Diary Widget vs Rate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Diary Widget
This app helps you build a diary by answering daily questions. It offers customizable notifications and widgets to easily record your thoughts and memories on various topics.
- Daily question prompts
- Customizable notifications
- Diary widgets
- Filter entries by year/question
- Photo storage
- Font customization
- Backup and restore
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Small records accumulate into big memories. Answer different questions everyday, and a collection of essays is complete. Daily diary, relationships, parenting, travel, movies, exercise, and more—create your own essays on various topics. *How to use: Select question cards in each diary setting and set notifications to receive random questions at designated times. You can click on notifications to write a diary entry or use the 'New Diary Entry' button to choose a question and write your entry. Features: Notification feature: Receive notifications daily, on specific days, or monthly. Diary filters: View entries by year or by question card. D-day display when setting a reference date. Widget support: Display random past entries in the widget. Photo storage. Font customization for each diary. Backup and restore.
Rate
Discover, rate, and share public benches on an interactive map. Find the perfect spot for reading, relaxing, or enjoying a view, and connect with other bench enthusiasts.
- Discover benches on a community map
- Rate, review, and photograph benches
- Save favorite benches
- Follow other users
- Add new benches to the map
- Live feed of user activity
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The world is full of great benches. Now you can find them. Rate-A-Bench is the social map for discovering, rating, and sharing the best public benches around you - from sun-drenched park spots to that perfect view nobody knows about yet. Whether you're hunting for a quiet reading spot, a scenic break on your run, or somewhere to watch the world go by, Rate-A-Bench helps you find it - and share the ones you love. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Discover benches near you on an interactive community map. • Rate, review, and photograph every bench you visit. • Save your favorites and check in to build your personal bench map. • Follow fellow bench lovers and see where they're sitting. • Add missing benches - drop a pin, snap a photo, put it on the map. • Stay updated with a live feed of activity from people you follow. The best bench you've never sat on is out there. Go find it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rate at none against Diary Widget's 1. Rate also leads on ads (none vs shown). Diary Widget's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Diary Widget sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Rate asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Diary Widget against 5.0 for Rate. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Diary Widget ships an update every 2 weeks, Rate every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Diary Widget | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 136 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | OhLee | JAN ALBIN SCHURMANN |
In-app purchases
Diary Widget
- Ad-Free Version$1.99
Rate
No in-app purchases









