Comparison

Haru 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

Haru

This app offers a calendar-first journaling experience, integrating daily entries, activity logs, and important dates into a single timeline. It provides insights into personal patterns through statistics and ensures privacy by storing data locally and on your iCloud.

Highlights
  • Calendar-centric timeline
  • Daily activity tracker
  • D-day tracker
  • Markdown editor with voice input
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Private by design
  • Apple Health sync
Features
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Haru is a calendar-first personal journal that gathers everything tied to a date โ€” diary entries, light activity logs, and upcoming D-days โ€” into a single beautiful timeline. EVERY RECORD, ON ONE SCREEN Daily entries, trackers, and D-days converge on one calendar. Browse months at a glance and revisit any moment with a tap. TODAY'S MIND, IN WORDS AND PHOTOS A one-liner like "rainy today" works just fine. Or use Markdown, voice input, and photos for richer entries. PATTERNS BECOME VISIBLE IN STATS Workouts, trips, reading โ€” accumulated logs turn into streaks, frequency analysis, monthly pace, and the "weight of records." Discover your own insights. EVERY UPCOMING DAY, KEPT CLOSE Anniversaries, milestones, deadlines. D-days display alongside your daily timeline so nothing slips by. ACROSS ALL YOUR DEVICES Built natively for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Start an entry on your phone, finish it on your Mac, revisit memories on iPad โ€” everything stays in sync through iCloud, no extra setup. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Locked with passcode and Face ID. Stored only on your device and your personal iCloud โ€” never on our servers. Bring entries from other apps as-is, export in multiple formats. FEATURES โ€ข Calendar-centric timeline with photo thumbnails โ€ข Daily activity tracker with streak and cycle analysis โ€ข Apple Health sync โ€” auto-add walks, runs, yoga, and more โ€ข D-day tracker for the dates that matter โ€ข Markdown editor with voice input and photos โ€ข Year in Pixels mood heatmap โ€ข Monthly recap with on-device sentiment analysis โ€ข "On This Day" memories from years past โ€ข Native iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps with iCloud sync โ€ข Available in 13 languages PRIVACY FIRST Haru never sees your data. All entries stay on your device and your personal iCloud. No account, no tracking, no ads.

About

diary.exe

Features
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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

Haru4 screens
diary.exe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Haru at none against diary.exe's 1. Haru also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). diary.exe's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support 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. diary.exe sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Haru asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Haru ships an update every 4 days, diary.exe every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 5 level
Haru versus diary.exe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHarudiary.exe
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 4 days โ€” betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
MonetizationFreeโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size16 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerjungwoo choichaeeun yoon

In-app purchases

None

Haru

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

diary.exe

One-time1
  • diary.exe PRO$1.99

Questions

Is Haru free?
Haru is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is diary.exe free?
diary.exe is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Haru or diary.exe have ads?
Neither Haru nor diary.exe shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Haru or diary.exe?
Haru ships an update every 4 days, and diary.exe every 2 weeks. Most recently, Haru was updated on October 28, 2026 and diary.exe on October 26, 2026.

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