Comparison

Gallery Mate vs Soundiary

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

Head to head
About

Gallery Mate

Features
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Gallery Mate is a quiet companion for gallery and museum visits. Every exhibition can become a personal art journal—what you saw, how you felt, and the path you walked—saved securely in the cloud and ready to revisit anytime. Before your visit • Create a journal for any exhibition • Upload a poster to auto-detect the title, venue, dates, and curator • Plan your trip, add it to Calendar, and get reminders During your visit • Photograph artworks and add them instantly to this visit • Use AI OCR on wall labels to keep the artist, title, and description with each work • Capture notes in the moment—what you felt standing in front of the piece • Save related articles, podcasts, reviews, and further reading • Ask the built-in assistant questions grounded in your works, labels, links, and notes—not generic answers After your visit • Replay the whole visit on a timeline • Upload a floor plan, pin artworks, and reconstruct your route • Share a read-only link so friends can read your journal • Download an offline pack for unreliable venue Wi‑Fi Designed for people who love exhibitions The interface is inspired by a quiet gallery: generous space, restraint, and the artwork as the focus. Your journal, written by you Sign in with Apple, Google, or email. The app supports Chinese, English, and more. Cloud sync keeps your journals with you across devices. Gallery Mate helps you leave behind “I took so many photos, but I can’t remember that visit”—so every trip to see art is worth remembering. Some AI features may use credits. Capture, sync, and sharing require a network connection. Downloaded journals can be viewed offline.

About

Soundiary

This app transforms your daily sounds and body signals into a private journal entry. It analyzes ambient noise, voice, and physiological data to create a summary of your day, focusing on meaning rather than raw audio storage.

Highlights
  • Voice and sound journaling
  • Body signal analysis
  • On-device processing
  • Speaker identification
  • Optional audio saving
  • Voice sensitivity levels
  • Power-saving mode
Features
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Your day deserves to be remembered properly. Soundiary turns a day of sound, heartbeat and body signals into a journal entry written in the quiet of the evening — nothing invented, nothing sentimental. What matters more: unless you ask for it, your voice is never stored. By default, Apple Watch samples the sounds around you, turns them into text, speaker labels and emotional features right on the device, then discards the raw audio. No recording files. No playback. Only meaning is kept. Want to keep some of it? Turn on Save audio and each captured segment is also saved to your iPhone — ready to play, export or delete. The switch ships off, and it stays in your hands. Through the day it listens quietly: sampled sensing, with silence and noise skipped automatically. It hears you from across the room, too — five levels of voice sensitivity, tuned to wherever you are. Worried about battery? Power-saving mode samples just 6 seconds every 10 minutes, while body signals keep coming every 5. A whole night won't disturb your sleep. In the morning, a story that's yours: what you did, who you met, how you felt, and what's still unfinished. Who was speaking is your call: voices are grouped automatically, and you confirm or correct. Everything stays on your device: no account, no cloud sync, no third-party SDK. Not even crash logs. Paid download, complete on arrival: no in-app purchases, no subscriptions, no auto-renewal. Requires iOS 18+ and Apple Watch Series 6 or later (including SE 2nd gen and Ultra).

Screenshots

Gallery Mate4 screens
Soundiary4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Gallery Mate at Free against Soundiary's $0.99. Gallery Mate also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). Soundiary's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On update cadence, 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

Gallery Mate is free to download; Soundiary costs $0.99 up front. Gallery Mate sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Soundiary asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gallery Mate ships an update every 2 days, Soundiary every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 5 level
Gallery Mate versus Soundiary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGallery MateSoundiary
PriceFree — better$0.99
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Paid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS16.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer宇琪 潘磊 辛

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Gallery Mate

One-time1
  • Starter Credits$1.99
None

Soundiary

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Gallery Mate free?
Gallery Mate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Soundiary free?
Soundiary costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Gallery Mate or Soundiary have ads?
Neither Gallery Mate nor Soundiary shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Gallery Mate or Soundiary?
Gallery Mate ships an update every 2 days, and Soundiary every 3 days. Most recently, Gallery Mate was updated on November 5, 2026 and Soundiary on November 6, 2026.

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