Comparison

Tear Track Journal vs Crying Diary

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

Head to head
About

Tear Track Journal

Features
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Your Safe Space for Emotional Expression Tear Track Journal is a gentle, supportive journaling app designed to help you track and understand your emotional moments. Whether you're crying tears of joy or sadness, this app helps you recognize patterns in your emotional life. Features: • Quick journal entries with mood tracking • Cry intensity levels (from single tear to mental breakdown) • Calendar view to see your emotional patterns • Detailed statistics and insights • Gentle 24-hour check-in reminders • 100% private - all data stays on your device Sometimes we all need a good cry. Tear Track Journal reminds you that it's okay to feel your feelings.

About

Crying Diary

Features
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Some days you cry and you don't know why. Crying Diary helps you see the pattern. Log a cry in about ten seconds: how many tears, sad or happy, why, and a note if you want one. Then let the charts show you what you couldn't see day to day — which weekday is hardest, how the months compare, what keeps coming up as the reason. Your data never leaves your phone. Not as a promise — as a fact. The app has no network access at all. No account, no cloud, no ads, no trackers. Everything is stored locally on your device, and backups are files you control. • Calendar with a teardrop on every day you logged • Happy vs sad tears, weekday patterns, tears per month, top reasons • Longest streak without crying • Custom categories with your own names and emoji • Shareable stats card • Light and dark theme • English, French, German, Serbian, Slovenian • Free, no in-app purchases Export your diary any time, including to the Day One format.

Screenshots

Tear Track Journal4 screens
Crying Diary4 screens

Verdict

The call

Tear Track Journal and Crying Diary are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Tear Track Journal versus Crying Diary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTear Track JournalCrying Diary
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaik PicklIvan Antonijevic

In-app purchases

None

Tear Track Journal

No in-app purchases

None

Crying Diary

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tear Track Journal free?
Tear Track Journal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Crying Diary free?
Crying Diary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tear Track Journal or Crying Diary have ads?
Neither Tear Track Journal nor Crying Diary shows ads.

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