Comparison

Inkwell Journal vs Arcave

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

Head to head
About

Inkwell Journal

This app allows users to create detailed journal entries with rich text formatting, media attachments, and drawings. It offers timeline, calendar, and map views for easy navigation and powerful search functionality. Entries can be backed up to iCloud and synchronized across devices.

Highlights
  • Rich text journal editor
  • Add photos, videos, audio, and PDFs
  • Drawing editor with guides
  • Document scanning to PDF
  • Timeline, calendar, and map views
  • Powerful search functionality
  • iCloud backup and sync
  • Multiple journal creation
Features
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WRITE YOUR LIFE Whether you want to put "pen to paper" to enhance your overall sense of wellbeing or you want to capture the memory of a good day, Inkwell helps you write your life in a journal/diary with delightful ease. WHY INKWELL? Your journal is the story of your life. Inkwell is designed to make your story a pleasure to read and write. With Inkwell, it is easier and more rewarding than ever before to write your story one thought, one event or one moment at a time. ● Use Inkwell's journal editor to create entries that capture the important moments of life. Format your entry with fonts for titles and headings, create bulleted and numbered lists, indent paragraphs, choose colors, and more. Take photos and record video with the camera and capture audio with the microphone. Import photos, video, audio recordings and PDFs from your photo library and other apps. Arrange them all together to write your story. ● Add drawings to your journal entries with Inkwell's drawing editor. Choose from a variety of stroke styles and attributes such as opacity, smoothness and color. Use the drawing guides to form perfect lines, circles and rectangles. With Inkwell's drawing feature, capture diagrams, formulate equations, or add a little sparkle to your journal entries with fun artwork. ● Scan documents with your camera and import them as PDF documents info your journal entries. ● Inkwell presents all your journal entries in one seamless timeline for you to remember and explore your life. You can sort the entries from oldest to newest or newest to oldest. As you read your journal, zoom in on photos, play videos and audio recordings, and share your entries with friends and family using email or text messaging. ● Inkwell's media gallery brings all the photos, videos, audio recordings and PDFs together. It is a great place to browse your photos, watch videos and listen to recordings. From the media view, you can jump to the corresponding entry in your journal. ● Inkwell remembers when and where you write your journal entries. With the calendar and map views it is easy to travel through space and time to find what you wrote and see where you have been. ● Inkwell's powerful search lets you find any of the words you wrote in your journal and presents them in the context of your entries. ● Safely and securely back up each entry to iCloud. ● Use iCloud to synchronize your journal on all your devices. Write in your journal from any of your iOS devices and Inkwell will synchronize your entries across all your iOS devices. ● Create multiple journals to organize your entries by subject such as personal, family, work, baby, vacation, etc. You can freely move entries between journals. ● Export your entire journal to PDF or plain text to save it, print it using Air Print, or share it with another app. SUPPORT If you need help, send an email to support@tolaru.com. Privacy Policy http://tolaru.com/inkwell/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use http://tolaru.com/inkwell/terms-of-use/

About

Arcave

Features
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Arcave is your personal intelligence layer. The more you journal, the more Arcave understands your unique perspective, your experiences, and your life over time. Arcave builds a comprehensive memory of your life — the people you meet, the places you go, and your daily experiences — intelligently connecting your past and present. See how your ideas evolve over the months. Arcave naturally surfaces your recurring topics, your interests, and the concepts you keep returning to. Your entries are yours. Always. Speak or type, attach photos and locations, and let Arcave organize your thoughts. The app that knows you. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Inkwell Journal4 screens
Arcave4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Arcave at 5.0 against Inkwell Journal's 4.8. Inkwell Journal's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 1). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Arcave holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Inkwell Journal has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Inkwell Journal versus Arcave: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInkwell JournalArcave
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (10 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB57 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTolaru LLCYa Shiuan Lin

In-app purchases

None

Inkwell Journal

No in-app purchases

None

Arcave

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Inkwell Journal free?
Inkwell Journal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Arcave free?
Arcave is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Inkwell Journal or Arcave?
Arcave is rated higher. Inkwell Journal averages 4.8 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Arcave averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Inkwell Journal or Arcave have ads?
Neither Inkwell Journal nor Arcave shows ads.

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