How We Feel vs Diary.exe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
How We Feel
Capture life's simple moments with a beautifully designed journal. Easily record thoughts, emotions, and gratitude with text and photos. Organize your memories and enjoy a private, ad-free experience.
- Visual journaling with text and photos
- Daily prompts and custom prompt creation
- Photo Journey Board
- Passcode lock for privacy
- iCloud sync and backup
- Ad-free experience
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Use Brighter to create a visual collection of the simple moments in your life. Capture those fleeting moments of the day: something beautiful you see, a simple revelation, an unexpected emotion, a moment of gratitude. Brighter is for the moments in between. It’s a simple, no frills journal, beautifully designed. Create an entry in seconds. Answer a prompt. Or make your own. Add some words and/or a photo. That’s it. Brighter is a simple, flexible tool to help you appreciate the little (and big) things in your life. ENTRY IDEAS: • Thoughts • Emotions • Reflections • Revelations • Gratitude • Moods • Anything FEATURES: - Simple, beautiful design with an array of soothing colors to choose from - Quickly create entries with text and photo - Daily prompts from an expanding library of prompts - Create your own custom prompts (premium feature) - Filter journal entries by prompt or by day, week, month, or year - A Photo Journey Board is automatically created from all the photos you add to your entries - Motivating quotes within the app - Daily reminders - Passcode lock for enhanced privacy - Access your boards from both iPhone and iPad via iCloud sync - Automatic iCloud backup - Unlimited journal entries (premium feature) - Unlimited quotes (premium feature) - No login or registration required - No ads of any kind - No data of any kind stored on our own servers. All data resides on your device and in your iCloud account. FREE TRIAL: Brighter is free to download and the trial version allows you: • 10 entries • 2 custom prompts • 1 daily reminder • 7 favorites (entries, photos and quotes) • 50 motivational quotes PREMIUM UPGRADE INCLUDES: • Unlimited entries • Unlimited custom prompts • Unlimited daily reminders • Unlimited favorites • Unlimited motivational quotes • iCloud Backup • iCloud sync across iPhone and iPad Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Diary.exe
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· Record your day with photos, short notes, and videos · Open your diary with an analog-style Windows UI · Browse past entries at a glance on the calendar · Safely delete and restore via the Trash · Record your emotions for the day with your mood
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Diary.exe at none against How We Feel's 5. How We Feel's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. How We Feel sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Diary.exe asks for nothing beyond the download.
How We Feel ships an update every 3 weeks, Diary.exe every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | How We Feel | Diary.exe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (25 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | treebetty LLC | tae hyeong um |
In-app purchases
How We Feel
- Best-Self Bundle: Monthly$3.991 Month
- Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
- Premium Yearly$11.991 Year
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- Best-Self Bundle: Yearly$12.991 Year
- Best-Self Bundle: Lifetime$19.99
Diary.exe
No in-app purchases
