Diary, Journal, Notes vs Journal
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
Journal
Capture your daily thoughts, emotions, and experiences in a secure and private space. Track your mood, view statistics, and receive customizable reminders to maintain your journaling routine. Sync your entries across all your devices seamlessly.
- Daily thought capture
- Mood tracking and statistics
- Customizable push notification reminders
- iCloud device synchronization
- User interface customization
- Privacy and security measures
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Welcome to Journal, where you can capture and cherish every moment of your daily life. With our app, you can create a safe and secure space to record your thoughts, emotions, and experiences. Journal offers mood tracking, allowing you to record how you're feeling each day. It also allows you to view detailed statistics about your mood breakdown and the number of entries you've made, filtered by week, month, or all time. This information can help you identify patterns in your emotions and behaviors, and make positive changes in your life. Our push notification reminders are a great way to help you stay on track with your journaling routine. With customizable reminders, you can set notifications to remind you to write in your journal at specific times throughout the day. With our iCloud device sync feature, you can seamlessly synchronize your journal entries across all your devices. This means you can start writing on your phone, continue on your tablet, and finish on your computer, without missing a beat. With our app, you can access your journal from anywhere, at any time. We believe that your journal should reflect your personality, which is why we offer a range of customization options to personalize the user interface. And we take your privacy and security seriously, using the latest security measures to ensure that only you have access to your journal entries. Journal is more than just an app; it's a companion that will help you keep your memories alive for years to come. Download Journal today and start your journaling journey! — We love to keep Journal up-to-date with fresh new features! If you have any ideas on how we can make it even better, we'd be delighted to hear from you! Simply leave us a review and share your thoughts. We're all ears!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Diary, Journal, Notes at 4.7 against Journal's 4.0. Diary, Journal, Notes also leads on ratings volume (4.5K vs 13) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). Journal's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 70%). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Diary, Journal, Notes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per year and Journal sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Diary, Journal, Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Diary, Journal, Notes has 4.5K ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 70% of Diary, Journal, Notes's written reviews are positive against 100% of Journal's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Diary, Journal, Notes ships an update weekly, Journal every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Diary, Journal, Notes | Journal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (4.5K ratings) — better | 4.0 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 70.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4.5K — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Abhishek Kumar | Ibrahim Chiha |
Customer experience
Diary, Journal, Notes
Journal
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
Journal
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Diary, Journal, Notes
- Diaro Pro 1 Year$8.991 Year
- Diaro PRO$39.99
Journal
- Support$1.99
Questions
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