Comparison

myBFF Diary vs Little Things

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

Head to head
About

myBFF Diary

This app helps you nurture your most important relationships. Track your feelings, log memories, and visualize your social circle's health. It provides gentle reminders and insights to help you maintain meaningful connections.

Highlights
  • Daily friendship ratings
  • Reflection journal
  • Friendship Orbits visualization
  • Friendship Pulse score
  • Friendship badges
  • Hangout logging
  • Anniversary reminders
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myBFF Diary helps you understand the friendships that matter most Rate how each friendship is going on a simple 1–10 scale, write reflections to track your feelings over time, and watch your personal universe come to life. How it works: Add your friends, rate how connected you feel, jot down a quick reflection, and myBFF does the rest — tracking trends, and celebrating milestones. Features: - Daily friendship ratings with a beautiful circular dial - Reflection journal to capture thoughts about each friend - Orbits visualization — your friends orbit around you based on your ratings - Friendship Pulse score to see how your overall circle is doing - 18 friendship badges to earn and award (First Check-in, BFF Status, Deep Talk, and more) - Hangout logging to remember time spent together - Friendship anniversary reminders so you never forget - Gentle daily reminders to check in with yourself - Light and dark mode with a warm, elegant design Why? Friendships don't maintain themselves. Life gets busy, people drift apart, and it's easy to lose track of the connections that matter most. myBFF gives you a quiet space to reflect on your friendships — no social feeds, no messaging, no noise. Just you and the people you care about. Built for intentional friendships: - See which friends you're nurturing and which might need attention - Notice patterns over time with rating history and trends - Celebrate friendship milestones and anniversaries - Build a reflection habit with streak tracking Terms of Service https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Little Things

This app helps you remember important details about the people in your life, like birthdays, preferences, and memories. Create profiles for loved ones and categorize notes for easy recall when buying gifts or planning events. Your personal information is kept private and secure on your device.

Highlights
  • Personalized profiles for friends and family
  • Categorized notes for preferences and memories
  • Birthday and gift idea tracking
  • Secure on-device storage
  • Export and share contact cards
Features
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Little Things is your private, thoughtful notebook for the people you care about most. We all want to be better friends, partners, and family members, but remembering the small details can be hard. Little Things helps you easily keep track of birthdays, favorite meals, coffee orders, clothing sizes, gift ideas, and meaningful memories in one private place. In Little Things, you can create dedicated profiles for your friends and family, and categorize your notes by favorites, gift ideas, go-to orders, hobbies, and memories, and more. Instantly recall details when buying a gift, planning a dinner, or catching up. Create an encrypted sharing link for a friend's card so others can remember too. Little Things is private by design. Your notes stay securely on your device or in your private iCloud unless you choose to share them. New sharing links expire after 30 days. Your friendships are personal, and your data should be too.

Screenshots

myBFF Diary4 screens
Little Things4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: myBFF Diary at none against Little Things's shown. myBFF Diary also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. myBFF Diary sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Little Things sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for myBFF Diary against 5.0 for Little Things. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: myBFF Diary has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

myBFF Diary ships an update every 3 days, Little Things every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
myBFF Diary versus Little Things: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametermyBFF DiaryLittle Things
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.2 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJacob ThorntonETHAN PERCIVAL

Customer experience

myBFF Diary

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Little Things

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

myBFF Diary

Subscriptions3
  • myBFF Unlimited$0.991 Month
  • Monthly Alynd7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Alynd Yearly$14.991 Year
One-time2
  • myBFF Lifetime$1.99
  • Alynd Lifetime$99.99
1 purchases

Little Things

One-time1
  • Pro Mode$5.99

Questions

Is myBFF Diary free?
myBFF Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Little Things free?
Little Things is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, myBFF Diary or Little Things?
myBFF Diary and Little Things are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do myBFF Diary or Little Things have ads?
Little Things shows ads; myBFF Diary does not.
Which is updated more often, myBFF Diary or Little Things?
myBFF Diary ships an update every 3 days, and Little Things every 2 months. Most recently, myBFF Diary was updated on October 2, 2026 and Little Things on September 22, 2026.

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