Diaryd vs BrainArchive
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Diaryd
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Journaling, on your terms. Diaryd never limits how you express yourself. Whether it’s a few quick thoughts or a deep dive into what’s on your mind, there’s room for it all. Capture Every Moment, Your Way - Break free from plain text. Add photos, audio recordings, and place check-ins to preserve your memories in their most vivid form. - The unique “Mood LED” makes it effortless to capture how you feel as you write, so you can see your emotional ups and downs at a glance. Powerful Search, Memories at Your Fingertips - Filter your entries with ease by tags, moods, dates, and places. - Go beyond text with deep global search that can also find information within your photos and audio recordings. See Your Journey, Understand Your Emotions - Gain deeper insights into your emotional patterns and look back on how your mood evolves over time. - Seamlessly connect with Apple Health and sync your “State of Mind” data, so you can stop logging the same information across multiple apps. Deeply Customizable, Uniquely Yours - With 20+ personalization options, you can fine-tune Diaryd to create a journaling experience that feels truly made for you. Private by Design, Protected Every Step of the Way - Lock diary entries with Face ID or Touch ID, and have it automatically lock as soon as you leave the app, keeping your private world private. - Your data is synced only through your personal iCloud account. Your secrets belong to you alone. Get in Touch - Email: zihao.wang.dev@hotmail.com - RedNote: wzha000_dev Terms of Use: https://wzhao000.cn/diaryd/terms Privacy Policy: https://wzhao000.cn/diaryd/privacy
BrainArchive
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Ideas come and go quickly. Brain Archive is a simple, lightweight place to capture the thoughts you don't want to lose. Save creative sparks, plans, random ideas, and unfinished thoughts, then organize them into your own idea folders. Give each folder an Emoji, add ideas whenever inspiration strikes, and slowly build your own personal archive. Whether it's an app idea, a content concept, a travel plan, a design reference, a book you want to read, or something you might make someday — save it first. With Brain Archive, you can: · Create folders for different ideas and topics · Personalize folders with Emojis · Quickly capture ideas and inspiration · Search through everything you've saved · Sync your records after signing in · Continue organizing your ideas across devices Free to use The free version lets you create up to 3 folders and save up to 5 ideas in each folder. Need more space? A one-time lifetime purchase unlocks: · Unlimited folders · Unlimited ideas in every folder · One purchase, lifetime access You don't have to turn every idea into a plan right away. Just save it first. One day, it might become something real.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Diaryd at none against BrainArchive'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
Both are free to download. BrainArchive sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Diaryd asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Diaryd | BrainArchive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 子豪 王 | 卓凡 张 |
In-app purchases
Diaryd
No in-app purchases
BrainArchive
- Brain Archive Lifetime$1.99








