Comparison

流年记 vs Placify

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

Head to head
About

流年记

This app allows users to record daily life, moments, and create calendar albums. It can also generate time-lapse videos from diary entries, perfect for tracking personal growth, projects, or life events. All entries are encrypted for privacy and are user-exclusive.

Highlights
  • Diary video creation
  • Calendar view with daily entries
  • Customizable diary tags
  • Rich text and image editor
  • Export diaries to PDF
  • Periodic plan with reminders
  • Generate calendar photo albums
  • Time-lapse video generation
Features
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流年记,是一款日记APP, 你可以用它来记录日常点滴,美好瞬间,生成精美日历图集, 也可以给日记添加周期计划,将日记生成时间变化视频(延时摄影视频), 用来记录生活日常、工作、宝宝成长、宠物、健身变化过程,甚至整个人生…… 流年记采用加密方式存储,保证用户隐私,日记仅用户自己可见。 【主要功能】 1、日记视频 发布日记支持视频功能; 2、日历功能: 支持日历封面,方便查询每一天日记,避免遗漏; 3、日记标签 每篇日记可以添加多个标签,自定义标签封面,方便归类整理; 4、图文混排 集成编辑器功能,支持图、文混排,适合写旅游日记; 5、日记导出PDF 日记可以按时间、标签导出为PDF。 6、周期计划: 给日记添加周期计划,每个计划可以独立设置闹钟提醒,适用于周期性日记,比如宝宝成长、健身、美肤等等; 7、生成图集: 可以生成精美的周历、月历、年历图集,分享生活的美好; 8、生成视频: 将日记图片生成延时摄影视频,时间变化视频是流年记的特色功能; 9、日记相册 汇总日记所有图片,可以按标签筛选查看; 10、时光回顾 随机回顾过去的一张日记图片; 11、同步功能: 支持多设备同时登录、同步,日记采用加密方式存储,保证用户隐私; 12、数据备份 支持日记数据导入、导出,不怕数据丢失; 13、批量删除 批量删除删除日记,可按标签筛选; 14、个性主题 支持时间线、时间轴、简约多个日记主题,可以自定义背景壁纸等; 15、数据统计 按月、年、总览,统计日记详细数据; 16、离线功能 无需网络、无需登录也可以正常使用。 —————— 解锁【流年记会员】后,可享受: 日记数据、图片自动同步; 将日记图片生成,精美周历、月历、年历图集; 将日记图片生成时间变化视频; 每天不限日记数量; 纯净去广告; 订阅会员价格: 1个月 ¥6.00; 1季度 ¥12.00; 1年 ¥36.00; 永久会员¥68.00(限时特惠)

About

Placify

Consolidate travel ideas, saved places, and memories onto a single, personal map. Organize inspiration, plan efficient routes, and transform your journeys into animated videos. This app acts as a digital travel journal, keeping your experiences private and accessible offline.

Highlights
  • Save places from any source
  • Organize and filter saved locations
  • Plan and optimize routes
  • Create animated travel videos
  • Digital travel journal with memories
  • Offline access to data
  • Shareable trip posters and videos
Features
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The most beautiful things in life are not just things. They’re people, places, memories, and pictures. Placify is a personal map, travel planner, and itinerary maker for the places that matter to you. Save restaurants, hidden gems, travel ideas, and “places to visit” from anywhere. Turn social saves into real trip plans. Plan smarter routes. Turn routes into animated travel videos. Let your map become a living travel journal. In a world where places are scattered across apps, screenshots, messages, and links, Placify brings everything back to one map: yours. --- ※ Save Places from Anywhere Travel ideas are everywhere: a restaurant in an Instagram Reel, a viewpoint in a TikTok video, a cafe from a friend, or a saved pin from a map app. Instead of rewatching clips, digging through saved folders, or pinning places one by one, send them to Placify. Placify turns scattered social saves, map shares, links, screenshots, notes, and photos into saved places on your personal map. Search, filter, group, and plan around them when the next walk, weekend, or trip begins. --- ※ Search, Filter & See the Whole Map Search by place name or address. Switch between list and map views. See where your saved spots cluster across cities and regions. Create dynamic views like: ・ “Rooftop Bars in Tokyo” ・ “2026 Solo Trip” ・ “Places Visited Twice” Your world, organized the way you think. --- ※ Plan Routes from the Places You Find Turn travel guides, shared links, social saves, trip notes, and saved ideas into a route you can edit. Placify helps connect scattered places into one path, so you can adjust the order, stops, and route details as your plan takes shape. Add multiple stops. Reorder freely. Use Smart Route to optimize the most efficient order. Visualize distance and travel time instantly. Perfect for turning online inspiration into road trips, city walks, weekend plans, and multi-day itineraries. --- ※ Bring Your Routes to Life Turn a route into an animated travel video with the path, stops, and memories you saved along the way. Use it to share a trip, a city walk, or a favorite route with friends. Your map becomes a simple visual story that is easy to save, watch, and share. --- ※ Travel Journal, Memories & Stats Automatically link photos to places. See where you were “on this day” in previous years. Receive gentle memory reminders. Track visit counts for every location. Your map becomes a timeline you can return to. --- ※ Smart Organization Automatic categorization and tag suggestions keep your archive tidy and searchable. Future you can always find the places that mattered. --- ※ Private, Offline, Yours Your data stays on your device. Access saved places and itineraries offline. Your map belongs to you. --- ※ Share Beautifully Turn trips and collections into posters, image cards, story templates, and route videos. Share inspiration while keeping your own perspective. --- ※ Widgets & Reminders Access favorite views, routes, and memories directly from your home screen. Set reminders for places you want to visit again. --- Whether you plan trips with tools like Wanderlog or Tripsy, or discover inspiration through Instagram, TikTok, Rednote, Tabelog, or local map apps, Placify brings everything together into one elegant personal map. Built around your places, routes, memories, and the way you experience the world. Rediscover your world, one place at a time. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

流年记4 screens
Placify4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: 流年记 at 100% against Placify's 59%. 流年记 also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.3) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.1). Placify's advantage is ratings volume (56 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. 流年记 sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Placify sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

流年记 holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Placify has 56 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of 流年记's written reviews are positive against 59% of Placify's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

流年记 ships an update every 11 days, Placify every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
流年记 versus Placify: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter流年记Placify
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings) — better4.3 (56 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better58.8% of reviews
Number of ratings256 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.1
Further details — not scored
Size116 MB247 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperZhuhai Pocket Factory Technology Co., Ltd.WHITESSPACE SDN. BHD.

Customer experience

流年记

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Placify

All ratings56 ratings
Positive83.9%
Neutral3.6%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews34 reviews
Positive58.8%
Neutral8.8%
Negative32.4%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

流年记

One-time4
  • 月卡会员$0.99
  • 季会员$1.99
  • 月会员$4.99
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  • 永久会员$9.99
4 purchases

Placify

Subscriptions2
  • Placify Pro - Monthly Flexi$4.991 Month
  • Placify Pro - Annual Saving7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time2
  • Placify Pro - Lifetime$29.99
  • Placify Pro - Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is 流年记 free?
流年记 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Placify free?
Placify is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, 流年记 or Placify?
流年记 is rated higher. 流年记 averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Placify averages 4.3 from 56 ratings.
Do 流年记 or Placify have ads?
Neither 流年记 nor Placify shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 流年记 or Placify?
流年记 ships an update every 11 days, and Placify every 2 weeks. Most recently, 流年记 was updated on October 24, 2026 and Placify on October 30, 2026.

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