Comparison

iBucket vs Flashback Journaling

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Shared bucket lists
  • Goal tracking
  • Trip planning
  • Map and places tracker
  • Digital passport
  • Journal and memories
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • Multimedia journaling (text, photo, audio)
  • Keyword-based document organization
  • View favorite, past, and random journals
  • Customizable user profile
  • Fast and easy post creation
Features
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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!

Screenshots

iBucket4 screens
Flashback Journaling4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. iBucket sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Flashback Journaling asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iBucket ships an update every 9 days, Flashback Journaling daily. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
iBucket versus Flashback Journaling: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriBucketFlashback Journaling
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (82 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews65.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings82 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB45 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperPuurPuurVance Khacey Smith

Customer experience

iBucket

All ratings82 ratings
Positive89.0%
Neutral3.7%
Negative7.3%
Written reviews29 reviews
Positive65.5%
Neutral6.9%
Negative27.6%

Flashback Journaling

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

iBucket

One-time4
  • Tokens$0.99
  • Goals$8.99
  • Places$8.99
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  • Premium$12.99
None

Flashback Journaling

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iBucket free?
iBucket is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Flashback Journaling free?
Flashback Journaling is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, iBucket or Flashback Journaling?
Flashback Journaling is rated higher. iBucket averages 4.5 out of 5 from 82 ratings, while Flashback Journaling averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do iBucket or Flashback Journaling have ads?
Neither iBucket nor Flashback Journaling shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iBucket or Flashback Journaling?
iBucket ships an update every 9 days, and Flashback Journaling daily. Most recently, iBucket was updated on October 14, 2026 and Flashback Journaling on October 15, 2026.

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