Blinko Spots vs sDiary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blinko Spots
Easily save and organize places you discover, from restaurants to hidden gems. Capture photos, add notes, and find your saved spots on a map or list view. Navigate back to them with ease.
- Save places with photos
- Automatic location capture
- Add notes and tags
- Organize into custom collections
- List and map views
- Navigate to saved spots
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Never lose a moment. Blinko helps you capture, plan, share and remember the moments that matter. See a restaurant you want to try? Spot it. Something happening this weekend? Make an Event. Getting people together? Make a Plan. Had a day worth keeping? The photos, the people and the place stay together. Life doesn't happen in separate apps. Maps know where. Calendars know when. Messages know who. Photos know what happened. Blinko connects them around the moment, so the things that catch your attention don't disappear, and the things you want to do actually happen. DISCOVER — "What's on around me?" • One Explore canvas for events, places and beacons near you • WORTH GOING: the events coming up nearby • Because You Spotted: new places chosen from what you already save • Search once, get events, places and people back in clear sections • Browse All events and All places in full — pick a window, filter by category, choose how far to look • Set how far "nearby" reaches; the canvas follows you when you travel • Follow a place or a business, and hear about what they put on CAPTURE — "I don't want to forget this." • Spot Something in two taps: name it, say it out loud, done • Blinko fills in the useful details for you • Collections by trip, interest or mood • Works offline, syncs everywhere PLAN — "Let's actually do this." • Make an Event and share a page anyone can open, no app required • Repeating weekly? Set the cadence once, skip a date without cancelling the series, add the whole run to your calendar • Make a Plan with your people: pick a time, pick who's coming • Just type it: "dinner Friday at 7" in a chat becomes a real plan • Friends not on Blinko? Invite them anyway. They RSVP in one tap • Give a Task when something needs a name against it LIVE — "This is happening." • Group chats where plans live inside the conversation, and you RSVP on the card • Shared lists you tick together • Drop a Beacon to leave something for people nearby to find, and relight it when it matters again • Announce something to your community — news, a notice, a question — and share it with a link • Share something local — a pop-up, a mural, a closure — by camera, a link, or just telling Blinko • A private Family circle, ready the moment you join • Check in with a quick "I'm home" — a message you send, never a location that's tracked • No feed, no noise. Just your people and your moments REMEMBER — "I want to remember this." • Turn spots into full trip itineraries • Keep the best ones as Memories: the note, the photos, the night • The people, the place and the plan stay connected to the memory EXPERIENCES — "Was it any good?" • Say what actually happened at any place, and whether you'd recommend it • No star ratings, no anonymous reviews • Experiences from people you know are labelled, so you can tell whose word you're reading Your life happens beyond your screen. Blinko helps you hold onto it. Blinko Spots is completely free. Every feature, no paid tier, no subscription.
sDiary
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One day a page. One intention, a few moments, then seal it. sDiary is a slow, intentional journal. You write a single line for what the day is about, capture a handful of moments as text, photos, or voice, and then seal the page. Once a day is sealed it goes into your book: the long arc of every page you've written. No streaks. No engagement loops. No coach. No social. The day is yours, and so is the book. The flow. Morning. Set an intention. One sentence. Through the day. Add moments. Text, photo, or voice. Evening. Reflect. Seal the day. The page closes; tomorrow is a fresh one. Threads (Pro). The phrases that keep coming back across your sealed days, surfaced automatically. All computation happens on your device. No cloud, no AI provider. Trusted Reader (with Sync). Invite exactly one person you trust to read your sealed days. They see what you chose to share, when you chose to share it. Revoke any time. Year-Review. Every December 31, sDiary auto-opens a retrospective of the year: the intentions, the recurring threads, the sealed-day count. Free, Pro, and Sync. The base app is free, forever. Pro is a one-time unlock that opens Threads, voice moments, unlimited photos per day, full-history search, and Year-Reviews. Sapplify Sync is free with a Sapplify account and covers multi-device sync and the Trusted Reader feature, across every Sapplify app. Local-first, by default. Your days live in a SQLite database on your phone. Nothing leaves your device unless you turn on Sapplify Sync, and even then, only your own data, to your own account. Terms of Use: https://www.sapplify.com/terms/sdiary/ Sapplify Account Privacy: https://www.sapplify.com/policies/account/ Sapplify Account Terms: https://www.sapplify.com/terms/account/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Blinko Spots at none against sDiary's 3. Blinko Spots also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). 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. sDiary sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Blinko Spots asks for nothing beyond the download.
Blinko Spots ships an update weekly, sDiary every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blinko Spots | sDiary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 143 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Airomo Inc. | Anthony Eli Rasch |
In-app purchases
Blinko Spots
No in-app purchases
sDiary
- Sapplify Sync Monthly1 Month trial$1.991 Month
- Sapplify Sync Yearly1 Month trial$19.991 Year
- sDiary Pro$29.99









