KeyDates Your Memory App vs Secret Diary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
KeyDates Your Memory App
Easily capture and organize your life's moments with a visual timeline. Import events from calendars and social media, set reminders for future occurrences, and share memories privately with others. All your data is securely stored and exportable.
- Visual timeline of memories
- Calendar view with event density
- Import from calendar and social media
- Private memory sharing with tags
- Customizable reminders for future events
- Data export to CSV
- Advanced search and filtering
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Capture your daily memories, events and more by adding KeyDates or importing from your calendar or social media. Unlock all features for a once-off lifetime fee - no ads or subscriptions! A Beautiful Timeline: Your timeline displays each of your memories in reverse-chronological order, and can be filtered easily according to our 16 distinct, colour-coded categories, people, date range, specific year, or On This Day. There is also a simple Search function, as well as an extensive Advanced Search feature so that you can quickly isolate memories as sorted by category, dates or keywords. On This Day: By using our easy-to-access button, view each memory from the current date - across all years. A Modern Calendar: The calendar functionality, new to 2.0, provides a new view for your memories, with graduating colours for dates with more events - so you can see your most eventful days at a glance. Tags: The secure, internal Tagging functionality allows you to privately send a static memory to another user's application with a one-time notification - no chat, comments or private messaging. Accepting the Tag within the app will put a copy of the memory onto the recipient's KeyDates Timeline, and enable the ability to view all events that have been shared with a the other user in a beautiful collated view. Reminders and Future Events: Memories set for a day in the future, as well as those with certain Categories like Subscriptions come with the ability to set a Reminder - which will push a notification to you before the event occurs, allowing you complete control of all your Scheduling and Reminders, and pre-setting a KeyDate for events you know will occur in the future. Export Event Data All of your data is now cloud-based, however as an added security measure, we offer the capability of exporting your data as a CSV, emailed securely to you. Your account and stored data is able to be deleted at any point in time. Privacy Policy: https://www.keydates.com.au/privacy Terms of Service: https://www.keydates.com.au/eula Website: https://www.keydates.com.au/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/keydatesapp Support / Contact Us: We can be contacted at feedback@keydates.com.au - for all support, feedback, comments and messages.
Secret Diary
Securely record your daily thoughts, memories, and secrets. This app allows you to add photos and track your moods, all protected by a passcode. Personalize your journal with themes and easily search past entries.
- Save memories, notes, and ideas
- Add photos and mood emojis
- Unlimited photo storage
- Personalize UI with themes
- Passcode protection and data encryption
- Powerful search and filter functions
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Your cute diary, with a lock. Memories turns every day into a scrapbook page. Write in a handwriting you love, add your photos, washi tape and stickers, and keep it all behind a lock only you can open. A LITTLE FRIEND FOR EVERY MOOD Choose your friend: Mochi the kitten, Bun the bunny, Peanut the hamster and more. They ask how your day went, cheer you on and hop for joy when you check in. EVERY DAY, A SCRAPBOOK PAGE • Write in 36 handwritings and fonts • Add photos and videos in cute frames • Decorate with 170+ stickers, washi tape and pretty papers • Snap a photo and turn it into a die-cut sticker • Draw and doodle with your finger or Apple Pencil YOUR YEAR IN COLOR • Log your mood in one tap: Bright, Good, Steady, Low or Heavy • See your whole year as a mood calendar • Find out what lifts you up HABITS AND PLANS, RIGHT NEXT TO YOUR DIARY • Build habits with gentle streaks • See today's tasks as a little timeline • Count down to the days you can't wait for PRIVATE AND SAFE • Lock your diary with Face ID, Touch ID or a passcode • Your entries stay yours. No ads, nothing shared MAKE IT YOURS • Pretty themes, friends and handwritings • Home screen widgets • Turn your year into a book to keep MEMORIES+ Writing, moods, the lock, reminders and export are always free. Memories+ adds every friend, theme, handwriting, sticker pack, frame and paper, unlimited photos and videos, unlimited habits, tasks and countdowns, your diary on iPhone and iPad with iCloud sync, and your full mood history. Memories+ is a subscription that renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://nwlamll.github.io/apps/termsofuse.html Privacy Policy: https://nwlamll.github.io/apps/pp.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: KeyDates Your Memory App at free with in-app purchases against Secret Diary's subscription. KeyDates Your Memory App also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). Secret Diary's advantage is ratings volume (112 vs 7). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. KeyDates Your Memory App sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $29.99 per year and Secret Diary sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Secret Diary holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Secret Diary has 112 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 93% of KeyDates Your Memory App's written reviews are positive against 91% of Secret Diary's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
KeyDates Your Memory App ships an update every 3 weeks, Secret Diary every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | KeyDates Your Memory App | Secret Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (7 ratings) | 4.8 (112 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.9% of reviews — better | 90.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 112 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 119 MB | 263 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Milestones Technology Group Pty Ltd | Nawal Amallou |
Customer experience
KeyDates Your Memory App
Secret Diary
Bugs and requests
KeyDates Your Memory App
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Secret Diary
Reported bugs
5 issues- Forgot password not working
- Password glitch
- App shuts out sometimes
- App cuts out and needs restarting
- Password input issues (0-9 vs 1-4)
Requested features
4 requests- Make fingerprint ID free
- Make advanced features free
- More color options
- More features
In-app purchases
KeyDates Your Memory App
- KeyDate Pro $29.99/year1 Month trial$29.991 Year
- Additional KeyDate$0.99
- Lifetime access to 3 photos$1.99
- Buy Additional Cagetory$1.99
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- Lifetime Import Calendar Event$3.99
- Lifetime import Facebook posts$3.99
- Custom Subcategories Creation$9.99
- Life Time KeyDates Pro$24.99
Secret Diary
- Monthly Plan$2.991 Month
- Annual Plan$17.991 Year
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