Daytum vs Guided Journaling
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Daytum
This app allows users to collect, categorize, and visualize everyday data. Create custom charts and graphs to gain insights from your tracked information. Organize data into detailed records with flexible entry formats and attributes.
- Collect and categorize everyday data
- Create custom charts and graphs
- Flexible data entry format
- Group data into categories
- Add detailed text and numeric attributes
- Build pages to display insights
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Daytum helps you collect, categorize and communicate your everyday data. CREATE CHARTS AND GRAPHS With numerous options for displaying your data, the layout possibilities are nearly limitless. KEEP TRACK OF ANYTHING With a flexible data entry format, you can input and keep track of just about anything. GROUP DATA INTO CATEGORIES Group your items into categories to create more detailed records and display options. ADD DETAILED ATTRIBUTES Add text and numeric detail to your items and entries using attributes. BUILD PAGES TO SHOW INSIGHTS Group and organize your displays into pages to show insights about your data. Terms of Use: https://daytum.com/about/terms Privacy Policy: https://daytum.com/about/privacy
Guided Journaling
This app helps you reflect on your life, form habits, and reduce stress through personalized guided journaling. Analyze trends with over 60 charts, manage tags, and set goals with reminders. Secure your data with on-device encryption and cloud sync.
- Personalized guided journals
- Habit formation and goal setting
- Mood and activity tracking
- Data analysis with 60+ charts
- On-device encryption and secure backup
- Export data in multiple formats
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Discover past trends, celebrate now, and take control of your future with the most personalizable guided journal app Features: -Record anything in one place, reflect on your life, form habits, reduce stress, sleep better, feel calmer, and happier through guided journaling -Over 50 ready-to-use mindful journals or create your own custom guided journals to keep consistent journals with text, number, currency, and time fields -Easily create and manage tags for regularly used things such as moods, feelings, activities, and people -Quantity, summary, and time-based goals and reminders to help you to form habits and to be more consistent -More than 60 charts to analyze mood, goals, tracked time, expenses, locations, tags, template answers, and more -Slide along all your previously geotagged entries on the map -Grid view to quickly compare all your answers between different days, weeks, months, and years -On-device encryption and secure backup and sync between your devices with your own encryption key and dropbox account -Look back at your entries with throwbacks -Images on the calendar and map -Export in PDF, JSON, TXT, KML, CSV -Dark mode -Passcode lock
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Verdict
Daytum and Guided Journaling both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Guided Journaling's written reviews are positive against 16% of Daytum's. Guided Journaling also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). 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. Daytum sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Guided Journaling sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Daytum against 4.4 for Guided Journaling. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 5 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 16% of Daytum's written reviews are positive against 100% of Guided Journaling's.
Daytum ships an update every 2 months, Guided Journaling every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on July 18, 2026 and August 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Daytum | Guided Journaling |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (12 ratings) — better | 4.4 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 16.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daytum | Dominik Gyecsek |
Customer experience
Daytum
Guided Journaling
Bugs and requests
Daytum
Reported bugs
14 issues- App crashes when editing entry dates/times
- App crashes when adding entries with past dates
- Frequent 'Unable to Save' error messages
- Data entries disappear randomly
- Duplicate entries created on save
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- Cocoa error 1550 and 1570 on login
- App crashes on startup or launch
- Login authentication failures
- App freezes on graph screens
- Incorrect data aggregation in charts
- Categories and entries disappear unexpectedly
- Syncing issues between app and web account
- App not appearing after download
- Poor performance on iPhone 4S and older devices
Requested features
11 requests- In-app documentation and user instructions
- Native iOS user authentication without web redirect
- Additional graph types (scatter plot, bar chart, cumulative)
- Ability to specify units for data entries
- Multiple data fields per entry
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- Timer function for tracking activities
- Data export functionality
- Better graphing options with y-axis markers
- Cross-reference and filtering capabilities
- iPhone 5 and iOS 6+ support
- Improved category and entry management
Guided Journaling
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Daytum
- Daytum Plus$3.991 Month
- Daytum Plus$23.991 Year
Guided Journaling
- DoEntry Monthly Plan$1.491 Month
- Doentry Pro Lifetime$40.99








