Comparison

dot 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

dot

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Give today's feelings a place among the stars. dot is a journal for reflecting on your emotions and thoughts, one question at a time. Revisit your entries as stars in your own universe. โ€ข Guided reflection: Choose an emotion and its intensity, then write about the situation and your thoughts. โ€ข Revisit your journal: Explore a calendar, keywords, bookmarks and search. Edit or delete your entries. โ€ข Emotion patterns: Explore monthly and yearly emotion distributions, keywords, and intensity by weekday and time of day. โ€ข Daily reminders: Choose whether and when to receive a gentle reminder to write. โ€ข Available in Korean, English and Japanese. Write once per day for free. Rewarded ads offer additional entries, or subscribe to Premium for unlimited writing without ads. See the purchase screen for subscription pricing and duration. Manage or cancel automatic renewal in your store's subscription settings. dot does not replace medical care or professional treatment. Support: support@pauselabs.app Privacy Policy: https://pauselabs.app/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://pauselabs.app/terms.html

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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

dot4 screens
diary.exe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: diary.exe at none against dot's shown. dot's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 2 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, 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. dot sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month and diary.exe sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

dot ships an update daily, diary.exe every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
dot versus diary.exe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterdotdiary.exe
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyDaily โ€” betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size38 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPausechaeeun yoon

In-app purchases

1 purchases

dot

Subscriptions1
  • dot Premium Monthly$0.991 Month
1 purchases

diary.exe

One-time1
  • diary.exe PRO$1.99

Questions

Is dot free?
dot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is diary.exe free?
diary.exe is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do dot or diary.exe have ads?
dot shows ads; diary.exe does not.
Which is updated more often, dot or diary.exe?
dot ships an update daily, and diary.exe every 2 weeks. Most recently, dot was updated on October 21, 2026 and diary.exe on October 31, 2026.

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