Daily Journal vs Diary Book
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!
Diary Book
This app allows users to privately record their daily life, moods, and memories. It offers tools for creative journaling with customizable covers, stickers, and dynamic themes. Users can track their feelings over time and revisit past entries.
- Mood tracking with calendar expressions
- Customizable handbook covers
- Graphic stickers and collage materials
- Daily diary entries with pictures
- Dynamic home page themes
- Calendar date querying
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Diary Book is a lovely diary app that can record mood and keep a diary. Accumulate your feelings day by day, record your daily life, and keep good memories in Mood Diary. [Our Features] Mood Calendar: super cute little expression to record your daily mood; Hand Book Cover: create your own lovely hand book and collect your own life's hand book. Graphic Stickers: rich and lovely stickers, graphic collage materials, make your hand account more fresh and beautiful anytime and anywhere. Calendar: convenient for querying calendar dates. Graphic Diary: write a diary for the next day and add pictures. Dynamic theme: multiple home page dynamic theme styles to decorate your page. [Our Expectations] Writing morning records every morning, summarizing and reflecting every night can bring a sense of ritual to our daily life. When we open the hand account records in emotions, this whole record is "our own history". I hope you can look back on the past and record everything beautiful through Emotion. If you like Emotion and have any questions or comments in use, please leave your feedback. This subscription will be automatically renewed through your iTunes account, with the renewal fee deducted from your plan within 24 hours prior to the end of the current subscription period. You can manage or cancel automatic renewal at the Account Settings office at least 24 hours before the current subscription period ends. If your trial does not end, the remaining days will automatically expire after you start your subscription. To open a subscription, you agree to the following terms: The terms of service: https://junkeyd.github.io/posts/junke//fuwu Privacy policy: https://junkeyd.github.io/posts/junke/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Daily Journal at every 2 weeks against Diary Book's every 3 months. Daily Journal also leads on ratings volume (5.6K vs 214) and review sentiment (94% vs 80%). Diary Book's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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 and Diary Book sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Daily Journal holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Daily Journal has 5.6K ratings behind it against 214, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 94% of Daily Journal's written reviews are positive against 80% of Diary Book's.
Daily Journal ships an update every 2 weeks, Diary Book every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Daily Journal | Diary Book |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (5.6K ratings) — better | 4.6 (214 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 93.8% of reviews — better | 80.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5.6K — better | 214 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 143 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SimpleInnovation LLC | 俊柯 吴 |
Customer experience
Daily Journal
Diary Book
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
Diary Book
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
Diary Book
- Monthly subscription3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Subscription quarter3 Days trial$7.993 Months
- Pro version$7.99
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