Calorie Wheel vs Private Diary & Lock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Calorie Wheel
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Calorie Wheel is a simple, elegant calorie tracker. Rotate the wheel to log your daily calorie intake with satisfying haptic feedback. Set your daily goal, choose your increment, and watch the wheel change color as you approach your target — green for low, yellow for mid-range, and red when you're near your goal. Features: • Daily History — Swipe up or tap History to view a scrollable log of your past 90 days, color-coded by how close you were to your goal. • Weekly Trend Chart — A 7-day bar chart at the top of your history shows your intake patterns at a glance. • Haptic Feedback — Feel light taps as you spin past notches, stronger taps at 500-calorie markers, and a confirmation pulse when the wheel snaps into place. • Home Screen Widget — A glanceable widget (small and medium sizes) shows your current calories and goal progress with the same color-coded arc. • Quick Onboarding — A simple 3-step walkthrough gets you started in seconds. Resets automatically at 3am each day. No account required — just open and spin.
Private Diary & Lock
This app provides a private digital journal experience where all entries are stored locally on your device. It offers daily prompts, voice-to-text input, photo attachments, and robust search capabilities. An optional upgrade unlocks advanced features like biometric lock, AI tidying, and PDF export.
- Daily writing prompts
- Voice-to-text input
- Photo and location attachments
- Local storage and iCloud backup
- Searchable journal entries
- Optional AI writing assistance
- PDF export
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Your personal diary, and nobody else’s. No account, no ads, and nothing leaves your phone unless you ask. Write about your day, add a photo, track your mood, and keep it all. PRIVATE, NOT MERELY ENCRYPTED • No account. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to sign in to. • No analytics, no trackers, no advertising inside the app. • Most diaries keep your writing on a server. This one has no server to keep it on. • A diary with a lock: Face ID, Touch ID or a passcode, with Scriptum Complete. WRITE IT YOUR WAY • A line or a thousand words, whatever the day needs. • Make it a photo diary: add a picture to remember the day by. • A simple mood tracker: tap one of five faces for how the day felt. • Note where you were, when that is part of it. • Missed a day? Open the calendar and write it whenever you like. • Light or dark paper, to suit the hour. • Stuck for words? A prompt is there if you want one. • A gentle reminder at the time you choose, which eases off instead of nagging when you have been away. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN • The widget shows the date and whether you have written today. • It never shows a word you wrote. That stays inside. FIND IT AGAIN YEARS LATER • Search everything you have ever written. • Every photo in your diary in one place, month by month, and every voice note too. • A calendar of the days you wrote, and the days you did not. • Open any date and read it exactly as you left it. AND STILL IMPOSSIBLE TO LOSE • A copy of your diary is kept in your own iCloud, so deleting the app does not take it with it. • Nothing is sent to us. The copy sits in your iCloud Drive, where you can see it. • Or save the whole diary, words and photographs, as one file only you hold. • Coming from Day One or Daylio? Bring your entries with you. ON IPHONE AND IPAD • On iPad your diary is laid out as a single sheet of paper, with room to write. • Each device keeps its own diary, and you can bring your iPhone’s pages across. SCRIPTUM COMPLETE An optional upgrade, for when the free diary is not enough. Try it free for a week. • Lock your diary behind Face ID, Touch ID or a passcode. • Speak instead of typing, and have a rambling entry tidied into something you will want to reread. • Keep voice notes on a page, and hear the day again in your own voice. • Up to ten photos on a page, arranged for you. • Every sticker pack, and ink to sketch over the paper. • Colour the whole app to suit you. • Turn your diary into a printable book, typeset page by page. Scriptum Complete is a monthly or yearly subscription. The yearly plan starts with a free week for new subscribers. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when the free week ends, or at purchase without one. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed or cancelled in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://annrstudio.com/scriptum/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://annrstudio.com/scriptum/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Calorie Wheel at none against Private Diary & Lock's 3. Calorie Wheel also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days). Private Diary & Lock's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads 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. Private Diary & Lock sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Calorie Wheel asks for nothing beyond the download.
Calorie Wheel ships an update every 2 days, Private Diary & Lock every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Calorie Wheel | Private Diary & Lock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Calorie Wheel | ANNR Studio |
In-app purchases
Calorie Wheel
No in-app purchases
Private Diary & Lock
- Monthly$2.991 Month
- Yearly7 Days trial$22.991 Year
- Lifetime$34.99
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