Daily Journal vs Text Diary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Daily Journal
This app serves as a private digital journal to record daily experiences, emotions, and memories. Secure your entries with password, fingerprint, or face ID, and enhance them with photos. Track your moods and use built-in reminders to cultivate a consistent journaling habit.
- Password, fingerprint, and face ID security
- Add photos to journal entries
- Mood and emotion tracking
- Calendar view for memories
- Daily journaling reminders
- Simple and beautiful interface
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Daily Diary: Journal with Lock - is your personal journal for every day. It is a diary with a lock and mood tracker for you to note your experiences, explore your emotions and add photos to the entries. Make it your private and secure notebook, use it as a journaling app for free. Save your memories in your Daily Diary and keep them secure from curious eyes by using password, fingerprint or face-ID. Note the mood and use the emotion tracker to learn what makes you feel better. The app is beautiful and simple to use. FEATURES - SECURITY - protect your personal diary with password, fingerprint or face-ID - PHOTO ADDING - make it a photo journal, not only a diary with notes - CALENDAR - save and revive the best memories every time you want - MOOD TRACKER - note your mood and track emotions - DAILY REMINDERS - make journaling a habit - EASY-TO-USE - enjoy the simplicity and beauty of the app The perfect daily diary to write down your thoughts or plans for the day! You can come back to them every time you want to remind yourself about something important, save wonderful memories and photos, note your ideas and insights. WHAT TO EXPECT IN THIS DAILY DIARY A photo journal for memories You can write your thoughts, feelings or experiences and attach photos. Even little notes each day help to organize your inner thoughts and gain clarity on your priorities. It can also be used as a gratitude diary to remind yourself of the good things that have happened during the day. A mood tracker Track emotions and note your feelings every day to see what makes you happy or sad. Emotion tracker is a very important tool that contributes to understanding yourself better. All your notes are locked, so nobody except you can access them. Planning Use the calendar and daily reminders not to forget anything important. Planning is key to have everything done on time. Record your classes, appointments or other events on the calendar. Security Use fingerprint or face-ID to keep your personal notes private. Or set a password to be sure that your diary is protected. And for sure new features are coming soon!
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 Daily Journal's 6. Daily Journal's advantage is ratings volume (5.6K vs 6) and rating (4.8 vs 4.5). On price, 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. Daily Journal sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Text Diary asks for nothing beyond the download.
Daily Journal holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Daily Journal has 5.6K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Daily Journal ships an update every 2 weeks, Text Diary every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and July 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Daily Journal | Text Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (5.6K ratings) — better | 4.5 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 93.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5.6K — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | 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 | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 143 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SimpleInnovation LLC | FugaPiyo Inc. |
Customer experience
Daily Journal
Text Diary
Bugs and requests
Daily Journal
Reported bugs
2 issues- Password recovery not working for some users
- Occasional app crashes or freezes
Requested features
4 requests- More free stickers and fonts
- Ability to organize entries by categories
- Option to add videos or audio recordings
- Sync across devices
Text Diary
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Daily Journal
- Journal for 1 month - 30% OFF7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Daily journal for 1 month7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Cute notes for 1 year 30% OFF7 Days trial$12.991 Year
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- Cute notes for 1 year7 Days trial$17.991 Year
- Secret diary Forever 30% OFF$41.99
- Secret diary with lock Forever$59.99
Text Diary
No in-app purchases
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