DiaryThreads vs Hitotsuzuri
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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/
Hitotsuzuri
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Ordinary days, gently bound together. Just let your photos come in, and your memories gather on their own. GATHERED FOR YOU Photos, videos, screenshots, notes, voice recordings and places you visit are grouped automatically by time. Each group is named from the places you went and the kinds of records in it. New photos can be imported automatically (turn it on in Settings). Sleep and workouts from Health can join the same timeline (read-only). Google Timeline exports can be imported too. SHAPE THEM YOUR WAY Name a group, split it, or merge it into another. Add notes to records and groups so they match how you remember the day. Undo is available right after you organize. RETRACE AND FIND The past is above, the latest below. The background gently shifts with the time of day and season of what you are reading. See where you went, and in what order, on a map. Filter by words, type, dates and place. Search text found in photos and voice transcriptions. On iPhones with iOS 27 and Apple Intelligence, on-device AI adds a short description to your photos, so you can find them by what's in them. YOUR RECORDS STAY ON YOUR IPHONE No account needed. Saving, text recognition, transcription and photo descriptions happen on the device. Nothing is sent to the developer's servers or to external AI. Nothing is written to Health. Photo and video originals stay in your photo library. Maps, place names and iCloud Photos use Apple services. Encrypted backups, including scheduled backups, are supported. Restoring requires your recovery code. Backups do not include photo and video originals or Health records. START FREE, BUY ONCE IF YOU LIKE Importing, ongoing recording, browsing, searching, standalone notes, deleting, and backup and restore are free. Editing tools such as organizing, annotations, place names and hiding records are available during a 14-day free trial or with a one-time purchase. Your records stay after the trial. There is no automatic billing.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: DiaryThreads at every 2 days against Hitotsuzuri's every 8 days. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. DiaryThreads sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Hitotsuzuri sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
DiaryThreads ships an update every 2 days, Hitotsuzuri every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DiaryThreads | Hitotsuzuri |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 8 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 世杰 戴 | Ryuto Chiba |
In-app purchases
DiaryThreads
- Monthly Premium$2.991 Month
- Yearly Premium$8.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$14.99
Hitotsuzuri
- 14-day TrialFree
- Editing Unlock$5.99









