Comparison

PotClock vs Voice Journal & Diary

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

Head to head
About

PotClock

This application helps individuals track their progress within a specific recovery program. It provides a digital tool to monitor personal limits and milestones, designed exclusively for working the program. Detailed guidance is available within the app.

Highlights
  • Limit tracking for recovery program
  • Digital tool for milestone monitoring
  • Exclusive use for program work
  • In-app guide section
  • Clean and serene interface
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PotClock 2 is a limit tracking application for working the Green, Clean, and Serene Twelve Step recovery program. This digital tool builds upon the idea of the program to help folks track their limits. It is intended to only be used for working the program. More information can be found in the guide section of the app.

About

Voice Journal & Diary

This AI-powered voice journal allows you to speak your thoughts instead of writing them. It transcribes your spoken entries, organizes them with headings, and offers advanced features like life threads and mood tracking for deeper self-reflection. Enjoy a beautifully designed interface that feels personal and intuitive.

Highlights
  • Voice-to-text transcription
  • Automatic entry headings
  • Life threads and mood tracking
  • Weekly summary letters
  • Multi-language support
  • Biometric journal lock
  • Customizable page designs
Features
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Your mind is full. The page is blank. Dearly is the AI voice journal that lets you skip the page and just talk. Most journals ask you to sit down and write, and that is the part people give up on. Dearly asks for a minute of talking out loud, the way you'd tell a friend. Tap the orb, say what's on your mind, and it comes back as a written page you'll actually want to read again. NO BLANK PAGE, EVER No sentences to structure, no grammar, no cursor waiting for you. Talk for a minute in the car, on a walk, or in bed with the lights off. Dearly writes it down in clean serif type, gives the entry a heading so you can find it again, and puts it away. • 10 entries written out every day. Free, forever. YOU DON'T THINK IN A SECOND LANGUAGE Writing gives you time to find the right words. Talking doesn't, and it shouldn't have to. Dearly speaks English, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese and Korean. Your headings, your questions and your Sunday letter all come back in the language you chose. Pick it on the very first screen, and change it whenever you like. YOU SAID MORE THAN YOU REMEMBER (PRO) Everyone loses the thread of their own life. The thing that's been bothering you since March. The person who comes up every time you're tired. The worry you thought you were over. • Threads of your life: the things you keep coming back to, drawn together from what you actually said, with a few written lines about how each one has gone. • You close a thread yourself, when it feels settled. Dearly never closes one for you. • This month's cast: the people, places and topics that keep appearing in your thoughts. • Mood horizon: your month as a painted sky of moods, not a spreadsheet. • Open an entry and get a question drawn from its own words. Talk it through, and read back later what you worked out. THE WEEK GOES BY. SUNDAY, YOU GET IT BACK (PRO) Once a week, Dearly writes you a letter about the week you just lived. Short, and yours. Every letter is kept, so you can go back to any week you like and meet the person you were in it. WHAT YOU SAY HERE STAYS YOURS • Your voice travels over an encrypted connection purely for transcription, and is never stored. • Recordings stay on your phone. • Face ID or Touch ID on the whole journal, if you want it. • Export everything, or delete your account and all of it, from inside the app. IT SHOULDN'T FEEL LIKE WORK Serif type, warm paper surfaces, and moods that drift like weather. A place for your own head shouldn't look like a task manager or a spreadsheet. You pick the page you write on: Stone Sage in the morning, Obsidian or Indigo Ink when it's late. Stone Sage is free forever. The other three come with Pro. FREE AND PRO, HONESTLY • Free forever: unlimited voice recording, 10 entries written out a day, your full written journal, biometric lock, and the Stone Sage page to write on. • Dearly Pro: threads of your life, your Sunday letter and every letter before it, mood horizon, your cast of people and topics, a question drawn from any entry, three more pages to write on (Rose Quartz, Obsidian and Indigo Ink), and export. Every Pro feature is free for your first 7 days. Call it an audio journal, a mood tracker, a mental health diary, or just thinking out loud. Start tonight. Say the things you'd never slow down to write. Dearly Pro is an auto-renewable subscription (monthly or annual); a one-time lifetime purchase is also available. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel anytime in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://brooo.app/dearly/privacy

Screenshots

PotClock4 screens
Voice Journal & Diary4 screens

Verdict

The call

PotClock and Voice Journal & Diary both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Voice Journal & Diary's written reviews are positive against 0% of PotClock's. Voice Journal & Diary also leads on ratings volume (6 vs 1). PotClock's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. PotClock sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Voice Journal & Diary sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PotClock holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Voice Journal & Diary has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of PotClock's written reviews are positive against 100% of Voice Journal & Diary's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PotClock ships an update every 2 days, Voice Journal & Diary every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
PotClock versus Voice Journal & Diary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPotClockVoice Journal & Diary
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.8 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings16 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB61 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperChase GilesSwapnil Tiwari

Customer experience

PotClock

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Voice Journal & Diary

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

6 purchases

PotClock

One-time6
  • One Dollar Tip$1.00
  • Five Dollar Tip$5.00
  • Ten Dollar Tip$10.00
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  • Twenty Dollar Tip$20.00
  • Fifty Dollar Tip$50.00
  • Onehundred Dollar Tip$100.00
3 purchases

Voice Journal & Diary

Subscriptions2
  • Dearly Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Dearly Pro Annual$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Dearly Pro Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is PotClock free?
PotClock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Voice Journal & Diary free?
Voice Journal & Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, PotClock or Voice Journal & Diary?
PotClock is rated higher. PotClock averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Voice Journal & Diary averages 4.8 from 6 ratings.
Do PotClock or Voice Journal & Diary have ads?
Neither PotClock nor Voice Journal & Diary shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PotClock or Voice Journal & Diary?
PotClock ships an update every 2 days, and Voice Journal & Diary every 5 days. Most recently, PotClock was updated on October 24, 2026 and Voice Journal & Diary on October 31, 2026.

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