GhostDiary vs Foliant
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GhostDiary
Easily record your daily life and emotions with cute ghost characters. Track your mood, organize entries by emotion or theme, and gain insights into what affects your feelings. Features include password protection and daily fortune cookies for mindfulness.
- Mood tracking with ghost characters
- Daily diary entries with icons and photos
- Emotional statistics and analysis
- Categorized memos and diaries
- Daily fortune cookies for mindfulness
- Password protection for privacy
- Customizable design themes
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Record your precious day with a ghostdiary! You can record your daily life easily and quickly with cute ghost characters. "Emotional Records" Record your mood as a ghost butler character, and check out the calendar at a glance. It is also possible to classify the diary by each emotion. "Daily Diary" Record who you spent the day with and what you did with various icons. Write it simply with icons on a daily basis, and on a special day, with pictures and long articles. "Mood Tracker" Check the statistics on emotions and activities recorded. Identify the factors that affect my emotions. "Memo" Have you ever wanted to separate themes such as travel diary and cooking diary ? Create a folder and record it one by one by one. Or if you have to remember something, but it's ambiguous to write in your diary, write it separately in the memo column. "Fortune cookies." Start your day with ghost cookies. There'll be a note in it that'll help. When you have negative thoughts such as depression, insomnia, or irritation, stress pull out a fortune cookie and control your mind. "Design Theme" Ghost Butler offers a variety of themed calendars. We are currently offering basic themes and summer themes. "Diary with Password" You can set a password to keep the record safe. "Other Features" It also provides functions such as notification function, font setting, and calendar image sharing. "Contact Us" Please let me know in the review! Thank you :) "Terms of Use" https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Foliant
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Foliant is an iPhone-first commonplace book — words and ink, side by side on the same page, in the same gesture. No layers, no modes, no cloud, no AI. A warm, manuscript-inspired interface carries that feeling from the book shelf to the writing desk, with paper grain, quiet tools, and a small red seal. Write the way you write on paper. Three brushes — pen, pencil, wash — share a single gesture. Five paper textures (vellum, kraft, lined, dot grid, cold-press) feel like the book in your pocket. Six ink colors hand-mixed for warm and slow. Two books free to start. Open the rest with one purchase. No subscription. No account. No cloud. Yours forever, on paper, in your pocket. FEATURES • Pen / Pencil / Wash — three brushes, one continuous gesture • Five paper textures and six warm ink colors • Full PDF book export • 100% offline, on-device storage • Designed for iPhone — single-thumb reach NO SUBSCRIPTION. NO CLOUD. NO AI. NO TRACKERS. A pocket commonplace book for words and ink, side by side.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: GhostDiary at 3 against Foliant's 1. GhostDiary also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. GhostDiary sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $29.99 per year and Foliant sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
GhostDiary ships an update every 3 weeks, Foliant every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GhostDiary | Foliant |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (181 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 87.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 181 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 92 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yoonjik Cho | Shanghai Runesmith Artificial Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd. |
In-app purchases
GhostDiary
- free-ads-year$29.991 Year
- sky background$1.29
- Ghostdog$1.49
- GhostBear$1.49
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- Ghost Astronaut$1.49
- Notebook ghost$1.49
- FlowerGhost$1.49
- Graduated ghost$1.49
- Big Eyed Ghost$1.49
- Skinny Ghost$1.49
Foliant
- Foliant Premium$7.99









