Jiff Journal vs Sparko
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Jiff Journal
This app helps you understand yourself better by journaling your life experiences and goals. Easily store and recall memories using text, feelings, or calendar search. Your entries are private, stored only on your devices and iCloud.
- Memory storage and recall
- Search by text, feelings, calendar
- Private, device-only storage
- iCloud sync across devices
- Visualize memories by feeling
- iCloud backup
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Do you want to know yourself better? Do you want to be clear about your life goals? Do you want to revere every notable experience in your life? Let Jiff Journal help you. Conserve your memories anytime, anywhere. It's an optimized journal where you can easily store tiny to large entries. And it has never been easier to recall your memories. You can search using text, feelings and calendar. Just mark your life journey and cherish it forever. Privacy matters: your entries are stored only on your devices and in your iCloud account, nobody else can access them. This app is free. With in-app purchases, you can buy Premium subscription. Being a Premium member, you can: - Visualize your memories based on the feeling you wrote them with. - Sync your entries across iPhone, iPad and Mac. Make sure you are signed in with the same iCloud account on each device, and that iCloud Drive is turned on. - Backup your data in your iCloud account. Make sure your iCloud Drive is turned on. Since backup is on your iCloud Account, only you can see your memories. Privacy Policy: https://indianmoody.github.io/jiff_journal_info/privacy_policy Terms and Conditions: https://indianmoody.github.io/jiff_journal_info/terms_and_conditions
Sparko
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Is your inspiration scattered across every corner of your digital life? Screenshots in your camera roll, links saved across different apps, half-written notes, and ideas that appear out of nowhere. Each one caught your attention for a reason, but many are rarely seen again. Sparko gives those ideas a place of their own. It does more than organize images. It helps you put inspiration back into the part of your life where it belongs. MAKE SPACE FOR EVERY PART OF YOUR LIFE Your next trip, the home you are decorating, outfits you want to try, books you want to read, or a product you are building. Create a space for each part of your life. A screenshot no longer belongs only to the day you saved it. It can belong to your home, your travels, or whatever you want to do next. SAVE NOW, SORT LATER Save a screenshot, photo, link, or passing thought. Capture it first and add tags whenever you are ready. The ideas that used to disappear into your camera roll finally have somewhere to stay. FIND IT AGAIN WITH TAGS Add primary and secondary tags to your inspiration. When something comes back to mind, you will not have to search through your camera roll, notes, and different apps to find it. Open Sparko and see it again. FROM SAVED FOR LATER TO HAPPENING NOW Mark inspiration as Saved, In Progress, or Completed. Some ideas deserve to become more than another item in a collection. Sparko lets you see them gradually become part of your real life. It does not expect you to act on everything you save, and it will not pressure you. It simply keeps the things you love close and helps you notice which ideas are actually happening. KEY FEATURES • Create spaces around different parts of your life • Save screenshots, photos, links, and written ideas • Organize inspiration with primary and secondary tags • Search and filter everything you have saved • Track ideas as Saved, In Progress, or Completed • Enjoy a calm, notebook-inspired interface Your camera roll saves the image. Sparko saves what it means to your life. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Sparko at every 4 days against Jiff Journal's every 4 months. Jiff Journal's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, 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. Jiff Journal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Sparko sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Jiff Journal ships an update every 4 months, Sparko every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Jiff Journal | Sparko |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gaurav Bishnoi | 若璇 王 |
In-app purchases
Jiff Journal
- Jiff All Access$0.991 Month
- Jiff All Access$5.991 Year
Sparko
- Spark 月度订阅$0.991 Month
- Spark 年度订阅7 Days trial$6.991 Year
- Spark 终身$14.99









