Voice Diary vs Fiveoak
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Voice Diary
Easily record your thoughts, memories, and daily moments with an elegant audio journaling app. Transcribe your speech into notes, add tags for organization, and search your entries by keywords. Premium features include automatic iCloud backup and cross-device restoration.
- Audio recording
- Speech to note transcription
- Tagging system
- Keyword search
- Distraction-free interface
- iCloud backup (Premium)
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For thoughts you want to keep without typing, Voice Diary turns spoken moments into a personal audio journal. Record your day, organize it with tags, and return to the original voice whenever you like. RECORD AND REVISIT Record a thought or a longer diary entry. Browse recordings by date in a continuous timeline, search your tags, and listen again with an adjustable playback position. READ YOUR MOMENTS Speech recognition turns your recordings into text. Choose the recognition language in Settings. Transcripts appear in the timeline when a summary is unavailable. MAKE IT YOURS Choose light, dark or system appearance. Protect access with a passcode and keep a note on your Home Screen with the widget. The layout adapts to iPhone Duo when folded or unfolded, as well as iPhone and iPad. PREMIUM An in-app subscription unlocks Premium features, including iCloud backup, transcription options and full AI summaries. AI summaries require iOS 26 or later, a compatible device, enabled Apple Intelligence, and supported app and recognition languages. Availability varies by device, language and region. Speech recognition requires permission and may need an internet connection. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before renewal. Manage or cancel them in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy and Terms of Use: https://sites.google.com/site/ios1click/
Fiveoak
Automate your customer feedback system to gather more online reviews. Improve your business rankings and drive more traffic and customers. Focus on your business while this app handles review generation.
- Automated customer feedback system
- Online review generation
- Improved business rankings
- Increased website traffic
- Direct integration into customer cycle
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We're on a mission to help you win more business by building you an automated customer feedback system that integrates directly into your existing customer cycle. • More reviews = better rankings • Better rankings = more traffic • More traffic = more business You focus on your business, we’ll focus on reviews.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Fiveoak at 100% against Voice Diary's 50%. Fiveoak also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.1) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). Voice Diary's advantage is ratings volume (40 vs 4) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, update cadence 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. Voice Diary sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Fiveoak asks for nothing beyond the download.
Fiveoak holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Voice Diary has 40 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Voice Diary's written reviews are positive against 100% of Fiveoak's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Voice Diary | Fiveoak |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (40 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 40 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 晓靖 宾 | Fiveoak |
Customer experience
Voice Diary
Fiveoak
Bugs and requests
Voice Diary
Reported bugs
26 issues- Save button not working
- Backup functionality doesn’t work with different devices
- Forgot PIN code, locked out with no reset option
- Forgot password, no options to reset or retrieve
- Old voice notes are gone
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- Cannot delete or edit recordings
- App stops recording for no reason
- Recording stops transcribing before the end
- Locking phone stops recording in the background
- Unable to access or change password
- App didn’t recognize subscription on new device
- Forgot password, using fingerprint to unlock
- App stops playing recorded voice diary
- Cannot delete saved recordings
- Recording stops after a certain amount of time
- Passcode option does not work
- Cannot change password after setting it
- Recorded hours of voice, only minutes show up
- Recording saves a randomly different time
- Recording length is inaccurate
- Passcode didn't work
- Only played back 1 minute of a 5 minute recording
- Phone auto-locked during recording, nothing recorded during locked time
- Passcode doesn't work
- Dropped recordings when interrupted by a phone call
- Bug which drops recordings when it's interrupted
Requested features
34 requests- Add a way to export data
- Implement password reset functionality
- Improve backup and sync across devices
- Allow deletion of recordings
- Fix issues with recordings not saving or playing back
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- Enable background recording when phone is locked
- Improve text color contrast
- Offer a more affordable subscription
- Add transcription for recordings
- Allow longer clip recordings
- Adjustable playback speed settings
- Organize rants by flairs/tags
- Add an iPad version
- Improve recording quality options
- Allow continuing unfinished recordings
- Export voice entries in one click
- Improve naming for exported entries
- Import from other apps via share extension
- Filter voice entries by multiple tags
- Allow simple editing of recordings (cropping)
- Add a dark mode option
- Export speech to text to word doc or .txt file
- Add a calendar view for entries
- Improve color scheme/themes
- Add a way to sync to PC or iCloud
- Bulk sync/export multiple recordings
- Add a passcode for privacy
- Allow writing notes within the app
- Improve background recording functionality
- Add a way to change recording quality
- Add a way to edit recorded voice entries
- Add a way to sync individual recordings to iCloud or Dropbox
- Add a way to save recordings to Dropbox
- Add a calendar view for entries
Fiveoak
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Voice Diary
- Upgrade to Premium : 1 month$2.991 Month
- Upgrade to Premium : 1 year$12.991 Year
Fiveoak
No in-app purchases
