Comparison

Diary vs Curfew

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

Head to head
About

Diary

Features
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Rich Text Journaling Beautiful Writing Experience: Create stunning journal entries with professional formatting options. Creative Expression: Use bold, italic, underline, headings, lists, quotes, and colors to make your entries come alive. Visual Storytelling: Add photos and images to capture memories alongside your words. Flexible Formatting: Customize your writing with indentation, links, and text highlighting for a truly personal touch. Smart Task Management Plan Your Days: Create and organize tasks with due dates and reminders to stay on track. Recurring Tasks: Automate your routines with daily, weekly, or custom recurrence options. Priority Labels: Highlight what matters most using customizable priority levels. Seamless Organization: Group and sort tasks by date, priority, or completion status—just like Google Tasks. Focus & Productivity: Keep your journal, goals, and daily plans all in one place for a calm, organized mind. Quick Actions: Check off completed tasks instantly and feel the satisfaction of progress. Mood Tracking & Self-Discovery Daily Mood Check-ins: Track your emotional well-being with an intuitive 5-point mood scale. Emotional Insights: Discover patterns in your mood and identify what affects your happiness. Visual Progress: See your emotional journey through beautiful charts and graphs. Personal Growth: Understand your emotional triggers and celebrate your progress over time. Multimedia Memory Keeping Photo Integration: Attach meaningful photos to your journal entries. Visual Gallery: Browse all your cherished memories in one beautiful gallery. Seamless Uploads: Easily add and manage images without disrupting your writing flow. Smart Organization Custom Tags: Create personalized tags to categorize your thoughts, moods, and tasks. Easy Search: Quickly find specific entries or tasks by tags, dates, or content. Time Travel: Relive past moments by filtering entries from any time period. Premium Benefits Cloud Sync & Peace of Mind Automatic Backup: Never lose your precious memories with seamless cloud backup. Access Anywhere: Continue your journaling and task planning across all your devices. Data Security: Your personal thoughts remain private and secure. Personal Security Biometric Unlock: Quick access with fingerprint or face recognition. PIN Protection: Extra security layer for your most intimate entries. Auto-Lock: Automatic protection when you're away. Personalization Dark/Light Mode: Comfortable writing in any lighting condition. Color Themes: Choose the perfect color scheme for your creative space. Font Selection: Select beautiful fonts that match your writing style. Universal Accessibility Global Language Support 18+ Languages Thoughtful Experience Gentle Reminders Daily Motivation: Optional gentle notifications to help you maintain your journaling and task habits. Guided Start: Helpful example entries and tasks to inspire your first steps. Why You'll Love It Transform your daily reflections, moods, and goals into a beautiful, organized journey of self-discovery. Whether you’re tracking your emotions, planning your day, or documenting life’s moments, this app helps you stay balanced, mindful, and inspired. Start your journey today—your future self will thank you for every note, mood, and task you complete.

About

Curfew

This app is a loud alarm clock designed for heavy sleepers, featuring wake-up missions that must be completed to stop the alarm. It also includes a bedtime app blocker to help users break phone-at-night habits and maintain a consistent sleep schedule.

Highlights
  • Wake-up missions (math, push-ups, object hunt)
  • No snooze or easy turn-off
  • Loud alarm that rings through Silent mode
  • Bedtime app blocker
  • Screen Time integration
  • Privacy-focused with no account or tracking
Features
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Curfew is a loud alarm clock for heavy sleepers that doesn't stop until you've completed a wake-up mission — and a bedtime app blocker that locks the apps keeping you up at night. Your alarm wakes you. Curfew gets you out of bed. WAKE UP MISSIONS The alarm keeps coming back until a mission is done. Snooze isn't an option, and neither is turning it off in your sleep. • Math alarm — solve problems on a custom keypad. Works offline, in the dark, no camera. • Push-ups and squats — the front camera counts real reps with on-device pose tracking. • Object hunt — photograph something in your home (the kettle, your toothbrush); a vision model checks the photo, so the sofa won't do. • Wake-up check — an optional second alarm minutes later, in case you crawled back into bed. A LOUD ALARM THAT ACTUALLY WAKES YOU Built on Apple's AlarmKit, so it rings through Silent mode and Focus. Force-quitting doesn't help — the alarm is armed with the system. 14 alarm sounds in three registers: gentle, loud, brutal. BEDTIME APP BLOCKER Pick the apps and categories that keep you up. At your curfew they go behind a Screen Time shield — all night, until the morning mission is won. Open one and you see a quiet screen counting down to morning, not an infinite feed. An optional guard even blocks uninstalling Curfew during a live curfew. FOR HEAVY SLEEPERS, DEEP SLEEPERS AND LATE-NIGHT SCROLLERS If you hit snooze until you've lost count, turn the alarm off in your sleep, or set five alarms and beat all five, Curfew is built for your morning. Wake up early, keep a sleep schedule, break the phone-at-night habit — one loud alarm, one mission, one curfew. PRIVACY Missions run on your phone. Push-up and squat reps never leave the device. An object-hunt photo goes to our server for one check and is not stored. No account, no tracking. A REAL PERSON BEHIND THE APP Questions, a bug, a mission that's too hard? Open the support chat in Settings and you're talking to the person who builds Curfew. CURFEW PRO Curfew Pro is $39.99/year with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers, or $3.99/week. You're reminded before the trial ends. Subscriptions auto-renew and can be cancelled anytime in Settings. Terms: https://getcurfew.app/terms · Privacy: https://getcurfew.app/privacy Requires iOS 18 or later. App blocking uses Apple's Screen Time (Family Controls) and is optional.

Screenshots

Diary4 screens
Curfew4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Curfew at none against Diary's shown. Diary's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Diary sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Curfew sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Diary ships an update every 4 days, Curfew every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Diary versus Curfew: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDiaryCurfew
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—7 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size96 MB43 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFelipe AlmeidaBizhan Ashykhatov

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Diary

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly$0.991 Month
  • 3 months$2.993 Months
  • Annual$5.991 Year
4 purchases

Curfew

Subscriptions4
  • Curfew Pro Weekly: Loud Alarm$3.997 Days
  • Curfew Pro Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
  • Curfew Pro Yearly: Loud Alarm$29.991 Year
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  • Curfew Pro Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Diary free?
Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Curfew free?
Curfew is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Diary or Curfew have ads?
Diary shows ads; Curfew does not.
Which is updated more often, Diary or Curfew?
Diary ships an update every 4 days, and Curfew every 5 days. Most recently, Diary was updated on October 30, 2026 and Curfew on October 31, 2026.

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