Y/n vs Coloring Journal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Y/n
Engage with interactive stories where your choices shape the narrative and character relationships. Explore a vast library of community-created tales across various genres, or unleash your creativity by writing and publishing your own.
- Interactive storytelling
- Branching narratives
- User-generated content
- Story creation tools
- Rewind feature
- Multiple genres
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On Y/n, you play a character in your story. Be a boarding school student and get the boys to fall in love with you, or plan a jailbreak with Sherlock Holmes. Stories are made for you. Your texts change the plot and how characters feel about you (oops!). No two playthroughs are the same (but you can rewind). There's a Y/n story for every taste: romance, fanfiction, fluff, mystery, and more. Discover 10M+ stories created by the community. Can't find the one you want? Write and publish your own. Download Y/n for free and play your story! EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Coloring Journal
Catalog your physical coloring books, track finished pages, and monitor your progress. Connect with other colorists, share your work, and even color together remotely. Features include ISBN scanning, page notes, and custom sorting.
- Catalog coloring books via ISBN scan or manual entry
- Photograph and track finished pages with notes and ratings
- Monitor book progress with visual indicators
- Sort and filter library by various criteria
- Connect with and follow other colorists
- Participate in collaborative coloring sessions
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Your coloring book collection, all in one place. Catalog the books you own, photograph the pages you finish and watch each book fill up. A coloring journal for people who color on paper. WHAT IT IS ColorBuddy is a coloring tracker for physical coloring books. It keeps your shelf, your finished pages and your progress together, so you always know what you own, what you have colored and what is still waiting for you. YOUR COLORING JOURNAL • Add books by scanning the ISBN barcode, searching by title or typing them in yourself. • Photograph each finished page and keep it with its book, along with the date, your rating and your notes. • Record the mediums you used, from pencils to markers, page by page. • See progress on every book, with a bar and a percentage on each cover. • Sort and filter your library by title, author, status, format, theme or medium. • Group your books with custom themes you name yourself. • Check your stats and see how your collection is growing. FOLLOW OTHER COLORISTS Follow colorists you admire and view their public collections and finished pages. Your home feed shows what the people you follow have been coloring. Like the pages you love and see who liked yours. Other colorists can follow you and view your collection too. BUDDY COLORS Color together, even when you are miles apart. Pick a book, set a due date and share an invite code with your friends. Everyone colors the same book, then reveals their finished pages together when the round ends. Download every page from a finished buddy color in one tap. FREE TRIAL Adding books, pages and buddy colors needs ColorBuddy Pro. Try it free for 7 days through the App Store, then it continues as a subscription you can cancel at any time. Pick up your pencils. ColorBuddy will remember the rest.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Y/n at 6.2K against Coloring Journal's 19. Y/n also leads on chart position (#15 vs unranked). Coloring Journal's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.5) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.4). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. Y/n sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Coloring Journal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Coloring Journal holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Y/n has 6.2K ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 61% and 60% positive.
Y/n ships an update every 2 weeks, Coloring Journal every 10 days. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.
| Parameter | Y/n | Coloring Journal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (6.2K ratings) | 4.7 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.6% of reviews — better | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6.2K — better | 19 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Best chart rank | #15 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Emittance Inc. | Garage Code Ltd |
Customer experience
Y/n
Coloring Journal
Bugs and requests
Y/n
Reported bugs
2 issues- Continue button not working
- Incompatibility with older devices
Requested features
2 requests- Private and delete characters
- Email sign-up option
Coloring Journal
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Y/n
- Y/n+ Weekly$4.997 Days
- Y/n+ Monthly$14.991 Month
Coloring Journal
- ColorBuddy Pro Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- ColorBuddy Pro Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
