Comparison

Chournal vs BlahBlah

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

Head to head
About

Chournal

Capture ideas, track expenses, and manage tasks with a chat-like interface. Supports text, voice, images, sketches, and files, with AI assistance for summaries and reports. Prioritizes privacy with no registration or data collection.

Highlights
  • Chat-like note interface
  • Text, voice, image, location, sketch, file support
  • AI-powered idea summarization
  • AI-generated expense reports
  • AI-created checklists with reminders
  • No registration or data collection
  • iCloud storage
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Make note-taking as fun as chatting with your bestie! [Message Types] • Text • Voice • Images • Location • Hand-drawn sketches • Files [Use Cases] • Capture creative ideas: Let AI summarize scattered thoughts • Simple expense tracking: AI can generate expense reports • Manage to-dos: AI instantly creates checklists—click to complete, set reminders, and track progress [Data Security & Privacy] • No user registration or login required • No user data collection • All data stored solely in your personal iCloud storage

About

BlahBlah

This app provides a private chat interface for users to send messages, notes, and media to themselves. It offers features like voice memos, rich link previews, and a unique dialogue mode for internal reflection. Capture thoughts from anywhere and revisit past messages with advanced search and organization tools.

Highlights
  • Self-messaging chat interface
  • Send text, images, voice memos, links, locations
  • On-device voice memo transcription
  • Share from other apps
  • Dialogue mode for internal reflection
  • Backdate messages
  • On This Day and Daily Reflection features
  • Customizable chat themes
Features
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BlahBlah - Message Your Future Self Because some things are only worth saying to yourself. # Sound Familiar? You send links to yourself on WhatsApp. You text an idea to your own number before it disappears. Millions of people do this every day — in apps never quite designed for it. BlahBlah is what that habit always deserved. # What is BlahBlah? BlahBlah is a self-messaging app for iOS, built around the familiar comfort of a chat interface — except every message is from you, to you. Not a journal. Not a note-taking app. Not a to-do list. A chat. With yourself. # What You Can Send A thought doesn't always arrive as words — so send text, images, voice memos (with on-device transcription), links with rich previews, locations, and Apple Music cards. # Capture From Anywhere See something worth keeping in another app? Tap Share to send text, links or photos straight into BlahBlah. BlahBlah controls live in Control Centre, the Lock Screen and the Action Button — one tap to a note, voice, photo, link, music or location. A Quick Capture widget and Siri & Shortcuts capture without even opening the app. # Two Voices, One You Sometimes the clearest thinking isn't a monologue. It's an argument. Dialogue mode splits the conversation into two sides — rational and emotional, question and answer. Set names and avatars for each role, then start talking. # Write to a Past Moment Backdate records a message to an earlier date and time — yesterday's forgotten note — then drops it where it belongs in your timeline. A Premium feature, from the "+" menu or Control Centre. # Start From a Template Save what you write again and again — a daily rant, a morning check-in — as a template with its tags, and start from it in one tap. With Premium, reminders open the right template at the right time. # Look Back BlahBlah helps you return to yourself: • On This Day — what you wrote a week, a month, even a year ago. A banner surfaces it, or a daily reminder brings it to you. • Daily Reflection — a gentle question to look inward, fresh each day. Open it from a widget, reminder or Control Centre; your answer keeps the question with it. • Streak — a Home and Lock Screen widget counting your days in a row, current at a glance. # Find Your Past Self Search and browse your whole history: Search by keyword, browse by type — every photo, location and link — or filter by date range, tag (Starred, Idea or your own, AND/OR), template and dialogue role. Tap any result to jump back to that moment. # Keep It Just Right Long-press any message to edit it in place. Edited messages are automatically tagged so you can find them again. # Make It Yours This conversation is personal — so make it look right: • Five bubble themes, from Classic Blue to Sakura Blossom • Plus message alignment, timestamp frequency, corner style and bubble tail # Free vs Premium Free covers the everyday — text, photo, link, location and music messages, editing, resending, a template, On This Day, iCloud sync, and a 20-message taste of Dialogue mode. Premium unlocks voice memos with transcription, up to 9 photos a message, unlimited Dialogue mode, 10 custom tags, 20 templates with reminders, place and music search, full search history, batch actions, and every personalisation option. # Private & Everywhere BlahBlah syncs across all your Apple devices via iCloud — no account, no server, no analytics, no third parties. Everything stays between you and your devices. Your inner monologue is yours alone. BlahBlah — Say it. Save it. Come back to it. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Chournal4 screens
BlahBlah4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: BlahBlah at none against Chournal's shown. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Chournal sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and BlahBlah sells 3 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Chournal against 5.0 for BlahBlah. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chournal ships an update every 8 days, BlahBlah weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Chournal versus BlahBlah: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChournalBlahBlah
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.1
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNanning Signalling Network Technology Co., Ltd晓晖 王

Customer experience

Chournal

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

BlahBlah

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Chournal

Subscriptions2
  • SVIP Monthly Renewal$0.991 Month
  • SVIP Yearly Renewal$3.991 Year
One-time1
  • VIP Lfetime$6.99
3 purchases

BlahBlah

Subscriptions2
  • BlahBlah Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • BlahBlah Premium Yearly$6.991 Year
One-time1
  • BlahBlah Premium Lifetime$12.99

Questions

Is Chournal free?
Chournal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BlahBlah free?
BlahBlah is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Chournal or BlahBlah?
Chournal and BlahBlah are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Chournal or BlahBlah have ads?
Chournal shows ads; BlahBlah does not.
Which is updated more often, Chournal or BlahBlah?
Chournal ships an update every 8 days, and BlahBlah weekly. Most recently, Chournal was updated on October 12, 2026 and BlahBlah on October 19, 2026.

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