Comparison

Diary Widget vs NoteGarden

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Daily question prompts
  • Customizable notifications
  • Diary widgets
  • Filter entries by year/question
  • Photo storage
  • Font customization
  • Backup and restore
Features
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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.

About

NoteGarden

Easily capture your day with mood icons, photos, and short notes. Revisit past moments through a calendar view, photo timeline, and "On This Day" memories. Secure your entries with app lock and sync across devices via iCloud.

Highlights
  • Mood tracking with icons
  • Photo and short note entries
  • Calendar and timeline views
  • Search and favorites
  • iCloud sync
  • App lock security
  • 30-day trash recovery
Features
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NoteGarden is a gentle journaling app that lets you quickly save today’s mood, photos, and notes, then look back on them later. It is designed to feel lighter than a traditional diary, while keeping your records safely stored. Choose your mood, add photos, and write a short note — your entry is saved automatically. [ Key Features of NoteGarden ] Record today in under a minute • Quickly choose today’s mood with 10 mood icons • Add photos and notes to simply capture your day • Write notes neatly line by line with bullet lists • Organize entries more easily with tags • Keep your writing safe with automatic saving Look back with calendar and timeline views • Review past entries with daily moods and previews • Browse older records more easily with monthly section headers • Jump quickly to a specific year when you have entries across multiple years • See the time written and whether an entry was edited • Find the records you need with favorites and search • Revisit memories from the same date with the “On This Day” card Photo timeline • View photos added to your entries by date • Look back on past moments in chronological order from the Photos tab • Keep photos safely stored together with your records Reflect on your records with statistics • View your records by This Month, Last Month, This Year, Last Year, or All Time • Check record count, photo count, character count, and average character count • See your mood distribution at a glance with a donut chart • Track your journaling habit with your writing streak Safe backup and sync • Continue viewing your records and photos across devices with iCloud sync • Keep a single backup file with file export and import • Protect your private records with app lock • Restore deleted entries from the 30-day trash NoteGarden is made for people who find it hard to write a long diary every day. A mood, a photo, and a short note can be enough to remember your day. Save today in a small way, and quietly return to it later.

Screenshots

Diary Widget4 screens
NoteGarden4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: NoteGarden at none against Diary Widget's 1. NoteGarden also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, review sentiment, device support and iOS requirement 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 Widget sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. NoteGarden asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Diary Widget ships an update every 2 weeks, NoteGarden every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Diary Widget versus NoteGarden: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDiary WidgetNoteGarden
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 8 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.1
Further details — not scored
Size136 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOhLeeChanGyu Kang

Customer experience

Diary Widget

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

NoteGarden

Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Diary Widget

One-time1
  • Ad-Free Version$1.99
None

NoteGarden

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Diary Widget free?
Diary Widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is NoteGarden free?
NoteGarden is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Diary Widget or NoteGarden have ads?
Diary Widget shows ads; NoteGarden does not.
Which is updated more often, Diary Widget or NoteGarden?
Diary Widget ships an update every 2 weeks, and NoteGarden every 8 days. Most recently, Diary Widget was updated on October 5, 2026 and NoteGarden on October 8, 2026.

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