grug vs Diya
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
Diya
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Diya is a warm, beautifully simple way to control your smart home. Instead of hunting through menus, Diya lays your home out the way you think about it — room by room. Tap to turn on the lights, start a fan, cool a room, open the curtains, or play music. One tap runs a whole scene. Diya connects to your own Home Assistant, so your home stays yours — your data never leaves your devices and your own server. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Control lights, fans, AC, geysers, curtains and media — room by room • One-tap scenes: Good Morning, Movie, Goodnight, All Off • Per-room and whole-home "All off" • Pin your favourite devices to the home screen • Live camera view for your Home Assistant cameras • Fast, tactile controls with instant feedback • Light & dark themes PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No accounts, no tracking, no ads • Your connection details stay in your device's secure storage • Commands go straight from your device to your own Home Assistant TRY IT FIRST Not set up yet? Tap "Explore a demo home" to try Diya with a sample home — no setup needed. REQUIRES A running Home Assistant instance and a long-lived access token. Diya is a control app for your existing Home Assistant setup; it is not affiliated with Home Assistant or the Open Home Foundation.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Diya at 3 against grug's 1. Diya also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 ships an update weekly, Diya every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | grug | Diya |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (3.4K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 96.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3.4K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ocho | Gopal Agarwal |
In-app purchases
grug
No in-app purchases
Diya
No in-app purchases









