Comparison

Jot Daily vs diary.exe

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

Head to head
About

Jot Daily

Features
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Jot Daily is a minimalist journaling app that captures your day in text only. No complexity โ€” just jot down your thoughts whenever they come. Entries stack chronologically on a timeline, building your days, months, and years one line at a time. Features: - Minimal design focused purely on text - Unlimited entries โ€” write as much as you want - Browse entries by month on a clean timeline - Search to instantly find past entries - App lock (passcode + Face ID) - Choose from beautiful fonts (serif, handwritten, sans-serif) - Light and dark mode Pro: - Automatic Google Drive backup & restore - Keep your entries safe across devices

About

diary.exe

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C:\diary> ํ•˜๋ฃจ์— ํ•œ ์ค„์ด๋ฉด ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•ด. diary.exe๋Š” ๋ช…๋ น ํ”„๋กฌํ”„ํŠธ ๊ฐ์„ฑ์˜ ํ•œ ์ค„ ์ผ๊ธฐ์˜ˆ์š”. ๊ธด ์ผ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋ถ€๋‹ด์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ณ , ๋นˆ ํŽ˜์ด์ง€๋Š” ์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฉˆ์ถ”๊ฒŒ ํ•˜์ฃ . ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ๋Š” ํ•˜๋ฃจ์— ๋”ฑ ํ•œ ์ค„, 80์ž๊นŒ์ง€๋งŒ ์”๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ–  ์“ฐ๊ธฐ๋Š” ํ•œ ์ค„ ยท ์ž…๋ ฅ์ฐฝ์— ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์น˜๊ณ  Enter โ†’ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ํ•œ ์ค„ ์ €์žฅ ยท edit ๋กœ ๊ณ ์ณ ์“ฐ๊ธฐ, edit ์–ด์ œ โ€ฆ ๋กœ ์ง€๋‚œ ๋‚ ๋„ ยท ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ฃผ 7์ผ์ด ํ•œ๋ˆˆ์—, ๋นˆ ๋‚ ์€ ยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยท โ–  1๋…„ ์ „ ์˜ค๋Š˜ (cat --ago) ยท ์ž‘๋…„, ์žฌ์ž‘๋…„ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋‚  ์“ด ํ•œ ์ค„์ด ๋Œ์•„์™€์š” ยท ์“ฐ๋ฉด ์“ธ์ˆ˜๋ก ํ•ด๋งˆ๋‹ค ์Œ“์ด๋Š” ๋‚˜๋งŒ์˜ ํƒ€์ž„๋ผ์ธ โ–  ์ฐพ๊ธฐ์™€ ๊ธฐ๋ก ยท grep ์ปคํ”ผ โ†’ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋‚ ์—์„œ ๋‹จ์–ด ์ฐพ๊ธฐ ยท cal โ†’ ๋‹ฌ๋ ฅ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๋Š” ์“ด ๋‚  โ–  ยท ์•ˆ ์“ด ๋‚  ยท ยท ์—ฐ์† ๊ธฐ๋ก, ์›”๋ณ„ ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ โ–  PRO (ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ๊ฒฐ์ œ, ๊ตฌ๋… ์—†์Œ) ยท ํ™ˆ ํ™”๋ฉด ์œ„์ ฏ: ์˜ค๋Š˜ ํ•œ ์ค„ ยท 1๋…„ ์ „ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ยท ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ฃผ ยท ์ž ๊ธˆํ™”๋ฉด ์œ„์ ฏ: 1๋…„ ์ „ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ยท ์—ฐ์† N์ผ์งธ ยท ํ…Œ๋งˆ 3์ข…: cmd ยท phosphor(์ดˆ๋ก ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ) ยท amber(ํ˜ธ๋ฐ•์ƒ‰ ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ) ยท CRT ์ฃผ์‚ฌ์„  ํšจ๊ณผ โ–  ๋‚ด ์ผ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋‚ด ํฐ์—๋งŒ ํšŒ์›๊ฐ€์ž…, ์„œ๋ฒ„, ๊ด‘๊ณ , ์ถ”์ ์ด ์—†์–ด์š”. ์ผ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋‘ ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ์•ˆ์—๋งŒ ์ €์žฅ๋ผ์š”. todo.exe ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“  ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์ž์˜ .exe ์‹œ๋ฆฌ์ฆˆ ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์•ฑ. C:\diary> _

Screenshots

Jot Daily3 screens
diary.exe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Jot Daily at every 3 days against diary.exe's every 2 weeks. diary.exe's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Jot Daily sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and diary.exe sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Jot Daily ships an update every 3 days, diary.exe every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Jot Daily versus diary.exe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJot Dailydiary.exe
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 days โ€” betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS17.015.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size38 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUllimchaeeun yoon

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Jot Daily

One-time1
  • Pro$2.99
1 purchases

diary.exe

One-time1
  • diary.exe PRO$1.99

Questions

Is Jot Daily free?
Jot Daily is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is diary.exe free?
diary.exe is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Jot Daily or diary.exe have ads?
Neither Jot Daily nor diary.exe shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Jot Daily or diary.exe?
Jot Daily ships an update every 3 days, and diary.exe every 2 weeks. Most recently, Jot Daily was updated on October 24, 2026 and diary.exe on October 31, 2026.

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