Personal Diary & Notes vs Personote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Personal Diary & Notes
Organize your thoughts, feelings, and memories with this secure journaling app. It offers features like pin code protection, customizable fonts, and powerful search to keep your private life organized and safe.
- Pin code and fingerprint protection
- Multiple note categories
- Powerful search functionality
- Customizable font styles and colors
- Favorite/unfavorite notes
- Emoji support
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Have a hobby to write personal journals daily, or just want to organize your notes better? This app got you! Diary app is a simple application with the coolest features, to save your daily thoughts, feelings and memories… or work notes, quick ideas notes, or just a daily goals checklist. This app is an organizer for all of those notes and protects them by a pin code or fingerprint lock protection, to secure your private life’s businesses from others in one app. It provides you a powerful search filter to find any of your notes in seconds. Also, allows you full customization of the font style and colors! Features: Pin code and Fingerprint protection provided to secure your notes Multiple categories provided, to organize your notes in the best way possible Powerful Search provided, to find any note very easily Customizable font styles and font colors Allows you to favorite or unfavorite your notes Emojis are enabled So give this app a try to handle your hobby of writing journals daily and save all your secrets, thoughts, or goals with the best security possible.
Personote
A secure, local note-taking app that prioritizes user privacy by not storing data remotely. It offers rich text editing, image insertion, and cross-device synchronization via local network.
- Local data storage, no remote recording
- Rich text formatting (bold, underline, font size)
- Image insertion
- Cross-device synchronization via local LAN
- Simple and beautiful UI design
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"Personote" is a local notebook that does not record your personal data remotely. In other words, no one can get your data!! [Supports common text editing formats] font size, boldface, underline, font color, symbol list, inserting pictures, etc. [Supports cross-device data synchronization] synchronize data between different devices through the local LAN. [UI Design] Simple and beautiful design, comfortable user experience. [Kind tips] If you encounter any problems or have any suggestions about your experience, you can send them to our email: 947268652@qq.com We never stop optimizing the product and fixing bugs. Your feedback is the greatest help for us to improve our services!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Personote at 5.0 against Personal Diary & Notes's 1.0. Personote also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Personote holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Personal Diary & Notes ships an update fortnightly, Personote every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Personal Diary & Notes | Personote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Viion | 祖铁 程 |
Customer experience
Personal Diary & Notes
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In-app purchases
Personal Diary & Notes
No in-app purchases
Personote
No in-app purchases
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