Simplife vs Personal Log Journal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simplife
This minimalist note-taking app prioritizes a clean interface for focused writing. It offers robust features like passcode protection, calendar views, and media attachments to help you organize and store all your thoughts and ideas.
- Multiple notes support
- Passcode lock for app and notes
- Calendar view for notes
- Attach photos and map locations
- Search across all notes
- Backup and restore options
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Incredibly Simple, Functional and Easy to use. Meet the note app haven't experienced until now. Simplife is minimally designed so you can focus on writing. With Simplife, you can keep everything what you want. [Features] - Support Multiple notes - Passcode lock(start-up screen and for each note) - Calendar view for each note - Change date of entries - Attach photos and map - Change font type and size - Share to E-mail and Twitter - Duplicate to other note in your Simplife - Backup/Restore with Dropbox and iTunes - Search entries in the all notes [With Simplife, try like this] - Daily journal - Private diary - Drafts for your ideas - Scrap book of your favorites - Wish list - Travel note
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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Personal Log Journal at Free against Simplife's $1.99. Personal Log Journal also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 86%). Simplife's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Personal Log Journal is free to download; Simplife costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Simplife holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 86% of Simplife's written reviews are positive against 100% of Personal Log Journal's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Simplife ships an update every 2 months, Personal Log Journal every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simplife | Personal Log Journal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sangmook Lee | Old Jewel Software |
Customer experience
Simplife
Personal Log Journal
In-app purchases
Simplife
No in-app purchases
Personal Log Journal
No in-app purchases
