Comparison

NuiDiary vs Folio Field Journal

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

Head to head
About

NuiDiary

Capture and organize cherished moments with your plush companions. This app lets you create photo-only or text-based diary entries, manage plushie profiles, and share memories within a private circle. Export entries as images for social media.

Highlights
  • Photo-only diary entries
  • Handwritten diary text
  • Plushie profiles
  • Timeline and calendar view
  • Full diary image export
  • Social sharing templates
  • Invite-code friends and diary sharing
Features
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The days you spend with your plushies are worth keeping. NuiDiary is a diary app made for plushie lovers, helping you turn photos, notes, calendars, and memories into a personal diary for each plushie. Some days, one photo is enough. Some days, you may want to write things down in your own words. Either way, NuiDiary helps you keep the small moments you share with your plushies. ◆ A Photo Can Be a Diary Pick a photo and save today's memory. You do not have to write a long entry every time. Even on busy days, you can still keep a small record. Add a mood, location, and tags so the memory is easier to find later. ◆ Write It Your Way Where you went, how the moment felt, the expression your plushie had in the photo. It does not need to be perfect. A few words are enough to bring the day back when you look at it later. ◆ Organize Memories by Plushie Create a profile for each plushie and keep their photos, birthday, diary entries, and stories in one place. If you take multiple plushies out together, you can include them in the same diary entry. ◆ Look Back Through Timeline, Calendar, and Memories Use the timeline for recent days, the calendar to find a specific date, and the photo grid to browse all your memories. Filter by favorites, tags, locations, and plushies so your memories feel organized, not buried in your camera roll. ◆ Turn Diaries Into Beautiful Images Export a full diary entry as one complete image with photos, text, date, and plushie details. You can also use social templates to create images for Stories, posts, and other platforms. ◆ A Small Plushie Circle Add friends with invite codes and share only the diary entries you choose. See where your friends' plushies have been, or send a small gift to interact with them. Not a noisy social network. Not a chat app. Just a quiet, warm circle for plushie friends. ◆ Main Features ・Photo-only diary entries ・Video diary entries ・Handwritten diary text ・Diary font choices ・Mood emoji, location, and tags ・Timeline, calendar, and memory photo grid ・Plushie profiles ・A little room for each plushie, where diaries become memory books and keepsakes can be collected and arranged ・Favorites, search, and filters ・Diary editing ・Full diary image export ・Social sharing templates ・Milestone memories ・Invite-code friends and diary sharing ・Small gifts for friends' plushies ・Notifications and daily diary reminders ・Start without an account ・Cloud backup with Apple / Google sign-in ・Available in English, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish ◆ Bloom ・15 GB media backup storage ・1080p video diaries with larger media backup space ・Up to 25 photos/videos total per diary entry, including up to 3 videos ・Bloom diary fonts, including handwritten and decorative styles ・Bloom app themes, including Summer Breeze ・3 additional Bloom little-room themes: Rainy reading nook, Spring garden, and Starry bedtime ・Advanced export looks ・Up to 50 friends ・Up to 30 plushies visible to friends ・Unlimited friend-visible diary sharing ・6 tiny gifts + 60-character notes ◆ Terms Privacy Policy: https://nuidiary.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://nuidiary.com/terms

About

Folio Field Journal

Features
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The world waits to meet you. Folio is an app for the moments you didn't plan: the bird on your fence, the wildflower by the curb, the lizard on a sun-warm stoop. It's an app for noticing. NOT AN ANSWER. A KEEPSAKE. Other apps tell you what something is and disappear. Folio turns "what is this?" into "I'll remember this." Every encounter becomes a hand-painted watercolor portrait, archived in your folio with the date, the place, and the small story you choose to add. HOW IT WORKS Point your camera at a plant or animal. Folio identifies the species. A watercolor portrait — painted just for this encounter — appears moments later. The encounter is logged with an Encounter Index that marks how unusual the moment was: Common Find, Seasonal Find, Rare Find, or Fated Find. Add a Collector's Log if you want to remember more than the species name. Each entry settles into your folio. FIELD NOTES, QUIETLY TOLD Every species comes with a short, well-told Field Notes entry — the kind of thing a knowledgeable friend would tell you while standing next to you. No textbook prose. No taxonomy lectures. Just what's worth knowing. A COLLECTION THAT GROWS WITH YOUR WALKS Browse your folio as a grid of watercolor portraits, by date, or by rarity. Watch it fill in over weeks and seasons. The longer you carry it, the more it begins to feel like a record of where you've been and what you've stopped for. DESIGNED TO SHARE Each encounter generates a Field Journal card — composed like a specimen page, not a screenshot. Post it to Instagram, Xiaohongshu, or anywhere else you keep things. The encounter sentence shifts with the rarity tier — a Fated Find feels different from a Common one, and the card reflects that. FOR ANYONE WHO WALKS OUTSIDE You don't need to be a birder or a botanist. Folio is built for the city walker, the weekend hiker, the parent on a school run, the traveler with twenty minutes between meetings — anyone who has paused for something small and alive. Free to start. An optional subscription unlocks unlimited encounters and keeps every portrait in your folio for good. Step outside. Look up. The world has been waiting.

Screenshots

NuiDiary4 screens
Folio Field Journal3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Folio Field Journal at every 4 days against NuiDiary's every 2 weeks. NuiDiary's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.2). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. NuiDiary sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Folio Field Journal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NuiDiary ships an update every 2 weeks, Folio Field Journal every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
NuiDiary versus Folio Field Journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNuiDiaryFolio Field Journal
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size92 MB195 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperChi-Lun HuangKunlei He

In-app purchases

2 purchases

NuiDiary

Subscriptions2
  • Bloom monthly$4.991 Month
  • Bloom Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
2 purchases

Folio Field Journal

Subscriptions2
  • folio unlimited monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • folio unlimited annual7 Days trial$34.991 Year

Questions

Is NuiDiary free?
NuiDiary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Folio Field Journal free?
Folio Field Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do NuiDiary or Folio Field Journal have ads?
Neither NuiDiary nor Folio Field Journal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NuiDiary or Folio Field Journal?
NuiDiary ships an update every 2 weeks, and Folio Field Journal every 4 days. Most recently, NuiDiary was updated on October 14, 2026 and Folio Field Journal on October 16, 2026.

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