Comparison

Whengram vs DiaryThreads

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

Head to head
About

Whengram

Capture one memory daily with optional photos and mood tracking. Organize your moments into yearly books and revisit past entries with 'On This Day' features. Secure your reflections with biometric lock and cloud backups.

Highlights
  • One memory per day
  • Attach photos to memories
  • Track daily mood
  • Weekly overview
  • Yearly memory books
  • On This Day feature
  • Biometric lock
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Whengram is your personal time capsule. One memory a day, a lifetime of moments. Some days are ordinary. Some change everything. Whengram helps you remember both. Capture one memory a day, a few lines about what mattered. A photo if you want. That's it. Just you and your thoughts, saved in a calm space that feels like yours. What you get: • One memory per day. Focused, intentional, no clutter • Attach a photo if the moment deserves one • Track your mood: positive, steady, or tough • Whenweek: your week at a glance on the Home tab • Whenshelf: every year of your memories is its own book • On This Day: memories from past years resurface on the same date • Milestones: mark the moments that shaped you (first job, big move, new home) • Widgets: On This Day and Today's Memory on your home screen • Daily reminder at your chosen time, if you want one • Dark mode for late night reflection • Biometric lock: your memories stay yours, nobody gets in but you • iCloud and Google Drive backup: private, to your own cloud, never our servers • Daily auto-backup into a Whengram folder in your iCloud Drive • Local backup: get a complete backup of your data, everything included. Restore anytime • Available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Russian and French Your data stays on your device. Whengram has no servers, no analytics, no ads. Your memories are stored locally on your phone. If you choose to back up, it goes to your own iCloud or Google Drive. We never see it. Just a quiet place to save what happened today, so future you can look back and smile. Connect: X / Instagram / Telegram: @getwhengram Email: hello@whengram.com Privacy Policy: https://www.whengram.com/privacypolicy

About

DiaryThreads

Transform your life into a series of shareable posts, just like social media. Capture thoughts, photos, videos, or voice notes in short entries organized into a private timeline. Gain insights into your journaling habits and revisit memories with customizable widgets.

Highlights
  • Post thoughts, photos, videos, voice notes
  • Private timeline organization
  • Insights into journaling habits
  • Home Screen widgets for memories and new posts
  • App Lock for enhanced privacy
  • No account required, local storage
Features
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DiaryThreads offers a new way to journal: capture life as easily as posting and let every entry become part of a timeline that is entirely your own. 【As Easy as Posting—Reply to and Quote Your Past Self】 -- Capture a thought, a photo, or a voice recording in the moment. A flexible editor helps you preserve life in richer detail. -- Find an earlier entry, reply to it or quote it, and see what has changed. -- When you have more to say, use an Article to publish a polished long-form card on your timeline. 【Understand Your Life】 -- Analytics brings together days recorded, total characters, posting frequency, and changes over the last 30 days. -- Your private trending list highlights the keywords and topics you have been returning to lately. -- State of Mind entries you choose to add also appear in Analytics, helping you look back on emotional changes. -- Topic Insights show when and how often each topic appears. 【Let Widgets Bring the Past Back】 -- The “Random Entry” widget brings an older entry to your Home Screen. Tap to shuffle or open its details. -- The “Write an Entry” widget puts writing on your Home Screen, so a new entry is always one tap away. Past and present stay close at hand. -- The “Photo Memory” widget brings treasured photos back into view. 【Light, Simple, and Entirely Yours】 -- DiaryThreads requires no account. Content is stored locally first; Premium can sync it across your Apple devices through your private iCloud. -- No ads, third-party analytics, or cross-app tracking. -- Premium imports and exports are processed locally on your device, keeping your content in your hands. 【Diary Threads Premium】 -- The free version keeps up to 30 current entries. -- Diary Threads Premium unlocks unlimited entries, share posters, keyword trends, private iCloud sync, local import and export, and all three Home Screen widgets. -- Premium is available as a monthly or annual subscription, or as a one-time lifetime purchase. Actual prices are shown in the App Store. Privacy Policy: https://foggy-bellflower-ae3.notion.site/Diary-Threads-Privacy-Policy-3aa1a28522d98112b480d81a7b2f74db?source=copy_link EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Whengram4 screens
DiaryThreads4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Whengram at none against DiaryThreads's 2. Whengram also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). DiaryThreads's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 2 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating 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. DiaryThreads sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whengram asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Whengram against 5.0 for DiaryThreads. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Whengram ships an update every 2 months, DiaryThreads daily. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Whengram versus DiaryThreads: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhengramDiaryThreads
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYash Kumar世杰 戴

Customer experience

Whengram

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

DiaryThreads

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Whengram

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

DiaryThreads

Subscriptions1
  • Monthly Premium$2.991 Month
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$6.99

Questions

Is Whengram free?
Whengram is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DiaryThreads free?
DiaryThreads is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Whengram or DiaryThreads?
Whengram and DiaryThreads are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Whengram or DiaryThreads have ads?
Neither Whengram nor DiaryThreads shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Whengram or DiaryThreads?
Whengram ships an update every 2 months, and DiaryThreads daily. Most recently, Whengram was updated on October 3, 2026 and DiaryThreads on October 6, 2026.

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