Penzu vs tinythoughts

Penzu is an online diary and personal journal for private writing, available in browsers and through iOS and Android apps. Its Basic plan includes unlimited entries, and entries save as the user types on a computer or on the go. Writers can set daily, weekly, or custom reminders. The product is suited to reflective writing, food diaries, pregnancy journals, dream journals, and free-form entries. Listed capabilities include media attachments, offline access, search and filters, and a privacy lock. Penzu says account entries are password protected and journals can be secured with encryption. Encryption Lock is a paid-plan feature; if its password is lost, the journal cannot be recovered. Pro and Pro+ members can create entries by email using an individual Penzu Post address for each journal. Those plans also include PDF export on the full website. The plan range includes Basic, Pro, Pro+, and Pro+ Lifetime; no prices are listed. Customer support is included on all plans, and Pro+ Lifetime includes 24-hour support.

tinythoughts is a sentence-a-day journal for short daily writing. Users create text entries, choose a reminder time, and receive a different writing prompt for every day of the year. Entries can include photos or GIFs, tags for category filtering, and automatically determined mood labels. Mood views separate positive and negative entries and show trends over time. The free plan permits five image uploads a month; premium adds daily image uploads and an image gallery. Users can download their data as CSV. tinythoughts says entries use end-to-end encryption so only the user can read them. The service is available on the web, Android, and iOS, while push notifications are available in Chrome and Firefox only. The free plan includes daily text entries and notifications. Premium costs $3 a month, is free for the first 14 days, and can be canceled any time. The privacy policy mentions data collection, cookies, Firebase hosting, and protection measures that cannot guarantee security.