Comparison

Diary Book vs Oriora Journal

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

Oriora Journal

Features
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A quiet place to write every day — and a journal that stays yours. TODAY'S PAGE The app opens on the day, not on a dashboard. A fresh prompt each morning if you want one, the date as the heading, and your mood signed at the foot of the page. LOOK BACK THROUGH IT • Search everything you have ever written. The search runs on this device — the words never leave it. • A calendar of your months: the days you wrote are marked by your mood, or by the photo you attached that day. • Trends: how the months have gone, worked out from your own entries. No AI call, nothing sent. • Tags you choose, and the weather where you wrote, if you want them. • "On this day" brings back what you wrote a year ago. YOURS TO KEEP Save the whole journal as Markdown or plain text at any time — readable, printable, and yours. Back up to your OWN GitHub or Google Drive; restore on another device whenever you choose. There is no subscription that can lapse and take your writing with it. A WEEKLY REFLECTION, WITHOUT READING YOUR WORDS Once a week you can ask for a gentle reflection on how your writing is going. It is built only from WHEN you wrote, how often, and how long — never from the text itself. ASK IT, OR SAY IT Write by talking: start a live call and speak the day's page, or type it as always. You can also ask your own journal a question — "what was I worried about in March?" — and it answers from your entries. That is the one thing that sends your writing: only when you ask for it, only the entries needed to answer, and Oriora doesn't retain it. It can also keep a note, or the conversation itself, in your own GitHub or Google Drive. WHAT THE APP KNOWS Your entries and photos live on this device. Location is only ever read if you tap "Add weather", is rounded to about a kilometre, and stays with the entry on your phone — it is never sent to Oriora, and never to the AI. You sign in once with your Oriora account; AI features are billed from your Oriora wallet. No ads, no tracking, no subscription. — Built by Oriora Labs · orioralabs.com

Screenshots

Diary Book4 screens
Oriora Journal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Oriora Journal at none against Diary Book's shown. Oriora Journal also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months). Diary Book's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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 Oriora Journal sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Diary Book ships an update every 3 months, Oriora Journal every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Diary Book versus Oriora Journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDiary BookOriora Journal
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (214 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews
Number of ratings214 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPod, Mac
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size76 MB15 MB
Age rating4+17+
Developer俊柯 吴Orioralabs OU

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
8 purchases

Oriora Journal

One-time8
  • $20 Oriora Credit$23.90
  • $30 Oriora Credit$35.49
  • $50 Oriora Credit$58.90
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  • $80 Oriora Credit$94.90
  • $100 Oriora Credit$117.99
  • $150 Oriora Credit$176.99
  • $200 Oriora Credit$239.00
  • $250 Oriora Credit$294.99

Questions

Is Diary Book free?
Diary Book is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Oriora Journal free?
Oriora Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Diary Book or Oriora Journal have ads?
Diary Book shows ads; Oriora Journal does not.
Which is updated more often, Diary Book or Oriora Journal?
Diary Book ships an update every 3 months, and Oriora Journal every 5 days. Most recently, Diary Book was updated on September 20, 2026 and Oriora Journal on September 12, 2026.

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