Comparison

Colored Note vs My Diary

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

Head to head
About

Colored Note

Capture your thoughts, ideas, and experiences with a versatile diary and notepad. Add photos, color-code entries, and organize with tags for easy retrieval. Share your notes with friends or keep them private with passcode protection.

Highlights
  • Add photos to notes
  • Color-code notes for organization
  • Assign tags for searching
  • Sort notes as desired
  • Share notes with friends
  • Secure notes with a passcode
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Color Note is a diary and notepad just for everyone! Record interesting thoughts, inspires ideas, inspirational quotes, recent experience, write notes about life, share your thoughts and mood with your friends. Or just write memos. PHOTOS You can add some images to your note. COLORS You can mark your note with a color. The color can be used for searching. TAGS You can assign one or more tags to a note. The tags can be used for searching. ORGANIZE Sort your note as you want. SHARE YOUR NOTE WITH YOUR FRIENDS Send it to your friends or publish in social networks! SAFETY You can restrict access to your notes with a passcode. AND You can delete a note by swiping it to the left.

About

My Diary

This app offers a secure and personalized digital journal for recording daily thoughts, memories, and emotions. Enhance entries with photos, themes, and mood tracking. It's designed to support mental well-being by providing a private space for self-reflection and emotional processing.

Highlights
  • Password-protected diary
  • Add photos and drawings
  • Customizable themes and backgrounds
  • Mood tracking and analysis
  • Rich text editing
  • Journaling guides
Features
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My Diary provides a friendly, professional, and personalized diary-journal experience. With its beautiful and thoughtful design, it lets you enjoy every memorable moment. WHAT IS MY DIARY? My Diary is a free online diary with lock. You can use it to record daily journals, secret thoughts, journeys, mood trackers, and any private moments. It is a diary that supports adding photos, themes, diary background, mood, font effects, etc., making your private diary more vivid and safe. Committed to providing the most intimate diary-journal writing experience for users who want to keep a diary and care about their mental health. With the My Diary app, you can: Write diaries or record journeys anytime, anywhere Write photo diaries. Add pictures or drawings to make your personal diary more vivid Customize your journals with themes, moods, font effects, stickers Use it as a mood-tracker and get mood analysis Set a password to lock your diary and protect your memories JOURNALING FOR MENTAL HEALTH Journaling is a simple way to write down your thoughts and feelings to manage your mental health and control your emotions. Journaling has many benefits, including: Clear fear and concerns Manage anxiety and reduce stress Expressing your emotions. Journaling is really a good mental health tracker and mood tracker Learn from your experiences and make you happier Gain control of your emotions etc REASONS FOR CHOOSING THIS JOURNALING APP 1. Easy-to-use & Beautiful interface * It provides beautiful diary themes. Add enjoyment to every moment of daily journaling * Night dark theme. Makes it more comfortable when you keep a journal at night * Well-designed pages, let you start a journal or take notes easily * Providing journaling guides, Follow it step by step to complete the first diary. * Powerful rich text effect. It gives you the best experience whether you take journeys notes or write diaries. 2. Safe and Private * My Diary, as a private diary app, protects your memories by setting an app passcode. You can turn on the diary lock to make your diary safe. * We recommend that you set a security question to avoid forgetting your password and being unable to visit your journal. 3. Photo Diary, More Than Words * My Diary is a Photo diary. Add photos to make your private journals more memorable. * Check all journal photos in the Media View Mode * Add drawings to reflect your ideas and thoughts 4. Decorate Your Diary * Enjoy the Diary illustrated themes. Whether it’s a travel journal, health journal, girl diary, or mood tracker diary, there will always be a theme you like (Some of them are Premium) * Choose backgrounds when writing journal entries, see how lovely private journals can be (Some of them are Premium) * Writing about your feelings helps the brain overcome upsets, clear fears and leaves you happier 5. Mood Tracker * Some moods cannot be expressed in words, so you can choose mood diary symbols. Add your mood when you start writing diaries or take day notes * Track mood in the mood calendar * Check your mood trends in statistics * Be your free metal health tracker 6. Categorize Your Daily Notes with Tags * Adding tags for your daily journals * The suggested categories include Travel notes, work notes, love diary, baby diary, daily motivations, pregnancy diary, etc * Easily check your entries by tags In summary, It is really a good photo journaling app free for you, a lovely secret diary with lock and a great mood tracker & mental health tracker, which deserves to be installed. My Diary is a free journaling app, most of the features are FREE. Additional features, including some backgrounds, themes, etc. are available with a My Diary Premium Membership. If you have any questions or want feedback. Contact us: Email: mydiary@betterapptech.com Privacy Policy: http://www.betterapptech.com/about-us/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: http://www.betterapptech.com/about-us/terms-of-service/ ------------------------------

Screenshots

Colored Note3 screens
My Diary4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Colored Note at none against My Diary's 9. Colored Note also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks). My Diary's advantage is review sentiment (71% vs 54%) and ratings volume (28K vs 5K). On price, rating 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. My Diary sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Colored Note asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Colored Note against 4.7 for My Diary. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: My Diary has 28K ratings behind it against 5K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 54% of Colored Note's written reviews are positive against 71% of My Diary's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Colored Note ships an update every 5 days, My Diary every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Colored Note versus My Diary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterColored NoteMy Diary
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (5K ratings)4.7 (28K ratings)
Positive reviews53.8% of reviews71.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5K28K — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB119 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVeniamin GribkovBetterApp Tech Co., Limited

Customer experience

Colored Note

All ratings5,006 ratings
Positive92.7%
Neutral3.0%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews435 reviews
Positive53.8%
Neutral10.3%
Negative35.9%

My Diary

All ratings28,183 ratings
Positive93.7%
Neutral3.6%
Negative2.8%
Written reviews1,948 reviews
Positive71.1%
Neutral12.0%
Negative16.8%

User reviews

Colored Note

From 5K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🎨 Variety of colors and fonts
  • 📝 Helpful for note-taking
  • 🌟 Great app overall

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional crashes or data loss
  • 🔍 Difficulty finding or organizing notes
  • 🔒 Lack of security features (e.g., password protection)
  • 🔧 Issues with recent updates

My Diary

From 28K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🔒 Secure with password, fingerprint, and security question options
  • 📝 Easy to write and express thoughts
  • 🎨 Customizable with themes, stickers, and photos
  • 🗓️ Helpful for tracking moods and daily activities

Room to improve

  • 💰 Many features locked behind premium paywall
  • 🔍 Limited free theme and sticker options
  • 🐛 Issues with formatting, text editing, and photo placement
  • 🔄 Requires restoring purchases frequently

Bugs and requests

Colored Note

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Notes disappearing or not saving properly
  • Cursor jumping or text selection issues
  • Glitches with recent app updates

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add checklist/to-do list functionality
  • Improve note sorting and search options
  • Implement password protection or biometric security
  • Provide more font and customization options

My Diary

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashing or freezing
  • Entries not saving properly
  • Inconsistent behavior with password/lock features

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to sync across devices
  • More free customization options
  • Landscape mode support for tablets
  • Better organization tools like folders or tags

In-app purchases

None

Colored Note

No in-app purchases

9 purchases

My Diary

Subscriptions6
  • Diary VIP ( Month )$2.991 Month
  • Diary VIP ( Month )1 Month trial$2.991 Month
  • Diary Subscription Yearly$16.991 Year
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  • My Diary Premium Yearly3 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • My Diary Premium Yearly$19.991 Year
  • My Diary Yearly VIP$23.991 Year
One-time3
  • Diary Permanent VIP$29.99
  • Permanent VIP$39.99
  • My Diary Permanent VIP$49.99

Questions

Is Colored Note free?
Colored Note is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is My Diary free?
My Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Colored Note or My Diary?
Colored Note and My Diary are both rated 4.7 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5K and 28K ratings respectively.
Do Colored Note or My Diary have ads?
My Diary shows ads; Colored Note does not.
Which is updated more often, Colored Note or My Diary?
Colored Note ships an update every 5 days, and My Diary every 2 weeks. Most recently, Colored Note was updated on September 25, 2026 and My Diary on September 26, 2026.

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