Comparison

1Day Journal vs KeepThoughts

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

Head to head
About

1Day Journal

Features
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1day Journal is a calm daily reflection app built around one simple idea: take a few minutes, once a day, to notice what mattered. Write through focused prompt sets like Win · Tension · Gratitude, reflect one prompt at a time, and return to past entries through a simple calendar view. 1day includes optional ambient sounds, gentle timers, daily reminders, dark mode, home screen widgets, private PIN or Face ID protection, iCloud sync, and export options for keeping your journal in your own hands. No feeds. No pressure. No complicated tracking. Just a quiet place to reflect on today.

About

KeepThoughts

Capture your thoughts, ideas, and memories in a simple, distraction-free environment. This app helps you organize personal reflections, daily notes, and important moments for easy revisiting. It offers a clean and intuitive space for journaling, brainstorming, and tracking information.

Highlights
  • Create and manage personal thoughts
  • Simple writing experience
  • Organize entries
  • Fast and responsive UI
  • Passcode protection
  • Edit and update notes
  • Share entries
Features
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Some thoughts are for everyone. Some are for no one but you. KeepThoughts is a quiet journal for both. Write a line or a long entry, tag how you felt, and lock the ones meant only for you behind their own passcode. WRITE THE WAY YOU THINK • Start with a title and write as much or as little as you like • Format with simple Markdown: headings, bold, lists and quotes • Add photos from your library or straight from the camera • Pin the one entry that matters most to the top of your list • Star your favourites and filter down to them in a tap TAG A THOUGHT, FIND IT LATER • Mark an entry as a Note, an Idea or a Plan • Or tag how you felt: Happy, Grateful, Calm, Anxious, Sad or Angry • Filter your journal by any tag to see a mood take shape over time • Browse by date in the calendar and open any day you wrote LOCK A THOUGHT, NOT JUST THE APP • Lock individual entries with a passcode used only for locking • A locked entry is encrypted on your device, and its title and text are unreadable until you open it • Locked entries stay locked inside your backups, and open on a new device with the passcode that sealed them • Unlock one for a moment to read or edit it, then let it seal itself again • Separately, you can ask for a passcode or Face ID when the app opens YOUR ENTRIES STAY YOURS • No account, no sign-up, no profile to fill in • Your journal lives on your device • Export everything to a single backup file and protect it with a password • Import that file on another iPhone to move your journal across KEEPTHOUGHTS PREMIUM Pay once, keep it forever. No subscription. • Remove ads and write without banners or interruptions • Dictate entries instead of typing them • Add videos from your library, or record a 10-second clip • Attach PDFs, Word documents and spreadsheets, up to 25 MB each • Back up automatically to your own iCloud, and restore on a new iPhone EIGHT LANGUAGES KeepThoughts follows your iPhone's language: English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Portuguese (Brazil). Write a line a day, or write when it matters. KeepThoughts keeps it.

Screenshots

1Day Journal4 screens
KeepThoughts4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 1Day Journal at none against KeepThoughts's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. KeepThoughts sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 1Day Journal asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
1Day Journal versus KeepThoughts: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter1Day JournalKeepThoughts
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.5
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBuilding The Machine, Inc.Mashqur Habib Himel

In-app purchases

None

1Day Journal

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

KeepThoughts

One-time1
  • KeepThoughts Premium$3.99

Questions

Is 1Day Journal free?
1Day Journal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is KeepThoughts free?
KeepThoughts is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do 1Day Journal or KeepThoughts have ads?
Neither 1Day Journal nor KeepThoughts shows ads.

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