Museum Diary vs Colta
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Scan museum placards
- Save favorite art pieces
- Log quiet moments and sketches
- Organize visit memories
- Private by design
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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.
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
Museum Diary ships an update every 2 weeks, Colta fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Museum Diary | Colta |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 175 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lan Zhou | Antoine Bombard |
Customer experience
Museum Diary
Colta
In-app purchases
Museum Diary
No in-app purchases
Colta
No in-app purchases









