Diary Journal vs Text Diary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Diary Journal
This app provides a secure and private digital space for recording thoughts, memories, and dreams. It encourages self-reflection and personal growth through daily journaling, ensuring all entries are kept confidential.
- Secret diary entries
- Log life events and progress
- Record emotions and feelings
- Password protection for privacy
- Encourages self-reflection
- Modern journal interface
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Diary, a secret diary which is a new special place for your thoughts, memories, dreams! Mark down all special events, write about your moments and rest assured all your secrets are safe here in the cutest personal journal. It's a modern journal that will encourage you to open up and motivate you to become the best version of yourself. Log life events & progress with our journal diary with password app. A convenient, safe, reliable and simple to use mobile diary app to log your daily life activities, emotions and feelings. You can keep it securely from others eyes, no one will see your diary book. Privacy Policy: https://www.bytecrazy.com/common_privacy_en.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Text Diary
A free and simple text-based journaling app that allows unlimited entries. Organize your thoughts with folders, colors, and tags, and easily search or filter your past entries. Enjoy a comfortable user experience with quick startup and dark mode.
- Unlimited daily diary entries
- Organize by folder, color, tag
- Searchable diary entries
- Filter by date or tag
- Quick startup and comfortable operation
- Dark mode support
- Completely free to use
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It's a simple text diary app. All features are completely free to use. Features: - Unlimited daily diary - Classified by folder, color, tag - Search diary - Filter by date or tag - Quick start-up, comfortable operability - Dark mode - All free URL scheme: textdiary://
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Text Diary at none against Diary Journal's 1. Diary Journal's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (368 vs 6). On price, update cadence and device support 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. Diary Journal sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per year. Text Diary asks for nothing beyond the download.
Diary Journal holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Diary Journal has 368 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Diary Journal ships an update every 6 weeks, Text Diary every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Diary Journal | Text Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (368 ratings) — better | 4.5 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 368 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Heyou Co., Ltd. | FugaPiyo Inc. |
Customer experience
Diary Journal
Text Diary
Bugs and requests
Diary Journal
Reported bugs
9 issues- Video uploads fail and crash repeatedly
- Long video entries don't save properly
- Data doesn't transfer to new phone despite cloud backup
- Import from ZIP file causes app to close
- App crashes when importing exported data
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- Audio playback volume extremely faint
- Audio doesn't work with headphones or speakerphone
- Slow performance when reviewing weekly entries
- No customer support response to data loss issues
Requested features
10 requests- Timestamp for each journal entry
- Password reset or recovery option
- Multiple entries per day in free version
- Font customization (size, bold, italics, underline)
- Location tagging for entries
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- Longer video duration allowance
- Better fake diary with generic text and pictures
- Login system for cloud data sync
- Cross-device data transfer
- Improved audio volume and headphone support
Text Diary
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Diary Journal
- Diary Pro 1 Year$19.991 Year
Text Diary
No in-app purchases
Questions
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