Comparison

Museum Diary vs Colta

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

Head to head
About

Museum Diary

Capture and organize memories from your museum visits. Scan placards, save favorite pieces, and log quiet moments. This private app keeps your art collection in one place without ads or tracking.

Highlights
  • Scan museum placards
  • Save favorite art pieces
  • Log quiet moments and sketches
  • Organize visit memories
  • Private by design
Features
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Designed by a designer, for those who fall in love with pieces and want to remember them. You've been building a collection for years. Photos buried in your camera roll, memories fading between visits. Museum Diary gives your pieces a home. Scan the placard before you walk away. Everything is preserved in one tap. - Save any placard, from any museum (zoo, aquarium, history, & more!). - Your favorite pieces from every visit, all in one place. - Log the benches, sketchbook pages, and quiet moments too. - Private by design. No ads, no tracking, just your art. Every museum visit is a chapter. Start keeping yours.

About

Colta

A social journal to log and share your cultural experiences like books, movies, and concerts. Discover what friends are enjoying and connect with others through shared interests.

Highlights
  • Log cultural activities (books, movies, theatre, exhibitions, concerts)
  • Add notes, photos, badges, and locations
  • Browse and filter personal journal entries
  • Follow friends and see their cultural logs
  • Join and create interest-based clubs
  • Receive notifications for social interactions
Features
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Colta is a social journal for your cultural life. Track everything you read, watch, and attend, then see what your friends are into. Whether it's a film that stayed with you, a book you couldn't put down, a concert that gave you chills, an exhibition that opened your eyes, or a play that moved you to tears, Colta gives you a beautiful place to remember it all. HOW IT WORKS Log an activity. Choose from five categories: Book, Movie, Theatre, Exhibition, and Concert. Add a title, a date, and optionally notes, photos, badges, and a location. Browse your journal. Switch between "My Logs" for a quick scroll through recent activity, and "Journal" for a deeper view with total, yearly, and monthly breakdowns. Filter by type or rating, and search across all your logs. Follow friends. Discover what the people you care about are reading, watching, and attending. Like their logs, leave comments with @mentions, and save the ones you want to revisit. Join clubs. Gather around shared interests, whether it's a book club, a cinephile circle, or a concert crew. Post updates, plan events, and discuss what you love with people who get it. Explore the map. Discover every museum in Paris, see which ones you've already visited, and log a visit in a single tap. Stay in the loop. Get notified when someone likes your log, comments on your activity, mentions you, or starts following you. DESIGNED TO BE SIMPLE No algorithms. Just a clean, warm feed of real cultural experiences from people you actually know. Start logging. Start remembering.

Screenshots

Museum Diary4 screens
Colta4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Colta at 5.0 against Museum Diary's 4.7. Colta also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.5). Museum Diary's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Colta holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Museum Diary ships an update every 2 weeks, Colta fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Museum Diary versus Colta: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMuseum DiaryColta
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.515.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size175 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLan ZhouAntoine Bombard

Customer experience

Museum Diary

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Colta

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Museum Diary

No in-app purchases

None

Colta

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Museum Diary free?
Museum Diary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Colta free?
Colta is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Museum Diary or Colta?
Colta is rated higher. Museum Diary averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Colta averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Museum Diary or Colta have ads?
Neither Museum Diary nor Colta shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Museum Diary or Colta?
Museum Diary ships an update every 2 weeks, and Colta fortnightly. Most recently, Museum Diary was updated on October 21, 2026 and Colta on October 19, 2026.

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