Comparison

HeartTie Diary vs Inkday Diary

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

Head to head
About

HeartTie Diary

Features
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HeartTie Diary is a personal journal for the moments, feelings, and people that shape your everyday life. Write freely about your day, add photos, and connect each entry with the people who matter — friends, family, partners, classmates, or anyone special to you. Over time, HeartTie Diary helps you build a meaningful timeline of your memories, relationships, and inner world. When you want a response, the AI HeartTie Guide can read your journal entry and offer gentle reflections, emotional support, and thoughtful prompts to help you understand your feelings more clearly. Main features: • Write text journals with photos • Create profiles for important people in your life • Link journal entries to specific people or relationships • View memories through timelines and photo moments • Get AI reflections based on your own entries • Keep your daily stories organized in a calm personal space Whether you are recording a small daily moment, a meaningful conversation, a friendship, a relationship, or a quiet feeling you do not want to forget, HeartTie Diary gives your memories a place to stay. Start writing today, and let every journal entry become part of your personal heart map. Privacy Policy: https://xinxizhi.top/privacy/en Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Inkday Diary

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Inkday is a private voice diary for iPhone. You speak one page a day. The recording becomes text on your device and stays there. There is no account and no cloud. Inkday has no developer servers, no analytics, and no subscription. Recording, transcription and mood detection run on Apple’s on-device frameworks. The last 30 days are always yours to read. Older pages stay on the phone and can be unlocked once. • One page a day, up to ten minutes • On-device speech-to-text • Original audio kept with each page • A haptic timeline through past days • A year of days as a quiet dot grid • Optional daily reminder — one, never a streak • Light and dark paper themes • Home-screen widget for the year Unlock the archive Pages older than 30 days can be unlocked with a single one-time purchase. Nothing is deleted if you wait. Restore Purchase is in Settings. Requires iOS 26 or later. — Unlock the archive (optional) One-time In-App Purchase to unlock diary pages older than 30 days, forever. No subscription. Price: $4.99 USD / €4.99. Price may vary by region. Restore purchases in Settings. — Privacy Policy: https://inkday-neon.vercel.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://inkday-neon.vercel.app/terms

Screenshots

HeartTie Diary4 screens
Inkday Diary4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Inkday Diary at none against HeartTie Diary's 4. HeartTie Diary's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.5). On price, ads and device support 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. HeartTie Diary sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Inkday Diary asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
HeartTie Diary versus Inkday Diary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHeartTie DiaryInkday Diary
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer小芳 胡Fabian Gruss

In-app purchases

4 purchases

HeartTie Diary

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly Membership$2.991 Month
  • Quarterly Membership$6.993 Months
  • Yearly Membership$22.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Membership$12.99
None

Inkday Diary

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HeartTie Diary free?
HeartTie Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Inkday Diary free?
Inkday Diary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do HeartTie Diary or Inkday Diary have ads?
Neither HeartTie Diary nor Inkday Diary shows ads.

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