Comparison

Orange Diary vs Hearth

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

Head to head
About

Orange Diary

This app helps you manage your daily schedule and record personal memories. It offers intuitive tools for calendar management, diary entries, and event editing, all within a secure and synchronized platform.

Highlights
  • Calendar management
  • Diary recording
  • Event editing
  • Cloud synchronization
  • Privacy protection
  • Personalized settings
Features
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Introduction "Orange Diary" is your personal life assistant, integrating calendar management, diary recording, and event editing. Master your days with ease! Features Calendar Page: Manage your schedule like never before. All your activities at a glance. Diary Page: Guard your memories. Cherish every moment with our intuitive diary. Event Editing Page: Never miss a beat. Flexible editing for all your important events. Diary Editing Page: A canvas for your emotions. Edit your diary, express freely. MyPage: Your hub, your way. One-stop management with personalized settings. What's New Adaptive interface design for smooth operation. Cloud synchronization across multiple devices. Privacy protection for safe and secure use. Join "Orange Diary" and let's write a wonderful life together! Download now and start a whole new experience!

About

Hearth

Features
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One list. Everyone who shops from it. Groceries keeps a single shopping list for your household, sorted into the aisles you actually walk. Add milk on the bus, and it's on your partner's phone before they get to the store. SHARED, PROPERLY Invite the people you shop with and you all see the same list. Someone checks off bread, it's checked off for everyone. Sharing runs through iCloud, so there's no account to create and no password to remember. SORTED THE WAY YOU SHOP The categories are yours: Produce, Dairy & Eggs, that odd middle aisle. Tap the sparkles and anything unfiled drops into the right one. With Hearth Plus, Auto-sort does it by itself every time you put your phone away. IN THE STORE Tap Start shopping and your list moves onto the Lock Screen and into the Dynamic Island, with the aisle you're in always in view. In a hurry? Flag the must-gets and shop just those. WRITE IT HOWEVER YOU THINK OF IT Type or dictate the whole thought — "potatoes, milk and 2 kg of apples" — and the note panel turns it into separate items. BRING AN OLD LIST IN Photograph the list off the fridge, paste one out of a message, or pick one from Reminders, and it arrives as items already in categories. ALWAYS WITHIN REACH Keep your must-gets on the Home Screen with the widget, and check them off right there. Open your list straight from Control Center, the Lock Screen, or the Action button. On iPad, it's a full app of its own. ABOUT THE AI Three features send data to our server, which passes it to Anthropic's Claude to do the reading: sorting into categories, reading a note into items, and importing a list. Each one sends your items and category names, along with what you're adding: the text you wrote or spoke, the text you pasted or brought in from Reminders, or the photo you picked. It stays off until you switch it on, our server keeps only a count of how often you use it, and Anthropic doesn't train on any of it. Apart from that, your list stays on your device and in your own iCloud. HEARTH PLUS A few AI actions each month are included. Hearth Plus, a monthly or yearly subscription, lifts the monthly limit and turns on Auto-sort. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Orange Diary4 screens
Hearth4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Orange Diary at none against Hearth's 2. Orange Diary also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Hearth sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Orange Diary asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Orange Diary ships an update every 3 days, Hearth every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Orange Diary versus Hearth: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOrange DiaryHearth
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLEI SHISerhii Malezhyk

In-app purchases

None

Orange Diary

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Hearth

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Yearly$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Orange Diary free?
Orange Diary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hearth free?
Hearth is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Orange Diary or Hearth have ads?
Neither Orange Diary nor Hearth shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Orange Diary or Hearth?
Orange Diary ships an update every 3 days, and Hearth every 2 weeks. Most recently, Orange Diary was updated on November 3, 2026 and Hearth on October 31, 2026.

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