Comparison

Real Diary Lite vs Momento

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

Momento

This app helps you privately capture and organize life's memories using notes, photos, and videos. It automatically imports your digital history from social networks and apps, creating a beautiful, searchable journal of your life story.

Highlights
  • Capture notes, photos, and videos
  • Import digital history from social media
  • Powerful search and explore functionality
  • Unified timeline for reliving moments
  • Share moments and day summaries
  • Passcode and TouchID protection (Premium)
Features
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Introducing Momento — the smart private diary/journal app that helps you capture and collect memories to search, explore, relive and share your life story. Momento not only helps you privately capture moments in just a few taps (with notes, photos, videos, people, places and tags) but it also automatically collects your daily activities, posts and photos from the social networks, apps and devices you use everyday! Each and every moment is automatically organised and crafted into a beautiful private journal that chronicles your life story and stays up to date effortlessly. Momento is perfectly suited for all types of journal (such as personal, professional, study, travel, pregnancy, dream and health). Keeping a journal can also have profound benefits for mental health, memory and creativity. - - - - - - - - - - - - Essential Features - - - - - - - - - - - - QUICK AND EASY CAPTURE • Write notes and add photos and videos • Add people, places and tags for context • Custom reminders and streaks encourage capture EFFORTLESSLY COLLECT • Import your digital history from social networks and apps • Posts, tweets, check-ins, photos, videos and activities • Stays up to date effortlessly SEARCH AND EXPLORE • Powerful search and explore (keyword, people, places, tags) • Group and bookmark moments with ‘Events’ • Navigate by calendar or day, month and year timelines RELIVE AND REDISCOVER • Moments are grouped by day on a unified timeline • Browse by day, month, year and ‘on this day’ timelines • Summaries to relive and remember at a glance SHARE THE MOMENTS THAT MATTER • Share moments and day summaries • Share beautiful photo grids and notes • Export data as plain text (Premium) SAFE AND SECURE • Passcode and TouchID Protection (Premium) • Local & iCloud Backup & Restore • Local Media Storage - - - - - - - - - - - - Supported Feeds - - - - - - - - - - - - • Facebook posts, photos and videos • Twitter tweets • Instagram photos and video • Flickr photos • Swarm check-ins • Spotify saved tracks • Medium stories • Goodreads reading history, rating and reviews • RSS & Atom web feeds Capture and view 365 days of feed activity for free! Unlimited historic feed activity is available as part of Momento Premium. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Momento Premium & Premium Gold - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Upgrade to access exclusive ‘Premium only’ features including: • Unlimited Feed History • Export • Hourly Feed Updates • Passcode / TouchID / FaceID Protection • Add Multiple Photos to moments • Themes • Formatting Momento Premium Gold is for the dedicated user who would like to contribute more towards ongoing development of Momento and provides access to Priority Support. Momento Premium and Momento Premium Gold is an auto-renewing subscription. Momento will automatically charge your iTunes Account at the end of your subscription or free trial period unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of your current period. You can turn off auto-renew at any time and still receive full functionality until the end of your current period, but no refunds can be provided for unused portions of the subscription. Subscriptions can be managed and auto-renewal can be turned off by going to Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited if any subscription in Momento is otherwise purchased. Subscriptions cannot be shared using Family Sharing. If you have previously purchased Momento Premium or any of the individual features through our previous in-app purchase options, you can use the 'Restore Purchases' option in the 'Premium' settings screen to restore access. Prices will vary depending on your iTunes Account settings. Full terms and conditions can be found at https://momentoapp.com/terms/

Screenshots

Real Diary Lite4 screens
Momento4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Momento at none against Real Diary Lite's shown. Momento also leads on ratings volume (878 vs 4). Real Diary Lite's advantage is review sentiment (82% vs 49%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, rating, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Real Diary Lite sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Momento sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for Real Diary Lite against 4.1 for Momento. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Momento has 878 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 82% of Real Diary Lite's written reviews are positive against 49% of Momento's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Real Diary Lite ships an update every 2 months, Momento every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Real Diary Lite versus Momento: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReal Diary LiteMomento
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings)4.1 (878 ratings) — better
Positive reviews81.8% of reviews — better48.5% of reviews
Number of ratings4878 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size131 MB46 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperOwl Family Inc.d3i Ltd

Customer experience

Real Diary Lite

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

Momento

All ratings879 ratings
Positive77.6%
Neutral4.6%
Negative17.9%
Written reviews340 reviews
Positive48.5%
Neutral10.6%
Negative40.9%

Bugs and requests

Real Diary Lite

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Momento

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Facebook and Instagram feeds not working
  • Photos disappearing from old entries
  • Backup and restore functionality issues
  • Inconsistent behavior when changing dates

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add text formatting options (bold, italic, etc.)
  • Ability to print or export journal entries
  • Sync across devices (iPhone, iPad, desktop)
  • Customizable color themes and appearance
  • Option to selectively share entries with others
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  • Improved location and time zone handling

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Real Diary Lite

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

Momento

Subscriptions3
  • Momento Premium (Monthly)1 Month trial$3.491 Month
  • Momento Premium$14.991 Year
  • Momento Premium Gold$37.991 Year
One-time3
  • Lock Code$0.99
  • Multiple Photos$1.99
  • Additional 3 Feeds$2.99

Questions

Is Real Diary Lite free?
Real Diary Lite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Momento free?
Momento is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Real Diary Lite or Momento?
Momento is rated higher. Real Diary Lite averages 4.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Momento averages 4.1 from 878 ratings.
Do Real Diary Lite or Momento have ads?
Real Diary Lite shows ads; Momento does not.
Which is updated more often, Real Diary Lite or Momento?
Real Diary Lite ships an update every 2 months, and Momento every 6 weeks. Most recently, Real Diary Lite was updated on October 23, 2026 and Momento on October 22, 2026.

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