Comparison

My Diary vs Ullam

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

Head to head
About

My Diary

Safeguard your personal thoughts, memories, and life events with a secure digital journal. Add photos, mood emojis, and organize entries with tags and powerful search. Protect your privacy with PIN and fingerprint locks.

Highlights
  • Secure PIN and fingerprint lock
  • Add photos and mood emojis
  • Powerful search and filtering
  • Daily writing reminders
  • Customizable UI colors and fonts
  • Backup and restore functionality
Features
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Preserve your special memories, store personal moments & memories or keep track of your memories and life with help of this app. Secret ideas, thoughts and moments should always remain secret and a private diary should always be intimate, beautiful and safe. My Personal Diary - Journal gives powerful search functions is available to help you find diary entries by any keyword in the title or text/notes and filter results by date, tags. My Diary - Notes, Journal App Feature: - Keep your all moments, notes and ideas saved with you - Daily reminder to write your diary or journal - Add photos from your gallery or add a mood emoji to each entry and express your emotions easily! - Lock & protect your personal/private diary entries with a PIN code - Finger lock for app also supported - Attach & store unlimited amount of photos memories in your my diary app - Personalize UI with different UI colors & Themes and various font styles - Powerful search and filter functions (Dates, Tags & title/notes) - Easy to save & share your moments, life events - Use this diary app to make your own personal journal of daily events, appointments, secrets and feelings. - Select your journey images to keep all-time with you - Settings - Backup & Restore and make colorful memories with appearance Disclaimer: My Diary - Notes, Journal app allows to take backup into local device and iCloud. Local Backups are stored in your device only we don’t use it or upload into server. And iCloud backups are uploaded into your drive only

About

Ullam

Features
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Ullam is a calm, private diary for your daily thoughts. No account, no tracking, no servers reading your life — your journal is stored on your iPhone and synced only through your own iCloud. WRITE WITHOUT WORRY • Beautiful, distraction-free editor with rich text, photos and your own emojis • A warm day/night theme that follows the time of day • Color-code each entry by mood, and tag it with a category PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Lock any diary with its own PIN — locked diaries are encrypted with AES-256, using a key derived from your PIN • Face ID / Touch ID unlocks the app; every hidden diary always asks for its PIN • Hidden diaries stay out of your main list and never open without their own PIN • Everything else is protected by your iPhone's built-in data protection and stays on your device or in your personal iCloud. We never see it. FIND ANY MEMORY • Calendar view of your month, with mood at a glance • Filter the calendar by category to instantly find what you wrote • Track your writing streak and daily word goal • Home & Lock Screen widgets: streak, mood, daily goal and a fresh writing prompt OWN YOUR DATA • Start faster with templates: Gratitude, Daily Review, Travel Log, Dream and Goals • Export an encrypted backup protected by a password only you know, and restore it on this or a new device • Share any single entry as Markdown ON-DEVICE AI (PREMIUM) • A writing assistant that helps you continue, rephrase or reflect, plus tag suggestions — running entirely on your device • Requires an iPhone that supports Apple Intelligence, on iOS 26 or later FREE & PREMIUM Ullam is free for up to 10 notes, with multiple and hidden diaries, iCloud sync, widgets and mood insights included. Ullam Premium unlocks unlimited notes, the on-device AI writing assistant, your own templates and PDF export — with a 7-day free trial, then $1.99/month. Start writing today. Your story is worth keeping — privately. Privacy Policy: https://kaspar.works/ullam/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

My Diary4 screens
Ullam4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: My Diary at 10.0 against Ullam's 18.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. My Diary sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Ullam sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

My Diary ships an update every 9 days, Ullam every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
My Diary versus Ullam: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMy DiaryUllam
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS10.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developersandip paghadarKaspar Works, LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

My Diary

One-time1
  • Ads Free version$6.99
1 purchases

Ullam

Subscriptions1
  • Ullam Premium7 Days trial$1.991 Month

Questions

Is My Diary free?
My Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ullam free?
Ullam is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do My Diary or Ullam have ads?
Neither My Diary nor Ullam shows ads.
Which is updated more often, My Diary or Ullam?
My Diary ships an update every 9 days, and Ullam every 2 weeks. Most recently, My Diary was updated on October 8, 2026 and Ullam on October 15, 2026.

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