Comparison

Write Wrote vs Private Diary & Journal

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

Head to head
About

Write Wrote

Features
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A simple and elegant diary app designed to help you capture your thoughts, moments, and memories with ease.

About

Private Diary & Journal

This app transforms your daily fragments—voice notes, photos, and thoughts—into a narrative book about your life. It analyzes your entries to create chapters and insights, offering a unique way to chronicle your experiences with full privacy.

Highlights
  • Voice, photo, and screenshot entry compilation
  • Automatic narrative book creation
  • Emotion and mood analysis from voice
  • Contextual analysis from photos and screenshots
  • Interview mode for guided entries
  • Offline functionality
  • Full privacy with Face ID and encryption
Features
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30K is a personal diary that gathers your life into a book. Keeping a classic diary is boring. 30K works differently: drop in the fragments of your day — voice, a photo, a quick thought — and the app turns them into a coherent chronicle, gradually gathering them into a book about you. A diary you don't have to work at. HOW IT WORKS 30K doesn't just record — it hears, sees, and senses: how you speak, what's around you, and what mood you're in. From a voice note it picks up emotion, pace, pauses, and the sounds around you (the street, a café, home, the road). With photos it's the same: in a selfie it reads your state, in the frame it catches the place and the detail you shot it for. And from the screenshots you save it sees what you lived through on your phone: what you read, watched, and scrolled, what caught you. It notices everything and assembles the full picture of your life — the one you don't usually see yourself. These entries pile up — and come together into a book: not a retelling of your diary, but a story with characters, plotlines, and insights. You open it and see which new chapter has come out. Like a series, only about you. FREE • Minimalist diary with a day-by-day feed • Notes from voice — speech turns into text • Lock your diary — an app password, Face ID, or your device passcode • Add photos and screenshots to any entry • Starter cards — ready-made questions for when you don't know where to begin • Works offline • Sync across devices • Light and dark theme, adjustable font size • Diary export 30K PREMIUM — PAID SUBSCRIPTION • Emotion and mood in your voice — tone, pace, pauses, and the sounds around you • What your photos say — the place, the setting, and how you looked in the frame • What your screenshots say — what you watched and read: feeds, clips, articles, chats • Personal questions drawn from what you've already written • Interview mode — answer out loud, like a conversation • A book about you — your entries become chapters, and the chapters become a book with characters and a plot • Audiobook — listen to your own book, chapters narrated in a natural, lifelike voice • Suggestions for new chapters and themes for your book • Export your diary and book to PDF for printing • Accent colors and decorative fonts WHO IT'S FOR • Anyone who wants to keep a diary but gives up after a week • Anyone whose life is already on their phone — voice, photos, notes • Anyone who needs to vent somewhere only they can open • Anyone who wants to see their life from the outside: characters, plotlines, chapters • Anyone who wants to save their years before they fade 30K Premium is an auto-renewing subscription, available by the week, month, or year. It renews automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends; you can manage it in your Apple ID settings. Life doesn't dissolve into "just one more week" — it stays, as a living book you return to, to see who you were and who you're becoming. Terms of Use (EULA): https://30k.app/legal/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://30k.app/legal/privacy/

Screenshots

Write Wrote4 screens
Private Diary & Journal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Write Wrote at none against Private Diary & Journal's 8. Write Wrote also leads on iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.2). On price, ads and device support 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. Private Diary & Journal sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Write Wrote asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Write Wrote versus Private Diary & Journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWrite WrotePrivate Diary & Journal
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—5 — better
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB18 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperRuslan TokochevAndrei Blokhin

In-app purchases

None

Write Wrote

No in-app purchases

8 purchases

Private Diary & Journal

Subscriptions8
  • 30K Premium — Weekly3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • 30K Premium — Monthly$9.991 Month
  • 30K Premium — Monthly3 Days trial$9.991 Month
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  • 30K Premium — Yearly$17.991 Year
  • 30K Premium — Yearly$34.991 Year
  • 30K Premium — Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • 30K Premium — Yearly14 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • 30K Premium — Yearly1 Year trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Write Wrote free?
Write Wrote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Private Diary & Journal free?
Private Diary & Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Write Wrote or Private Diary & Journal have ads?
Neither Write Wrote nor Private Diary & Journal shows ads.

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