My Daily Diary vs Text Diary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My Daily Diary
This app offers a private and flexible journaling experience. Track your mood, dreams, or experiences with customizable entries. Secure your thoughts with a built-in lock system for ultimate privacy.
- Private journaling
- Mood tracking
- Customizable entries
- Picture import
- Calendar navigation
- App lock
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A simple, flexible and private diary. Keeping a journal helps in many ways. You can be more aware of your feelings and thoughts, keep track of your mood, dreams or experiences. Many influencing people love keeping a diary since it helps in so many ways! -- “People who keep journals have life twice.” -- Jessamyn West We've made this app as simple to use as possible. Everything is easy to discover and we'll guide you through the most advanced features. Our users love a simple and polished experience and that's what we give them. -- “In the journal I am at ease.” -- Anais Nin We give you all the flexibility you need. We won't tie you to any strict structure or force you to track anything you don't care about. You can add entries to the diary, like a mindfulness session or an area to list reasons for gratitude. You may even configure the diary as a travel journal or a dreams journal! That's easy to setup too: the only limit is your imagination. -- “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” -- Anne Frank Your diary should be as private as you want. We do not upload your data anywhere, we don't track you and we value your privacy. And you get even more: we included a system to lock the app, so that no intruder can see your diary without your consent. Your diary is yours, private and secure. -- “Whether you’re keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it’s the same thing. What’s important is you’re having a relationship with your mind.” -- Natalie Goldberg You are using an advanced device, so we're providing advanced and easy to use features. Like a cute mood tracking system. Or a way to import pictures in your journal. But also a calendar to navigate your memories... You can feel at ease, with a simple and familiar diary in your hands but also feel the power of the new tech you are using. We hope you will enjoy the balance. -- “I don’t journal to ‘be productive.’ I don’t do it to find great ideas or to put down prose I can later publish. The pages aren’t intended for anyone but me. It’s the most cost-effective therapy I’ve ever found.” -- Tim Ferriss Download and try it, you will not regret it! --- Terms Of Service for the subscription: To unlock the app you may need to subscribe to the service. This helps us pay development costs and provide a better experience. Please consider supporting us if you like the app. You can check if you like the app and the premium content before making any commitment by using the free trial. It's free and easy to manage from within the app. We're always here to help anyway. Here are a few more details: - Free trial: You can use the app for free for a trial period. After that period you can subscribe to have full access to the app. You can cancel the subscription before the free trial period expires and you won’t be charged. - Subscription is auto-renewable. It will renew automatically 24h before expiration and it will be billed to your iTunes Account - You can cancel from the subscription anytime from settings > Your Name > iTunes & App Store > Apple Id > Subscriptions. Instructions and a link to the management page are also included inside the app (settings > support) - When cancelling, the subscription will stay active until the end of the period. Auto-renewal will be disabled but the current subscription period can't be refunded. WARNING: uninstalling the app will NOT cancel the subscription! Please make sure to follow the instructions above, check the support section inside the app or follow this link: https://crazyhorseapps.com/support. Privacy Policy: https://crazyhorseapps.com/apps-privacy-policy Terms Of Service: https://crazyhorseapps.com/apps/my-journal/my-journal-terms Support Page: https://crazyhorseapps.com/support
Text Diary
A free and simple text-based journaling app that allows unlimited entries. Organize your thoughts with folders, colors, and tags, and easily search or filter your past entries. Enjoy a comfortable user experience with quick startup and dark mode.
- Unlimited daily diary entries
- Organize by folder, color, tag
- Searchable diary entries
- Filter by date or tag
- Quick startup and comfortable operation
- Dark mode support
- Completely free to use
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It's a simple text diary app. All features are completely free to use. Features: - Unlimited daily diary - Classified by folder, color, tag - Search diary - Filter by date or tag - Quick start-up, comfortable operability - Dark mode - All free URL scheme: textdiary://
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Text Diary at none against My Daily Diary 's 7. My Daily Diary 's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (1.1K vs 7). On price, rating 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
Both are free to download. My Daily Diary sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Text Diary asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for My Daily Diary against 4.6 for Text Diary. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: My Daily Diary has 1.1K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two.
My Daily Diary ships an update monthly, Text Diary every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | My Daily Diary | Text Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.1K ratings) — better | 4.6 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.1K — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alain caltieri | FugaPiyo Inc. |
Customer experience
My Daily Diary
Text Diary
Bugs and requests
My Daily Diary
Reported bugs
2 issues- Entries randomly disappearing
- App crashing or freezing
Requested features
4 requests- Search functionality for past entries
- Ability to print or export journal entries
- More customization options for layout and appearance
- Sync entries across multiple devices
Text Diary
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
My Daily Diary
- Journal - Weekly Subscription7 Days trial$0.997 Days
- Diary weekly$0.997 Days
- Journal - Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$3.991 Month
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- Journal - Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Diary yearly NT$19.991 Year
- Diary yearly 2WT14 Days trial$19.991 Year
- My personal daily diary 4life$29.99
Text Diary
No in-app purchases
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