Comparison

Remindfulness vs My Diary

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

Head to head
About

Remindfulness

This app helps integrate mindfulness into your daily routine with customizable practice reminders. Choose from over 100 prompts and unique alert sounds, or create your own. Schedule reminders at set intervals or opt for random delivery to foster a consistent mindfulness practice.

Highlights
  • Over 100 practice reminders
  • Customizable reminder timing (random or scheduled)
  • Choice of alert sounds or custom tones
  • Create custom reminders
  • Share reminders with others
  • Auto suspend and resume functionality
Features
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As featured in Cosmopolitan. Life moves fast, and most of it slips by on autopilot. Remindfulness sends gentle reminders throughout your day to pause, breathe, come back to the present, and remember who you really are. These aren't generic wellness tips. The reminders included draw on a wealth of non-denominational spiritual teachings, the perennial wisdom found at the heart of every tradition yet belonging to none: presence, gratitude, surrender, compassion, and reconnection with your Source. Each one has been distilled into a practice simple enough to do in a few moments, in the middle of anything. If you walk a spiritual path, whatever its shape, these reminders will feel like coming home. You have learned so many ways to reconnect with your Source, to bring your attention to the Present Moment... If only you could remember to do them throughout your busy day! Remindfulness is designed to run quietly in the background and gently call you back to your truth throughout your waking hours. This extends spiritual practice beyond isolated periods of meditation or contemplation. Woven into the fabric of your day, it can become a real way of life. Over a hundred simple yet powerful practices have been created so that you can perform them easily, in the space of no more than a few moments, often without having to physically move or even close your eyes: a breath received with gratitude, a blessing silently sent, a question that dissolves the mind's chatter, a return to the awareness behind your thoughts. This makes them easy to do the moment they appear on your screen, no matter what else you might be in the middle of. And even when you can't read a reminder right away, for example while driving or in a meeting, the simple awareness of its arrival can be your prompt to spend the next five minutes being as present as possible. FEATURES - Over 100 beautiful practice reminders. - 26 unique alert sounds, plus a Random option. - Time reminders to arrive at regular intervals, or choose random timing and how many arrive within your chosen time frame. - Custom reminder editor for writing your own. Then tell the app to use ours, yours, or a mixture of both. - NEW: Import a whole list of your own reminders at once. Paste a column from a spreadsheet, or a list from your notes, one per line. - NEW: Back up your reminders with a tap, then restore them any time through Import. - Auto suspend and resume sleeps the app overnight and wakes it with you in the morning. - Sound on or off at a touch, and share any reminder with loved ones via email or text message. Customization lets you shape how Remindfulness works for you. Choose whether reminders arrive with an alert tone, and which one. Choose random timing, and how many reminders you'd like, or pick a regular interval that suits your rhythm. Suspend the app while you sleep, without quitting it, and reminders resume by themselves in the morning. You can also write your own reminders and save them in a list, and now bring a whole list in at once, or back your list up for safekeeping. Tell the app to draw from your reminders exclusively, not at all, or shuffled in with ours via the Yours, Ours, and All options. NOTE: For the best experience, allow notifications for Remindfulness in your device's Settings > Notifications, and open a reminder from time to time; iOS quietly pauses notifications from apps whose alerts are never viewed. Please enjoy Remindfulness. I created it to help me, throughout my day, to return joyfully to the present moment. I hope it will help you do the same. Remindfulness... Helping you remember to be mindful Freedom Techniques www.remindfulnessapp.com

About

My Diary

This app offers a secure and personalized digital journal for recording daily thoughts, memories, and emotions. Enhance entries with photos, themes, and mood tracking. It's designed to support mental well-being by providing a private space for self-reflection and emotional processing.

Highlights
  • Password-protected diary
  • Add photos and drawings
  • Customizable themes and backgrounds
  • Mood tracking and analysis
  • Rich text editing
  • Journaling guides
Features
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My Diary provides a friendly, professional, and personalized diary-journal experience. With its beautiful and thoughtful design, it lets you enjoy every memorable moment. WHAT IS MY DIARY? My Diary is a free online diary with lock. You can use it to record daily journals, secret thoughts, journeys, mood trackers, and any private moments. It is a diary that supports adding photos, themes, diary background, mood, font effects, etc., making your private diary more vivid and safe. Committed to providing the most intimate diary-journal writing experience for users who want to keep a diary and care about their mental health. With the My Diary app, you can: Write diaries or record journeys anytime, anywhere Write photo diaries. Add pictures or drawings to make your personal diary more vivid Customize your journals with themes, moods, font effects, stickers Use it as a mood-tracker and get mood analysis Set a password to lock your diary and protect your memories JOURNALING FOR MENTAL HEALTH Journaling is a simple way to write down your thoughts and feelings to manage your mental health and control your emotions. Journaling has many benefits, including: Clear fear and concerns Manage anxiety and reduce stress Expressing your emotions. Journaling is really a good mental health tracker and mood tracker Learn from your experiences and make you happier Gain control of your emotions etc REASONS FOR CHOOSING THIS JOURNALING APP 1. Easy-to-use & Beautiful interface * It provides beautiful diary themes. Add enjoyment to every moment of daily journaling * Night dark theme. Makes it more comfortable when you keep a journal at night * Well-designed pages, let you start a journal or take notes easily * Providing journaling guides, Follow it step by step to complete the first diary. * Powerful rich text effect. It gives you the best experience whether you take journeys notes or write diaries. 2. Safe and Private * My Diary, as a private diary app, protects your memories by setting an app passcode. You can turn on the diary lock to make your diary safe. * We recommend that you set a security question to avoid forgetting your password and being unable to visit your journal. 3. Photo Diary, More Than Words * My Diary is a Photo diary. Add photos to make your private journals more memorable. * Check all journal photos in the Media View Mode * Add drawings to reflect your ideas and thoughts 4. Decorate Your Diary * Enjoy the Diary illustrated themes. Whether it’s a travel journal, health journal, girl diary, or mood tracker diary, there will always be a theme you like (Some of them are Premium) * Choose backgrounds when writing journal entries, see how lovely private journals can be (Some of them are Premium) * Writing about your feelings helps the brain overcome upsets, clear fears and leaves you happier 5. Mood Tracker * Some moods cannot be expressed in words, so you can choose mood diary symbols. Add your mood when you start writing diaries or take day notes * Track mood in the mood calendar * Check your mood trends in statistics * Be your free metal health tracker 6. Categorize Your Daily Notes with Tags * Adding tags for your daily journals * The suggested categories include Travel notes, work notes, love diary, baby diary, daily motivations, pregnancy diary, etc * Easily check your entries by tags In summary, It is really a good photo journaling app free for you, a lovely secret diary with lock and a great mood tracker & mental health tracker, which deserves to be installed. My Diary is a free journaling app, most of the features are FREE. Additional features, including some backgrounds, themes, etc. are available with a My Diary Premium Membership. If you have any questions or want feedback. Contact us: Email: mydiary@betterapptech.com Privacy Policy: http://www.betterapptech.com/about-us/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: http://www.betterapptech.com/about-us/terms-of-service/ ------------------------------

Screenshots

Remindfulness4 screens
My Diary4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: My Diary at 4.7 against Remindfulness's 3.7. My Diary also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 12 months) and ratings volume (28K vs 20). On price, review sentiment, ads 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. Remindfulness sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and My Diary sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

My Diary holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: My Diary has 28K ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 66% of Remindfulness's written reviews are positive against 71% of My Diary's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Remindfulness ships an update every 12 months, My Diary every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Remindfulness versus My Diary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRemindfulnessMy Diary
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (20 ratings)4.7 (28K ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.2% of reviews71.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2028K — better
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB119 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNaomi JanzenBetterApp Tech Co., Limited

Customer experience

Remindfulness

All ratings20 ratings
Positive65.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative35.0%
Written reviews74 reviews
Positive66.2%
Neutral4.1%
Negative29.7%

My Diary

All ratings28,310 ratings
Positive93.7%
Neutral3.6%
Negative2.8%
Written reviews1,967 reviews
Positive71.1%
Neutral12.1%
Negative16.8%

User reviews

Remindfulness

From 20 App Store ratings

What we love

  • ✨ Highly customizable reminders
  • 🧘‍♀️ Promotes mindfulness and self-awareness
  • 💡 Inspiring and thought-provoking messages
  • 🎵 Beautiful and soothing sounds
  • ⌚ Works well on Apple Watch

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent bugs and crashes
  • 🚫 Ads are intrusive and disruptive
  • 🔇 Sound notifications not working
  • ⏳ Reminders not appearing consistently
  • 🤔 Confusing or complex settings

My Diary

From 28K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🔒 Secure with password, fingerprint, and security question options
  • 📝 Easy to write and express thoughts
  • 🎨 Customizable with themes, stickers, and photos
  • 🗓️ Helpful for tracking moods and daily activities

Room to improve

  • 💰 Many features locked behind premium paywall
  • 🔍 Limited free theme and sticker options
  • 🐛 Issues with formatting, text editing, and photo placement
  • 🔄 Requires restoring purchases frequently

Bugs and requests

Remindfulness

Reported bugs

28 issues
  • No sound for notifications
  • Custom reminders not showing up
  • App freezes or crashes
  • Reminders disappear too quickly
  • App stops working after iOS updates
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  • Notifications not triggering reliably
  • App turns itself off
  • Time settings are broken
  • App quits from notification shortly after opening
  • Hangs and only shows the first reminder
  • Quotes disappear before they can be read
  • Banner alerts don't stay
  • Last quote doesn't stay long enough to read
  • Ad version is unusable due to frequent ads
  • Asked to share app every time a notification is opened
  • Alarmas no suenan en hibernación del iPhone
  • App doesn't work as advertised
  • App is inoperable, freezes when customizing
  • App crashes when trying to customize
  • App freezes on option screen
  • App freezes and only shows first reminder
  • App stops working, frozen
  • App turns itself off
  • App is buggy and confusing
  • App freezes on option screen and won't return to main screen
  • App freezes and refuses to work
  • App keeps freezing
  • Sound option doesn't work

Requested features

8 requests
  • Add more sound options
  • Allow reminders less frequent than daily (e.g., weekly, monthly)
  • Option for once a day or specific times/days
  • Port to Apple Watch for proper alert tone
  • Improve UI and iPhone 5 optimization
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  • Increase the limit of custom reminders
  • Add backup or data sharing options
  • Dark mode option

My Diary

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashing or freezing
  • Entries not saving properly
  • Inconsistent behavior with password/lock features

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to sync across devices
  • More free customization options
  • Landscape mode support for tablets
  • Better organization tools like folders or tags

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Remindfulness

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$4.99
9 purchases

My Diary

Subscriptions6
  • Diary VIP ( Month )$2.991 Month
  • Diary VIP ( Month )1 Month trial$2.991 Month
  • Diary Subscription Yearly$16.991 Year
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  • My Diary Premium Yearly3 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • My Diary Premium Yearly$19.991 Year
  • My Diary Yearly VIP$23.991 Year
One-time3
  • Diary Permanent VIP$29.99
  • Permanent VIP$39.99
  • My Diary Permanent VIP$49.99

Questions

Is Remindfulness free?
Remindfulness is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is My Diary free?
My Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Remindfulness or My Diary?
My Diary is rated higher. Remindfulness averages 3.7 out of 5 from 20 ratings, while My Diary averages 4.7 from 28K ratings.
Do Remindfulness or My Diary have ads?
Both Remindfulness and My Diary show ads.
Which is updated more often, Remindfulness or My Diary?
Remindfulness ships an update every 12 months, and My Diary every 2 weeks. Most recently, Remindfulness was updated on November 1, 2026 and My Diary on November 12, 2026.

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