Comparison

Dear Me vs Folded Letters

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

Head to head
About

Dear Me

Write messages to your future self and schedule them for delivery days, months, or years from now. This private, offline app helps you reflect, gain perspective, and track your personal growth over time. Capture moments, feelings, or goals and revisit them later.

Highlights
  • Write letters to your future self
  • Schedule message delivery dates
  • Reflect and gain perspective
  • Track personal growth
  • Private and offline functionality
  • No accounts, ads, or tracking
Features
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Dear Me lets you write letters to yourself and read them later — days, months, or years from now. It’s a simple way to reflect, gain perspective, and reconnect with your thoughts over time. Use it when you want to: - Clear your mind - Capture a moment, feeling, or goal - Check in with yourself in the future - Look back and see how far you’ve come Write freely, choose a delivery date, and let time do the rest. Private by design - All letters stay on your device - No accounts, no ads, no tracking - Works fully offline

About

Folded Letters

Write letters to your future self and schedule them for delivery months or years from now. Once sealed, letters cannot be edited, ensuring a commitment to your future self. The app works offline and focuses on a private, reflective writing experience.

Highlights
  • Write letters to future self
  • Schedule delivery dates
  • Attach photos to letters
  • Offline functionality
  • No accounts or cloud storage
  • Private letter archive
Features
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Folded is a quiet place to write letters to your future self. Write a letter, choose the day it should arrive, and seal it. Once sealed, it stays sealed. No editing, no peeking. The letter waits, and on the day you chose, it opens. Your letters live on a timeline. The ones arriving soon sit near the top, and the ones years away rest further down, each a small sealed envelope with its own wax seal. When a letter is delivered, you break the seal and read what you wrote. Everything stays on your device. There are no accounts, no cloud, and no analytics. Your letters are yours alone. Folded is free to use. Folded Plus is an optional subscription that adds envelope customization (five paper colors, five seal colors, and a short inscription) and a 30 second voice note inside each letter, for $0.99 per month or $9.99 per year. Payment is charged to your Apple Account, and the subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings. Privacy Policy: https://foldedapp.github.io/folded/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://foldedapp.github.io/folded/terms.html

Screenshots

Dear Me4 screens
Folded Letters4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Folded Letters at none against Dear Me's 1. Folded Letters also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months). Dear Me's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.4). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Dear Me sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Folded Letters asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Dear Me against 5.0 for Folded Letters. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dear Me ships an update every 3 months, Folded Letters fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Dear Me versus Folded Letters: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDear MeFolded Letters
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.4
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSimon RahmBRAEDEN JOSEPH VILLELLA

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Dear Me

One-time1
  • Dear Me PRO$4.99
None

Folded Letters

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dear Me free?
Dear Me is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Folded Letters free?
Folded Letters is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Dear Me or Folded Letters?
Dear Me and Folded Letters are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Dear Me or Folded Letters have ads?
Neither Dear Me nor Folded Letters shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dear Me or Folded Letters?
Dear Me ships an update every 3 months, and Folded Letters fortnightly. Most recently, Dear Me was updated on October 28, 2026 and Folded Letters on October 24, 2026.

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