Diary Book vs Diary Duck
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
Diary Duck
Create beautiful digital journals with a vast collection of stickers, templates, and AI-powered tools. Easily design custom layouts and protect your memories with password protection. Regularly updated with new materials and features.
- Extensive sticker and background materials
- AI sticker generation
- Hand account templates
- Pen and tape drawing tools
- Password protection for journals
- Regular content updates
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Hi~ Welcome to Diary Duck, let's record the beautiful life together, let us make the best hand account, use the hand account to collect small memories~ "High-Quality Materials" 1. Plenty of beautiful, fresh stickers, quality materials are waiting for you to use. 2. Background templates are designed by our illustrators, convenient, and definitely make your hand account look good and easy to use. 3. AI stickers, users can use AI function to turn pictures into stickers you want and save them in your material library. "Super Convenient Hand Account Making" 1. Hand account template, lots of hand account template materials, just modify the content, a good-looking hand account is made. 2. Border stickers, users can use border stickers to quickly layout and make the style you want. 3. The function is simple, the app's function is super powerful, and the operation is simple, it's super fast to get started. "Non-Stop Benefits and Activities" 1. We will do some activities irregularly to give back to new and old users, you have the chance to win prizes by participating. 2. Membership prices will also be adjusted on certain special days, taking care of every Duck student. "APP Features" 1. Sticker Materials: A lot of sticker materials allow you to create without worries. 2. Background Materials: Designed by illustrators, make your hand account look professional. 3. Hand Account Template: The official will produce some popular hand account template styles, making it super convenient for you to make a hand account in three steps. 4. Pen Function: Support hand-drawn drawing of some small stickers and border styles. 5. AI Stickers: Sticker images can be cut out through AI machine to make the stickers you want, create the stickers you want. 6. Tape Function: Create richer border styles, paint whenever you want. 7. Password book: Add passwords to hand accounts, only the hand account can be opened through the password. 8. Different styles of stickers, backgrounds, and materials will be updated continuously. "Feedback to Developers" There are many happy and unhappy things in life, you can use the hand account to collect your small memories, thank you for meeting, we know that there are many shortcomings, if there are any problems, or good ideas, welcome to feedback in the application, contact us, every message from you will be read carefully! "Renewal Description" This subscription will be automatically renewed through your iTunes account and the renewal fee will be deducted from your package within 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. You can manage or cancel automatic renewal in the account settings, and cancel automatic renewal at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. If your trial is not over, the remaining days will be automatically invalidated after you start your subscription. To start a subscription, you need to agree to the following terms: Terms of Service: https://www-handaccount.gitlab.io/terms-of-use/ Privacy Agreement: https://www-handaccount.gitlab.io/privacypolicy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Diary Book at 80% against Diary Duck's 33%. Diary Book also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.4) and ratings volume (311 vs 99). Diary Duck's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 Diary Duck sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 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 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 311 and 99 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Diary Book's written reviews are positive against 33% of Diary Duck's.
Diary Book ships an update every 3 months, Diary Duck weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Diary Book | Diary Duck |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (311 ratings) — better | 4.4 (99 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 311 — better | 99 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — 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 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 76 MB | 205 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | 俊柯 吴 | 立桓 孙 |
Customer experience
Diary Book
Diary Duck
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
Diary Duck
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
Diary Duck
- 月度会员3 Days trial$1.991 Month
- 年度会员3 Days trial$9.991 Year
- 终身会员$6.99






