Comparison

The Question vs diary.exe

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

Head to head
About

The Question

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The Question is a journaling app that helps you get to know yourself by answering one simple question a day. A new question arrives every day. No need for lengthy writing โ€” just jot down whatever comes to mind, and day by day, these small answers become your own story. โ–  This app is for you if ยท You've wanted to journal but never knew where to start ยท You need a moment to reflect in the middle of a busy day ยท You want to keep a record of your feelings and thoughts โ–  Key Features ยท A new question delivered every day ยท Your own record, built one answer at a time ยท Look back and reflect on your past answers One small question can bring you into sharper focus. Answer today's question.

About

diary.exe

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C:\diary> ํ•˜๋ฃจ์— ํ•œ ์ค„์ด๋ฉด ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•ด. diary.exe๋Š” ๋ช…๋ น ํ”„๋กฌํ”„ํŠธ ๊ฐ์„ฑ์˜ ํ•œ ์ค„ ์ผ๊ธฐ์˜ˆ์š”. ๊ธด ์ผ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋ถ€๋‹ด์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ณ , ๋นˆ ํŽ˜์ด์ง€๋Š” ์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฉˆ์ถ”๊ฒŒ ํ•˜์ฃ . ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ๋Š” ํ•˜๋ฃจ์— ๋”ฑ ํ•œ ์ค„, 80์ž๊นŒ์ง€๋งŒ ์”๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ–  ์“ฐ๊ธฐ๋Š” ํ•œ ์ค„ ยท ์ž…๋ ฅ์ฐฝ์— ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์น˜๊ณ  Enter โ†’ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ํ•œ ์ค„ ์ €์žฅ ยท edit ๋กœ ๊ณ ์ณ ์“ฐ๊ธฐ, edit ์–ด์ œ โ€ฆ ๋กœ ์ง€๋‚œ ๋‚ ๋„ ยท ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ฃผ 7์ผ์ด ํ•œ๋ˆˆ์—, ๋นˆ ๋‚ ์€ ยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยท โ–  1๋…„ ์ „ ์˜ค๋Š˜ (cat --ago) ยท ์ž‘๋…„, ์žฌ์ž‘๋…„ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋‚  ์“ด ํ•œ ์ค„์ด ๋Œ์•„์™€์š” ยท ์“ฐ๋ฉด ์“ธ์ˆ˜๋ก ํ•ด๋งˆ๋‹ค ์Œ“์ด๋Š” ๋‚˜๋งŒ์˜ ํƒ€์ž„๋ผ์ธ โ–  ์ฐพ๊ธฐ์™€ ๊ธฐ๋ก ยท grep ์ปคํ”ผ โ†’ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋‚ ์—์„œ ๋‹จ์–ด ์ฐพ๊ธฐ ยท cal โ†’ ๋‹ฌ๋ ฅ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๋Š” ์“ด ๋‚  โ–  ยท ์•ˆ ์“ด ๋‚  ยท ยท ์—ฐ์† ๊ธฐ๋ก, ์›”๋ณ„ ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ โ–  PRO (ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ๊ฒฐ์ œ, ๊ตฌ๋… ์—†์Œ) ยท ํ™ˆ ํ™”๋ฉด ์œ„์ ฏ: ์˜ค๋Š˜ ํ•œ ์ค„ ยท 1๋…„ ์ „ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ยท ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ฃผ ยท ์ž ๊ธˆํ™”๋ฉด ์œ„์ ฏ: 1๋…„ ์ „ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ยท ์—ฐ์† N์ผ์งธ ยท ํ…Œ๋งˆ 3์ข…: cmd ยท phosphor(์ดˆ๋ก ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ) ยท amber(ํ˜ธ๋ฐ•์ƒ‰ ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ) ยท CRT ์ฃผ์‚ฌ์„  ํšจ๊ณผ โ–  ๋‚ด ์ผ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋‚ด ํฐ์—๋งŒ ํšŒ์›๊ฐ€์ž…, ์„œ๋ฒ„, ๊ด‘๊ณ , ์ถ”์ ์ด ์—†์–ด์š”. ์ผ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋‘ ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ์•ˆ์—๋งŒ ์ €์žฅ๋ผ์š”. todo.exe ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“  ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์ž์˜ .exe ์‹œ๋ฆฌ์ฆˆ ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์•ฑ. C:\diary> _

Screenshots

The Question4 screens
diary.exe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: The Question at none against diary.exe's 1. The Question also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. diary.exe sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. The Question asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

The Question ships an update every 5 days, diary.exe every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
The Question versus diary.exe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Questiondiary.exe
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 days โ€” betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS15.115.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size49 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCompounding Co., Ltd.chaeeun yoon

In-app purchases

None

The Question

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

diary.exe

One-time1
  • diary.exe PRO$1.99

Questions

Is The Question free?
The Question is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is diary.exe free?
diary.exe is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do The Question or diary.exe have ads?
Neither The Question nor diary.exe shows ads.
Which is updated more often, The Question or diary.exe?
The Question ships an update every 5 days, and diary.exe every 2 weeks. Most recently, The Question was updated on October 21, 2026 and diary.exe on October 26, 2026.

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