Comparison

Diary & Journal vs Tertiary NotePad

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

Head to head
About

Diary & Journal

Features
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ThreeLines is a beautifully simple daily journal app built on one principle: three lines is all you need. Each day, open the app and write three lines about your day. That's it. No templates, no word counts, no pressure. Just three lines to capture what matters. WRITE • Daily 3-line entries — what happened, how you felt, what you noticed • Attach a photo with a caption to any entry • Edit any past day from your calendar BROWSE • Calendar with List, Month, and Year views • Photo gallery view of every captured moment • Visual streak tracking and 12-month heatmap EXPORT & SHARE • Export your full journal as plain text or CSV • Share entries to X, Threads, Mastodon, Instagram, and Facebook • Formatters tailored to each platform's character limits PERSONAL • System / Light / Dark theme picker, persisted across launches • Apple Intelligence integration on capable devices (coming soon) PRIVACY FIRST Your entries stay on your device. No accounts, no sign-ups, no ads, no tracking, no data selling. Your thoughts are yours alone.

About

Tertiary NotePad

Features
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NotePad is a clean, native iPad note-taking app built for Apple Pencil. It feels like a paper notebook with the power of digital ink. - Handwriting with pressure and tilt, low latency, and palm rejection - the Pencil draws while a finger scrolls and two fingers zoom. - GoodNotes-style tool bar: pen, highlighter, erasers, color dropdown and widths. - White paper or blackboard templates, applied across the whole notebook. - Shapes and flowcharts (process, decision, start/end, connectors) with editable vector overlays; connectors re-route when you move a node. - Type directly into sticky notes and flowchart nodes (multi-line, with background colors). - Lasso to move, delete or copy multiple strokes; recolor and edit shapes. - Import PDFs and annotate them; export pages or whole notebooks to PDF/PNG/JPG. - Organize with nested notebooks and tags, and search inside your handwriting. - Record voice memos per notebook. - Everything syncs across your devices with iCloud. Powered by Tertiary Infotech Academy Pte Ltd.

Screenshots

Diary & Journal4 screens
Tertiary NotePad2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Tertiary NotePad at daily against Diary & Journal's weekly. Diary & Journal's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Diary & Journal ships an update weekly, Tertiary NotePad daily. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Diary & Journal versus Tertiary NotePad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDiary & JournalTertiary NotePad
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJames CooperAlfred Ang

In-app purchases

None

Diary & Journal

No in-app purchases

None

Tertiary NotePad

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Diary & Journal free?
Diary & Journal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tertiary NotePad free?
Tertiary NotePad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Diary & Journal or Tertiary NotePad have ads?
Neither Diary & Journal nor Tertiary NotePad shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Diary & Journal or Tertiary NotePad?
Diary & Journal ships an update weekly, and Tertiary NotePad daily. Most recently, Diary & Journal was updated on September 10, 2026 and Tertiary NotePad on September 18, 2026.

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