LeftRightDiary vs Timemark Donelist
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LeftRightDiary
This app allows you to record life's moments using text and images, with support for Markdown editing. It prioritizes privacy by storing all data locally on your device and offers various ways to review past entries.
- Markdown and Rich Text editing
- Mixed text and image layout
- Heatmap and Calendar views
- Random memory recall
- Local data storage
- WebDAV and Alibaba Cloud Disk sync
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**Capture Every Moment** With Zuoyou Diary, record every moment of your life! 【Product Introduction】 Zuoyou Diary is a simple and pure diary app! It supports writing journals in Markdown, combining text and images. All basic features are completely free. All diary data is stored only on your device — your privacy is our top priority, so you never have to worry about data leaks. In addition, you can easily review past entries through various views such as Heatmap, Calendar, Random Recall, and "On This Day in the Past." Everything is clearly laid out so you can effortlessly keep track of life's little moments. 【Key Features】 * Supports both Markdown and Rich Text editors * Mixed text and image layout * Heatmap support * Calendar view (with heatmap) * Calendar image view * On this day in the past * Random memory recall * Privacy-focused: data stored locally on your device * Sync via WebDAV * Sync with Alibaba Cloud Disk
Timemark Donelist
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You've tried every time-tracking app. None of them stuck. It's not you. It's the friction. Scrolling time wheels. Tapping through categories. Switching between "deep work" and "shallow work." By the time you've logged a session, you've lost the thing you were trying to measure. We rebuilt time tracking from the ground up. Speak, don't tap Press the Action Button on your iPhone, or tap once on your Apple Watch. Just say what you did: "Spent 90 minutes writing the proposal, took a 10-minute scroll break." On-device AI parses, segments, and categorizes it — automatically — into a clean Markdown file. Hardware-level frictionless capture Built natively around iOS Shortcuts. From impulse to logged entry in under two seconds. No unlocking, no app-opening, no category-picking. Your data never leaves your phone Everything lives in a local folder on your device. Not on our servers. Not in iCloud (unless you decide to). Not even visible to us. If this app disappears tomorrow, your archive stays intact — forever. Built on the Obsidian philosophy Under the hood, it's just a folder of Markdown files. Drop it into your Obsidian vault and your time data instantly plays with Dataview, backlinks, daily notes, and graph view. Any Obsidian plugin would love to do this — but plugins can't reach into iOS Shortcuts. We can. Built for: Knowledge workers who've abandoned every other tracker Apple Watch / iPhone power users Obsidian users and PKM enthusiasts Privacy-first, local-first believers Quantified Self practitioners Readers of Lyubishchev who want to actually see their lives The point of tracking time isn't to optimize yourself. It's to be honest with yourself about how you actually spend your one short life. Make logging feel like breathing. Keywords (English): time tracking, voice journaling, Obsidian, Markdown, local-first, Apple Watch, Shortcuts, quantified self, productivity, daily log, privacy, deep work
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Timemark Donelist at none against LeftRightDiary's 1. LeftRightDiary's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, 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. LeftRightDiary sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Timemark Donelist asks for nothing beyond the download.
LeftRightDiary ships an update monthly, Timemark Donelist every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LeftRightDiary | Timemark Donelist |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 79 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 候军 袁 | 凡 何 |
In-app purchases
LeftRightDiary
- Upgrade to PRO$3.99
Timemark Donelist
No in-app purchases
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