Museum Diary vs Pawlse
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.
Pawlse
Track your moods, symptoms, and patterns with clinically validated questionnaires. Understand your body's signals and prepare for upcoming changes. Your personal health data is private and stays on your device.
- Daily mood check-ins with emoji logging
- Customizable questionnaires (DRSP, PHQ-9, GAD-7, WHO-5)
- Custom tracking fields for habits and therapy
- Symptom tracking (anxiety, fatigue, etc.)
- Optional cycle tracking and predictions
- Trend charts for pattern analysis
- Data export to CSV
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Living with mood changes means riding waves you didn't see coming. Pawlse uses clinically validated questionnaires, including DRSP, PHQ-9, GAD-7, and WHO-5, to help you track your moods, symptoms, and patterns so you can finally understand what your body is telling you, and prepare for what's ahead. Your data is all yours. FEATURES: • Daily mood check-ins with easy, visual emoji based logging • Choose from DRSP, PHQ-9, GAD-7, WHO-5, or build a fully custom questionnaire • Add your own custom tracking fields (e.g., art practice, journaling, therapy) • Track symptoms including anxiety, irritability, brain fog, fatigue, and more • Optional cycle tracking with period logging and cycle day predictions • Trend charts with bars and dotted lines to reveal your patterns over time • A fluffy companion (cat or dog) that keeps you company through check-ins • Save your check-in at any point — no pressure to finish every question • Export your data as CSV to share with your therapist or doctor • Beautiful, private, and completely judgment-free WHO IS IT FOR: Whether you're tracking PMDD, depression, anxiety, general wellbeing, or just want a gentle daily check-in, Pawlse adapts to you. No assumptions about your gender or body. You decide what to track. YOUR PRIVACY: Your data lives on your device. We never sell, share, or access your personal health information. What you track stays yours. By using this app, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pawlse at 5.0 against Museum Diary's 4.7. 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pawlse holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.
Museum Diary ships an update every 2 weeks, Pawlse monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Museum Diary | Pawlse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 175 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lan Zhou | MAHLA RAHIMINEJAD |
In-app purchases
Museum Diary
No in-app purchases
Pawlse
No in-app purchases









