Museum Diary vs footnotes
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.
footnotes
Capture the full texture of everyday moments with words, photos, video, and voice. Organize these memories into notebooks and create a timeline of your life. Share your moments as little stories.
- Capture moments with text, photos, video, and voice
- Organize notes into different notebooks
- Build a timeline of life's moments
- Create shareable stories from moments
- Edit and add to old notes
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footnotes is a quiet notebook for the photographs, voices, passing thoughts, ideas, and ordinary moments that make up a life. you can: - capture the full texture of a moment: in words, photos, video, and voice, all together. - return to old notes, add new moments, and watch a timeline of your life slowly take shape. - make notebooks for different parts of your life, and - turn moments into little stories to share. slices of light sizzling on a wall. laughter of friends sloppy and gold. the loosey goosey fragments. all of which you look back on with tenderness, kept whole. footnotes makes space for the footnotes of a life. the little things that become the story of who you are.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: footnotes at every 2 days against Museum Diary's every 2 weeks. footnotes also leads on ratings volume (158 vs 3). On price, rating, review sentiment 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Museum Diary against 4.8 for footnotes. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: footnotes has 158 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Museum Diary's written reviews are positive against 97% of footnotes's.
Museum Diary ships an update every 2 weeks, footnotes every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Museum Diary | footnotes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3 ratings) | 4.8 (158 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 97.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 158 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 175 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lan Zhou | Doppler HQ, Inc |
Customer experience
Museum Diary
footnotes
In-app purchases
Museum Diary
No in-app purchases
footnotes
No in-app purchases
