Diary, Journal, Notes vs Timeline
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Diary, Journal, Notes
Record daily activities, thoughts, and memories securely. Organize entries with tags, locations, and folders. Sync across devices and export your data easily. Features include mood tracking, photo attachments, and a calendar view.
- Secure PIN and fingerprint lock
- Customizable themes and 30+ languages
- Powerful search and filtering
- Mood tracker and Atlas view
- Backup, restore, import, and export options
- Cloud sync via Dropbox
- Attach unlimited photos
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Diaro is a multi-platform diary, journal, notes app designed to record your activities, daily events, appointments, experiences, thoughts, feelings, secrets and ideas throughout the day and sync data across all your devices & PC. It helps you organize your daily diary/journal entries or notes from the past in the easiest way. Preserve your special memories, store personal moments & memories or keep track of your life with help of Diaro. DIARO FEATURES SECURE & PRIVATE Lock & Protect your private diary entries with a PIN, Security code or fingerprint. Protect Privacy with data encryption & passcode THEMES & LANGUAGES Personalize UI with different UI colors & Themes. Multilingual UI(30+ languages), adapted for phones, tablets and web. Simple and intuitive interface SEARCH & ORGANIZE Powerful search and filter functions. Organize diary / journal entries using folders, tags, locations and find records by keyword, filter them by date, tags, folder or even location MOOD TRACKER ,ATLAS & THROWBACK Daily Diary Mood tracker, On this day diary memories / daily diary throwback, Weather info & beautiful Atlas view BACKUP & RESTORE Backup diary entries for easy recovery & restore easily IMPORT & EXPORT Export to PDF, Docx or Txt and print or share them via Diaro App or Diaro Online (PDF, DOCX, CSV & TXT). Import data from other popular diary apps : Journey, Evernote, Catch Notes, Flava, Google Keep, Momento, Day One apps SYNC Using Dropbox you can seamlessly sync between the Diaro app on all of your devices and Diaro Online using any web browser STATISTICS Detailed interesting statistics about your diary entries and mood OTHER FEATURES • Automatic Geotagging for new diary entries • Calendar view for easy navigation & overview of daily entries • Attach & store unlimited amount of photos in your diary • Cloud storage & Sync (via Dropbox) • Share diary entries and photos via Email, SMS, Twitter, Whatsapp etc. • Quickly create a new diary entry from the notification bar icon or widget • Multi-window mode (if supported by device) • Swipe between your diary entries • Speak to write, voice to text DIARO ONLINE You can access your Diaro diary entries online on any device using your web browser ABOUT DIARO Trusted by millions of users worldwide, Diaro is the smart, intuitive and most secure way to keep a personal diary. Download now for free and keep your secret diary, diet diary logs, travel diary with stories, sleep journal, photos and maps , wish lists, daily expenses, autobiography or daily life diary notes, securely. You can organize your receipts, invoices, or use it as a homework tracker or assignment planner, organizer, notebook or as simple note-taking app. Keep A Beautiful, Orderly, and Private Journal Of Your Thoughts and Days With Diaro! Find the FAQs in the Help & Support or contact us at support@diaroapp.com DIARO PRO FEATURES Diaro PRO membership is an auto-renewing subscription. Pricing: US$5.99/year. Price may vary by location and are clearly displayed in the app. • Sync your diary across all your devices and Diaro Online using your Dropbox account • Export to PDF & other formats • Ad-Free Premium Experience • Priority Customer Support + Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. + Your subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. + Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. + You can manage your subscription and switch off auto-renewal by accessing your Account Settings after purchase. + Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited if you purchase a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Privacy policy: https://www.diaroapp.com/privacy-policy Terms of use: https://www.diaroapp.com/terms
Timeline
Record life's important moments by creating multiple visual timelines for various events and plans. Track past achievements, future goals, and daily milestones. Share your timelines with friends and set notifications for future events.
- Create unlimited timelines
- Track past and future events
- Set event notifications
- Share timelines with friends
- iCloud sync across devices
- Passcode/Biometric privacy
- Export and print timelines
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Timeline helps you capture and record the important moments in your life. You can create as many timelines as you want. Using different timeline to track different events. Create a timeline for your dreams and achievement; a timeline for your travel plan; a timeline for your daily milestone; a timeline with your friends... Not only the past time, you can create future event and enable notifications. Timeline is now becoming your todo list, your wish list. Don't forget to share your timeline with friends. [Features: ] iCloud:All your contents are saved in your private iCloud. Data is synced automatically on all your iOS devices. Privacy:You can setup passcode, Face ID and Touch ID within the App. Share:Share timeline with your friends. Export and Print:Save timeline image to Photo or email it to your friends. Security:The communication between your iPhone and iCloud is encrypted with SSL. [Subscriptions & Price] You can use this App for free. We also provide subscription Edition to offer advanced features, such as unlimited scan, multiple projects, team collaboration. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase.Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period.Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal.Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase.Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. If you turn off the auto-renew, you can still keep all your data on your device. [Contact us] Numob Inc Email: support@numob.com [Terms & Policy] Terms of use: https://www.numob.com/#/terms-of-use/ Privacy policy: https://www.numob.com/#/privacy-policy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Timeline at none against Diary, Journal, Notes's shown. Diary, Journal, Notes's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and rating (4.7 vs 4.5). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Diary, Journal, Notes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per year and Timeline sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Diary, Journal, Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4.5K and 1.1K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Diary, Journal, Notes's written reviews are positive against 65% of Timeline's.
Diary, Journal, Notes ships an update weekly, Timeline monthly. Both last shipped on September 23, 2026.
| Parameter | Diary, Journal, Notes | Timeline |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (4.5K ratings) — better | 4.5 (1.1K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 70.1% of reviews — better | 65.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4.5K — better | 1.1K |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Abhishek Kumar | Numob |
Customer experience
Diary, Journal, Notes
Timeline
User reviews
Diary, Journal, Notes
From 4.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Consistent for years
- 🚀 Excellent app
- 🚀 Great app and great support
- 👍 Love this app
- 👍 Fantastic replacement to a physical diary
Room to improve
- 🐛 Suddenly become useless
- 🐛 Terrible app
- 🐛 Doesn't work anymore
- 🐛 Horrible, don't work
- 🐛 PIN protection doesn't work
Timeline
From 1.1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Simple and intuitive design
- 👍 Useful for organizing events and timelines
- 🔒 Password protection for privacy
- 👍 Customizable color coding for events
- 👍 Easy to add photos and videos
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes and stability issues
- 🐛 Exporting and sharing issues
- 🐛 Syncing and backup problems
- 🐛 Disappearing timeline data
- 🔍 Limited search and filtering options
Bugs and requests
Diary, Journal, Notes
Reported bugs
6 issues- Reminders broken on iOS
- Crashes after activating Touch ID
- Stuck on blue logo page after Touch ID stopped working
- Sync issues between devices
- Entries disappearing or not saving properly
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- Inability to export entries as PDF
Requested features
5 requests- 💡 Add bold, underline, italics formatting
- 💡 Add ability to add captions to images
- 💡 Add ability to customize moods
- 💡 Add Face ID, iCloud sync, and additional fonts
- 💡 Add ability to format text, add bullet points, link to calendars
Timeline
Reported bugs
5 issues- Timeline entries not saving correctly
- Inability to edit or delete timeline events
- Crashes when trying to access photos or export
- Syncing issues leading to data loss
- Inconsistent behavior across iOS versions
Requested features
6 requests- Add support for BC/AD dates
- Implement a horizontal timeline view
- Allow adding event descriptions and notes
- Provide more color and customization options
- Improve export and sharing functionality
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- Implement better backup and sync capabilities
In-app purchases
Diary, Journal, Notes
- Diaro Pro 1 Year$8.991 Year
- Diaro PRO$39.99
Timeline
- Pro (1 Month)$4.991 Month
- Pro (1 Year)$39.991 Year
- Timeline Pro$3.99









