Comparison

Location Diary vs LogLife

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

Head to head
About

Location Diary

This app automatically creates a daily journal by logging your locations, photos, and steps. It allows you to add moods and rename places later, offering insights into how you spend your time. Designed for those who struggle with traditional journaling, it prioritizes privacy by keeping all data on your device.

Highlights
  • Automatic daily logging
  • Location, photo, and step tracking
  • Mood and place customization
  • Timeline view of daily activities
  • Weekly and monthly reports
  • Privacy-focused, on-device data storage
  • Customizable themes
Features
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Logless is a footprint diary you do not have to write. It drafts the places, photos, steps, and flow of your day on your device. Tidy only what matters, then revisit a day by date or from your own map. ■ Keep the shape of your day without writing With location access enabled, outings and possible stops appear on a simple timeline. Photos and steps add context, so even busy days leave something worth revisiting. ■ Refine only the places that matter Choose a place suggestion, rename a stop, split or merge a visit, or exclude a pass-through point. Confirmed places are learned on your device and gently improve suggestions when you return. ■ Remember familiar routes and travel times Keep routes and durations for trips you make often, such as home to a station, school, or work. Look back on days that took longer than usual or used a different route. When location data is sparse, Logless avoids claiming an exact path and keeps the useful timing instead. ■ Build a map that is yours Revisit saved places and footprints on My Map. Familiar cafes, new neighborhoods, walks, and trips gradually become a personal map of where life happened. ■ Look back by day, week, or month The timeline brings together each day's places, photos, and flow. Weekly and monthly reflections surface familiar places and rhythms without scoring your life. ■ Catch up when you return When you open Logless, it rechecks up to 30 days—today and the previous 29—using available Location and Health evidence on your device. Photo details are added gradually, so not every day is completed at once. “Updates since your last visit” shows past days that were added or changed. “Data Status” distinguishes “Recording · no log yet,” “Recorded,” “Limited evidence,” “Recently checked · no observation,” “Retry needed,” and “Not checked,” plus saved sources and “Automatic activity history.” iOS controls when and how often background work runs. ■ Backup under your control Export Logless records plus location and event history in one portable, unencrypted file; keep it in a trusted location. Logless validates it before restore. Restore replaces current data instead of merging it. Original photos, original HealthKit data, purchases, iOS permission state, UserDefaults, app settings, caches, notifications, and widget state are excluded. ■ Balance accuracy and battery Standard mode uses low-power location signals as its foundation, then briefly improves location detail around signs of movement. Turn on Detailed Route yourself on days when you want a closer path. ■ Privacy, explained clearly Precise movement history, photos, steps, and learned places stay on your device. To show weather, Logless may send a date and an approximate location rounded to about 1.1 km to a weather service. Logless does not use advertising tracking. [Logless is for people who] - Want a journal but cannot keep up with writing - Want to remember where they went last week - Keep memories of walks, cafes, weekends, and trips - Compare commute or school routes and travel times - Prefer looking back through places instead of paragraphs [Logless Pro] Unlock broader monthly, yearly, and city-level reflections and longer-term ways to revisit your history. Logless Pro is an optional monthly or yearly subscription. Purchases are handled by App Store and can be canceled anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://pomeranianstudio.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://pomeranianstudio.com/privacy

About

LogLife

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LogLife records your day for you. From the signals your iPhone already collects, AI works out what you were doing — work, breaks, sleep, moving around — and fills the day in. You are not the one keeping the record. You are the one looking at it. Works with your iPhone alone. No Apple Watch, no smart ring, nothing else to buy. YOUR DAY GETS RECORDED WITHOUT YOU DOING ANYTHING • Trips, commutes and time spent in one place are picked up from location • Sleep hours are detected from your iPhone alone (an Oura Ring or Apple Watch makes it more accurate, but is never required) • Calendar is optional — connect it and your plans sit next to what actually happened • The Mac companion app adds the time you spent working on your computer • Other connected work tools add hints about when you were working Nothing to type in, so it keeps going. CONNECT AN OURA RING AND YOUR CONDITION IS RECORDED TOO (OPTIONAL) • Readiness, sleep and stress scores appear on top of each day's log • Heart rate is used to tell focused hours from relaxed ones • "What I did" and "how I was doing" finally sit side by side ONE DAY, AT A GLANCE • A pie chart of where today's hours went • A timeline to walk back through the day • No more days that are simply gone before you notice PATTERNS OVER A WEEK, A MONTH, A YEAR • See how work and personal time balanced out each week • Break the hours down by category and watch the trend • Total up the time each project took • Look at this week and next week and see whether there is room Instead of days passing by unnoticed, your time is recorded on its own — and looking back at it is what changes how you spend the next one. Note: after a 14-day free trial, AI recording and AI analysis require a subscription (auto-renewing). Logging by hand stays free, forever. Note: location and health data are used only to estimate where you were and when you slept. ABOUT PREMIUM (SUBSCRIPTION) • Name: LogLife Premium (monthly, auto-renewing) • Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. • The subscription renews automatically and is charged unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel any time up to 24 hours before the renewal date. • You can review and cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. • Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ • Privacy Policy: https://tokyo-wakeup.com/en/privacy

Screenshots

Location Diary4 screens
LogLife4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LogLife at none against Location Diary's 3. On price, update cadence, 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. Location Diary sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. LogLife asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Location Diary ships an update every 10 days, LogLife every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 7 level
Location Diary versus LogLife: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLocation DiaryLogLife
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerkurihara kazukiTokyoWakeUp Inc

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Location Diary

Subscriptions2
  • Logless Pro Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Logless Pro Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Logless Pro Lifetime$79.99
None

LogLife

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Location Diary free?
Location Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is LogLife free?
LogLife is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Location Diary or LogLife have ads?
Neither Location Diary nor LogLife shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Location Diary or LogLife?
Location Diary ships an update every 10 days, and LogLife every 5 days. Most recently, Location Diary was updated on October 12, 2026 and LogLife on October 24, 2026.

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