Comparison

Real Diary Lite vs Diary with lock

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Real Diary Lite

A user-friendly digital journal for managing schedules, notes, and moods. Customize your entries with themes, stickers, and pictures. Share updates to social media and track your emotions with mood charts.

Highlights
  • Customizable themes and stickers
  • Password protection with time settings
  • Mood charting and analysis
  • Social media uploads (Twitter, Facebook)
  • Event scheduling and reminders
  • Data backup and restore
Features
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Introducing sensible and practical diary! User friendly for all ages and decorate anyway you like. Real Diary can manage your schedule, memos and even your mood swings. Easy upload to Twitter and Facebook. Various themes and sticker updates. ===================================== Key Features • Select own themes and looks (updates are offered periodically) • Easy to edit resize and rotate stickers, pictures and maps   • Memo board offers free screen expansion, arrangement and enlargement • Password protected with time setting • Various alarm sounds to choose from • All screens are rotate accordingly • Supports Twitter and Facebook uploads • Charts for all moods are available in weeks, month and year • Transfer existing iCalender events • Limitless usage with internet connection ===================================== Additional Features • Data back up and restore function • Calendar mode and list mode available • Quickly jump to monthly or annually (4-way gesture) • Search feature • Preview and show summary of events, select colors • Repeat events option • Set alarm option for any time   • Select weather option with diary • Library for pictures and maps • Add multiple pictures and maps to event • Memo board offers various memo pads, text, pictures and maps • List according to date or choose your own selection in memo board • Various font selections • Hide/show menu bar • Select start up screen ==================================== Please enjoy this application!

About

Diary with lock

Create a secure personal journal to record daily events, thoughts, and secrets. Protect your entries with a password or PIN code and customize the look with different colors and fonts. This app offers a simple, fast, and user-friendly way to document your life.

Highlights
  • Password & PIN code protection
  • Customizable background colors
  • Changeable font styles
  • Easy-to-use interface
  • Searchable entries
  • Unlimited entries
  • Multi-language support
Features
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Use "Diary with lock" app to make your own personal journal of daily events, appointments, secrets and feelings. ****************FEATURES**************** • Diary with lock: Password & pin code protection • Diary with lock: Personalize background color (Pink, Purple, Blue, ++) • Diary with lock: Change font-style • Diary with lock: Easy to use • Diary with lock: Search entries • Diary with lock: Make unlimited entries • Diary with lock: Support 3 languages: English, Japanese, Vietnamese. • Diary with lock: The most downloaded diary app on AppStore! ******************************************* Build from the ground up to be simple and user friendly, the user interface is designed to allow you to enter new notes quickly and easily. With this Diary you can write all your private notes and secure them with a pin code or password. * Track and write about your daily activities Make it a habit to quickly write one or more mini-notes during your day. Simply leave a few words about your workout session, what happened at school or in the office during your day. In weekends, you can write about all the fun you had walking your dog, meeting with friends, or being social with your family. Make it a unique travel diary, or road journal that documents your journey. This can be the daily activity log you always have wanted. Make it your personal journal and have fun reading it over in few year, and share a few laughs with your friends. As this app is pure textual, and contains no images or photos, it runs ultra fast and smooth on any iOS device, and consumes minimal of available memory and disk-space! * This diary is perfect to use as: 1. Diet journal A food diary is a daily record of all food consumed as a means of tracking calorie consumption, weight loss or other nutritional monitoring. 2. Dream journal Or dream diary is a journal in which dream experiences are recorded for later analysis and possibly oneiromancy. 3. Sleep diaries A sleep log is a tool used in diagnosis of sleep disorders. 4. Travel journals A travel diary, or road journal, is valuable documentation of a journey. (only textual, no images or photos) 5. Write your own Autobiography This diary app can easily fit the purpose of a writing down your memoir or chronicle. Keep a log or logbook to record history. Do like famous Anne Frank, make daily records, document life in your own daybook. Never forget a journal entry again, setup a reminder to alert you when it is time to write. Protect all personal notes by adding a pin code when it starts up. Never worry about losing memories again. Easily send a backup of diary entries directly to email for extra protection. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://privacy-policy-site-five-nu.vercel.app

Screenshots

Real Diary Lite4 screens
Diary with lock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Diary with lock at none against Real Diary Lite's shown. Diary with lock also leads on ratings volume (1.2K vs 3) and rating (4.3 vs 4.0). Real Diary Lite's advantage is review sentiment (82% vs 66%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Real Diary Lite sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Diary with lock sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Diary with lock holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Diary with lock has 1.2K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 82% of Real Diary Lite's written reviews are positive against 66% of Diary with lock's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Real Diary Lite ships an update every 2 months, Diary with lock every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Real Diary Lite versus Diary with lock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReal Diary LiteDiary with lock
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (3 ratings)4.3 (1.2K ratings) — better
Positive reviews81.8% of reviews — better65.6% of reviews
Number of ratings31.2K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size131 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOwl Family Inc.Tuyen Bui

Customer experience

Real Diary Lite

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive81.8%
Neutral9.1%
Negative9.1%

Diary with lock

All ratings1,247 ratings
Positive81.7%
Neutral5.0%
Negative13.3%
Written reviews160 reviews
Positive65.6%
Neutral8.1%
Negative26.3%

Bugs and requests

Real Diary Lite

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Diary with lock

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Entries randomly disappearing
  • Constant redirects to ads when trying to write
  • Login/password reset not working properly

Requested features

4 requests
  • Backup and sync entries across devices
  • Fingerprint/Face ID support for locking
  • Ability to change font size and color
  • Option to disable ads for paid users

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Real Diary Lite

One-time1
  • Upgrade to paid version$2.99
3 purchases

Diary with lock

Subscriptions1
  • Cloud Sync Monthly$9.991 Month
One-time2
  • Donate to Developer$5.99
  • Diary with lock-No Advertising$8.99

Questions

Is Real Diary Lite free?
Real Diary Lite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Diary with lock free?
Diary with lock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Real Diary Lite or Diary with lock?
Diary with lock is rated higher. Real Diary Lite averages 4.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Diary with lock averages 4.3 from 1.2K ratings.
Do Real Diary Lite or Diary with lock have ads?
Real Diary Lite shows ads; Diary with lock does not.
Which is updated more often, Real Diary Lite or Diary with lock?
Real Diary Lite ships an update every 2 months, and Diary with lock every 6 weeks. Most recently, Real Diary Lite was updated on October 7, 2026 and Diary with lock on October 5, 2026.

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