iBucket vs Flashback Journaling
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iBucket
Collaborate on life goals and travel plans with loved ones. Organize dreams, track progress, and plan trips with itineraries and cost tracking. Capture memories and share your journey with a digital passport.
- Shared bucket lists
- Goal tracking
- Trip planning
- Map and places tracker
- Digital passport
- Journal and memories
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Create and share your bucket list together! Set life goals, plan trips, track places, and connect with your partner, couple, friends, or family — all in one app. • Bucket list & goals – Create life dreams, track progress, and capture moments with photos and stories • Couple & shared lists – Organize and achieve goals together with your partner, friends or family • Travel & trip planner – Plan trips with day-by-day itineraries, bookings, tickets, and cost tracking • Map & places tracker – Mark countries, regions, cities, and places you’ve visited or want to visit • Passport & stamps – Check off where you’ve been, collect stamps, and share your digital passport • Journal & memories – Write personal or shared life stories and save meaningful memories Dream it. Plan it. Do it. Get started with iBucket and build your shared bucket list today. We’d love to hear from you! Reach us at hello@ibucket.app
Flashback Journaling
This app allows users to create multimedia journals with text, photos, and audio. Organize your thoughts using a unique keyword system to create searchable documents. Discover past entries through curated selections or random picks.
- Multimedia journaling (text, photo, audio)
- Keyword-based document organization
- View favorite, past, and random journals
- Customizable user profile
- Fast and easy post creation
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Flashback is a multimedia journal where you automatically/creatively display store text, photo, and audio (Video coming soon). Take a picture in your iphone camera and it will be displayed instantly and artistically in your daily journal! Through Flashback’s sleek design, users are able to organize their ideas faster than ever with our keyword → document feature! In any daily journal the user may use any keyword that they choose followed by a colon (:), the paragraph following that colon will be copy and pasted into a document titled their keyword. From that document the users can view all the ideas that were added in date format from earliest to latest. Users can rinse and repeat with any keyword they choose!.. From the home screen users are able to view favorite journals (bookmarked journals), a journal that you created from a week ago, a month ago, and a random journal that was made since you started using Flashback!.. Users also have a fully customizable and stylistic profile where in future updates you will be able to share to your close friends! You will be able to create post fast and easily from your journal by simply selecting what you’d like to post!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Flashback Journaling at 5.0 against iBucket's 4.5. Flashback Journaling also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and review sentiment (100% vs 66%). iBucket's advantage is ratings volume (82 vs 3). On price, ads 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. iBucket sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Flashback Journaling asks for nothing beyond the download.
Flashback Journaling holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iBucket has 82 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 66% of iBucket's written reviews are positive against 100% of Flashback Journaling's.
iBucket ships an update every 9 days, Flashback Journaling daily. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iBucket | Flashback Journaling |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (82 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 65.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 82 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PuurPuur | Vance Khacey Smith |
Customer experience
iBucket
Flashback Journaling
In-app purchases
iBucket
- Tokens$0.99
- Goals$8.99
- Places$8.99
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- Premium$12.99
Flashback Journaling
No in-app purchases
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