Comparison

Diary Book vs Foliant

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

Head to head
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

About

Foliant

Features
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Foliant is an iPhone-first commonplace book — words and ink, side by side on the same page, in the same gesture. No layers, no modes, no cloud, no AI. A warm, manuscript-inspired interface carries that feeling from the book shelf to the writing desk, with paper grain, quiet tools, and a small red seal. Write the way you write on paper. Three brushes — pen, pencil, wash — share a single gesture. Five paper textures (vellum, kraft, lined, dot grid, cold-press) feel like the book in your pocket. Six ink colors hand-mixed for warm and slow. Two books free to start. Open the rest with one purchase. No subscription. No account. No cloud. Yours forever, on paper, in your pocket. FEATURES • Pen / Pencil / Wash — three brushes, one continuous gesture • Five paper textures and six warm ink colors • Full PDF book export • 100% offline, on-device storage • Designed for iPhone — single-thumb reach NO SUBSCRIPTION. NO CLOUD. NO AI. NO TRACKERS. A pocket commonplace book for words and ink, side by side.

Screenshots

Diary Book4 screens
Foliant4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Foliant at none against Diary Book's shown. Foliant also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). Diary Book's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price 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. Diary Book sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Foliant sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Diary Book ships an update every 3 months, Foliant every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Diary Book versus Foliant: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDiary BookFoliant
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (311 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings311 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size76 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer俊柯 吴Shanghai Runesmith Artificial Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd.

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

Foliant

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

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
1 purchases

Foliant

One-time1
  • Foliant Premium$7.99

Questions

Is Diary Book free?
Diary Book is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Foliant free?
Foliant is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Diary Book or Foliant have ads?
Diary Book shows ads; Foliant does not.
Which is updated more often, Diary Book or Foliant?
Diary Book ships an update every 3 months, and Foliant every 2 weeks. Most recently, Diary Book was updated on October 22, 2026 and Foliant on October 7, 2026.

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