Daymood vs Hana Diary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Daymood
Track your daily emotions using five distinct feelings and their intensity levels. Log your experiences alongside your feelings and visualize your emotional patterns through various views and monthly statistics. Share your emotional journey as images.
- Record emotions with intensity
- Log daily experiences
- Emoji, calendar, and list views
- Monthly emotion statistics
- Share feelings as images
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Record your day with five emotions. You can record feelings of joy, sadness, anger, irritability, or fear. Each emotion can also record the intensity from 1 to 100. Just press the emoji just as you feel it. You can record not only feelings but also what happened at that time. Record what emotions and things you have experienced. You can view your emotions in emoji, calendar, and list views. Choose a viewing mode that is comfortable or enjoyable. Provides statistics of monthly emotions. You can see how you felt for a month. You can share your feelings alone. Share your emoji and calendar as images and share with your friends.
Hana Diary
This app offers a simple and nostalgic way to log your daily thoughts and feelings. It provides a warm, encouraging experience with gentle animations and easy calendar browsing of past entries. Your data is kept private and stored locally on your device.
- Instant entry writing
- Nostalgic animations and comments
- Calendar view for past entries
- Local data storage for privacy
- No sign-up or login required
- Data reset option
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Hana Diary: A Small Habit to Cherish Your Day A nostalgic diary that feels like a teacher’s warm touch. What makes it special? Write Instantly Start your entry the moment you open the app. No complicated steps—just jot down your thoughts and feelings right then and there. A Warm, Nostalgic Touch When you save your diary, a gentle comment appears alongside a nostalgic animation, as if a teacher is drawing a big circle on your page with a colored pencil. It’s like revisiting the diary you kept on your childhood school desk. Reflect Through the Calendar Easily browse your past records with the calendar view. Discover the joy of looking back at who you were today, last month, or even last year. Crafted with Care We’ve paid close attention to every detail. From the book opening and closing to the hand-drawn circle animation, every small moment is designed to be cozy and emotional. No Strings Attached Hana Diary requires no sign-up or login. Start your journey immediately. Your Privacy Matters Every word you write stays on your device. Your data is stored locally and is never sent to external servers or shared with others. Complete Control Over Your Data If you delete the app, all records are removed from the device. You can also use the in-app "Reset" feature to clear all your data at any time. Open Hana Diary and write your first line today. A small moment of self-care and encouragement is waiting for you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Daymood at none against Hana Diary's shown. Daymood also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Daymood ships an update every 4 days, Hana Diary every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Daymood | Hana Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 92.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sung Sil Oh | Jeongbin Park |
Customer experience
Daymood
Hana Diary
In-app purchases
Daymood
No in-app purchases
Hana Diary
No in-app purchases
