Comparison

星星岛日记 vs dab

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

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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/

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dab

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your journal, your stickers, your stamps, your page a day. dab-dab is a warm little journal you actually get to decorate. snip the subject out of any photo into a sticker — right on your phone — or doodle one from scratch, then keep them in your own tin and reuse them on any day. it's your sticker book and your diary, in one. make your own stickers cut anyone (or anything) out of a photo with a tap, or draw a sticker by hand. dress it with an outline, a dashed cut-out edge, a torn-paper rim, or a puffy pop. then drop it in your tin — your growing little collection — and pull it back out to decorate any page, any day. a page to fill, your way • doodle across two layers with soft vintage inks and pens • write a note in a warm handwriting font • press a postmark: pick from dozens of shapes, add your place and a picture, or snap a photo and stamp it • stick on washi tape, or make your own • set a photo — or a live photo — behind the day • look back on the year wall: a poster of every page you kept, with a calendar of your stamps a collection that grows your stickers, your stamps and ready-made editions, all in one place. open a tin, file things by dragging, and make something new from one button. on your home screen a widget in your page's own paper, and a desk of loose stickers from your tin. calm, never a chore no streaks, no scores, no chain to keep. show up however small — it's a place to land, not one more thing to keep up with. yours, and only yours no account, no sign-up, no cloud sync. everything stays on your phone, and nothing is collected. free dab-dab is a real, everyday journal, with the whole year wall and your first stamp and tape. dab-dab+ opens the studio: an unlimited sticker tin, every writing font and size, the full drawing kit, the stamp and tape studios, widgets that show your page, live-photo backgrounds, more notes and photos a day, and extra papers and editions. — dab-dab+ is a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription (yearly includes a 7-day free trial) or a one-time lifetime purchase. payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. subscriptions renew automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends; manage or cancel anytime in Settings. Privacy Policy: https://reveriearchive-studio.github.io/dab-dab-privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

星星岛日记4 screens
dab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: 星星岛日记 at 15.1 against dab's 18.6. 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 and dab sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
星星岛日记 versus dab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter星星岛日记dab
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequency—Every 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB118 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAnhui Nake Instrument and Equipment Co., Ltd.Antheia Li

Customer experience

星星岛日记

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

dab

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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
3 purchases

dab

Subscriptions2
  • dab-dab+ Monthly$2.991 Month
  • dab-dab+ Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • dab-dab+ Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is 星星岛日记 free?
星星岛日记 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is dab free?
dab is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, 星星岛日记 or dab?
星星岛日记 and dab are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do 星星岛日记 or dab have ads?
Neither 星星岛日记 nor dab shows ads.

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