Secret Diary vs Be a better
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Secret Diary
This app provides a secure and customizable space for journaling, mood tracking, and memory keeping. Enhance your entries with photos, stickers, and personalized themes. Organize your thoughts with tags and find them easily with smart search.
- Secure passcode, pattern, or password lock
- Mood tracking and emotional analytics
- Add photos, stickers, and backgrounds to entries
- Organize entries with tags
- Customizable themes, fonts, and colors
- Backup and restore functionality
- Daily writing reminders
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Your thoughts deserve a private, beautiful home. My Private Diary - Mood Journal is a calm, secure, and customizable diary app designed to help you write freely, track your emotions, and protect your memories — all in one peaceful space. It’s not just a diary. It’s your personal companion for reflection, growth, and self-care. What You Can Do - Write journals and daily reflections anytime, anywhere - Add photos, stickers, frames, and backgrounds to make each page special - Record your emotions using the mood tracker and view your emotional journey over time - Organize entries by tags, moods, or dates - Keep your diary safe with a passcode, pattern, or password lock Key Features: Mood Tracker & Analytics With mood journal you can track how you feel every day and visualize your emotional patterns with charts and mood calendars. Private Lock System Your memories are yours alone. Secure them with pattern, PIN, or password protection. There is also a recovery question which is used to recover your password incase you forget it. Backup & Restore Safely back up your entries and restore anytime. Never lose your memories again. To backup visit setting then backup and restore. Themes, Fonts & Customization Choose from elegant themes, unique fonts, and rich colors. Create a writing space that reflects you. You can set it via setting - themes, or on homepage open side navigation and click on themes then choose your theme and click apply. Photo Diary with Stickers & Frames Turn your daily journal into a visual story. The free version lets you add 2 images per entry, and with Premium you can add up to 30. You can use it with frames, animated stickers, and custom captions. In the entry page you can find related buttons like sticker, add image, tags, backgrounds etc, click on any to view and add items you want. To add frames or change size of you photo click on it then choose the frame or click on resize button to change the size. Tags for Easy Organization Group your entries with tags — track travel, love, goals, gratitude, or any moment that matters. Calendar & Smart Search Easily find past entries by date, mood, tag, or keyword. Write minimum 3 words to search, choose a tag or choose any mood emoji to filter — your entire story at a glance. Reminders & Notifications Stay consistent with gentle reminders to write every day. You can set custom reminder at any time of the day going to setting - reminder. Journaling for Mind & Mood Writing helps you clear your mind, reduce stress, and understand yourself better. Use your diary as a daily self-care and mindfulness tool. Premium Features • Auto Backup • Add up to 30 photos per entry • Unlock all premium themes, backgrounds and colors • Exclusive sticker packs and photo frames • Custom app backgrounds • Tag icons & extra moods • No Ads — pure, focused journaling. Why You’ll Love It Your diary should be as private and personal as your thoughts. With My Diary – Daily Mood Journal, you get a calm, safe space to reflect, express, and rediscover yourself — wherever you want. Write your heart out. Track your emotions. Your story, your feelings — locked, safe, and beautifully yours.
Be a better
This app helps you nurture your relationships by tracking friends, logging conversations, and sending timely reminders for birthdays and check-ins. It acts as a personal CRM for your social life, ensuring you stay connected with loved ones.
- Friend tracking
- Log check-ins and notes
- Gentle reach-out reminders
- Birthday tracking
- Calendar notes for context
- Personal CRM for friendships
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Be a Better Friend! is a simple friendship tracker that helps you stay close to the people you care about without the awkward “I forgot to reply” spiral. Keep your connections cozy and consistent. Add friends and keep everything in one place. Log check-ins with notes about what you talked about. Get gentle reminders so you reach out before it’s been “too long.” Track birthdays so you don’t miss the moments that matter. Save calendar notes for plans, memories, and little bits of context you’ll be glad you kept. It’s like a personal CRM for friendships, but soft, minimal, and made for real life. You can track up to 3 friends for free. If you want to track more than 3 friends, you’ll need Premium. Premium includes unlimited friend tracking and weekly or monthly subscription options. Subscriptions are billed to your Apple ID account. Payment will be charged at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.bronixengineering.com/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Be a better at 4.8 against Secret Diary's 4.4. Be a better also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Secret Diary sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Be a better sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Be a better holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 4 respectively.
Secret Diary ships an update fortnightly, Be a better every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on August 18, 2026 and July 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Secret Diary | Be a better |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (11 ratings) | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 86 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chandan Kumar | Bronix |
Customer experience
Secret Diary
Be a better
In-app purchases
Secret Diary
- Diary Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
- Diary Premium Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Diary Annual Subscription$14.991 Year
- Diary Premium - Lifetime$19.99
- Diary premium lifetime$39.99
Be a better
- Unlimited Friends – Weekly3 Days trial$2.997 Days
- Unlimited Friends – Weekly3 Days trial$3.997 Days
- Unlimited Friends – Monthly$4.991 Month
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- Unlimited Friends – Monthly$7.991 Month
- Unlimited Friends – Yearly$9.991 Month
- Unlimited Friends – Yearly3 Days trial$34.991 Year
- Unlimited Friends – Yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year





