My Diary Plus vs Diary Journal
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.
Diary Journal
This app provides a secure and private digital space for recording thoughts, memories, and dreams. It encourages self-reflection and personal growth through daily journaling, ensuring all entries are kept confidential.
- Secret diary entries
- Log life events and progress
- Record emotions and feelings
- Password protection for privacy
- Encourages self-reflection
- Modern journal interface
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Diary, a secret diary which is a new special place for your thoughts, memories, dreams! Mark down all special events, write about your moments and rest assured all your secrets are safe here in the cutest personal journal. It's a modern journal that will encourage you to open up and motivate you to become the best version of yourself. Log life events & progress with our journal diary with password app. A convenient, safe, reliable and simple to use mobile diary app to log your daily life activities, emotions and feelings. You can keep it securely from others eyes, no one will see your diary book. Privacy Policy: https://www.bytecrazy.com/common_privacy_en.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Diary Journal at 4.7 against My Diary Plus's 1.0. Diary Journal also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 24 months) and ratings volume (368 vs 1). My Diary Plus's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Diary Journal sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per year. My Diary Plus asks for nothing beyond the download.
Diary Journal holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Diary Journal has 368 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
My Diary Plus ships an update every 24 months, Diary Journal every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | My Diary Plus | Diary Journal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.7 (368 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 368 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 24 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Janek Soomets | Heyou Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
My Diary Plus
Diary Journal
Bugs and requests
My Diary Plus
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Diary Journal
Reported bugs
9 issues- Video uploads fail and crash repeatedly
- Long video entries don't save properly
- Data doesn't transfer to new phone despite cloud backup
- Import from ZIP file causes app to close
- App crashes when importing exported data
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- Audio playback volume extremely faint
- Audio doesn't work with headphones or speakerphone
- Slow performance when reviewing weekly entries
- No customer support response to data loss issues
Requested features
10 requests- Timestamp for each journal entry
- Password reset or recovery option
- Multiple entries per day in free version
- Font customization (size, bold, italics, underline)
- Location tagging for entries
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- Longer video duration allowance
- Better fake diary with generic text and pictures
- Login system for cloud data sync
- Cross-device data transfer
- Improved audio volume and headphone support
In-app purchases
My Diary Plus
No in-app purchases
Diary Journal
- Diary Pro 1 Year$19.991 Year
Questions
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