Comparison

My Diary vs Prayer Latch

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

Prayer Latch

Features
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Prayer Latch is a prayer lock for your phone. Your most distracting apps stay locked each morning until you pray. Pray before you scroll, and give God the first minutes of your day instead of the feed. HOW THE PRAYER LOCK WORKS Prayer Latch is a Christian app blocker. Pick the apps you want to lock, like social media, videos or games, and choose your wake-up time. At that time each morning, those apps lock. Read a guided morning prayer or pray in your own words, then hold the button to say Amen. Your apps stay open until the next morning. You can add more lock times if you want more prayer breaks. Emergency unlock is always available and free. MEET LATCH Latch is your animated padlock companion. Grow together on a 90-day journey through 10 painted places, one day of prayer at a time. PRAY AND KEEP A PRAYER JOURNAL Use built-in prayers offline in all 24 languages, or choose a personalized AI prayer with your permission and an internet connection. Return to your prayers in the prayer journal. Your personal prayer history stays on your device. READ THE BIBLE OFFLINE Read the Bible in 24 languages without internet. Highlight verses and add your own notes. LESS DOOMSCROLLING, MORE TIME WITH GOD Screen time limits are easy to dismiss. Prayer Latch turns the moment you reach for your phone into a moment of prayer, so the first thing you give your attention to each day is God. YOUR FIRST WEEK IS FREE Try app locking for seven days with no card. The free week does not charge you automatically. After that, locking apps needs a monthly or yearly Prayer Latch Plus subscription. Without Plus, your apps are not locked and your choices stay saved. Bible reading, the journal, prayers and emergency unlock stay free. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled in App Store. See the price and billing period before you subscribe. Layouts for iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo. YOU CONTROL APP PROTECTION Your app selections stay on your device. Prayer Latch does not read your messages, passwords or the content of other apps. You can revoke Screen Time access or uninstall the app. Prayer Latch is a habit tool; essential communications should remain accessible. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://prayerlatch.com/privacy.html

Screenshots

My Diary4 screens
Prayer Latch4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Prayer Latch at every 3 days against My Diary's every 9 days. My Diary's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 16.4). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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 and Prayer Latch sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

My Diary ships an update every 9 days, Prayer Latch every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
My Diary versus Prayer Latch: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMy DiaryPrayer Latch
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS10.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB200 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developersandip paghadarJanus Works LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

My Diary

One-time1
  • Ads Free version$6.99
2 purchases

Prayer Latch

Subscriptions2
  • Prayer Latch Plus Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Prayer Latch Plus Yearly$24.991 Year

Questions

Is My Diary free?
My Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Prayer Latch free?
Prayer Latch is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do My Diary or Prayer Latch have ads?
Neither My Diary nor Prayer Latch shows ads.
Which is updated more often, My Diary or Prayer Latch?
My Diary ships an update every 9 days, and Prayer Latch every 3 days. Most recently, My Diary was updated on November 6, 2026 and Prayer Latch on October 31, 2026.

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