Comparison

Meals vs Diary Book

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

Head to head
About

Meals

This app allows you to easily journal your meals with photos, stickers, and custom covers. Track your daily food intake, review eating habits, and maintain a healthy diet.

Highlights
  • Photo food journaling
  • Customizable journal covers and names
  • Rich sticker and background library
  • Text, photo, and sticker editing
  • Daily meal and snack recording
  • Healthy diet habit tracking
Features
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Meals, eat what you like, and live a lovely life! Meals is a super easy-to-use journal and dairy. It contains a lot of stickers, making it super easy to make journal! 【Feature introduction】 - Exquisite journal: choose the cover of the journal, customize the name, and create a personal notebook. - Rich materials: select various stickers and backgrounds to quickly make beautiful journals. - Practical editing functions: free combination of text, photos, stickers, and backgrounds to help you become a expert. Meals can also be used as a diary and notebook for food recording with photos, and you can also record your experience at will to enrich the food diary. Here you can record your daily meals, snacks, and fruits in detail, and have a healthy diet. Regularly check your eating habits and remind yourself to maintain a healthy diet. If you like Meals, you are welcome to leave your valuable comments~ Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless you cancel at least 24-hours before the end of the current subscription period. The renewal fee will be charged to your account within 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. If you do not cancel the subscription during the trial period, the unused trial period will be automatically forfeited after the subscription is purchased. After completing your purchase, you can manage and cancel your subscription by going to your App Store Account Settings. Terms of Service: https://suixiang2022.github.io/posts/suixiang/fuwu Privacy Policy: https://suixiang2022.github.io/posts/suixiang/privacy

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

Screenshots

Meals4 screens
Diary Book4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Meals at monthly against Diary Book's every 3 months. Diary Book's advantage is ratings volume (314 vs 16). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Meals sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.49 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Meals against 4.6 for Diary Book. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Diary Book has 314 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Meals ships an update monthly, Diary Book every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Meals versus Diary Book: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMealsDiary Book
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (16 ratings)4.6 (314 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—80.0% of reviews
Number of ratings16314 — better
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.213.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size91 MB76 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer随香 林俊柯 吴

Customer experience

Meals

All ratings15 ratings
Positive86.7%
Neutral6.7%
Negative6.7%

Diary Book

All ratings214 ratings
Positive89.7%
Neutral5.6%
Negative4.7%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative10.0%

Bugs and requests

Meals

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Diary Book

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • App crashes when accessing music notes
  • App glitches and deletes unsaved writing

Requested features

2 requests
  • Make VIP cheaper
  • Add a password option

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Meals

Subscriptions2
  • Plus Version3 Days trial$4.491 Month
  • Quarterly Version3 Days trial$8.993 Months
One-time1
  • Pro Version$9.99
3 purchases

Diary Book

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly subscription3 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Subscription quarter3 Days trial$7.993 Months
One-time1
  • Pro version$7.99

Questions

Is Meals free?
Meals is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Diary Book free?
Diary Book is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Meals or Diary Book?
Diary Book is rated higher. Meals averages 4.5 out of 5 from 16 ratings, while Diary Book averages 4.6 from 314 ratings.
Do Meals or Diary Book have ads?
Both Meals and Diary Book show ads.
Which is updated more often, Meals or Diary Book?
Meals ships an update monthly, and Diary Book every 3 months. Most recently, Meals was updated on October 24, 2026 and Diary Book on October 30, 2026.

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