Gratitude vs Grid Diary

Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.

Gratitude

Gratitude journal with affirmations and vision boards

Free plan · from $4.99/mo

Grid Diary

Prompt-based diary and planner laid out as a grid of questions

Free plan · from $4.99/mo

Where they differ

Gratitude starts at $4.99 per month, or $29.99 per year (US App Store in-app purchases). Grid Diary starts at $4.99 per month, or $29.99 per year.
Only Grid Diary lists a macOS app.
Grid Diary also covers Markdown, templates and habit tracking.

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	Gratitude	Grid Diary
Pricing	Free plan	Free plan
Starts at	$4.99 per month, or $29.99 per year (US App Store in-app purchases)	$4.99 per month, or $29.99 per year
Free plan	Free to download, and the vendor describes the app as a freemium service. Its site and store listings do not spell out which features need a Pro plan.	Many of the app's features are free to use. Sync between all your devices, the passcode lock and more color themes are member-only.
Free trial	Free trials are offered on Pro plans inside the app; the length is not stated on the pages read.	The vendor's site lists a 3-day free trial on the monthly plan and a 14-day free trial on the annual plan.
macOS
iOS
Android
Made by	Hapjoy Technologies Pvt. Ltd.	Sumi Interactive
Price read from	apps.apple.com	apps.apple.com
Checked	Oct 6, 2026	Oct 5, 2026

Gratitude

Grid Diary

Gratitude

The vendor's site shows no prices and no list of Pro features; plan prices appear in the app and on app store listings.
Data lives on the device by default: deleting the app loses it unless you backed up to Google Drive or exported it.
iCloud sync covers Apple devices only, so moving between iPhone and Android relies on a Google Drive backup.
No web or Windows version is listed; the App Store listing says the iPad app also runs on Macs with Apple silicon.

Grid Diary

Sync between devices, the passcode lock and extra color themes require the paid membership.
The vendor's site quotes $2.99 monthly and $22.99 annual, while the US App Store lists $4.99 and $29.99.
Apps are listed for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Android; no Windows app is offered.
The App Store version requires iOS 26, iPadOS 26 or macOS 26 or later.

Gratitude

Gratitude journal: Daily entries with reminders, hundreds of prompts, photos and a streak counter. The App Store listing also describes recording journal entries in your own voice.
Affirmations: Hundreds of affirmations to read or listen to. You can write your own, add music and record them in your voice.
Vision boards: Boards collect photos, quotes and affirmations for your goals, organized in sections with goal ideas. A board can be turned into a video with music, and you can keep several.
Daily Zen: A daily feed of gratitude and motivation quotes, thank-you cards, affirmations, blog articles and reader stories, with an optional morning notification.
On-device storage, backup and sync: Data is stored only on the device, with no account. You can back up to your own Google Drive on Android and Apple devices, or sync between Apple devices through iCloud.
Export to CSV or PDF: Journal entries can be exported as a CSV or PDF file and saved on the phone or shared through other apps.

Grid Diary

Grid format with prompts: An entry is a customizable grid of prompted boxes on a single page. Prompts come from a built-in library, or you can write your own.
Day, week, month and year entries: Separate daily, weekly, monthly and yearly entries let you plan and review at each time scale within the same journal.
Templates: Customizable templates cover a gratitude journal, a goal tracker, a weekly planner and more, so the app can double as a planner.
Mandala layout: A 9-grid layout inspired by the mandala keeps a fixed center cell, which the vendor compares to journaling as a mind map.
Markdown editor and attachments: The editor supports Markdown with rich preview, inline images and to-dos, and photos can be attached to entries.
Multiple journals, tags and export: Keep dedicated journals for areas such as family, work and travel, organize entries with tags, and export in PDF, Markdown, JPG and other formats.

Gratitude

Free$0
Free download of the journal, affirmations, vision board and Daily Zen app. The vendor does not publish which features are held back for Pro.
Monthly pro plan$4.99
per month
Pro subscription billed monthly. The US App Store also lists a monthly Pro entry with a free trial at the same price.
Quarterly pro plan$9.99
per quarter
The same Pro subscription billed every three months, as labelled in the US App Store in-app purchase list.
Annual pro plan$29.99
per year
The same Pro subscription billed once a year, as labelled in the US App Store in-app purchase list.
Gratitude Pro$6.99 to $39.99
billing period not shown on the US App Store listing
Further in-app purchases named Gratitude Pro are listed at $6.99, $34.99 and $39.99 with no period given.

Grid Diary

Free$0
Many of the app's features without a subscription. Sync between devices, the passcode lock and extra color themes are excluded.
Membership$4.99
per month, or $29.99 per year (US App Store)
One in-app subscription covering all your devices: sync, passcode lock, more color themes and future member-only features.

Gratitude

Annual discount
Annual plan costs half of twelve monthly payments
The US App Store lists the monthly Pro plan at $4.99 and the annual Pro plan at $29.99, so a year on the annual plan costs about half of twelve monthly payments ($59.88).

Grid Diary

Annual discount
About 50% less with the annual membership
The US App Store lists the membership at $4.99 monthly or $29.99 annual, which is about 50% less than twelve monthly payments.