Comparison

Waddle Diary vs Moss

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

Head to head
About

Waddle Diary

Features
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Like a turtle — slow but steady, gathering your days one by one. Videos, dramas, movies, books, even papers — capture everything you watch and read with star ratings, notes, and photos. Daily diaries, and exchange diaries to share with friends, all in one app. ■ Record anything · YouTube, dramas, movies, books, papers, and more · Just paste a link and the preview image and title fill in automatically · Star ratings, notes, photo attachments ■ Daily diary · Record each day by date, with photos too ■ Smart search · Search the way you talk: "movies I watched last week", "5-star dramas" · All your entries spread out as tiles, narrowing as you type ■ Secret exchange diary · Tap the message below 3 times to unlock Shared Diary. (Tap it 3 times again to hide it.) · Swap diaries with friends over AirDrop · Organized by nickname, so you know who sent what ■ Make it yours · 5 pastel themes · Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese supported ■ Privacy first · No servers, no accounts. All data stays only on your phone · Works offline, and you can export a backup anytime Thank you for today. Let's keep gathering, one by one.

About

Moss

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Moss is a private journal and diary that stays yours. No account, no login, no sign-up. Your pages live on your iPhone and in your own iCloud, and not even we can read them. Remember the diary with the little lock on it? Moss is that, grown up, and no one else has the key. EVERY DAY, YOUR WAY • Words, photos, videos, stickers and voice, placed anywhere on the page, like a scrapbook that remembers • Rich text, lists, checklists and highlights • Write the whole page in a handwriting font, on the paper and ink you like • Gentle prompts for the days you don’t know where to begin • Sketch with Apple Pencil on iPad SOME DAYS ARE EASIER SAID • Hold to talk: keep the voice note, and watch your words land on the page as you speak • Your voice is turned into words on your iPhone, never on a server • Tell Siri “Add a line to Moss”, or start a page from a widget, Control Center or the Action button HOW WAS THE SKY TODAY? • Give each day a little sky, sunny to stormy, and the words for how it felt • Watch your moods drift across the weeks • If you like, save your State of Mind to Apple Health, and see sleep, steps, daylight and mindful minutes beside your pages YOUR YEARS COME BACK • On this day, a weekly look back, and the pages you kept • Past years sit on a shelf, like books • Threads gather your pages by #tag or theme • Ask your pages: ask anything you’ve ever written and get an answer from your own words, worked out on your iPhone, even offline • Search everything you’ve ever written NOBODY READS IT. NOT EVEN US. • No account, no login, no sign-up • Your pages live on your device and in your own iCloud, synced across your iPhone, iPad and Mac. Nobody at Moss can read them • Lock Moss with Face ID or your own Moss code • Keep several journals; give any one its own code, or tuck it away REST DAYS COUNT No streaks, ever. A quiet day is still a page. Moss is journaling without the guilt. BRING YOUR OLD PAGES • Import your journal from Day One, Apple’s Journal app, Markdown or plain text • Scan a handwritten page from a paper diary, and Moss reads the words MOSS IS FREE No ads, no account, nothing to sign up for. Writing, photos, voice, search, Ask your pages and the Almanac (your year, bound into a book you can keep) are all there from the first page. MADE TO SIT BESIDE DEW If you use Dew, you can see your cycle beside your pages. Only if you want it. Moss works on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Ask your pages and the weekly reflection use Apple Intelligence, on devices that support it. Privacy: https://moss.trydew.app/privacy Terms: https://moss.trydew.app/terms a journal that stays yours. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://moss.trydew.app/privacy/

Screenshots

Waddle Diary4 screens
Moss4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Waddle Diary at none against Moss's 4. Waddle Diary also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads 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. Moss sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Waddle Diary asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Waddle Diary versus Moss: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWaddle DiaryMoss
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJUNSUNG KIMAbhishek Agarwal

In-app purchases

None

Waddle Diary

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Moss

Subscriptions3
  • Moss Garden · Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Moss Garden · Yearly7 Days trial$34.991 Year
  • Moss + Dew · Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year
One-time1
  • Moss, forever$99.99

Questions

Is Waddle Diary free?
Waddle Diary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Moss free?
Moss is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Waddle Diary or Moss have ads?
Neither Waddle Diary nor Moss shows ads.

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