Dance Diary vs Private Diary & Lock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dance Diary
Log dance classes, track corrections, and monitor progress. This app helps dancers manage their training, set goals, and care for their mental well-being with guided exercises and reflection prompts.
- Log classes and schedule
- Organize and track corrections
- Practice timer for skills
- Set and track dance goals
- Manage performances and auditions
- Mental well-being exercises
- Progress and pattern analysis
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Made for dancers, by dancers. Dance Diary is your personal space to log every class, remember every correction, and watch your progress grow — while taking care of the dancer behind the technique. LOGGING A CLASS TAKES SECONDS Add your weekly schedule once, and each class appears on the right day ready to log in a single tap. Style, duration, teacher, corrections, how hard it felt, and how your body is doing. Two classes in one day? Log them both. NEVER LOSE A CORRECTION Keep every note your teacher gives you, organized by body part and by teacher, and move each one from Focus to Improving to Mastered. A correction you haven't worked on in a while quietly comes back so it isn't forgotten. CAPTURE CORRECTIONS BEFORE YOU FORGET Straight after class, type everything your teacher said — one per line — and save them all at once. Tag them later, when you have a moment. PRACTISE WITH INTENT Start a timer against the correction or skill you are actually working on, and the minutes land against that thing. Working on something counts, even before it clicks. THE THINGS YOU ARE CHASING Corrections come from your teachers. Skills are the ones you set yourself — a double pirouette, splits on the left — with a dated log that proves they moved. WRITE TO THE DANCER YOU'LL BE Seal a letter to yourself, opened in one month or one year. Dancers change faster than they notice. A SUMMARY YOU CAN SHARE Turn a season into a plain summary — classes, hours, teachers, performances, corrections mastered — for a teacher, an audition, or an application. WRITE DOWN THE CHOREOGRAPHY Combinations noted the way you count them — in eights — so what you learned on Tuesday is still there on Thursday. Plus a glossary of over fifty dance terms, with pronunciations, for the days a teacher uses a word you don't know. SET GOALS THAT MEAN SOMETHING Weekly and monthly goals with progress tracking. Unfinished goals can be carried into the new week with one tap, and past goals stay as a record of how far you've come. OWN THE STAGE Competitions, recitals, and auditions with countdowns, a packing list for each one, and a two-minute Backstage moment for the wings — breathing, and then your own training hours read back to you, because "you are ready" means more when it's arithmetic. CARE FOR YOUR MIND, TOO A daily mood check-in, guided box and 4-7-8 breathing, 5-4-3-2-1 grounding, a progressive body scan, reflection prompts you can read back any time, and 36 affirmations written for dancers. If you keep flagging discomfort, the app offers a recovery mode that hides streaks and gets gentler until you're ready. SEE YOUR OWN PATTERNS Mood over the past month, how your body has felt, hours by style and teacher, a Year in Review worth sharing, and quiet observations drawn from your own entries — all worked out on your phone. YOURS, AND ONLY YOURS No accounts. No ads. Everything you write stays on your device — the app shares only anonymous usage statistics, which you can switch off. Optional Face ID lock, optional daily reminders, and one-tap backup export and import so your history follows you to a new phone. Three hand-crafted themes — Ballet Rose, Studio Warm, and Night Bloom — make your diary feel like home. Your journey in dance is yours alone — and it is beautiful.
Private Diary & Lock
This app provides a private digital journal experience where all entries are stored locally on your device. It offers daily prompts, voice-to-text input, photo attachments, and robust search capabilities. An optional upgrade unlocks advanced features like biometric lock, AI tidying, and PDF export.
- Daily writing prompts
- Voice-to-text input
- Photo and location attachments
- Local storage and iCloud backup
- Searchable journal entries
- Optional AI writing assistance
- PDF export
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Your personal diary, and nobody else’s. No account, no ads, and nothing leaves your phone unless you ask. Write about your day, add a photo, track your mood, and keep it all. PRIVATE, NOT MERELY ENCRYPTED • No account. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to sign in to. • No analytics, no trackers, no advertising inside the app. • Most diaries keep your writing on a server. This one has no server to keep it on. • A diary with a lock: Face ID, Touch ID or a passcode, with Scriptum Complete. WRITE IT YOUR WAY • A line or a thousand words, whatever the day needs. • Make it a photo diary: add a picture to remember the day by. • A simple mood tracker: tap one of five faces for how the day felt. • Note where you were, when that is part of it. • Missed a day? Open the calendar and write it whenever you like. • Light or dark paper, to suit the hour. • Stuck for words? A prompt is there if you want one. • A gentle reminder at the time you choose, which eases off instead of nagging when you have been away. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN • The widget shows the date and whether you have written today. • It never shows a word you wrote. That stays inside. FIND IT AGAIN YEARS LATER • Search everything you have ever written. • Every photo in your diary in one place, month by month, and every voice note too. • A calendar of the days you wrote, and the days you did not. • Open any date and read it exactly as you left it. AND STILL IMPOSSIBLE TO LOSE • A copy of your diary is kept in your own iCloud, so deleting the app does not take it with it. • Nothing is sent to us. The copy sits in your iCloud Drive, where you can see it. • Or save the whole diary, words and photographs, as one file only you hold. • Coming from Day One or Daylio? Bring your entries with you. ON IPHONE AND IPAD • On iPad your diary is laid out as a single sheet of paper, with room to write. • Each device keeps its own diary, and you can bring your iPhone’s pages across. SCRIPTUM COMPLETE An optional upgrade, for when the free diary is not enough. Try it free for a week. • Lock your diary behind Face ID, Touch ID or a passcode. • Speak instead of typing, and have a rambling entry tidied into something you will want to reread. • Keep voice notes on a page, and hear the day again in your own voice. • Up to ten photos on a page, arranged for you. • Every sticker pack, and ink to sketch over the paper. • Colour the whole app to suit you. • Turn your diary into a printable book, typeset page by page. Scriptum Complete is a monthly or yearly subscription. The yearly plan starts with a free week for new subscribers. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when the free week ends, or at purchase without one. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed or cancelled in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://annrstudio.com/scriptum/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://annrstudio.com/scriptum/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dance Diary at none against Private Diary & Lock's 3. Dance Diary also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days) and ratings volume (8 vs 2). Private Diary & Lock's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. Private Diary & Lock sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Dance Diary asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Dance Diary against 5.0 for Private Diary & Lock. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Dance Diary ships an update every 2 days, Private Diary & Lock every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dance Diary | Private Diary & Lock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Maia Hariton | ANNR Studio |
Customer experience
Dance Diary
Private Diary & Lock
In-app purchases
Dance Diary
No in-app purchases
Private Diary & Lock
- Monthly$2.991 Month
- Yearly7 Days trial$22.991 Year
- Lifetime$34.99
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