One Year vs BuzzBuzz
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
One Year
This app allows you to record your daily experiences through writing, photos, voice notes, or doodles. Each entry grows into a unique plant in a personalized memory garden, making journaling engaging and visual. It offers powerful search and cross-device syncing for a seamless experience.
- Daily journaling with text, photos, voice, and doodles
- Memories grow into a personalized digital garden
- Search memories by content, not just date
- Cross-device syncing (iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro)
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Privacy-focused with on-device encryption
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A daily journal that grows into a garden. Write a few lines, snap a photo, record a voice note, or doodle your day. Every memory becomes a hand-drawn plant, and over the year your entries grow into a memory garden that's all yours. One Year makes journaling feel light, visual, and easy to keep up with. "This is the first time I've actually stuck with journaling every day." Why One Year • Truly remember each day of your year • Write as much or as little as you want • No pressure, no streaks • Built for consistency, not perfection Journal your way • Write: a few words or a whole page • Talk: record a voice note and your day is saved • Snap: take photos with digicam, film and black & white looks • Doodle: draw your own flower, then hear it play • Feel: color each flower to remember your mood Find any memory, just ask • Search your whole year by what happened, not just by date • Look up a feeling, a place, or a moment, like "happy summer days" • Results bring back your words, photos and voice notes together • Revisit any day, any moment Your garden • Every day you add a memory, a new plant grows • 365 hand-drawn plants and animals, one for each day (no AI) • Watch the year grow day by day, and scroll through the whole thing • Option to show plants only on days you wrote Share your day • Turn any day into a little story • Share it as a video or a still, with your words, drawing, photos and music Widgets & sync • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • Quick camera access from the Lock Screen • Full garden view or simple progress dots • Works across iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision Pro, including your garden and today side by side on iPhone Duo • Everything stays in sync Your privacy comes first • Private by default • Stored on your device and encrypted in the cloud • No feeds • No ads Use One Year for free • Write about any day • Some of the widgets • The Doodle Clock in landscape mode • Multiple devices and syncing Get One Year Full Access • Add up to 5 photos to every day • Voice notes • The Doodle Camera for in-app photos • Daily mood tracking • All the widgets • Available as a subscription or lifetime purchase Every day counts. Support & feedback: hi@wndn.studio Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
BuzzBuzz
This app encourages daily walking and habit building with a cute bee companion. Track steps, maintain streaks, and connect with friends for light social motivation. Earn rewards and enjoy a fun, rewarding fitness experience.
- Daily step tracking
- Step goal progress
- Streak tracking
- Bee cam photo diary
- Social friends feed
- Honey rewards
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BuzzBuzz is a cute step tracker and pedometer app that helps you walk more every day, stay consistent, and have fun with friends. Track your daily steps, hit your step goal, and build a healthy walking habit with your bee buddy by your side. As you stay active, your bee’s mood grows happier and your streak gets stronger. So fitness motivation feels rewarding, not stressful. BuzzBuzz combines the best of a walking app, habit tracker, and social fitness challenge: • Step tracker + pedometer for daily activity • Daily step goal progress and weekly consistency tracking • Streak tracking to support long-term healthy habits • Bee cam photo diary for quick daily moments • Hive friends feed for light social motivation and accountability • Honey rewards and in-app boosts for extra encouragement Whether you’re starting a new fitness journey, improving daily movement, or looking for a fun social step counter, BuzzBuzz makes walking feel joyful, cozy, and easy to stick with.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: BuzzBuzz at 100% against One Year's 62%. BuzzBuzz also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). One Year's advantage is ratings volume (522 vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. One Year sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and BuzzBuzz sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
BuzzBuzz holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: One Year has 522 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of One Year's written reviews are positive against 100% of BuzzBuzz's.
One Year ships an update every 3 weeks, BuzzBuzz weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | One Year | BuzzBuzz |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (522 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 522 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 168 MB | 121 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wind Down Studio, LLC | Michael Holker |
Customer experience
One Year
BuzzBuzz
Bugs and requests
One Year
Reported bugs
2 issues- Cannot download on iOS 16.3.1
- Flower version set as default, no option to choose black dot
Requested features
4 requests- Adapt to Chinese language
- Add dark mode and dark icons
- Smaller widget size option
- Add garden widget or zoom in feature
BuzzBuzz
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
One Year
- One Year Weekly3 Days trial$0.997 Days
- One Year Monthly$2.991 Month
- One Year Monthly7 Days trial2 variants$2.991 Month
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- One Year Monthly$3.991 Month
- One Year Monthly$5.991 Month
- One Year Annual7 Days trial2 variants$24.991 Year
- One Year Lifetime$49.99
- one year lifetime$69.99
BuzzBuzz
- Cozy Bee$0.99
- Apprentice Bee$0.99
- Unc Summer$1.99
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- Suho$1.99
- Boram$1.99
- Vampire Bee$1.99
- Witch Bee$1.99
- Pink Bee$2.99
- Luau Bee$2.99
- Festival Bee$3.99









