Day Memory vs Secret Diary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
Secret Diary
Securely record your thoughts, daily events, and journeys with this private diary app. It offers robust security features like Face ID, Touch ID, or passcode lock, and allows for extensive personalization with themes, fonts, and backgrounds. All entries are stored locally for maximum privacy.
- Face ID, Touch ID, passcode lock
- iCloud backup and restore
- Unlimited editing options
- Add photos, backgrounds, fonts
- Personalize with artistic themes
- Local data storage
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Secret Diary is a free diary journal app with high security. Your data is safe with iCloud backup and restore. This app use Face ID, Touch ID, or passcode lock to protect the security of your secret thoughts, daily diary and journeys. To ensure privacy and security, all your entry will only be saved on your device and not sent to any servers. Secret Diary provide unlimited dairy editing options, adding photos, backgrounds, fonts, moods, etc. Also, you can personalize this app with multiple artistic and kawaii themes. Everything is free! This App will protect your memories securely. Please try and enjoy it!
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Verdict
Day Memory and Secret Diary are too close to call on the numbers: across 7 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Day Memory ships an update every 3 weeks, Secret Diary every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Day Memory | Secret Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.7 (98 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 85.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 98 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 102 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrii Kuzmenko | Trang Le Thi |
Customer experience
Day Memory
Secret Diary
Bugs and requests
Day Memory
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Secret Diary
Reported bugs
5 issues- Cannot get back to previous background themes
- Lock screen appears after entries are visible
- App crashes when phone is on airplane mode
- Difficulty entering or recovering passcode
- Passcode not visible or functional at times
Requested features
5 requests- Allow autocorrect while typing
- Ensure lock screen appears first
- Recover passcode when forgotten
- Add backup feature
- Enable Face ID/Touch ID for login
In-app purchases
Day Memory
No in-app purchases
Secret Diary
No in-app purchases
