Fuwari Diary vs OwnJournal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fuwari Diary
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A simple diary app for capturing your thoughts with ease. 【Key Features】 ・Create, edit, and delete diary entries ・View entries organized by date ・Clean and intuitive interface ・Works offline 【Who It’s For】 ・Those who want to write occasionally, not every day ・Those who don’t need complex features ・Those looking for a simple diary app Open the app whenever you feel like writing, and start capturing your thoughts right away.
OwnJournal
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OwnJournal is a privacy-first journal app built on one idea: your data belongs to you. We don't store your journal on our servers — you choose where it lives. WHAT'S FREE • Write and edit entries with photos • Mood tracking with a 5-level emoji picker (great, good, okay, poor, terrible) • Tag activities — exercise, social, work, meditation and more • Mood calendar heatmap and statistics (distribution, trends, streaks) • Save and sync to your own cloud — iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox or Nextcloud • Optional end-to-end encryption • Use across iPhone, iPad and Mac/PC • Available in 21 languages • Open source (AGPL-3.0) • No ads YOUR CLOUD, YOUR CONTROL Your journal lives in your cloud account — iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox or Nextcloud. It is never stored on OwnJournal's servers, giving you full control over your data, seamless sync across all your devices and no lock-in to a single service. END-TO-END ENCRYPTION (OPTIONAL) With E2E encryption turned on, entries are encrypted on your device with AES-256-GCM. Only you hold the keys — neither we nor your cloud provider can read your journal. Zero-knowledge by design. MOOD & ACTIVITY INSIGHTS Track how you feel and what you did. Tag activities, see a month-at-a-glance heatmap colored by your daily mood, view distribution, trends, best/worst days and streaks, and filter your timeline by mood, activity or tag to spot patterns. Perfect as a minimalist mood tracker or a full journal — use as much or as little as you want. OWNJOURNAL PLUS OwnJournal Plus is an auto-renewing yearly subscription that unlocks optional premium features: AI mood and theme analysis, AI title and tag suggestions, Activity Insights showing which activities correlate with better or worse moods, long-term mood and trend analysis, and PDF/Word export. Subscription details: • Title: OwnJournal Plus • Length: 1 year, auto-renewing • Price: USD 19.99 per year (the App Store shows the price in your local currency at checkout) • 14-day free trial available for eligible new subscribers • Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase • Renews automatically at the same price unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period • Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings AI only runs when you explicitly use it. Plus is optional — the core journal works fully without it. MINIMAL DATA COLLECTION We collect only what's needed: email for sign-in, your display name if your sign-in provider supplies it, and anonymous diagnostics to improve stability. OPEN SOURCE OwnJournal is open source under the AGPL-3.0 license. Inspect the code, verify our privacy claims, see exactly how your data is handled. No black boxes. Your thoughts and records stay yours. Privacy Policy: https://ownjournal.app/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://ownjournal.app/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fuwari Diary at none against OwnJournal's 1. Fuwari Diary also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 6 weeks). OwnJournal's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price 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
Both are free to download. OwnJournal sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per year. Fuwari Diary asks for nothing beyond the download.
Fuwari Diary ships an update daily, OwnJournal every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fuwari Diary | OwnJournal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nagatomo Miki | Recsty AB |
In-app purchases
Fuwari Diary
No in-app purchases
OwnJournal
- OwnJournal Plus14 Days trial$19.991 Year









