Comparison

Everlog vs FaiVE

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

Head to head
About

Everlog

This app provides a private space to record your thoughts, photos, locations, moods, and activities. It offers a distraction-free writing experience with formatting options, prompts, and the ability to capture various media types. Look back on past entries with daily, monthly, and yearly recaps.

Highlights
  • Distraction-free editor with Markdown
  • Writing prompts and templates
  • Capture photos, audio, video, and sketches
  • Location and weather tracking
  • On This Day and monthly/yearly recaps
  • Passcode and biometric lock
  • iCloud sync and multiple journals
Features
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Everlog is a calm, private journal for everything worth remembering: your thoughts, photos, places, moods and workouts, together in one place on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Open it and start writing. Everlog stays out of your way while you write, then helps you look back. Write Without Friction • A fast, distraction-free editor with Markdown formatting, checklists and highlights • Templates with fill-in fields for routines like gratitude lists or morning pages • Writing prompts, plus personal prompt ideas based on your recent entries • Tags, bookmarks, comments and full search keep everything easy to find Capture the Whole Day • Photos, Live Photos and GIFs, inline with your words or in a panel beside them • Location and weather for every entry • Songs, podcasts, workouts with their routes, places and moods from Journaling Suggestions • Voice recordings with automatic transcription, videos, PDFs and sketches Look Back • On This Day shows what you wrote on this date in past years • Recaps sum up every month and year with your photos, stats and a summary written by Apple Intelligence • Widgets for streaks, writing stats and On This Day help you keep the habit Private by Design • Lock Everlog with a passcode, Face ID or Touch ID • Your entries live on your devices and in your own iCloud, never on our servers • Encrypt your backups with a key only your devices hold • Back up to iCloud Drive or a folder of your choice, and export to JSON, PDF, text or CSV at any time At Home on Every Device • A full Mac app with multiple windows, menus and keyboard shortcuts • Designed for iPad, and for iPhone Duo both folded and unfolded • Shortcuts actions, Lock Screen widgets, Control Center controls and Spotlight search Bring Your Journal With You Import from nine other journaling apps, or from Markdown and text files. Your entries keep their dates, and photos and tags come along wherever the other app exports them. Everlog Premium Everlog is free to use, with no limit on entries. Premium adds iCloud sync across all your devices, unlimited journals, automatic backups, video, audio, PDFs, sketches, weather, extra fonts and alternate app icons. Privacy Policy: https://everlog.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://everlog.app/terms

About

FaiVE

Features
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FaiVE - 5秒で書けるAI日記アプリ 毎日の出来事を簡単に記録し、AIがあなたの気持ちに寄り添う日記アプリです。 主な特徴: • 5秒で書ける簡単入力 • AIが日記を分析し、共感と励ましを提供 • 感情の変化をグラフで可視化 • 美しいカレンダー表示 • プライバシー重視のセキュア設計 こんな方におすすめ: • 日記を書きたいけど時間がない • 自分の感情や思考を整理したい • AIとの対話で心のケアをしたい • シンプルで使いやすいアプリを求めている 今すぐFaiVEで、あなただけの特別な日記体験を始めましょう!

Screenshots

Everlog4 screens
FaiVE4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FaiVE at none against Everlog's 3. Everlog's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 8 days vs monthly). On price and iOS requirement 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. Everlog sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. FaiVE asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Everlog ships an update every 8 days, FaiVE monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Everlog versus FaiVE: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEverlogFaiVE
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (309 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews79.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings309 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterMonthly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size218 MB68 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWessley RocheTomoya Seki

Bugs and requests

Everlog

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes when using Apple Intelligence
  • Invisible text when entry exceeds limit
  • Syncing issues leading to data loss

Requested features

5 requests
  • Voice recording/dictation
  • More advanced formatting options
  • Calendar/timeline view
  • Shared/collaborative journals
  • Habit/mood tracking

FaiVE

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Everlog

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Everlog Premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium Lifetime$59.99
None

FaiVE

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Everlog free?
Everlog is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FaiVE free?
FaiVE is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Everlog or FaiVE have ads?
FaiVE shows ads; Everlog does not.
Which is updated more often, Everlog or FaiVE?
Everlog ships an update every 8 days, and FaiVE monthly. Most recently, Everlog was updated on November 3, 2026 and FaiVE on October 30, 2026.

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