TimePeace is a private alternative to Penzu that keeps your whole life — days, people, meals, travel and gentle habits — in one private diary that writes itself from the small things you log. It is a free app with no account to start, costs nothing today, and reads or sells none of what you write.
Penzu has been a quiet, password-locked online diary for years, and for plain private writing it does the job. If you want the rest of your life on the same page — your people, meals, trips and habits, from any device — here is how the two line up.
Honest and fair: every app here does something well, and the table is a starting point, not a scoreboard — no star ratings. Prices and platforms were checked in June 2026 and can change.
Penzu has done one thing well for years: a simple, password-locked online diary you can open in a browser and write in privately, with a tidy free tier. If a plain, locked writing diary is all you are after, it is a dependable choice. TimePeace is built for something broader — the whole of your life, the people, meals, trips and gentle habits, kept in one private diary that writes itself and reads back in your own words.
Yes, if you want more than a place to type. Penzu is a private online diary; TimePeace keeps your whole life — people, meals, travel, habits and your written days — threaded into one private diary that writes itself. It is a free app with no account to start, costs nothing today, and reads or sells none of what you write.
Penzu waits for you to write. TimePeace also keeps the day around the writing — a walk, a dinner, a friend, a trip — and threads those small logs into a written day on its own, so the diary fills in even on the days you do not sit down to type.
No account to begin: TimePeace opens on your own device and you can write straight away. You make an account only when you want your diary synced and sealed across devices. It is free today, with no ads and nothing sold.
Yes. Every entry is written on your own device first and kept in your own private account, shown to no one — and nothing is sold.
Penzu keeps a private page to write on. TimePeace keeps the day around it too — the walk, the dinner, the friend, the trip — threaded into one private diary that writes itself, free, from the App Store.