Comparison

Ripple vs diary.exe

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

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About

Ripple

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Will today just slip by? Ripple is an app for holding on to the moments your heart responds to, in what you see, hear, and feel. As the day goes on, small stirrings of the heart come and go, hard to explain and easy to forget. A sudden joy. A heaviness you can't name. A word or a scene that stays with you. Ripple helps you keep those moments. You don't need to know what you feel. You don't need to write much. When your heart ripples, a single tap is enough. Tap now, name it later. A time to look back on your day Each moment you tap becomes a specimen, gathered hour by hour in your Lab. At the end of the day, look closer at each one and stain it with the color closest to how you felt. Fluttery, calm, heavy. You name the colors yourself. Then close the day with a line, and seal it. Every sealed day stays in your Vault calendar as that day's color. Scattered moments find their meaning when they come together. Features - Collect moments When your heart stirs, record the time with a single tap. - One-line notes Add a line whenever you want. Voice input is supported. - Lab Look closer at the specimens gathered each hour, then stain and name them. - Seal the day Close the day with a short reflection and seal it. A gentle reminder arrives at your seal time. - Vault A calendar that fills with the colors of your sealed days. Revisit past reflections anytime. - Monthly report See the colors of the month, the weekly flow, and the hours your heart stirs most, at a glance. - Widget and watch Record right from your home screen widget or your watch, without opening the app. - Cabinet 22 button materials, from glass marble to mother-of-pearl, each with its own sound and touch. - Safe by design Records are saved on your device first. Only sealed days are kept in the cloud. Ripple is for you if you - Don't want your days to pass by unnoticed - Want to sort out your feelings but don't know what to write - Want to look back on yourself, even briefly - Find journaling hard but want to start recording - Look for moments of prayer and reflection in your everyday life Memories slip away easily, but Ripple brings them back. Your days don't just slip away.

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diary.exe

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C:\diary> ํ•˜๋ฃจ์— ํ•œ ์ค„์ด๋ฉด ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•ด. diary.exe๋Š” ๋ช…๋ น ํ”„๋กฌํ”„ํŠธ ๊ฐ์„ฑ์˜ ํ•œ ์ค„ ์ผ๊ธฐ์˜ˆ์š”. ๊ธด ์ผ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋ถ€๋‹ด์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ณ , ๋นˆ ํŽ˜์ด์ง€๋Š” ์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฉˆ์ถ”๊ฒŒ ํ•˜์ฃ . ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ๋Š” ํ•˜๋ฃจ์— ๋”ฑ ํ•œ ์ค„, 80์ž๊นŒ์ง€๋งŒ ์”๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ–  ์“ฐ๊ธฐ๋Š” ํ•œ ์ค„ ยท ์ž…๋ ฅ์ฐฝ์— ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์น˜๊ณ  Enter โ†’ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ํ•œ ์ค„ ์ €์žฅ ยท edit ๋กœ ๊ณ ์ณ ์“ฐ๊ธฐ, edit ์–ด์ œ โ€ฆ ๋กœ ์ง€๋‚œ ๋‚ ๋„ ยท ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ฃผ 7์ผ์ด ํ•œ๋ˆˆ์—, ๋นˆ ๋‚ ์€ ยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยท โ–  1๋…„ ์ „ ์˜ค๋Š˜ (cat --ago) ยท ์ž‘๋…„, ์žฌ์ž‘๋…„ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋‚  ์“ด ํ•œ ์ค„์ด ๋Œ์•„์™€์š” ยท ์“ฐ๋ฉด ์“ธ์ˆ˜๋ก ํ•ด๋งˆ๋‹ค ์Œ“์ด๋Š” ๋‚˜๋งŒ์˜ ํƒ€์ž„๋ผ์ธ โ–  ์ฐพ๊ธฐ์™€ ๊ธฐ๋ก ยท grep ์ปคํ”ผ โ†’ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋‚ ์—์„œ ๋‹จ์–ด ์ฐพ๊ธฐ ยท cal โ†’ ๋‹ฌ๋ ฅ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๋Š” ์“ด ๋‚  โ–  ยท ์•ˆ ์“ด ๋‚  ยท ยท ์—ฐ์† ๊ธฐ๋ก, ์›”๋ณ„ ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ โ–  PRO (ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ๊ฒฐ์ œ, ๊ตฌ๋… ์—†์Œ) ยท ํ™ˆ ํ™”๋ฉด ์œ„์ ฏ: ์˜ค๋Š˜ ํ•œ ์ค„ ยท 1๋…„ ์ „ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ยท ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ฃผ ยท ์ž ๊ธˆํ™”๋ฉด ์œ„์ ฏ: 1๋…„ ์ „ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ยท ์—ฐ์† N์ผ์งธ ยท ํ…Œ๋งˆ 3์ข…: cmd ยท phosphor(์ดˆ๋ก ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ) ยท amber(ํ˜ธ๋ฐ•์ƒ‰ ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ) ยท CRT ์ฃผ์‚ฌ์„  ํšจ๊ณผ โ–  ๋‚ด ์ผ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋‚ด ํฐ์—๋งŒ ํšŒ์›๊ฐ€์ž…, ์„œ๋ฒ„, ๊ด‘๊ณ , ์ถ”์ ์ด ์—†์–ด์š”. ์ผ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋‘ ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ์•ˆ์—๋งŒ ์ €์žฅ๋ผ์š”. todo.exe ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“  ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์ž์˜ .exe ์‹œ๋ฆฌ์ฆˆ ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์•ฑ. C:\diary> _

Screenshots

Ripple4 screens
diary.exe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: diary.exe at 15.0 against Ripple's 17.6. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Ripple sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and diary.exe sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ripple ships an update every 3 weeks, diary.exe every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Ripple versus diary.exe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRipplediary.exe
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS17.615.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size50 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSaea Jangchaeeun yoon

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Ripple

One-time10
  • Wave Theme$0.49
  • Forest Theme$0.49
  • ์ƒˆ๋ฒฝ ํ…Œ๋งˆ$0.49
Show 7 more
  • Dream Theme$0.49
  • Heart Theme$0.49
  • Rain Theme$0.49
  • Snow Theme$0.49
  • Specimen Set$2.99
  • Collector's Drawer$2.99
  • Premium 10-Theme Pack$3.99
1 purchases

diary.exe

One-time1
  • diary.exe PRO$1.99

Questions

Is Ripple free?
Ripple is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is diary.exe free?
diary.exe is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Ripple or diary.exe have ads?
Neither Ripple nor diary.exe shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ripple or diary.exe?
Ripple ships an update every 3 weeks, and diary.exe every 2 weeks. Most recently, Ripple was updated on November 3, 2026 and diary.exe on October 31, 2026.

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