Comparison

Travel Diary vs Anniversary

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

Head to head
About

Travel Diary

Record travel memories with a map-based diary. Organize experiences using image cards and location markers for an intuitive journey log. Share your adventures easily with friends.

Highlights
  • Map-based travel logging
  • Swipeable image cards
  • Location markers
  • Diary sharing
  • Import functionality
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Travel Diary is a map-based App used to record the beautiful moments of your travels. Using swipeable Image Cards combined with the Location Markers on the map to provide you with an intuitive experience. The function of diary sharing and import, which is convenient for you and your friends to share wonderful moments.

About

Anniversary

This app provides gentle, handwritten reminders for important dates like birthdays and anniversaries. It features unique ink illustrations for each person and offers a "Relationship Receipt" to track interactions. Widgets display upcoming events without unlocking your device.

Highlights
  • Handwritten date reminders
  • Personalized ink illustrations
  • Solar and lunar calendar support
  • Contact log for interactions
  • Monthly relationship receipts
  • Home and lock screen widgets
Features
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A gentle reminder app for the people who matter, and the days worth remembering. Not another to-do list. Every person gets a hand-drawn card that lights up when their day comes. Solar and lunar, both accurate Your mom's lunar birthday, a memorial day, the number of days you have been together. Set it once and get reminded every year. Lunar dates support leap months and show alongside solar dates. Custom repeat intervals Beyond daily, weekly, monthly and yearly, set your own gap: every 40 days, every 100 days, anything from 2 to 365. Perfect for check-ups, prescription refills, watering plants, pet treatments, or simply reaching out to someone on your own rhythm. Advance reminders Get a heads-up 1 to 30 days early, at the time of day you choose. A week before a birthday to shop for a gift, three days before a payment to set money aside. No more remembering on the day itself. Holiday countdowns 24 built-in holidays including Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, Mother's Day and Lunar New Year, each with the days left calculated for you. Filter by Chinese or international, sort by date, and open any holiday as a full-screen card you can share as an image. Hand-drawn cards 15 ink-style illustrations to match each person or mood. Family, friends, partners, pets. No cold lists. Widgets Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets show what is coming up, so you remember without opening the app. Calendar sync Choose per reminder whether it appears in your system calendar. Edits and deletions update the calendar automatically, and the event links straight back to the app. Lunar reminders are added at their next occurrence, leap months included. Contact log Keep track of meetups, calls and messages. The app quietly shows you which friends you have not reached out to in a while. Monthly relationship recap At the end of each month, get a shareable recap of who you spent time with and who deserves a call back. Pro Unlimited reminders and contact logs, custom repeat intervals, widgets, past recaps and iCloud sync across devices, whenever you need them. Advance reminders and calendar sync are free. Privacy first No accounts, no data collection. iCloud sync uses your own iCloud storage. Privacy Policy: https://softminilabs.github.io/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Travel Diary4 screens
Anniversary4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Travel Diary at none against Anniversary's 3. Travel Diary also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 4 weeks) and ratings volume (14 vs 3). On price, rating, review sentiment 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Anniversary sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Travel Diary asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Travel Diary against 5.0 for Anniversary. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Travel Diary ships an update weekly, Anniversary every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Travel Diary versus Anniversary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTravel DiaryAnniversary
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (14 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better3
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.3 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB14 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperYu Qi婉 唐

Customer experience

Travel Diary

All ratings14 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Anniversary

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Travel Diary

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Anniversary

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Pro Annual$2.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$4.99

Questions

Is Travel Diary free?
Travel Diary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Anniversary free?
Anniversary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Travel Diary or Anniversary?
Travel Diary and Anniversary are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 14 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Travel Diary or Anniversary have ads?
Neither Travel Diary nor Anniversary shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Travel Diary or Anniversary?
Travel Diary ships an update weekly, and Anniversary every 4 weeks. Most recently, Travel Diary was updated on November 3, 2026 and Anniversary on November 5, 2026.

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