Monologue vs Quick Journal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Monologue
This journaling app offers a unique, text-message-like interface for recording thoughts. Organize entries into stories, reply to past thoughts, and privately save notes from any app. Your journal remains secure and accessible only on your device.
- Text-message style journaling
- Organize entries into stories
- Reply to older entries
- Share extension for web comments
- Private and device-only storage
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Monologue is a new kind of journaling app that's as easy as texting. Just type and send, and your entries will be grouped by time, like your texting app. You can also group your entries into stories, and reply to your older entries. + Journal like you're texting. + Reply to older entries. + Organize your entries into stories. + Comment on webpages in Safari via the iOS Share extension. Works in any other app that supports sharing a URL, like Yelp, Foursquare, Google Maps, etc. + All entries are private and never leaves your phone.
Quick Journal
This app offers a straightforward journaling experience with extensive customization options. Personalize themes, fonts, icons, and layouts to create your ideal digital notebook. Widgets and draft saving features enhance usability for daily reflection.
- Customizable themes and fonts
- App icon and layout personalization
- Home screen widgets
- Save entries as drafts
- Copy and share entries
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Quick Journal is the simplest way to keep a journal. You can customize your journal's theme, fonts, app icon, layout, and even where the composer button is placed. To help you write or keep track of your entries, the app features widgets you can put on your home screen. You can copy or share your entries. You can always come back to an entry later by saving it as a draft, just swipe down and the entry will be saved. Hope you enjoy! EULA https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Quick Journal at none against Monologue's 1. Quick Journal also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 months). Monologue's advantage is review sentiment (95% vs 86%) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.4). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Monologue sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Quick Journal asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Monologue against 4.7 for Quick Journal. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 65 and 24 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 95% of Monologue's written reviews are positive against 86% of Quick Journal's.
Monologue ships an update every 3 months, Quick Journal every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Monologue | Quick Journal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (65 ratings) — better | 4.7 (24 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 94.7% of reviews — better | 86.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 65 — better | 24 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Minima Software | Charlie Deets |
Customer experience
Monologue
Quick Journal
In-app purchases
Monologue
- Remove Ads$2.99
Quick Journal
No in-app purchases
