Comparison

Day Memory vs Brightway

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

Head to head
About

Day Memory

Securely record your life's events with unlimited text entries, photos, and videos. Organize your experiences into different journals and ensure your data is private with end-to-end encryption and passcode protection. Access your memories across multiple platforms.

Highlights
  • Unlimited text, photo, and video entries
  • Rich text formatting
  • Multiple journal organization
  • Automatic backups
  • End-to-end encryption
  • Passcode, TouchID, FaceID protection
  • Cross-platform availability
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Day memory is the app that preserves your memories. Features: • Unlimited text entries with photos and videos • Powerful, rich text formatting • Different journals for every aspect of your life • Automatic backups keep your journal entries safe • End-to-end encryption to make your data 100% private • Protection with a passcode, TouchID, or FaceID • Reviewing memories • Cross-platform apps available on iPhone, iPad, Windows, and Mac

About

Brightway

Features
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Private, cross-platform, Brightway is uniquely designed both to keep track of your life and improve your mental wellbeing. WHAT MAKES BRIGHTWAY UNIQUE 1. Science-Based Brightway is the first journaling app based on the principles of integrative psychotherapy. It was created in collaboration with Dr Vlad Beliavsky – a mental health expert and author of The Pyramid Mind – to create not only a great journaling experience but help you with improving your mental wellbeing. 2. Life Review Framework Brightway contains a unique guided framework to do monthly and annual reviews. It is designed to help you reflect on your past month and year so that you can learn, find peace, and grow. TOP WAYS TO USE THE APP • Note taking (to organise ideas, create to-do lists) • Personal diary (to record private moments, safeguard your memories, keep track of your life) • Gratitude journal (to keep a gratitude list) • Travel journal (to keep track of the places you’ve ever been) • Mood tracker (to capture your feelings, track your mood or pour your feelings in a private and secure space) • Self-improvement journal (to analyse your thoughts, learn from your lowlights, identify and celebrate your highlights) FEATURES Preserve every moment • Unlimited journal entries • Attach photos, location, time • Text editing Learn • Monthly reviews to reflect on the past month • Annual reviews to summarise the whole year • Detailed statistics to gain insight from your entries Search & Organize • Templates to make your journaling easy and consistent • Tags to divide entries by type • Find entries by keywords • Filter entries by date, location, etc. • View your entries in timeline, calendar, world map, photo gallery Backup & Sync • Automatic backup to Google Drive or iCloud to keep your journal data safe • Access your entries on multiple devices • Export to JSON, TXT, DOCX, PDF to print or share your entries • Import data from other journaling apps. Customization • Beautiful wallpapers to personalize your diary layout • Dark mode to journal at night time • Multiple reminders to always remember to make a note

Screenshots

Day Memory4 screens
Brightway4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Day Memory at none against Brightway's 2. On price, update cadence, ads 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. Brightway sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Day Memory asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Day Memory ships an update every 3 weeks, Brightway fortnightly. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 6 level
Day Memory versus Brightway: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDay MemoryBrightway
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size102 MB59 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndrii KuzmenkoVladyslav Bieliavskyi

In-app purchases

None

Day Memory

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Brightway

Subscriptions2
  • Premium subscription - Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Premium subscription - Annual7 Days trial$21.491 Year

Questions

Is Day Memory free?
Day Memory is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Brightway free?
Brightway is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Day Memory or Brightway have ads?
Neither Day Memory nor Brightway shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Day Memory or Brightway?
Day Memory ships an update every 3 weeks, and Brightway fortnightly. Most recently, Day Memory was updated on November 3, 2026 and Brightway on November 3, 2026.

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