilica PetrovicSPLURB

Customer experience

Diamond Diary Notes With Lock

All ratings8,622 ratings
Positive83.1%
Neutral5.8%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews647 reviews
Positive49.6%
Neutral10.7%
Negative39.7%

Reflect Journal & Diary

All ratings46 ratings
Positive87.0%
Neutral4.3%
Negative8.7%
Written reviews38 reviews
Positive84.2%
Neutral2.6%
Negative13.2%

Bugs and requests

Diamond Diary Notes With Lock

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Crashes and unexpected shutdowns
  • Date display issues

Requested features

4 requests
  • Free locking option
  • Fingerprint/passcode protection
  • Improved scrolling and editing
  • More font and customization choices

Reflect Journal & Diary

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Diamond Diary Notes With Lock

Subscriptions6
  • 1 Month Subscription$3.491 Month
  • 1 Week Subscription3 Days trial$6.997 Days
  • 6 Months Subscription$17.996 Months
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  • 1 Year Subscription$28.991 Year
  • 1 Year Subscription$29.991 Year
  • 1 Year Subscription$59.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lock Diary$1.99
  • Remove ADs$1.99
6 purchases

Reflect Journal & Diary

Subscriptions5
  • Weekly3 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • Premium$5.991 Month
  • annual$17.991 Year
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  • Premium (annual)$22.991 Year
  • premium7 Days trial$34.991 Year
One-time1
  • lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is Diamond Diary Notes With Lock free?
Diamond Diary Notes With Lock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Reflect Journal & Diary free?
Reflect Journal & Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Diamond Diary Notes With Lock or Reflect Journal & Diary?
Reflect Journal & Diary is rated higher. Diamond Diary Notes With Lock averages 4.4 out of 5 from 8.9K ratings, while Reflect Journal & Diary averages 4.5 from 46 ratings.
Do Diamond Diary Notes With Lock or Reflect Journal & Diary have ads?
Diamond Diary Notes With Lock shows ads; Reflect Journal & Diary does not.
Which is updated more often, Diamond Diary Notes With Lock or Reflect Journal & Diary?
Diamond Diary Notes With Lock ships an update every 5 months, and Reflect Journal & Diary every 9 days. Most recently, Diamond Diary Notes With Lock was updated on November 11, 2026 and Reflect Journal & Diary on October 30, 2026.

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