My Diary With Lock vs Halloween Countdown
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My Diary With Lock
This app provides a secure and private space to record daily thoughts, moods, and memories. It offers password protection, mood tracking with emotion icons, and a calendar view to revisit past entries. Customize your journal with various artistic styles.
- Password and Face ID protection
- Mood tracking with emotion icons
- Quick notes with photos and emojis
- Calendar view for browsing entries
- Customizable fonts, backgrounds, and covers
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The cute diary app specially designed for you, with mood tracking and password protection features. Whether it’s daily moods, memorable moments, or deep reflections, everything is safely stored here. Private & Secure Your diary is protected with a password lock and Face ID. Everything you write stays private and visible only to you. Mood Diary Record your moods using adorable emotion icons inspired by Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions, allowing you to record moods in a soothing and easy way. Quick Notes Capture your feelings anytime with photos, text, and emojis. Calendar View Browse your diary by day or month and easily revisit memories from any specific date. Personalized Journal Customize artistic fonts, font size, background letter styles, and diary covers to create your own exclusive journal. If you have suggestions or feedback, please contact us in the app!
Halloween Countdown
This app displays a countdown to Halloween on your home and lock screens. It features an animated spooky scene, interactive elements like a "BOO!" scare, and quick access to Halloween music and sharing options. Enjoy the anticipation with no ads or data collection.
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Animated Halloween scene
- Interactive 'BOO!' scare
- Halloween music integration
- Shareable countdown
- Ad-free and no data collection
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Halloween Countdown puts October 31 on your Home Screen. Open the app for a full-screen purple-and-pumpkin countdown with drifting bats, fog, and a glowing moon. On Halloween Eve, the count switches to hours. Tap the pumpkin for a BOO! scare, complete with a haptic jolt. Tap Music to open the Halloween Party playlist in Apple Music, or tap Share to send friends how many days are left. WIDGETS • Home Screen widgets in Small, Medium, and Large • Lock Screen widgets: circular, rectangular, and inline • Tap a Home Screen widget for Halloween music in Apple Music • Widgets update every night at midnight, and every hour on Halloween Eve FEATURES • Live days-until-Halloween countdown • Hour-by-hour countdown on Halloween Eve • Animated Halloween scene (respects Reduce Motion) • Tap the pumpkin for a BOO! • Music and Share buttons • "Add the Widget" button with step-by-step tips No accounts. No ads. No tracking. No data collected. Just the wait until Halloween. Requires iOS 17 or later. Music playback uses the Apple Music app; a subscription may be needed to play the full playlist.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Halloween Countdown at none against My Diary With Lock's 3. Halloween Countdown also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 3 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). My Diary With Lock's advantage is ratings volume (2K vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). 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. My Diary With Lock sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Halloween Countdown asks for nothing beyond the download.
Halloween Countdown holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: My Diary With Lock has 2K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
My Diary With Lock ships an update every 3 months, Halloween Countdown daily. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | My Diary With Lock | Halloween Countdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (2K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 91.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MEETFIRE LIMITED | Adam Fisher |
Bugs and requests
My Diary With Lock
Reported bugs
2 issues- Submitted diary entries sometimes reset font settings
- Occasional data loss when switching devices
Requested features
4 requests- Add more journal cover options
- Implement backup and restore functionality
- Improve font customization options
- Introduce a dark mode theme
Halloween Countdown
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
My Diary With Lock
- Monthly VIP$1.991 Month
- Yearly VIP$7.991 Year
- Lifetime VIP$9.99
Halloween Countdown
No in-app purchases
Questions
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