Comparison

Dialed vs VoiceJournalBuddy

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

Head to head
About

Dialed

This app helps watch enthusiasts document, value, and track their collections. Easily catalogue details, log daily wear, and monitor market value. It offers AI-powered setup and insurance-ready reports for your timepieces.

Highlights
  • AI-powered watch identification and cataloging
  • Daily wear logging and rotation tracking
  • Live market reference for watch values
  • Insurance-ready documentation
  • Strap library with lug-width matching
  • Data import and export options
Features
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The permanent home for the watches you love. Documented. Valued. Remembered. Dialed is a watch collection app built for serious enthusiasts — from your first Seiko to your tenth grail. Catalogue every piece properly, log what you wear, know what it's all worth, and keep the stories that make each watch yours. WATCH PASSPORT Every spec in one place: brand, reference, movement, caliber, crystal, water resistance, power reserve. Plus full provenance — original box and papers, where you bought it, the story of how you got it, every photo. Yours forever. AI SETUP — TRY IT FREE Snap a photo and Dialed identifies the brand, model, and reference. Or type the name and AI fills the case size, movement, water resistance, lug width, and the rest in one tap. Cataloguing a collection used to take an evening. Now it takes seconds. Your first scans are free; Premium makes it unlimited. DAILY WEAR Log what you wore in one tap. Watch your streak grow and see months of rotation at a glance — heatmap, calendar, wear share, rotation health. Every piece earns its place on your wrist. WRIST ROLL Can't decide at 7am? Smart daily picks and a 7-day rotation planner choose for you. LIVE MARKET REFERENCE Live eBay listings for your exact reference — a real-time signal of where the market is asking, refreshed on demand. INSURANCE-READY One tap, one PDF: values, condition, provenance. Ready for your insurer or rider when something happens. PLUS EVERYTHING ELSE - Portfolio chart anchored to when you actually bought each watch - Price per wear — the true cost of every piece - Strap library with lug-width matching - Wear history calendar across your whole collection - CSV import from Excel, Numbers, or Google Sheets - Full JSON or CSV export anytime — your data is yours - Customizable home screen - Numbered founder badges for the first 500 lifetime members PREMIUM Unlimited wear tracking, portfolio analytics, price per wear, market reference, and insurance exports. The Dialed Premium annual membership is $29.99/year and starts with a 7-day free trial. A lifetime membership is also available as a one-time purchase (founding price $49.99 for the first 500 members, $79.99 after). No lock-in, no ads, no selling your information. Built by watch enthusiasts, for watch enthusiasts. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://dialedwatch.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://dialedwatch.app/privacy

About

VoiceJournalBuddy

Features
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VoiceJournalBuddy is a journal you speak instead of type. Tap record, say what's on your mind, and your words appear as text — punctuated, dated, and saved. A full entry takes about as long as it takes to say it out loud. That difference matters more than it sounds. Most journals die because typing an entry feels like a chore at exactly the moment you have something worth writing down. Talking doesn't. EVERYTHING STAYS ON YOUR IPHONE Speech is transcribed by your iPhone's built-in on-device recognition — your voice is not sent anywhere to be processed. Entries are stored in local storage on your device. There is no account to create, no server, no sync, and no analytics. Nothing you write is transmitted, and nothing is ever seen by us. Face ID (or your passcode) locks the app on launch and again after it's been in the background, so your journal stays shut even if your phone is unlocked and in someone else's hand. HOW IT WORKS Press the microphone and start talking. A live waveform responds to your voice and words appear as you speak, with punctuation added automatically. Stop whenever you're done, then edit the text, give it a title if you want one, and save. Each recording runs up to three minutes — tap "Record more" to keep dictating into the same entry for as long as you need. Every entry is timestamped the moment you save it and filed by day, so your journal builds itself in order: Today, Yesterday, This week, and back through the months. WHAT'S INSIDE • Live voice-to-text with automatic punctuation and a responsive waveform • Automatic timestamps and day-by-day grouping • A rotating daily prompt for the days you don't know where to start • Folders — file entries by theme and filter the list to one folder at a time • A calm reading view with a serif typeface and a word count with read time • Add to an old entry later, by voice or by keyboard • Select several entries at once to move, delete, or export • Export any entry or set of entries as a plain text file through the iOS share sheet — Mail, Files, Messages, AirDrop, wherever you want it • Face ID app lock • Full light and dark mode, with a warm palette designed to be easy on the eyes at night • Gentle haptic feedback throughout A NOTE ON LANGUAGE Dictation is currently English (US) only. Everything else in the app works regardless of what you write, but speech recognition will not transcribe other languages accurately yet. PRIVACY JournalBuddy collects nothing. No account, no email address, no usage data, no crash reporting, no advertising identifiers, no third-party SDKs of any kind. Your entries live on your phone, and they stay there unless you choose to export them yourself. Start with one entry. Say the thing you'd have forgotten by tomorrow.

Screenshots

Dialed4 screens
VoiceJournalBuddy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: VoiceJournalBuddy at none against Dialed's 2. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Dialed sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $29.99 per year. VoiceJournalBuddy asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Dialed versus VoiceJournalBuddy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDialedVoiceJournalBuddy
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperElvis MederosYANG ZHANG

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Dialed

Subscriptions1
  • Dialed Premium Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Dialed Premium Lifetime$49.99
None

VoiceJournalBuddy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dialed free?
Dialed is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is VoiceJournalBuddy free?
VoiceJournalBuddy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Dialed or VoiceJournalBuddy have ads?
Neither Dialed nor VoiceJournalBuddy shows ads.

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