Comparison

DiaryClub vs DumbScroller

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

Head to head
About

DiaryClub

This app allows you to create private or public journals filled with photos and stories. Organize your life's moments, thoughts, and adventures into timelines and photo books. You can also collaborate with others on shared chronicles.

Highlights
  • Photo journaling
  • Timeline creation
  • Private and public entries
  • Collaborative chronicles
  • Photo book generation
  • Anonymous journaling
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A journal for photos and stories — private or public. Diary.Club – All Your Memories. One Home. Diary.Club combines diary, chronicle, photo book, and timeline into a single app – for your life and your shared stories. Capture your adventures, thoughts, travels, and projects in vivid timelines. You can create a separate diary for every topic – unlimited and as diverse as your life. Diary.Club is completely anonymous. You decide whether to share your stories or keep them private. No real names, no obligations – just genuine memories. Create your personal diary or invite family, friends, or teams to collaboratively collect memories and write shared chronicles. Turn every moment into a beautiful photo book – perfect for preserving your most valuable experiences forever. Follow the chronicles of your favorite clubs, brands, or stars, and stay updated on anniversaries and upcoming events. Diary.Club brings private memories and public stories together in one place. Turn every day into a chapter and every experience into a story that lasts.
Diary.Club – Your Memories. Our Legacy.

About

DumbScroller

This app offers a digital detox by simulating the familiar scrolling experience of social media without any engaging content. It provides placeholder feeds to satisfy the habit of scrolling, helping to break screen addiction by replacing harmful reflexes with harmless ones.

Highlights
  • Simulates social media scrolling
  • Placeholder content feeds
  • Targets scrolling habit
  • No accounts or notifications
  • Meaningless interactions (like, comment)
  • Screen time solution
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Stop doom scrolling with Dumb Scroller! Like a decaf espresso, Dumb Scroller gives your brain the familiar ritual of scrolling through social media — without any of the hooks that keep you trapped. It's a digital detox that works with your habits, not against them. Choose from surrogate versions of the apps you can't put down — a photo feed, a short-form video stream, a microblog timeline, a friend feed, and a video platform — all filled with harmless placeholder content. No real posts. No outrage. No algorithm. Just the soothing muscle memory of mindless scrolling, minus the consequences. Your brain craves the pattern — the pull-to-refresh, the double-tap to like, the endless scroll. Dumb Scroller delivers that pattern in its most inert form. Over time, the compulsion fades. The itch gets scratched without the screen addiction getting fed. Why it works: • Targets the scroll habit itself, not just the content • Replaces your phone addiction reflex with a harmless alternative • No accounts, no notifications, no data collection, no feed algorithm • Multiple app styles reminiscent of popular social media platforms • Infinite scrolling, liking, bookmarking, and commenting — all completely meaningless • A screen time solution that doesn't lecture you or block your apps Dumb Scroller doesn't shame you with screen time reports or fight your willpower. It simply offers your restless fingers something to do while your brain quietly forgets why it needed to scroll in the first place. Break the cycle. Keep the ritual. Scroll dumb.

Screenshots

DiaryClub4 screens
DumbScroller4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DiaryClub at none against DumbScroller's 1. DiaryClub also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. DumbScroller sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. DiaryClub asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
DiaryClub versus DumbScroller: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDiaryClubDumbScroller
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings—5 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB4 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developerchristian KaiserShaun Salzberg

Customer experience

DiaryClub

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

DumbScroller

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

DiaryClub

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

DumbScroller

One-time1
  • Unlock all styles$0.99

Questions

Is DiaryClub free?
DiaryClub is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DumbScroller free?
DumbScroller is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do DiaryClub or DumbScroller have ads?
Neither DiaryClub nor DumbScroller shows ads.

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