Comparison

ReadyGo vs Message Diary

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

Head to head
About

ReadyGo

Organize your daily tasks with colorful, customizable checklists. Create lists from templates or from scratch, set reminders, and track your progress with visual reviews. Features like Live Activities and widgets offer at-a-glance updates.

Highlights
  • Customizable colorful checklists
  • Template creation and editing
  • Date and repeat settings
  • Time reminders and notifications
  • Home screen widgets
  • Live Activities and Picture in Picture
  • Monthly completion rates and calendar heatmap
Features
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Keys, charger, one last thing before the meeting. Give the little things a place to go, so there is less to keep in your head. ReadyGo turns everyday tasks into colorful checklists. Add notes, mark what matters, and check things off as you go. Keep your lists in a tidy layout, or move them around an infinite canvas that you can pan and zoom. Start with a template for a familiar situation, or create and edit your own. When you use a template, its title, color, tasks, notes, and importance settings are copied into a new checklist. Make changes for today without changing the original template, then choose the dates and repeat settings you need. Plan a one-time task, keep a checklist active over a date range, or repeat it daily, on selected days of the week or month, or at an interval you choose. Turn on time reminders when you need them. Notifications require permission and depend on system settings and operating conditions. Home Screen widgets make today's lists easy to check at a glance. With membership, manually start a Live Activity to view progress on the Lock Screen and supported Dynamic Island devices, or open a read-only Picture in Picture list while using other apps. These features require device and system support. Items cannot be checked off inside Picture in Picture. Look back with monthly completion rates and a calendar heatmap. The full monthly review uses your recorded activity to highlight lists and dates worth a closer look. Choose your fonts and note colors, and enable optional iCloud sync. ReadyGo supports English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, and Russian. Membership is required for Live Activities, Picture in Picture, creating another checklist when the current day already has three, and the full monthly review.

About

Message Diary

This app helps you save, organize, and revisit meaningful text messages and quotes. It provides daily inspiration through a home screen widget and serves as a digital diary for encouragement during challenging times.

Highlights
  • Save meaningful text messages
  • Organize with custom categories and tags
  • Rediscover forgotten memories
  • Home screen widget for daily inspiration
  • Secure and private storage
  • Focuses on preserving impactful words
Features
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ReMind is a unique message diary designed to help you save, organize, and revisit the text messages, quotes, and words of encouragement that matter most. Whether you're recovering from a breakup, working toward a goal, navigating a difficult season, or simply looking for daily encouragement, ReMind helps keep meaningful words close at hand. WHY USERS LOVE REMIND • Save meaningful text messages in your own message diary • Organize messages with custom categories and tags • Rediscover forgotten memories and meaningful conversations • Access your favorite messages anytime • Beautiful and simple design • Secure and private storage HOME SCREEN WIDGET The ReMind widget transforms your favorite messages into daily inspiration. Add a widget to your Home Screen and instantly see a meaningful message each day. Whether it's a loving text from a partner, a supportive message from a friend, or a motivational reminder from family, your diary becomes a source of daily encouragement. A DIARY OF ENCOURAGEMENT Many diary apps focus on writing about your day. ReMind focuses on preserving the words that helped shape it. Create a message diary filled with: • Loving messages from a partner • Encouraging texts from friends • Family messages worth remembering • Motivational quotes • Scriptural quotes • Relationship memories • Personal affirmations • Messages that helped you through difficult times BREAKUP RECOVERY AND EMOTIONAL WELLNESS During challenging times, the right words can make all the difference. Many users create a personal diary of supportive messages that remind them they are loved, valued, and capable of overcoming obstacles. Instead of relying on generic quotes, ReMind allows you to revisit words from the people who know and care about you most. A DIGITAL DIARY FOR MODERN LIFE Text messages have become some of the most meaningful memories we create, yet they are often the easiest to lose. ReMind helps preserve those moments in a beautiful digital diary designed specifically for meaningful messages. Build a collection of memories, encouragement, and inspiration that grows over time and becomes a lasting record of the people and experiences that shaped your life. Download ReMind today and start building a message diary you'll treasure for years to come. Monthly - $4.99 Yearly - $24.99 Lifetime - $39.99 Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

ReadyGo4 screens
Message Diary4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: ReadyGo at 92% against Message Diary's 50%. Message Diary's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 4.0) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. ReadyGo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Message Diary sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Message Diary holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 92% of ReadyGo's written reviews are positive against 50% of Message Diary's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
ReadyGo versus Message Diary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReadyGoMessage Diary
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (2 ratings)4.5 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews92.3% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings24 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size122 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer羽 唐David Parker

Customer experience

ReadyGo

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive92.3%
Neutral7.7%
Negative0.0%

Message Diary

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ReadyGo

One-time1
  • ReadyGo Lifetime Membership$0.99
3 purchases

Message Diary

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Pro$4.991 Month
  • Yearly Pro$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Pro$39.99

Questions

Is ReadyGo free?
ReadyGo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Message Diary free?
Message Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ReadyGo or Message Diary?
Message Diary is rated higher. ReadyGo averages 4.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Message Diary averages 4.5 from 4 ratings.
Do ReadyGo or Message Diary have ads?
Neither ReadyGo nor Message Diary shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ReadyGo or Message Diary?
ReadyGo ships an update every 3 days, and Message Diary every 3 days. Most recently, ReadyGo was updated on November 9, 2026 and Message Diary on November 5, 2026.

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