Diary Book vs Onenote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Onenote
This digital notebook app offers a creative space for journaling, planning, and drawing with a vast collection of cute stationery, stickers, and brushes. It supports offline saving and flexible editing for a personalized note-taking experience.
- Abundant stationery, backgrounds, and stickers
- Real-time offline saving
- Flexible editing of pictures, text, and stickers
- Graffiti and hand-painting tools
- Customizable notebook covers
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Huahua Notebook: It is a super cute healing electronic notebook software, which is very popular among notebook fans, painting lovers and sticker lovers. Not only can be used to record notes, write a diary, bookkeeping, do hand copy newspaper, with daily record, but also can be used as a pad to use. Students can make class schedules, and couples in love can write relationship memoirs. You must be wondering why a software has so many amazing features, because the software has abundant stationery, tons of stickers, and paintbrushes, can be used in different scenarios. 【 Character Background 】 Huahua is a lovely girl. Like other girls, she has a crush on someone and also has the trifles of life. However, since she learned to make a hand account, she can show the bits of beauty and memories in daily life by recording. 【 Characteristic Function 】 ○ More stationery, backgrounds, stickers, tape, etc. ○ Real-time offline saving, no longer afraid of hard work in vain ○ Flexible editing of pictures, text and stickers; ○ Graffiti or hand painting can be used as a separate painting software; Support custom notebook cover, each is a favorite; Subscription Instructions: - Users will only be able to unlock all advanced features and avoid advertising interruptions with a paid subscription; - The subscription fee is deducted from the iTunes account when the user confirms the purchase, and the subscription can be automatically renewed; - Cancellations of automatic renewals must be made at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period, otherwise they will be automatically renewed; - Users can manage subscription services, that is, they can go to the user account Settings to disable automatic subscription after purchase. - To open a subscription, you need to agree to the following terms Privacy policy: https://hyktco.com/xieyi.html Service agreement: https://hyktco.com/fuwuxieyi.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Diary Book at 80% against Onenote's 17%. Diary Book also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.2). Onenote's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ratings volume, 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. Diary Book sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Onenote sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Diary Book holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 314 and 135 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Diary Book's written reviews are positive against 17% of Onenote's.
Diary Book ships an update every 3 months, Onenote every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Diary Book | Onenote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (314 ratings) — better | 4.2 (135 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 16.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 314 — better | 135 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| 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 | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 76 MB | 109 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 俊柯 吴 | Hangzhou Hongying Ketu Network Technology Co. Ltd. |
Customer experience
Diary Book
Onenote
Bugs and 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
Onenote
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Diary Book
- Monthly subscription3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Subscription quarter3 Days trial$7.993 Months
- Pro version$7.99
Onenote
- Monthly Prremium1 Month trial$0.991 Month
- One month VIP$2.991 Month
- 年会员$2.991 Year
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- One year VIP$13.491 Year
- 1Sticker package$0.99
- permanent VIP$19.99
- 永久会员$19.99






