Trace vs Refri
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Trace
This app allows you to capture everyday moments with text, photos, videos, voice notes, and sketches. Organize your life with tasks, goals, and period tracking, all while keeping your data private and offline.
- Multimedia journaling (photos, video, voice, sketches)
- Task and goal management with reminders
- Period tracking integrated with Apple Health
- Personalized notebooks and themes
- Future message and 'today's envelope' features
- Data privacy with offline storage and optional iCloud sync
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Not every day is a big day. Some are just worth keeping. A good dinner. A photo from your walk. Something you finally got done. Keep it in Trace, alongside tomorrow's plans and the people you care about. No sign-up needed. MAKE ROOM FOR YOUR DAY Write, then add photos, videos, Live Photos, voice notes or sketches; photos sit in a neat grid and can be cropped. Add a mood, place or weather, backfill a missed day, highlight words and pin entries. DRAW A FULL STOP ON TODAY On Today, tap Draw a full stop and what you wrote flies into an envelope. Circle the flap, and a little friend stamps it and carries it to your Mailbox. Or tap Write to the future: name your future self, pick a date and seal it. It won't open until then. A NOTEBOOK YOU CAN HOLD Give a trip, a child or a stretch of life its own notebook, and entries lay themselves out by date. Short notes go on the paper, and each notebook has its own date stamp and stationery. It opens full screen; pages turn under your finger and you can pinch to look closer. Decorate any page with stickers and pens. Crop or rotate photos, or tap or trace around something to cut it out. Tap Auto-flip and it turns its own pages. Add a photo cover, a song, and a birthday to show their age on each entry. Make a Book turns your journal into a PDF book from twelve templates. REMEMBER WHAT YOU DID Organize tasks into lists with subtasks, photos and reminders. What I did keeps finished tasks by day, plus anything you did without planning it. Track goals by count or quantity, with start and end dates, tags, milestones and days off, and check in from a widget. Sync with Calendar and Reminders. PERIOD TRACKING WITH APPLE HEALTH Turn on Period Tracking from Today, then tap Started and Ended. Add missed days, flow and symptoms, see roughly when the next period is due, and get an optional reminder. Period data is read from and saved to Apple Health, outside your journal database, iCloud journal sync and ZIP backups. SAVE UP FOR A LITTLE TREAT Make a wish and it becomes a lantern that brightens as you earn stars from entries, tasks and goals. Stars are an in-app record, with no cash value or goods supplied by Trace. LOOK BACK Your places gather on a small, turning globe. There's also a mood calendar, On This Day, a photo wall, monthly and yearly reviews, and share cards. KEEP PEOPLE CLOSE Link entries to a person to see your history together, and note their preferences, gifts and conversations. MAKE IT FEEL LIKE YOURS Fifteen 3D little friends live on the pages and play with what's there; swap in any of them. Choose from 24 themes, built-in fonts, photo backgrounds, text sizes, app icons, eight widgets and Simple mode. On iPad, notebooks open into two-page spreads. YOUR RECORDS STAY YOURS Entries are stored on your device and work offline. No ads or third-party tracking. Optional private iCloud sync, ZIP backups and an app lock that can accept only your own PIN. FREE AND PRO Entries, tasks, goals and people are unlimited for free, with five notebooks, five important dates and three media attachments per entry. Themes, fonts, backgrounds, icons, widgets, iCloud sync, ZIP backups and the cat are free too. Pro adds Draw a full stop, Write to the future, Wishes, Make a Book, notebook videos, journal comments, Live Activities, font import and the other little friends, plus 30 media attachments per entry and unlimited notebooks and important dates. New users can claim three days of full Pro during setup, and Draw a full stop and Wishes each have a seven-day trial. Trials need no payment and never renew. Sealed letters, wishes and stars stay readable afterwards; letters to the future still open on their day. Pro is a subscription or a one-time purchase, priced in the app. For iPhone, iPhone Duo and iPad. Requires iOS or iPadOS 17.2 or later. Privacy Policy: https://bittolab.com/en/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Refri
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Refri 是一款為主打「稍後再看」與生活規劃而生的質感收納工具。我們將你在網路上看到的碎片化資訊,化為井然有序的靈感庫。 不論是 IG 上的隱藏版咖啡廳、TikTok 上的獨家食譜,還是 Safari 裡的深度好文,只需透過系統的分享按鈕,就能俐落地將美好事物收進你的專屬冰箱中,隨時保鮮、隨時取用。 核心功能: 跨平台一鍵導入: 透過 iOS 分享面板,無縫將各大社群與網頁連結收納至 App 中,並自動擷取重點資訊。 極簡秩序的筆記: 乾淨、無干擾的分類介面,讓你自由建立待讀書單、健身計畫或購物清單。
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Refri at none against Trace's 4. 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
Both are free to download. Trace sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Refri asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Trace | Refri |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.2 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 256 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 玉浩 李 | Bobby Wang |
In-app purchases
Trace
- Trace Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
- Trace Pro Half-Year$3.996 Months
- Trace Pro Yearly$6.991 Year
- Trace Pro Lifetime$9.99
Refri
No in-app purchases









