Tarantula Tracker vs Journly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tarantula Tracker
Easily manage your tarantula collection with a feeding schedule tracker, molt prediction, and custom event logging. Features a species database, photo management, and comprehensive JSON backup. Available on iPhone and iPad.
- Feeding schedule tracker with reminders
- Molt prediction
- JSON backup and restore
- Interactive calendar view
- Species database
- Photo management
- Custom event logging
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Track your tarantula collection with ease! Now available on iPad with beautiful adaptive layouts. FEATURES: • Feeding schedule tracker with smart reminders • Molt prediction with exponential accuracy • Complete JSON backup (photos, notes, all events) • Interactive calendar view • Custom event logging • Multiple theme options • Species database with 57+ predefined species • Photo management for each tarantula • Universal app (iPhone & iPad) SMART TRACKING: Monitor feeding schedules, molt cycles, and custom events for each tarantula in your collection. Get intelligent predictions for upcoming molts based on historical data. COMPREHENSIVE BACKUP: Export your entire collection including photos, notes, feeding history, and molt records. Restore from JSON backup with merge or replace options. CALENDAR & REMINDERS: Visual calendar shows all events at a glance. Smart notifications remind you when it's time to feed each tarantula. CUSTOMIZABLE: Choose from 6 themes, set custom feeding intervals for each life stage, and track unlimited tarantulas. Perfect for hobbyists, breeders, and enthusiasts managing collections of any size!
Journly
This app offers a private digital diary experience with guided prompts and mood tracking. It provides a secure space for women to process thoughts, express themselves through various media, and build a consistent journaling habit.
- Guided journaling prompts
- Mood tracking and streaks
- Rich text, voice notes, photos, stickers
- Bank-level encryption
- Customizable themes and icons
- Daily reminders
- Achievement badges
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A journal that listens. Journly is a private space for everything going on in your life — the things you're thinking about, feeling, figuring out, celebrating, overthinking, or just don't want to forget. Write when you want to write. Talk when you'd rather talk. And when you don't know where to start, Journly gives you something to begin with. WRITE IT. SAY IT. GET IT OUT. Journal your way. Write freely, add photos and stickers, or just start talking. Journly turns your voice into an entry, so you can capture a thought while it's still yours. NEVER WONDER WHAT TO WRITE Explore 100+ journal prompts for relationships, friendship, gratitude, goals, anxiety, self-reflection, hard days, good days, and everything in between. A JOURNAL THAT ACTUALLY LISTENS Journly doesn't just store what you write. It can reflect on your entries, notice thoughts and themes you keep returning to, and give you something meaningful to come back to. TRACK HOW LIFE FEELS Check in with your mood and emotions and look back over time to see how you've been feeling — not just what happened. MAKE IT YOURS Keep different parts of your life in different journals. Personalize them with covers, stickers, pins and themes so your journal feels like your own. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Some things are just for you. Protect Journly with Face ID or a PIN, with encrypted entries, secure storage and private backups. Your thoughts don't have to be profound. Your life doesn't have to be interesting enough. And you don't need the right words. Just start.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Journly at 100% against Tarantula Tracker's 40%. Journly also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.5) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). Tarantula Tracker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). 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
Both are free to download. Journly sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Tarantula Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.
Journly holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of Tarantula Tracker's written reviews are positive against 100% of Journly's.
Tarantula Tracker ships an update every 3 days, Journly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tarantula Tracker | Journly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (6 ratings) | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 144 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jared Lawrence | Adeola Adekoya |
Customer experience
Tarantula Tracker
Journly
In-app purchases
Tarantula Tracker
No in-app purchases
Journly
- Journly Pro Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Journly Pro Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year









