Comparison

Diary Star vs Tend Quietly

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

Head to head
About

Diary Star

Features
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「A new dawn awakens, while yesterday has drifted into the past. 」 「How has this day found you, my friend?」 「Go where the restless soul leads, walk the path less traveled.」 「These fleeting moments, I wish to make them eternal...」 「Diary Star」, a app pure and true, to pen your thoughts as the days see you through. Together let our stories unfold, as the pages turn, as we grow old. 【Gifts it brings】 • Simplicity - Thoughts flow, without artifice or guise • Convenience - Write swift, let the words take flight • Reminders - Lest memories be lost to the night • A mood for all seasons - Joy or sorrow, as reason • A month, a glimpse - Find tales from times now past • Change the view - Scenes to inspire, uplift anew • For night owls too - In darkness, a light shone for you 【The road ahead】 • Your words, forever kept- export, share as you please • iCloud does provide - a refuge for your diary • Sync life's moments - your tech, your terms, you lead • FaceID, your guide - open to your eyes alone • Pictures - worth a thousand words, now part of your story • Together we'll shape - this app, your life, our journey

About

Tend Quietly

This journaling app organizes your thoughts around people and topics. It automatically creates pages for each person or tag you mention, eliminating manual filing. Your journal is private, stored only on your device and synced via iCloud.

Highlights
  • Journaling organized by people
  • Automatic page creation for mentions
  • Tagging for topics
  • No manual filing or sorting
  • Private, device-only storage
  • iCloud syncing
Features
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Journal like you think. Mention who's on your mind. Tend is a journal built around people, not dates. You write notes with @mentions and #tags and the app does the rest. Every person you mention gets their own page showing every note they appear in. Every tag gets a page too. You never file, sort, or organize anything. The structure comes from your writing. Reply to your own notes. Pin the ones that matter. Search everything. Your journal lives on your device. No server. No account. No tracking. Syncs through your own iCloud. Free with up to five people. One-time $5 purchase for unlimited. No subscription. No ads.

Screenshots

Diary Star4 screens
Tend Quietly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Diary Star at 17.0 against Tend Quietly's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Diary Star sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Tend Quietly sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Diary Star versus Tend Quietly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDiary StarTend Quietly
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChengdu Xingguan Technology Co., Ltd.Daniel Tatom

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Diary Star

One-time1
  • Pro$1.99
1 purchases

Tend Quietly

One-time1
  • Unlimited$5.00

Questions

Is Diary Star free?
Diary Star is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tend Quietly free?
Tend Quietly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Diary Star or Tend Quietly have ads?
Neither Diary Star nor Tend Quietly shows ads.

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