Waffle vs Sharing Me
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Waffle
This app facilitates shared journaling for couples, families, and friends to deepen connections. Users can share daily updates, photos, and videos, and answer prompts to get to know each other better. It offers a private space to document memories and strengthen relationships.
- Shared journaling for groups
- Photo and video sharing
- Daily prompts to foster connection
- Customizable journal covers
- Private and secure entries
- Relationship strengthening tool
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Waffle is the #1 shared journal app for staying connected and getting to know your partner, family, friends, or anyone you care about better. By journaling together on Waffle, you and your journal members will feel seen, heard, and loved. THE BEST SHARED JOURNAL APP Waffle lets you practice self-care together with your favorite people. Journaling consistently can be hard on your own, but it's easier and more fun together, like sharing a warm, fluffy waffle. Share photos and videos to tell them about your day, record memories, and capture the little things that might otherwise be forgotten—all in one journal. STAY UPDATED LIFE UPDATES "Documenting our married life together -- the highs, lows, and little things in between" - Amber "I love when I get notifications" - Karla No matter how far apart you are or how busy your day is, Waffle lets you take intentional moments to connect. Open the Waffle app at the end of the day, unwind, and share your story. If you thought about them during the day, let them know in your journal entry! WAFFLE TIME "When my friend says "Waffle time, people!" at the end of the day, my face lights up" - Lucy "Especially helped my girlfriend to recenter at the end of the day and see the many good parts of life that are easily drowned out." - Herman WAFFLE OF THE DAY QUESTIONS "Get to know each other better even though we've been married for 20 years" - Faith "It's a form of therapy. Brought me and my sister closer than ever." - Rita Waffle of the Day questions are designed to strengthen your relationships. By answering them each day, you and your journal members will get to know each other better. It helps you understand what's on their mind and lets them know what's on yours. Waffle makes sharing easy, with no pressure, in a relaxed and non-confrontational way. AESTHETIC JOURNAL COVERS "Allowed me and my mom to connect on a deeper level" - Cecilia "Allows me to vent in a constructive way" - Isabella Your everyday tool should be pretty and aesthetically pleasing. Choose the cover that lifts your spirits the most. Waffle can help you if you are: • A long-distance couple • A military family staying connected during deployment • Looking to make therapy sessions more effective by sharing your day-to-day events and feelings with your therapist • A mother and daughter communicating better in a non-confrontational way • Reuniting and staying connected with your childhood friends • Trying to stay off social media and focus on the relationships that matter most • Strengthening your faith through a prayer journal • Reconnecting after a long marriage • An engaged couple getting ready for married life • Offering emotional support to your best friend • Making parenting or co-parenting easier • Sharing your baby photos with context • Practicing gratitude in a group • Dealing with an eating disorder • Increasing sexual intimacy in your relationship • In a long-distance relationship, struggling with time differences • Looking to improve couple therapy • Looking to connect with your children A NEW FORM OF THERAPY "It's a therapy for us" - Mariah "Extra helpful for my therapy sessions" - Isabella "Honestly this app is helping us more than our marriage counseling did" - Holly We believe that shared journaling is a new form of therapy that can restore meaningful human connections—connections that are essential to our emotional health and well-being but are rapidly disappearing in our society. With Waffle Plus, you’ll be able to: • Add photos and videos to any entry • Record and attach voice memos • Unlock unlimited premium daily question decks • Choose from our entire collection of premium covers • Export your journal as a printable PDF Say hi at support@journal.com or visit wafflejournal.com. Terms: https://www.wafflejournal.com/terms Privacy policy: https://www.wafflejournal.com/privacy-policy
Sharing Me
This app allows users to create private or shared daily journals for self-reflection and relationship building. It features categorized entries, a time-travel function to review past thoughts, and secure local storage. Premium options offer syncing and enhanced privacy.
- Daily reflection journaling
- Categorize journals into circles
- Share journals with loved ones
- Time travel to past entries
- Offline access
- Scribble and doodle functionality
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Sharing Me is a private and shared daily journal app made for self-reflection, personal growth, and better relationships through shared journaling. Write a brief reflection each day, then travel back in time to see what you wrote weeks, months, or even years ago. Also, categorize your journals in circles, and even share journals with loved ones. Don't just live your life. Understand and document it. Try Sharing Me for free! ■ REFLECTION SELF JOURNAL WITH CALENDAR Each day, write what's on your mind in your daily reflections journal. Then revert in time on a dedicated diary calendar. Swipe through entries to understand patterns, reminisce on good memories, and learn from the bad ones. Furthermore, Sharing Me features a simple journal UI enhanced with a scribble diary notebook page where you can handwrite your thoughts. Add daily diary reminders and make it your secure, private life journal or daily notes with a date for random thoughts and lists; it's your choice. ■ CIRCLES – DIARY CATEGORIES Unlike other daily journal apps, Sharing Me allows you to create multiple journal categories, called circles. For example, you can have a self-reflection journal, a partner connection journal for relationships, a family memories journal, gratitude journal, mini journal for quick thoughts, mood journal for mood tracking, and more. You can also create custom circles with a name and custom color themes. ■ SHARED JOURNAL FOR COUPLES & FAMILIES Each of these journal circles can be shared with your partner, family, or even friends. All you need to do is invite them through the app. Then you can journal together by journaling thoughts in your shared diary. Use this to strengthen the bond, learn about your relationship, and grow mutually. ■ 100% PRIVATE, SECURE, ENCRYPTED All journal entries are stored on your phone locally. This means we, or nobody else, has access to them. You can also view or make entries offline. If you want to sync and access your diary notes anywhere, and even on the web, subscribe to our premium plan. There, you'll also get end-to-end encryption for your diary notes, among other perks. ■ SHARING ME APP FEATURES: · Daily journaling with 280 characters (500 with Premium) · Time travel: view entries from weeks, months, and years ago · Private circles for partners, families, and friends · Private notes that only you can see · Beautiful scribbles and doodles · 6 stunning color themes + custom colors · Optional daily journal reminder · Works completely offline · No ads journal PREMIUM FEATURES • Sync across all your devices • Web app access • Unlimited circles • End-to-end encryption for complete privacy • Custom daily writing prompts • 500 character limit Whether you need a private mindful journal, a memory journal for you and your family, or a shared couples journal, Sharing Me is your easy choice. ► Get Sharing Me for free and start your journey today. One thought at a time. ___________ YOUR PRIVACY, OUR COMMITMENT Your thoughts are deeply personal. Free users keep everything on-device and accessible offline. Premium users' data is also stored on secure servers in Germany, fully compliant with EU privacy laws (GDPR). The optional end-to-end encryption means that not even we can read your entries. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Sharing Me at 100% against Waffle's 46%. Sharing Me also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). Waffle's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 3.7) and ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Waffle sells 17 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days and Sharing Me sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Waffle holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Waffle has 11K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 46% of Waffle's written reviews are positive against 100% of Sharing Me's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Waffle | Sharing Me |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (11K ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 46.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #140 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 143 MB | 102 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Poppy AI, Inc. | Burkhart Digital LLC |
Customer experience
Waffle
Sharing Me
Bugs and requests
Waffle
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes when trying to open old journal entries
- Issues with uploading and viewing photos/videos
- Inability to create new journals or add collaborators
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to comment on journal entries
- Implement a more flexible pricing structure (e.g., monthly option)
- Allow customization of journal covers and layouts
- Improve stability and fix reported bugs
- Add time zone support for shared journals
Sharing Me
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Waffle
- Waffle Weekly$9.997 Days
- Waffle Monthly Plus$14.991 Month
- Waffle Monthly Plus$19.991 Month
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- Waffle Unlimited$39.991 Year
- 1 Plus Journal7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Waffle Unlimited7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Waffle Unlimited Plus7 Days trial$49.991 Year
- 1 Plus Journal7 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Waffle Unlimited7 Days trial$59.991 Year
- 1 Plus Journal7 Days trial$74.991 Year
- Waffle Unlimited$74.991 Year
- Waffle Unlimited7 Days trial$89.991 Year
- 2 Plus Journals7 Days trial$89.991 Year
- Unlimited Plus Journals7 Days trial$129.001 Year
- 2 Plus Journals7 Days trial$129.991 Year
- Unlimited Plus7 Days trial$199.991 Year
- Lifetime Unlimited$199.99
Sharing Me
- Sharing Me Weekly$1.497 Days
- Sharing Me Monthly$2.991 Month
- Couple Monthly Premium$5.991 Month
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- Family Monthly Premium$7.491 Month
- Sharing Me Quarterly$7.993 Months
- Sharing Me Yearly1 Month trial$29.991 Year
- Couple Yearly Premium1 Month trial$59.991 Year
- Family Yearly Premium1 Month trial$74.991 Year









