My Diary Plus vs Secret Diary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My Diary Plus
This application provides a simple and practical way to keep a digital diary. You can write entries, customize text appearance, add images, and even draw. It offers a browsing window for easy navigation and allows exporting entries as TXT files.
- Text entry and editing
- Font and text appearance customization
- Add images to entries
- Drawing tools with adjustable line color and thickness
- Diary browsing window
- Export entries as TXT files
- File transfer via iTunes
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My Diary Plus is a diary-keeping software. The program that is simple and practical. The software allows you to enter, change, and edit text; to adjust text appearance and font to your needs. Add images to text and draw graphical images. The colour and thickness of the lines can be easily changed. If you only want to read a diary, you can use the browsing window. This window allows you to navigate between the diary entries. Use the iTunes Apple app to transfer files. The diary entries are located in the iTunes Documents folder, in a folder called the ‘List’. You can save the last folder on MACOS media or you can add an existing ‘List’ folder to the IOS device, into ‘My Diary Plus’ documents folder. The application allows you to save all diary entries in the TXT file format. You can read the format of the TXT file using the standard text editor.
Secret Diary
Securely record your daily thoughts, memories, and secrets. This app allows you to add photos and track your moods, all protected by a passcode. Personalize your journal with themes and easily search past entries.
- Save memories, notes, and ideas
- Add photos and mood emojis
- Unlimited photo storage
- Personalize UI with themes
- Passcode protection and data encryption
- Powerful search and filter functions
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Your cute diary, with a lock. Memories turns every day into a scrapbook page. Write in a handwriting you love, add your photos, washi tape and stickers, and keep it all behind a lock only you can open. A LITTLE FRIEND FOR EVERY MOOD Choose your friend: Mochi the kitten, Bun the bunny, Peanut the hamster and more. They ask how your day went, cheer you on and hop for joy when you check in. EVERY DAY, A SCRAPBOOK PAGE • Write in 36 handwritings and fonts • Add photos and videos in cute frames • Decorate with 170+ stickers, washi tape and pretty papers • Snap a photo and turn it into a die-cut sticker • Draw and doodle with your finger or Apple Pencil YOUR YEAR IN COLOR • Log your mood in one tap: Bright, Good, Steady, Low or Heavy • See your whole year as a mood calendar • Find out what lifts you up HABITS AND PLANS, RIGHT NEXT TO YOUR DIARY • Build habits with gentle streaks • See today's tasks as a little timeline • Count down to the days you can't wait for PRIVATE AND SAFE • Lock your diary with Face ID, Touch ID or a passcode • Your entries stay yours. No ads, nothing shared MAKE IT YOURS • Pretty themes, friends and handwritings • Home screen widgets • Turn your year into a book to keep MEMORIES+ Writing, moods, the lock, reminders and export are always free. Memories+ adds every friend, theme, handwriting, sticker pack, frame and paper, unlimited photos and videos, unlimited habits, tasks and countdowns, your diary on iPhone and iPad with iCloud sync, and your full mood history. Memories+ is a subscription that renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://nwlamll.github.io/apps/termsofuse.html Privacy Policy: https://nwlamll.github.io/apps/pp.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Secret Diary at 4.8 against My Diary Plus's 1.0. Secret Diary also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 24 months) and ratings volume (112 vs 1). My Diary Plus's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). 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
Both are free to download. Secret Diary sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. My Diary Plus asks for nothing beyond the download.
Secret Diary holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Secret Diary has 112 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
My Diary Plus ships an update every 24 months, Secret Diary every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | My Diary Plus | Secret Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.8 (112 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 90.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 112 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 24 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 263 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Janek Soomets | Nawal Amallou |
Customer experience
My Diary Plus
Secret Diary
Bugs and requests
My Diary Plus
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Secret Diary
Reported bugs
5 issues- Forgot password not working
- Password glitch
- App shuts out sometimes
- App cuts out and needs restarting
- Password input issues (0-9 vs 1-4)
Requested features
4 requests- Make fingerprint ID free
- Make advanced features free
- More color options
- More features
In-app purchases
My Diary Plus
No in-app purchases
Secret Diary
- Monthly Plan$2.991 Month
- Annual Plan$17.991 Year
Questions
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