Comparison

DiaryVault vs The Days We Keep

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

Head to head
About

DiaryVault

This app acts as a private memory vault, allowing you to capture daily moments through photos, text, or voice notes. It uses AI to organize your life and help you find meaning in your past entries, even creating cinematic videos from your memories.

Highlights
  • Import photos, text, and voice notes
  • AI-powered organization and meaning discovery
  • Create cinematic memory videos
  • Browse memories by time and chapters
  • Share anonymized memory films
  • Encrypted and private by design
Features
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DiaryVault turns your memories into a living Constellation you can explore, rediscover, and share. Bring your photos, videos, notes, and voice recordings together in a private night sky. Keep the stories behind them and discover connections between the people, places, and moments of your life. DiaryVault is currently free. All features are included. EXPLORE YOUR MEMORY CONSTELLATION Find a memory through the details that matter to you. Explore by Time, People, Themes, or Places. Tap a star to open a Memory Card, follow a person through the years, or return to a place you haven’t thought about in a while. The same memories can tell different stories depending on how you explore them. CAPTURE BEFORE IT FADES A first smile. A familiar voice. Something funny someone said over dinner. Save a photo or video from your library, take a picture, record your voice, or write a quick note while the moment is still fresh. Not sure where to start? A Memory Spark offers a small prompt to help you notice something worth keeping. MAKE THE STORY YOURS Create one Memory Card or several at once, with progress shown for each card. Echo helps prepare a draft from what you captured. Edit the title and story, add or change keywords, and keep only the suggested connections that feel right. Save cards individually or save all ready cards together. Return to unfinished drafts through Memories in progress, or delete those you no longer want. You decide what becomes part of your Constellation. KEEP THEIR VOICE Sometimes the voice telling the story matters as much as the story itself. Preserve a voice recording alongside its Memory Card. Years later, you and your family can return not only to what happened, but to how it was remembered in someone’s own words. CAST AND GIFT Share a Memory Card using Cast, or gift a Memory Dot as a private keepsake copy in someone else’s DiaryVault sky. Your original remains yours. You choose what to share and who receives it. REFLECT WITH ECHO Ask about a person, place, or chapter of your life. Echo helps you explore the memories you have chosen to keep, notice recurring themes, and find connections you might have missed. AI suggestions are yours to review, edit, keep, or dismiss. REVISIT CHAPTERS OF YOUR LIFE Explore milestones, trips, relationships, and ordinary days through Eras and personal Memory Films. Return to the moments that made a season of your life what it was. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your memories are private by default. You decide what is saved, shared, gifted, and deleted. Photo Library, Camera, and Microphone permissions are optional and requested when you use those features. Your Constellation belongs to you. Standard EULA: https://apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Service: https://diaryvault.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://diaryvault.com/privacy

About

The Days We Keep

A peaceful digital journal for parents to record their baby's precious moments, from major milestones to everyday reflections. Capture photos, write notes, and design custom memories, with options to sync and back up your cherished entries.

Highlights
  • Capture photo memories and milestones
  • Write letters and reflections
  • Design custom memories
  • Mark special moments as keepsakes
  • View memories by timeline or feeling
  • Track growth and milestones
  • Export memories as PDFs
Features
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The days are long. The years are short. Keep the days that matter. The Days We Keep is a private space for preserving the moments, stories, voices, and little details that make your family yours. From pregnancy and baby's firsts to childhood adventures, family traditions, heartfelt letters, funny moments, and everything in between — keep the memories you don't want time to take away. KEEP THE MOMENTS Save photos, reflections, milestones, voice memories, letters, and everyday moments. Some memories are big. Others are tiny. They all deserve a place. TELL YOUR FAMILY'S STORY Create profiles for the people who matter and build a living collection of memories around your family. Follow individual stories or see the moments you've shared together. CAPTURE MORE THAN PHOTOS Sometimes a picture isn't enough. Record the sound of a little voice, write down what happened, save the words you never want to forget, or create something beautiful from a memory. KEEP IT FOR LATER Create Time Capsules for memories you want to revisit in the future. Write letters to your children, your family, or your future self. SHARE WHAT MATTERS Share a memory with someone you love, whether it's a photo, a reflection, a letter, a voice, or a beautifully designed memory card. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your family's memories belong to you. The Days We Keep is designed to give you a quiet, personal place to preserve them. Because someday, the little things will be the big things. Keep the days that matter. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

DiaryVault4 screens
The Days We Keep4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: DiaryVault at daily against The Days We Keep's every 6 weeks. DiaryVault also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. DiaryVault sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and The Days We Keep sells 4 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for DiaryVault against 5.0 for The Days We Keep. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DiaryVault ships an update daily, The Days We Keep every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
DiaryVault versus The Days We Keep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDiaryVaultThe Days We Keep
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB86 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperDiaryVault, Inc.Agubit Technologies

Customer experience

DiaryVault

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

The Days We Keep

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

DiaryVault

Subscriptions4
  • Monthly Premium$4.991 Month
  • DiaryVault Plus Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium$39.991 Year
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  • DiaryVault Plus Annual$89.991 Year
4 purchases

The Days We Keep

Subscriptions4
  • Essentials Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Unlimited Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Essentials Yearly7 Days trial$34.991 Year
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  • Unlimited Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is DiaryVault free?
DiaryVault is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is The Days We Keep free?
The Days We Keep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, DiaryVault or The Days We Keep?
DiaryVault and The Days We Keep are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do DiaryVault or The Days We Keep have ads?
Neither DiaryVault nor The Days We Keep shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DiaryVault or The Days We Keep?
DiaryVault ships an update daily, and The Days We Keep every 6 weeks. Most recently, DiaryVault was updated on September 9, 2026 and The Days We Keep on September 7, 2026.

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