Daily Diary vs JournalWrite
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Daily Diary
Record your thoughts and memories with this journaling app. It allows for text entries, image insertion, and offers unique visual themes and a dark mode for an immersive experience. Secure your entries with password protection.
- Text and image entries
- Password protection
- Customizable screen effects
- Animated themes
- Dark background mode
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Daily Diary is an ultra-convenient dairy app. It can not only input text, but also supports inserting pictures. The ultra-simple experience will make you like recording and expressing. *Special features Screen effects-Long press and drag on the blank space to display stunning screen effects. Password protection-The app supports password lock, allowing you to write as you wish, without fear of prying. Animated themes-Colorful and rich animation themes make notes more interesting. Dark background-feel the immersive recording experience while protecting your eyes from light damage.
JournalWrite
This app offers a private and distraction-free space for writing journal entries. It helps users build consistent habits by tracking streaks and visualizing progress with clear insights, all while remaining fully offline and ad-free.
- Distraction-free writing experience
- Offline journaling
- No ads or accounts required
- Track journaling streaks
- Visualize progress with insights
- Explore entry trends
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JournalWrite provides a clean, distraction-free journaling experience designed to help you stay consistent, reflect privately, and visualize your progress over time. Track streaks, view meaningful insights, and build a stronger journaling habit - all without ads, accounts, or clutter. SIMPLE BY DESIGN - Clean, distraction-free writing experience - No ads, no clutter, no paywalls - Focused journaling for capturing your thoughts and reflecting clearly POWERFUL STATS - Track your journaling streaks and records - Visualize your progress with clean insights - Explore trends across all journal entries - Stay motivated with clear progress over time PRIVATE & OFFLINE - Your entries stay on your device - Fully offline journaling - No account required - No personal data collected If you enjoy journaling, tracking your growth, and keeping your thoughts private, JournalWrite is built for you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: JournalWrite at none against Daily Diary's 1. Daily Diary's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Daily Diary sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. JournalWrite asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Daily Diary against 5.0 for JournalWrite. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 3 respectively.
| Parameter | Daily Diary | JournalWrite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 琳 崔 | Jacob Kappler |
Customer experience
Daily Diary
JournalWrite
In-app purchases
Daily Diary
- Daily Diary pro$1.99
JournalWrite
No in-app purchases
