Comparison

Patch Vault vs triday

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

Head to head
About

Patch Vault

Organize and catalog your patch and challenge coin collections with detailed records, photos, and tracking. Easily search, filter, and view item origins on a map. Gain insights into your collection's trends and history.

Highlights
  • Catalog patches and challenge coins
  • Add multiple photos
  • Track detailed item information
  • Search and filter collection
  • View origins on interactive map
  • Review collection stats and trends
  • Sync privately with iCloud
Features
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Keep your patches, challenge coins, and badges organized, photographed, and easy to find. Patch Vault brings your collection's details together on iPhone and iPad. Record the department, station, location, acquisition date, purchase price, tags, notes, and photos for every item, whether it came from a trade, station visit, event, or gift. - Catalog patches, challenge coins, and badges in one collection. - Search names, departments, locations, tags, and notes. - Combine tag, type, format, and favorite filters to find the items you want. - Explore where your items came from on an interactive map. - Sort by title, department, date, price, or recently added. - Earn achievements for collection size, geography, photos, and more. Track progress and share milestones. - Share individual items, collection summaries, and achievements as image cards. - Add photos from other apps using the share sheet. - Keep collection totals and achievement progress close with Home Screen widgets. - Use Siri and Shortcuts for collection stats or a random patch, and find items in Spotlight. - Sync your collection across your devices with iCloud. - Export backups with photos, restore your collection, or export a CSV spreadsheet. - Personalize your app icon and tint. Made for collectors of fire, police, EMS, dispatch, search and rescue, military, government, and other patches, coins, and badges. Start free with up to 25 items and one photo per item. Vault Unlock is an optional, one-time in-app purchase that adds unlimited items, unlimited photos per item, and collection charts.

About

triday

A minimalist daily journal app that prompts users for three lines of reflection each day. It focuses on simplicity and privacy, offering optional cloud sync and a beautiful, uncluttered interface.

Highlights
  • Three lines per day entry
  • Gentle daily prompt
  • On this day feature
  • Private by default
  • Optional iCloud sync
  • Calm and beautiful design
Features
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triday is the smallest possible diary: three lines, once a day. Open it at night, write three short lines about your day, and close it. No streaks to protect. No endless feed. No setup. That is the whole thing. Why three lines? A blank journal is intimidating and a busy planner is noisy. Three lines is small enough to actually do every day, and honest enough to mean something. Week by week, they quietly become the record of your life. WHAT YOU GET - One entry a day, three lines long. Gentle, never demanding. - A soft prompt to start you off, whenever you want one. - On this day: reread what you wrote one, two, and three years ago. - Private by default. Your words stay on your device. - Optional iCloud sync across iPhone and iPad. - A calm, beautiful design with nothing to learn. A diary for people who think they do not have time to keep one. A minute a day for reflection, gratitude, and a little calm. triday. three lines, every day. https://triday.xyz/privacy https://triday.xyz/terms

Screenshots

Patch Vault4 screens
triday4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: triday at none against Patch Vault's shown. triday also leads on ratings volume (169 vs 2) and update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly). Patch Vault's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 91%). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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. Patch Vault sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and triday sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Patch Vault holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: triday has 169 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Patch Vault's written reviews are positive against 91% of triday's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Patch Vault ships an update fortnightly, triday every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Patch Vault versus triday: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPatch Vaulttriday
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.7 (169 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better90.9% of reviews
Number of ratings2169 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB26 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperRobotic Snail Software LLCShrenik Choudhary

Customer experience

Patch Vault

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

triday

All ratings168 ratings
Positive94.0%
Neutral3.0%
Negative3.0%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive90.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.1%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Patch Vault

One-time4
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Medium Tip$4.99
  • Large Tip$9.99
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  • Premium$14.99
3 purchases

triday

Subscriptions2
  • triday unlimited monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • triday unlimited yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • triday unlimited lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is Patch Vault free?
Patch Vault is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is triday free?
triday is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Patch Vault or triday?
Patch Vault is rated higher. Patch Vault averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while triday averages 4.7 from 169 ratings.
Do Patch Vault or triday have ads?
Patch Vault shows ads; triday does not.
Which is updated more often, Patch Vault or triday?
Patch Vault ships an update fortnightly, and triday every 4 days. Most recently, Patch Vault was updated on October 24, 2026 and triday on October 31, 2026.

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