Diary vs Secret Diary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Diary
Record your thoughts, memories, and emotional states in a secure and private journal. This app allows you to write entries, add photos, and easily browse or search your past records. It offers PIN and biometric protection to keep your personal reflections safe.
- Write diary entries
- Record memories and journeys
- Track moods
- Add photos to entries
- PIN and biometric security
- Browse and search diary timeline
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Write your diaries, note your memories, track your moods... all in one: My Diary - Mood Tracker. With a simple, most convenient, and easy-to-use diary app, you can: - Write diaries, record journeys, or track moods anytime, anywhere including photos. - Protects your memories by setting an app PIN code, also with TouchID / FaceID. - Browse your diary timeline/search. Let's download it!
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
The clearest difference is rating: Secret Diary at 4.7 against Diary's 4.0. Secret Diary also leads on ratings volume (98 vs 1). Diary's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 85%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Secret Diary holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Secret Diary has 98 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Diary's written reviews are positive against 85% of Secret Diary's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Diary ships an update fortnightly, Secret Diary every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Diary | Secret Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 4.7 (98 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 85.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 98 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tien Dat Nguyen | Trang Le Thi |
Customer experience
Diary
Secret Diary
Bugs and requests
Diary
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
Diary
No in-app purchases
Secret Diary
No in-app purchases
