grug vs Museum Diary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
grug
Receive a daily dose of simple, profound wisdom to help you navigate life's challenges. This app offers straightforward truths and accompanying artwork to inspire personal growth and contentment. It focuses on mindfulness and taking small steps each day.
- Daily wisdom sharing
- Accompanying artwork
- Home screen widget
- Customizable themes
- Light and dark modes
- No login or tracking
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grug know: big scary just many small rock wearing fur coat. every sunrise grug share one wisdom. help you break today rock into small piece. no fancy word. no complicated. just simple truth that work. **what grug do:** - share daily wisdom when sun rise - draw grug dream on wisdom - share with other grug - widget show wisdom on cave - grug work in light and dark cave or give grug shiny color grug not guru. grug just know: small step every day make mountain move. perfect never come. better start with broken stick today than wait for perfect stick tomorrow. wisdom come from real life. fear work love pain growth. grug speak simple but truth hit deep. like "fear just smoke. real but not solid.” and "wanting make poor. grateful make rich." each day different wisdom. truth waiting. grug help see: you already enough. just need pick up one small rock today. app simple like grug brain. open. read wisdom. maybe draw feeling. that all. no login. no cloud. no follow. just you and today truth. remember. tomorrow not here. only today real. grug help make today count. Terms of Service: https://ocho.so/terms Privacy Policy: https://ocho.so/privacy
Museum Diary
Capture and organize memories from your museum visits. Scan placards, save favorite pieces, and log quiet moments. This private app keeps your art collection in one place without ads or tracking.
- Scan museum placards
- Save favorite art pieces
- Log quiet moments and sketches
- Organize visit memories
- Private by design
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Designed by a designer, for those who fall in love with pieces and want to remember them. You've been building a collection for years. Photos buried in your camera roll, memories fading between visits. Museum Diary gives your pieces a home. Scan the placard before you walk away. Everything is preserved in one tap. - Save any placard, from any museum (zoo, aquarium, history, & more!). - Your favorite pieces from every visit, all in one place. - Log the benches, sketchbook pages, and quiet moments too. - Private by design. No ads, no tracking, just your art. Every museum visit is a chapter. Start keeping yours.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: grug at 3.4K against Museum Diary's 3. grug also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
grug holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: grug has 3.4K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 96% of grug's written reviews are positive against 100% of Museum Diary's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
grug ships an update weekly, Museum Diary every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | grug | Museum Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (3.4K ratings) — better | 4.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 96.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.4K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 18.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 175 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ocho | Lan Zhou |
Customer experience
grug
Museum Diary
In-app purchases
grug
No in-app purchases
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No in-app purchases









