Comparison

ILUMN vs Dance Diary

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

Head to head
About

ILUMN

This app provides dancers with tools for well-being, including courses, guided meditations, and journal prompts. Connect with a community forum and access all your dance videos in one place.

Highlights
  • Library of courses
  • Journal prompts
  • Guided meditations
  • Motivational content
  • Community forum
  • Video library access
Features
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Offerings include an ever-growing library of courses; plus journal prompts, several hours of guided meditations, and motivational pep talks. Connect with fellow likeminded dancers and other individuals involved in the dance world through our community forum feature. Inside the ILUMN app, you can: Access all of your videos in one easy to use app Receive push notifications with the latest news and updates Access to all of your videos without having to remember your password Save your favorite posts so you can quickly find them later ILUMN Privacy Policy: https://www.theilumncollective.com/branded-app-privacy-policy END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Dance Diary

Log dance classes, track corrections, and monitor progress. This app helps dancers manage their training, set goals, and care for their mental well-being with guided exercises and reflection prompts.

Highlights
  • Log classes and schedule
  • Organize and track corrections
  • Practice timer for skills
  • Set and track dance goals
  • Manage performances and auditions
  • Mental well-being exercises
  • Progress and pattern analysis
Features
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Made for dancers, by dancers. Dance Diary is your personal space to log every class, remember every correction, and watch your progress grow — while taking care of the dancer behind the technique. LOGGING A CLASS TAKES SECONDS Add your weekly schedule once, and each class appears on the right day ready to log in a single tap. Style, duration, teacher, corrections, how hard it felt, and how your body is doing. Two classes in one day? Log them both. NEVER LOSE A CORRECTION Keep every note your teacher gives you, organized by body part and by teacher, and move each one from Focus to Improving to Mastered. A correction you haven't worked on in a while quietly comes back so it isn't forgotten. CAPTURE CORRECTIONS BEFORE YOU FORGET Straight after class, type everything your teacher said — one per line — and save them all at once. Tag them later, when you have a moment. PRACTISE WITH INTENT Start a timer against the correction or skill you are actually working on, and the minutes land against that thing. Working on something counts, even before it clicks. THE THINGS YOU ARE CHASING Corrections come from your teachers. Skills are the ones you set yourself — a double pirouette, splits on the left — with a dated log that proves they moved. WRITE TO THE DANCER YOU'LL BE Seal a letter to yourself, opened in one month or one year. Dancers change faster than they notice. A SUMMARY YOU CAN SHARE Turn a season into a plain summary — classes, hours, teachers, performances, corrections mastered — for a teacher, an audition, or an application. WRITE DOWN THE CHOREOGRAPHY Combinations noted the way you count them — in eights — so what you learned on Tuesday is still there on Thursday. Plus a glossary of over fifty dance terms, with pronunciations, for the days a teacher uses a word you don't know. SET GOALS THAT MEAN SOMETHING Weekly and monthly goals with progress tracking. Unfinished goals can be carried into the new week with one tap, and past goals stay as a record of how far you've come. OWN THE STAGE Competitions, recitals, and auditions with countdowns, a packing list for each one, and a two-minute Backstage moment for the wings — breathing, and then your own training hours read back to you, because "you are ready" means more when it's arithmetic. CARE FOR YOUR MIND, TOO A daily mood check-in, guided box and 4-7-8 breathing, 5-4-3-2-1 grounding, a progressive body scan, reflection prompts you can read back any time, and 36 affirmations written for dancers. If you keep flagging discomfort, the app offers a recovery mode that hides streaks and gets gentler until you're ready. SEE YOUR OWN PATTERNS Mood over the past month, how your body has felt, hours by style and teacher, a Year in Review worth sharing, and quiet observations drawn from your own entries — all worked out on your phone. YOURS, AND ONLY YOURS No accounts. No ads. Everything you write stays on your device — the app shares only anonymous usage statistics, which you can switch off. Optional Face ID lock, optional daily reminders, and one-tap backup export and import so your history follows you to a new phone. Three hand-crafted themes — Ballet Rose, Studio Warm, and Night Bloom — make your diary feel like home. Your journey in dance is yours alone — and it is beautiful.

Screenshots

ILUMN3 screens
Dance Diary4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dance Diary at none against ILUMN's 4. Dance Diary also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly) and ratings volume (8 vs 1). On price, rating, 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. ILUMN sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. Dance Diary asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for ILUMN against 5.0 for Dance Diary. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dance Diary has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ILUMN ships an update fortnightly, Dance Diary every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
ILUMN versus Dance Diary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterILUMNDance Diary
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings18 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB54 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperThe ILUMN CollectiveMaia Hariton

Customer experience

ILUMN

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Dance Diary

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

ILUMN

Subscriptions4
  • Monthly$19.991 Month
  • ILUMN Monthly Membership$30.001 Month
  • Annual$179.991 Year
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  • ILUMN Annual Membership$289.001 Year
None

Dance Diary

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ILUMN free?
ILUMN is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dance Diary free?
Dance Diary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ILUMN or Dance Diary?
ILUMN and Dance Diary are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 8 ratings respectively.
Do ILUMN or Dance Diary have ads?
Neither ILUMN nor Dance Diary shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ILUMN or Dance Diary?
ILUMN ships an update fortnightly, and Dance Diary every 2 days. Most recently, ILUMN was updated on October 10, 2026 and Dance Diary on October 9, 2026.

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