Comparison

My Diary vs Ember

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

Head to head
About

My Diary

Features
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My Diary is a private diary app where you can write your thoughts, daily memories, notes, and life experiences in one place. Use it as my daily diary, daily planner, diary notebook, gratitude journal, diary with lock, diary with password, or a personal journal. Keep your diary private with a password lock or fingerprint lock. Organize your entries with tags, change the look with journal themes, and make each memory more personal by adding emojis, gallery photos, recording, and speech to text. Write whenever you want and keep your memories safe and easy to find. 2- Features of My Dairy: • Write daily diary entries with a simple editor. • Keep a private diary, personal diary, or diary journal. • Protect your diary with password lock, fingerprint lock, and diary with password. • Choose from different journal themes and custom themes. • Record your feelings with a mood diary, mood tracker, and gratitude journal. • Create daily goals, daily notes, and use it as a daily planner. • Organize your diary with tags and quickly find any entry. • Add emojis to your diary entries. • Attach photos from your gallery. • Save voice recording and use speech to text for writing. • Create a check list for tasks and reminders. • Use templates for different journal styles. • Write and edit text with an easy writing experience. • Access your diary offline. • Keep memories, notes, recordings, and journal entries in one place. 3- How it helps users: My Diary helps you keep your daily thoughts and memories organized. You can write about your day, save important moments, create daily notes, manage daily goals, and make a check list for your tasks. Use tags to find older entries quickly whenever you need them. If typing is not convenient, you can use speech to text or save a voice recording. You can also add photos from your gallery to your diary entries. Templates help you start writing quickly, and journal themes let you change the look of your diary. Offline access allows you to continue writing without an internet connection. 4- Why it is better than competitors: My Diary brings together diary writing, mood tracking, daily planner, check list, tags, templates, gallery support, recording, speech to text, password protection, fingerprint lock, and journal themes in one app. You can organize your notes, write about your daily life, save personal memories, and keep everything in one place. Whether you use it as a private diary lock, my daily diary, diary with lock, diary with password, gratitude journal, or a personal journal, My Diary helps you write, organize, and protect your thoughts and memories in a simple way. 5- Premium Subscription Information: Subscription Plans: We offer flexible premium subscription options, including Weekly, Monthly, and Yearly plans. (Prices may vary depending on your region and are explicitly displayed inside the app paywall prior to purchase). - Payment: Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. - Auto Renewal: Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period. - Renewal Charge: Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. - Managing Subscriptions: You can manage or turn off auto-renewal at any time by going to your Apple ID Account Settings after purchase. Cancellations take effect at the end of the active subscription period. - Terms of Use (EULA): https://sites.google.com/view/my-diary-term/home - Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/privacy-policy-of-my-diary-app/home

About

Ember

This app offers a minute-long daily prayer rooted in Scripture, with guided breaths and Scripture citations. It also includes the full Rosary, liturgical calendar integration, and customizable prayer reminders. Designed for privacy, it collects no user data and is completely free.

Highlights
  • Minute-long daily Scripture prayer
  • Full Rosary and decade prayers
  • Liturgical calendar integration
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Customizable prayer reminders
  • Private by design, no data collection
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Prayer that fits inside a real day. Ember is a Catholic prayer app built around a practice, not an endless scroll. Arrive with one slow breath. Pray one Scripture-rooted line — with its citation right there. Hold it until it settles. Sixty seconds later, your ember is glowing, and the Word goes with you into the day. THE DAILY PRAYER Begin with the Sign of the Cross and a guided breath. Pray each line slowly — hold to pray, release, amen. Close with the Glory Be. It takes about a minute. It is the minute that changes the other 1,439. ROOTED IN THE WORD 1,260 prayer lines across 14 collections — Trust, Peace, Gratitude, Morning, Beloved, Evening, Hope, Courage, Providence, Mercy, Presence, Charity, Wonder, and Joy. Every line is rooted in Scripture, the Catechism, the saints, or the Church's traditional prayers, and every line carries its citation. Nothing vague, nothing invented, nothing repeated until you have prayed the whole library. THE ROSARY, BEAD BY BEAD Ember knows today's mysteries — Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious, or Luminous, following the Church's rhythm through the week and the seasons. Pray the full Rosary or a single decade: every prayer written out, every bead counted, the fruit of each mystery held in view. About 20 minutes for the whole crown, 3 for a decade. THE CHURCH'S CLOCK Ember keeps the liturgical calendar: seasons, feasts, and a theme that quietly wears the day's vestment color — violet in Advent and Lent, white in Christmastide and Easter, green through Ordinary Time. One-tap prayer times set reminders at the hours the Church has always prayed: the Morning Offering, the noon Angelus, the three o'clock Hour of Mercy, the Evening Examen. A STREAK THAT STAYS KIND Pray daily and your ember glows brighter. Miss a day and it simply dims, ready to be rekindled — no guilt, no broken chains. Faithfulness, not perfection. ALWAYS WITH YOU • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets with a real line and its citation • Reminders that carry a whole prayer — worth the glance on its own • Add your own intentions and prayers; they join your feed and daily practice • Favorites, beautiful share cards, and themes that feel like candlelight PRIVATE BY DESIGN Prayer is between you and God. Everything stays on your iPhone: no account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. Our App Store privacy label is "Data Not Collected," and we intend to keep it that way. FREE. ALL OF IT. FOREVER. The daily prayer, the full Rosary, all fourteen collections, the longer 5- or 7-line prayer, every theme and icon, unlimited prayers in your own words, up to six daily reminders, widgets, and favorites. No subscription, no unlock, no ads — nothing to buy, ever. Prayer should not have a paywall. Begin again. The Lord was already waiting.

Screenshots

My Diary4 screens
Ember4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ember at none against My Diary's 3. Ember also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 weeks). My Diary's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. My Diary sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per 7 days. Ember 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 My Diary against 5.0 for Ember. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

My Diary ships an update every 6 weeks, Ember every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
My Diary versus Ember: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMy DiaryEmber
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB5 MB
Age rating4+9+
DevelopercodesbunnyPerry Hampton

Customer experience

My Diary

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Ember

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

In-app purchases

3 purchases

My Diary

Subscriptions3
  • Premium - Weekly$2.497 Days
  • Monthly Premium$4.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium$19.991 Year
None

Ember

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is My Diary free?
My Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ember free?
Ember is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, My Diary or Ember?
My Diary and Ember are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do My Diary or Ember have ads?
Neither My Diary nor Ember shows ads.
Which is updated more often, My Diary or Ember?
My Diary ships an update every 6 weeks, and Ember every 2 days. Most recently, My Diary was updated on October 24, 2026 and Ember on October 16, 2026.

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