Comparison

JotBee vs 星星岛日记

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

Head to head
About

JotBee

This app allows for quick and private daily journaling with options for text, photos, and voice notes. It offers robust search and organization features, including multiple notebooks and tagging. Users can customize themes and fonts, and sync data across devices via iCloud.

Highlights
  • Quick text, photo, and voice entries
  • Full-text search and tag filtering
  • Multiple notebooks with reordering
  • Syncs across iPhone, iPad, and Mac via iCloud
  • Customizable themes and fonts
  • Optional AI reflections and summaries
Features
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JotBee is a quick, private journal for everyday moments. Open it, write a line or add a photo, and you're done. Your journal stays yours. WRITE IN SECONDS · One line or one photo is a complete entry · Light formatting like headings and lists, and full keyboard shortcuts on Mac · Optionally add the weather, the address and your mood VOICE AND PHOTOS · Record voice clips in an entry, as many as you like, with playback on iPhone, iPad and Mac · Tap a photo to see it full screen: pinch or double-tap to zoom, swipe between photos · Save a photo to your library or share it (touch and hold on iPhone, "Save Image…" on Mac) · Photos are laid out in a tidy grid and processed in the background FIND IT LATER · Full-text search across entries and tags · Tag filters you can combine, plus one-tap common tags · A date timeline shows at a glance which days you wrote EVERY DAY COUNTS · Write for past days, and change the date and time of any entry. Handy when you wrote two on the same day and they need to be in the right order · Move an entry to another notebook from its menu, or drag it onto a notebook in the Mac sidebar YOUR SPACE · Multiple notebooks you can reorder by dragging and merge anytime · 8 color themes, 5 text sizes, and your own choice of font for entry text (this device only) 9 LANGUAGES English, 简体中文, 繁體中文, 日本語, 한국어, Español, Deutsch, Français and Português (Brasil). Choose the interface language in Settings — it applies immediately — or follow the system. Dates and weather descriptions follow the interface language. PRIVATE BY DESIGN · Your data stays on your devices and in your own iCloud, unless you turn on weather or set up an AI service. The developer collects nothing · Syncs across iPhone, iPad and Mac via iCloud · Export to PDF or Markdown anytime OPTIONAL AI REFLECTIONS · After you write, get a response to your entry, or a summary of recent entries · Pick a style: Warm Friend, Practical Review, Safe Space, Growth Witness, Future Me or Witty Buddy. Or write your own prompt · Replies come in the language of your entry · Uses an AI service you set up yourself (a local model also works on Mac). Until you set one up, your entries are not sent to any AI service

About

星星岛日记

Features
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星星岛日记 is a simple, quiet, and private journal for capturing your everyday life. Write with words, photos, moods, and voice recordings, and collect the little moments scattered throughout each day. Capture Life in Your Own Way Write down a thought, add photos from your day, choose how you're feeling, or record a voice note. Live Photos are supported too, so even your moving moments can be preserved just as they happened. Keep Your Journals Organized Create separate journals for travel, relationships, your baby's milestones, everyday moments, or little secrets just for yourself. Use tags, favorites, and pins to keep everything organized and easy to find. See Your Days on a Calendar Watch your calendar gradually fill with photos and moods. Browse through days and months, and rediscover the ordinary yet precious moments that make up your life. Rediscover Your Past Random Memories, On This Day, and Monthly Recaps bring old moments back when you least expect them. Sometimes, coming across a sentence you wrote long ago is one of the most meaningful parts of keeping a journal. A Private Space of Your Own 星星岛日记 is not a social network. There are no followers, likes, or public feeds. You don't need to write for anyone else. This is a place to write just for yourself. Your Memories Belong to You Back up and restore your data to keep your journals, photos, and memories safe. We believe your memories shouldn't simply live inside an app — they should truly belong to you. More Features · Journaling with text, photos, Live Photos, moods, and voice recordings · Multiple journals for organizing different parts of your life · Tags, favorites, and pinned entries · Calendar and mood calendar · Photo timeline · Random Memories and On This Day · Monthly Recaps · Yearly activity heatmap · Full-text search · Share journal entries and monthly calendars · Data backup and restore Years from now, we hope you can open 星星岛日记 again and still find the stories you wrote today. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

JotBee4 screens
星星岛日记4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: JotBee at none against 星星岛日记's 2. 星星岛日记's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. 星星岛日记 sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. JotBee asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for JotBee against 5.0 for 星星岛日记. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
JotBee versus 星星岛日记: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJotBee星星岛日记
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB72 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer志宏 唐Anhui Nake Instrument and Equipment Co., Ltd.

Customer experience

JotBee

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

星星岛日记

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

JotBee

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

星星岛日记

Subscriptions1
  • 星星岛日记月会员$2.991 Month
One-time1
  • 星星岛日记永久会员$19.99

Questions

Is JotBee free?
JotBee is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is 星星岛日记 free?
星星岛日记 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, JotBee or 星星岛日记?
JotBee and 星星岛日记 are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do JotBee or 星星岛日记 have ads?
Neither JotBee nor 星星岛日记 shows ads.

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