Comparison

My Diary vs DayTrace

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

DayTrace

Features
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Some days feel ordinary—until they become the moments you miss most. DayTrace is a warm, private journal for keeping the life you are actually living. Save a sentence, a set of photos, a video, or simply how the day felt. Over time, those small moments become a personal story you can revisit through your timeline and calendar. CAPTURE A DAY YOUR WAY Write freely and add photos, videos, or Live Photos. Enrich each entry with a mood, weather, time, and place, then favorite the moments you want close at hand. SEE YOUR LIFE TAKE SHAPE Follow recent days along a visual timeline and see recorded moments at a glance on your monthly calendar. Monthly stats and gentle prompts help reveal your own rhythm. LOCAL-FIRST BY DESIGN Your journal text, moods, and media are stored locally on your device by default. DayTrace currently includes no advertising SDKs and no cross-app behavioral tracking. Location is used for place and weather only after you grant permission, and manual entry remains available. MAKE THE SPACE YOURS Choose from 12 visual themes and customize page artwork and motion to give your journal a look that feels personal. CELEBRATE SHOWING UP Watch your recorded days, streak, photos, and videos grow over time. Thirty achievements mark meaningful firsts and longer rhythms—from your first entry and mood to a growing archive of everyday life. MORE THAN A JOURNAL Keep a wishlist, check in with habits, start a quiet focus timer, or catch an idea in a quick note. Write deeply when you can; save one small thing when you cannot. Your day does not have to be extraordinary to be worth remembering. Start with today.

Screenshots

My Diary4 screens
DayTrace4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DayTrace at none against My Diary's 1. My Diary's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 26.2). 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. My Diary sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. DayTrace asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
My Diary versus DayTrace: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMy DiaryDayTrace
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS10.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developersandip paghadar章循 孙

In-app purchases

1 purchases

My Diary

One-time1
  • Ads Free version$6.99
None

DayTrace

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is My Diary free?
My Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DayTrace free?
DayTrace is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do My Diary or DayTrace have ads?
Neither My Diary nor DayTrace shows ads.

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