Bloom vs Dear Diary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bloom
This app assists users in establishing and tracking personal goals. It offers features like customizable reminders, a built-in timer for habit formation, and visual customization options. The aim is to help users build positive behaviors for a better life.
- Set habit goals
- Customizable reminders
- Built-in timer
- Progress tracking
- Icon and color customization
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What are habits? “an acquired mode of behaviour that has become nearly or completely involuntary” Merriam-Webster Habits help us build up a life. Good habits make up to a good life. Bloom helps you set habit goals, be reminded about them and count your progress. You can even set a timer to form a habit. Features... Goals Timer Reminders Icons Color Bloom is Free with Ads.
Dear Diary
This app automatically creates rich journal entries by integrating your daily activities, health data, music, and photos. It keeps all your personal information private on your device, offering a beautiful timeline and calendar to revisit your memories.
- Automatic entry creation
- Integrates with Apple Health
- Syncs with Apple Music/Spotify
- Photo and location logging
- Private, on-device storage
- Timeline and calendar view
- Customizable themes
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Your Story is the journal that remembers your day for you. Jot a line or just speak a few words, and Your Story quietly fills in the rest — the steps you took, the songs you played, the photos you snapped, and the places you went. Each entry becomes a rich little time capsule, with almost no effort. EVERYTHING STAYS ON YOUR PHONE Your journal is deeply personal, so it stays that way. Your entries, health data, photos, and locations never leave your device. No account, no cloud, no tracking. WRITE YOUR WAY speech into text • Add photos from your day • Backfill past days from the built-in calendar YOUR DAY, AUTOMATICALLY • Health: steps, active calories, sleep, and workouts (Apple Health) • Listening: the tracks you played (Apple Music or Spotify) • Photos & places: the moments and locations that made the day LOOK BACK BEAUTIFULLY • A clean timeline of your story • A calendar to revisit any day • A world map of everywhere you've journaled • Streaks to keep the habit going • 8 warm themes to make it yours Start today. Your story is worth keeping.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bloom at 4.5 against Dear Diary's 1.0. On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Bloom holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Bloom ships an update every 5 days, Dear Diary every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bloom | Dear Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Neerav Kothari | HANTANG QIN |
In-app purchases
Bloom
No in-app purchases
Dear Diary
No in-app purchases
