Daily Talk vs Backpack
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Daily Talk
This app offers a private space for personal reflection or a social platform to share entries with friends. It also features a Junior Profile for parental monitoring to ensure online safety for children.
- Private diary entries
- Share entries with friends
- Choose who sees your content
- Junior Profile for parental monitoring
- Monitor children's online activity
- Safe online environment for kids
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DailyTalk App is a dual purpose app. It can be your very own private app that no one sees, or you can share your entries with your friends like any other social media network. DailyTalk App is designed to make socializing easier, more fun, and more private. Your DailyTalk account is a special place where you can vent, love and connect with family and friends if you choose to. YOU choose who you share your Diary entries with. DailyTalk App also offers a Junior Profile. Parents, teachers or counselors, you set up the Junior Profile. You always have access to what ‘Juniors’ are doing online. From your profile it only takes one click to login as your child and monitor all their account. You will be able to make sure your kids are safe online.
Backpack
This social media app focuses on sharing curated moments with a limited number of items each week. Content resets weekly, encouraging intentional sharing without follower counts or endless scrolling. Connect with friends through a private feed and discover nearby users.
- Limited item slots per week
- Weekly content reset
- No follower counts
- Friends-only feed
- Nearby user discovery
- Curated weekly snapshots
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Backpack is a small, friendly place for sharing a few of the little things that represent you and your daily life. Pack your slots with music, photos, movies, books, thoughts and more, and keep adding all week. Add your friends and you'll see what they're carrying too, and anything of theirs you love, you can repost into your pocket. Then every week your backpack wipes clean and you start fresh with whatever you're into next. What's inside: - Slots to pack with music, photos, GIFs, thoughts, links and more - A pocket for reposting what your friends packed - A quiet, friends-first feed with no follower counts and no algorithm - A fresh start every week, at the same time for everyone No follower counts to chase. No endless scroll to steal your time. No algorithms or "influencers" or incessant content to consume. Just a concise, honest snapshot of your week that you curate intentionally, and share with the friends who are actually part of your life. Pack your slots and share your own real-life inventory! Terms of Use: https://mybackpack.lol/legal/terms Privacy Policy: https://mybackpack.lol/legal/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Daily Talk at none against Backpack's 2. Backpack's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 12 months) and ratings volume (8 vs 1). On price, rating, ads 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. Backpack sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Daily Talk asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Daily Talk against 5.0 for Backpack. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Backpack has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Daily Talk ships an update every 12 months, Backpack weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Daily Talk | Backpack |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.1 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 83 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Web Electronics Inc. | Jared Heath Defriese |
Customer experience
Daily Talk
Backpack
In-app purchases
Daily Talk
No in-app purchases
Backpack
- Backpack+ Monthly$3.991 Month
- Backpack+ Yearly$29.991 Year
