Personal Log Journal vs Backspace
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Personal Log Journal
Record your personal story and thoughts privately on your device. Organize entries with tags, track your mood, and search past writings. Offers over 100 prompts to inspire your writing.
- Record thoughts and save for future
- Tag entries for quick retrieval
- Record mood with emoji
- Search past entries
- Journaling prompts
- Entries kept on device
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Keep your thoughts on your device. Personal Log is a journaling app designed to help you record your own personal story. We all have our own personal story, and Personal Log is the place to keep that story for later use. • Quickly record your thoughts and save them for the future • Tag your entries for quick retrieval later • record your mood with emoji • search your past entries • jump to a given day • Don't know what to write? Personal Log offers a selection of more than 100 journaling prompts to get you going. Personal Log is 100% personal. All your entries are kept on your device and not shared in the cloud.
Backspace
This private journaling app allows you to write down your unfiltered thoughts and set a timer for them to be automatically deleted. It's designed for emotional release, ensuring your thoughts remain private and temporary.
- Write unfiltered thoughts
- Set automatic deletion timers
- Temporary thought storage
- No accounts required
- No cloud storage
- No tracking or analytics
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Backspace is a private journaling and mental wellness app for writing thoughts and letting them go. Use Backspace to: Write unfiltered thoughts Choose a release time (minutes or hours) Automatically delete thoughts when time expires No accounts. No cloud storage. No tracking or analytics. Backspace is designed for emotional release, not long-term storage. Your thoughts stay private, local, and temporary — just like they should.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Backspace at 5.0 against Personal Log Journal's 4.0. Personal Log Journal's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.2). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Backspace holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
| Parameter | Personal Log Journal | Backspace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Old Jewel Software | Ruth Edouard |
Customer experience
Personal Log Journal
Backspace
In-app purchases
Personal Log Journal
No in-app purchases
Backspace
No in-app purchases
