Comparison

Miary vs Mindkit

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

Head to head
About

Miary

This app provides a beautiful and distraction-free space for daily journaling, mood tracking, and memory keeping. Personalize your entries with numerous themes, fonts, and the ability to add photos and videos. It offers insights into how activities affect your mood and includes gratitude prompts to foster positivity.

Highlights
  • 100+ color themes and gradients
  • Mood and activity tracking
  • Miary Insights for mood analysis
  • Soothing nature sounds
  • Markdown editor for text formatting
  • Gratitude prompts and inspirational thoughts
  • Secure iCloud backup and sync
  • Add photos, videos, and geotags
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- "I've had the app for only twenty minutes and I'm loving it so much." - "I literally downloaded every single diary app in the app store and this one by far stood out because of its fierce focus on the fundamental task. I downloaded it for - to write. I write a lot more than I expected which makes me super happy. Great job!" Miary is a beautiful diary and journal app. We use diary every day to record our daily life journey, once in a lifetime moments, our memories, experiences, major milestones, it has to be subtle, delightful, and gorgeous. Miary makes diary writing an effortless and enjoyable experience. Miary has a lot of features like: Many Color Themes - Miary comes with 100+ beautiful color themes and gradients to choose from. You can personalize Miary with any color of your choice and truly make it yours. Mood tracking and activity tracking - Whatever you are feeling today whether you are happy about a major milestone or sad about something, easily select and track your mood. You can also choose several activities that you did throughout your day like reading books, running, shopping, business trip or anything else. Miary Insights - Get to know how different activities affect your mood. Soothing Sounds - Listen to soothing nature sounds like rain, forest, river, birds & ocean to increase your focus while you write your diary. Clean and Minimal UI - Write your daily diary and journal with our clean, beautiful and distraction-free interface. Dark Mode - You can use Dark Mode to reduce the strain on your eyes and also to save your battery. Fonts - Choose from 50+ different fonts to customize your diary as you wish. Format text beautifully with a powerful markdown editor - Easily format text like bold, italic, and strikethrough with our easy to use markdown editor. Gratitude Prompts & Inspirational Thoughts - Receive new gratitude prompts and inspirational thoughts daily. Easy and Secure backup and sync - Always keep your diary and journal secured and protected by automatic backup to iCloud. - Easily sync across multiple devices - FaceID / TouchID protection Easily add photos and videos - Add unlimited photos and videos to your diary and journal entries to keep your memories. Geotag your diary/journal entries - Add location to your journal entries and view them on the map. Fully Accessible - Miary fully supports accessibility features like VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, Reduce Motion, etc. Writing a diary also has several health benefits like: - Increasing focus and concentration - Happier mind and Healthier body - Manage stress and anxieties Miary also helps you to be grateful and think more positively with daily inspirational quotes and gratitude prompts. Basic usage of the app is and always will be free. Some extra features may be unlocked by subscribing to Miary Premium. MIARY PREMIUM FEATURES: - 100+ beautiful color themes and gradients - Advanced search with multiple filters - Format text beautifully - Add custom tags to your diary entries - Add unlimited photos and videos - 50+ fonts - Soothing sounds - Gratitude prompts Miary offers an auto-renewing monthly subscription at $0.99, an auto-renewing yearly subscription at $8.99 and a lifetime purchase at $18.99. Monthly and yearly plans offer a 7-day free trial. This price is in US Dollars (USD). Pricing in other currencies and countries may vary and actual charges may be converted to your local currency depending on the country of residence. The subscription automatically renews unless turned off in your iTunes Account at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. Your iTunes account will be charged when the purchase is confirmed. Read more about our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy here: https://miary.app/ios/privacy_terms.html We are always there for you! - If you are facing any issues or have questions, please feel free to email us. Hope you enjoy using our app as much as we do! :)

About

Mindkit

This app helps you organize your life by managing tasks, tracking habits, and taking notes. It offers features for daily tracking, goal progress, and creating wish lists. Stay focused with Pomodoro timers and review your life snapshots.

Highlights
  • Task management with categories
  • Habit tracking and review
  • Pomodoro focus timer
  • Mood diary and diet recording
  • Expense tracking with labels
  • Goal progress monitoring
  • Wish lists and reminders
Features
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MindKit is a lightweight, modular todo and note application. When we're working, studying, or enjoying our daily life, we always focus on many things: - What will I do / learn today? - How many times have you been running / exercising this month? - Am I in good mood today? - I haven't had breakfast for days? - What should I buy next time I go to the supermarket? - How many days is mom's birthday? - Where did you spend all your money this month? - What's the progress of the books you've been reading recently? - How long have you been studying today? - Pay the credit card on the 26th of each month. Keeping todos organized, tracking daily life as well as habits, presenting elegant notes, these are all things MindKit tries to do for you. # Main functions ## Action ### Tasks What do you have to do today / tomorrow / todos? Using task type, you can put different tasks in different types. Suddenly think of a recent thing to do? With "Do it later", you can store them temporarily and deal with them later. ### Habits How many times did you exercise in this month and how many nights did you stay up this week? Simply mark, review quickly, form good habits and keep in good condition. ### Focus With the help of the Pomodoro, keep yourself focused on the most important things at present. ## Daily tracking ### Mood diary How was your day? What memorable things happened? Record your mood and even write a diary. ### Diet record Did you eat healthily today? Did you overeat? How long have you not had breakfast? Record your diet, then review your recent records and pay more attention to your health. ### Bookkeeping book Bookkeeping to control expenses, support labels and custom labels, etc. ### Goals | Progress Where's the progress of the books you've been reading recently, and how many have you completed your goal? Quickly increase progress and support grouping function. ### Woman Period ### Body Weight ## Notes Some wishes, some important days, some wonderful ideas, some reminders? What do you want to buy next time you go to the supermarket? Write down your concerns, track wonderful ideas, and create simple reminders to make your note list accessible. ### Wish List Create a wish list, make a wish, and list specific implementation steps, which will eventually be realized. ### Big Moment Create commemorative moments, and remind them before important days, and support countdown days and positive days. ### Ideas Create ideas, track ideas, list their progress on a timeline, and mark whether they have been realized. ### Reminders Create reminders to remind important matters. ### Notes Create notes to record fragments in life, study and work. ## Snapshots Review your daily life recorded on MindKit and quickly review your recent life. # Other functions - Dark / light appearance, free switching. - Multiple app icons can be changed at any time. - Choose from a variety of theme colors. - iCloud data synchronization, seamless switching of multiple devices. - Password protected and supports TouchID and FaceID. - 20 + desktop widgets. # Multiple options to upgrade to MindKit Pro - Month - automatic renewal subscription - ¥ 6 / month - Year - automatic renewal subscription - ¥ 50 / year - Lifetime - one-off buyout - ¥ 128 * After confirmation of purchase or free trial period (if any), the iTunes account will be charged. * The free trial period (if any) will automatically expire after subscription. * After you subscribe, you can go to the app store account to set up management or cancel your subscription. * The subscription will be automatically renewed unless it is turned off 24 hours before the end of the subscription period. User policy: https://www.mindkit.space/docs/law/userterms Privacy agreement: https://www.mindkit.space/docs/law/privacy Website: https://www.mindkit.space If you encounter any problems or have some suggestions, please feel free to contact us at any time oraclebone@163.com .

Screenshots

Miary4 screens
Mindkit4 screens

Verdict

The call

Miary and Mindkit both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 89% of Mindkit's written reviews are positive against 52% of Miary's. Miary's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Miary sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Mindkit sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Mindkit holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 44 and 46 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 52% of Miary's written reviews are positive against 89% of Mindkit's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Miary ships an update every 5 days, Mindkit every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Miary versus Mindkit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMiaryMindkit
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (44 ratings)4.8 (46 ratings) — better
Positive reviews52.4% of reviews89.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4446 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size62 MB381 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAkash Jain增存 岳

Customer experience

Miary

All ratings44 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive52.4%
Neutral4.8%
Negative42.9%

Mindkit

All ratings46 ratings
Positive93.5%
Neutral2.2%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews37 reviews
Positive89.2%
Neutral2.7%
Negative8.1%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Miary

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Purchase$9.99
3 purchases

Mindkit

Subscriptions2
  • Mindkit Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Mindkit Pro Yearly$6.991 Year
One-time1
  • Mindkit Pro Permanently$19.99

Questions

Is Miary free?
Miary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mindkit free?
Mindkit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Miary or Mindkit?
Mindkit is rated higher. Miary averages 4.6 out of 5 from 44 ratings, while Mindkit averages 4.8 from 46 ratings.
Do Miary or Mindkit have ads?
Neither Miary nor Mindkit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Miary or Mindkit?
Miary ships an update every 5 days, and Mindkit every 9 days. Most recently, Miary was updated on October 21, 2026 and Mindkit on October 19, 2026.

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