diary.app vs Text Diary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
diary.app
This application allows users to easily record their thoughts and create multiple distinct journals. It offers a straightforward way to document personal reflections and experiences.
- Create posts for thoughts
- Multiple diary creation
- Simple interface
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Simple Diary app. You can simply create posts what you thought. You can create multiple diaries.
Text Diary
A free and simple text-based journaling app that allows unlimited entries. Organize your thoughts with folders, colors, and tags, and easily search or filter your past entries. Enjoy a comfortable user experience with quick startup and dark mode.
- Unlimited daily diary entries
- Organize by folder, color, tag
- Searchable diary entries
- Filter by date or tag
- Quick startup and comfortable operation
- Dark mode support
- Completely free to use
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It's a simple text diary app. All features are completely free to use. Features: - Unlimited daily diary - Classified by folder, color, tag - Search diary - Filter by date or tag - Quick start-up, comfortable operability - Dark mode - All free URL scheme: textdiary://
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: diary.app at none against Text Diary's shown. diary.app also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 2 months) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Text Diary's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 4.3). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Text Diary holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 6 respectively.
diary.app ships an update daily, Text Diary every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on August 16, 2026 and July 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | diary.app | Text Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (4 ratings) | 4.5 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DRIP PRODUCTS LIMITED LIABILITY CO. | FugaPiyo Inc. |
Customer experience
diary.app
Text Diary
In-app purchases
diary.app
No in-app purchases
Text Diary
No in-app purchases
