Backspace vs Daily
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Backspace
This private journaling app allows you to write down your unfiltered thoughts and set a timer for them to be automatically deleted. It's designed for emotional release, ensuring your thoughts remain private and temporary.
- Write unfiltered thoughts
- Set automatic deletion timers
- Temporary thought storage
- No accounts required
- No cloud storage
- No tracking or analytics
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Backspace is a private journaling and mental wellness app for writing thoughts and letting them go. Use Backspace to: Write unfiltered thoughts Choose a release time (minutes or hours) Automatically delete thoughts when time expires No accounts. No cloud storage. No tracking or analytics. Backspace is designed for emotional release, not long-term storage. Your thoughts stay private, local, and temporary — just like they should.
Daily
A minimalist journal app for daily entries. Track your thoughts and memories over time with a simple, private interface. Focuses on one entry per day.
- Minimalist design
- Daily journal entries
- Track entries over time
- Private journaling
- Simple interface
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Your private, minimalist, everyday journal. Write one entry a day, keep track of your entries over time.
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Verdict
Backspace and Daily are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Backspace against 5.0 for Daily. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.
| Parameter | Backspace | Daily |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.2 | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 0 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ruth Edouard | Jordan Moreno |
Customer experience
Backspace
Daily
In-app purchases
Backspace
No in-app purchases
Daily
No in-app purchases
