Dear Me vs Folded Letters
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
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.
- Write letters to future self
- Schedule delivery dates
- Attach photos to letters
- Offline functionality
- No accounts or cloud storage
- Private letter archive
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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
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Dear Me sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Folded Letters asks for nothing beyond the download.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Dear Me | Folded Letters |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Simon Rahm | BRAEDEN JOSEPH VILLELLA |
In-app purchases
Dear Me
- Dear Me PRO$4.99
Folded Letters
No in-app purchases








