Diary Notes vs Time Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Diary Notes
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◯ Use it like a memo pad to keep a diary - You don't have to write in your diary every day because no one will see it! - Includes photo, video, and recording functions. Tweet as much as you like. ◯ Minimize complex operations and select only essential features - We've created a simple design to avoid complicated operations. - The app is intuitive and easy to use, so anyone can enjoy it. ◯ Easily write down your everyday feelings - For those who just want to jot down their current feelings. - For those who want to organize their thoughts. - For those who want to vent their stress.
Time Notes
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Time Notes is a versatile diary app designed to capture every precious moment in life. It integrates mood journaling, inspiration recording, and goal planning, becoming a reliable companion for sorting out emotions and managing life. Mood Journaling Record daily moods with text, emojis, or simple sketches. Mark the weather and environment when the mood occurs to form a vivid mood log. Over time, it automatically generates a mood trend chart, helping you better understand your emotional changes and find the factors that affect your mood. Inspiration Recording Seize fleeting inspirations anytime and anywhere. Whether it's a sudden creative idea, a profound insight in reading, or an interesting life detail, you can quickly record it with text, voice, or photos. The app supports keyword tagging, making it easy to search and organize inspirations, turning fragmented thoughts into valuable resources. Goal Planning Set short-term and long-term goals, break them down into actionable steps, and set completion deadlines. The app sends timely reminders to ensure you don't miss important progress nodes. It also records the completion status of each step, showing the goal achievement process intuitively through progress bars and statistics, motivating you to keep moving forward. Time Notes focuses on user experience with a simple and elegant interface and smooth operation. It ensures the security of your records through password protection and data encryption. Let Time Notes witness your growth and accompany you to live a more organized and fulfilling life. Privacy Policy:https://sites.google.com/view/time-notes/privacy-policy EULA:https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Time Notes at none against Diary Notes's 1. Time Notes also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). Diary Notes's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 months). On price, ads 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 Notes sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Time Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.
Diary Notes ships an update every 4 days, Time Notes every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Diary Notes | Time Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 171 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | tadahiro mori | FENGHUI (HK) HOLDINGS LIMITED |
In-app purchases
Diary Notes
- 月額プラン$0.991 Month
Time Notes
No in-app purchases









