Personal Log Journal vs Notes for Life
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.
Notes for Life
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Life is a focused app for managing long-term life goals. Write what truly matters as checkable items and move forward step by step, like using a real life notebook. Key features: Life Notebook Home: a single, realistic notebook-style home view with clear focus. Checkable life items: completed items are automatically archived to your completion log. Task management: create tasks, add notes, complete, and reopen. Completion log: see what you actually finished, organized by completion time. Task comments: each task has its own comment thread for reflection and context. Multi-line notes: edit detailed notes directly in task detail. iCloud sync: keep data consistent across devices. Daily reminders: get notified at your preferred time. Widget: view your next life item from the Home Screen. Life is designed for steady long-term progress, not complexity. Check off one meaningful step each day, and let time compound your growth.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Notes for Life at daily against Personal Log Journal's every 5 days. On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Personal Log Journal ships an update every 5 days, Notes for Life daily. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Personal Log Journal | Notes for Life |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Old Jewel Software | 恩澄 许 |
In-app purchases
Personal Log Journal
No in-app purchases
Notes for Life
No in-app purchases
Questions
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