DayNew vs Ditto Journal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DayNew
This app offers emotional, social, and organizational support for individuals facing life challenges like loss, divorce, illness, or anxiety. It provides a community forum for support, personalized task checklists, AI-driven emotional processing prompts, and a buddy-finding feature.
- Community support forum
- Personalized organizational checklists
- Custom AI emotional processing prompts
- Buddy matching for shared experiences
- Financial and emotional support tools
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When life is hard, you need emotional, social and organizational support. Loss, divorce, illness, anxiety, depression and any kind of trauma causes isolation and executive functioning impairment. The DayNew app and community provides free tools like a community page feature that helps you get the financial and emotional support from your village without having to ask directly, a personalized checklist of organizational tasks for your situation, custom ai prompts to help you process emotionally, and a way to find a buddy going through something similar. Terms of Use: https://app.daynew.com/tos
Ditto Journal
This app uses AI to analyze your spoken thoughts, providing insights into mood patterns, recurring themes, and action items. It offers contextual connections to past entries and personalized prompts to encourage deeper self-reflection without the need for typing.
- AI-powered voice analysis
- Mood and theme tracking
- Contextual connections to past entries
- Personalized daily prompts
- Weekly emotional reflections
- Surfaced pull quotes
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Ditto turns 2 minutes of talking into real self-knowledge. Just speak and AI transforms your words into insights, patterns, and a record of who you're becoming. No typing. No blank pages. No excuses. HOW IT WORKS Tap record and talk about whatever's on your mind. Ditto analyzes and surfaces what matters: mood patterns, recurring themes, action items, and the moments worth remembering. WHAT MAKES DITTO DIFFERENT Ditto doesn't just capture your thoughts. It connects them. Record about a tough week at work and Ditto might surface your own words from a month ago when you pushed through something similar. It's like having a friend who actually remembers everything you've told them. WHAT YOU GET • Contextual connections: the app finds patterns between today's entry and your past • Personalized daily prompts based on what you've been talking about • Mood and topic tracking that reveals what's really on your mind • Weekly reflections on your emotional arc • Pull quotes - your own words, surfaced when you need them most • 60 thoughtful journaling prompts that go deeper than "how was your day" WHY VOICE Most people quit journaling because writing is slow and self-conscious. Speaking is natural. Ditto removes every barrier between you and your thoughts. YOUR DATA IS YOURS Encrypted, never used for training, deletable anytime. We take your privacy seriously because your journal is the most personal data you have. See our full Terms of Use at https://dittojournal.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Ditto Journal at every 3 weeks against DayNew's every 5 months. DayNew's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. DayNew sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $5.00 per 3 months and Ditto Journal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for DayNew against 5.0 for Ditto Journal. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 7 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
DayNew ships an update every 5 months, Ditto Journal every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DayNew | Ditto Journal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DayNew Inc. | Brian Leung |
Customer experience
DayNew
Ditto Journal
In-app purchases
DayNew
- Promo Subscription$5.003 Months
- Supporter Plan7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- 3 Month Subscription$18.003 Months
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- 6-months Subscription$18.006 Months
- Advocate Plan$18.001 Month
- Champion Plan$36.001 Month
- Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$99.001 Year
- DayNew Support Purchase$1.00
- DayNew Support Purchase$5.00
- DayNew Support Purchase$10.00
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- DayNew Support Purchase$20.00
- DayNew Support Purchase$50.00
- DayNew Support Purchase$100.00
Ditto Journal
- Ditto Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Ditto Yearly7 Days trial$79.991 Year
