Comparison

SelfTalking vs Plural Star

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

Head to head
About

SelfTalking

Organize your thoughts and scripts in a chat-like interface. This app helps you sort ideas, plan scenarios with distinct character dialogues using emojis and colors, and even rehearse conversations. Customize your experience with themes, custom icons, and wallpapers.

Highlights
  • Chat-style note-taking
  • Scenario and dialogue organization
  • Customizable character dialogues
  • Conversation rehearsal
  • Passcode lock
  • Custom icons and wallpapers
  • Export as text
Features
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This is a Memo App that lets you enjoy Self-Talking in chat style. You can use it to organize ideas, scenario/dialog notes and chat rehearsal. Self-Talking in a fun and visual way When your head is full of worries or ideas, you can sort them all nicely by doing a Self-Talking. For scenario/dialog notes Each character's dialogs become obvious thanks to emoji and balloon colors. In addition, you can create 'Custom Icons' from your pictures! For chatting with someone special Rehearse how the conversation develops before chatting with someone special. Other Features - Passcode Lock - Custom wallpaper - Custom Icons - Themes - Export as Text

About

Plural Star

A private, offline-first system management app designed for individuals experiencing plurality, including DID and OSDD. It offers detailed tracking of fronting states, member profiles, custom fields, and system mapping. The app prioritizes user data privacy by keeping all information on the device.

Highlights
  • Three-tier front tracking (Primary, Co-Front, Co-Conscious)
  • Detailed member profiles with rich-text bios and custom fields
  • Observatory Mode for singlet access and journaling
  • Interactive system map for relationship visualization
  • Comprehensive history and insights on fronting and member activity
  • Local-only IRC-style system chat
Features
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Plural Star is a private, offline-first system management app built for plural individuals, those with DID, OSDD, or any form of plurality. Made in part with AI assistance, which is one of the main reasons we went Open Source. So that anyone wishing to, or with concerns, can examine the code. Simply Plural and Octocon have been discontinued. Plural Star is the replacement you own entirely; your data stays on your device. Features Three-Tier Front Tracking Track Primary Front, Co-Front, and Co-Conscious. Each tier has its own member, mood, note, and energy (1–10); Primary also tracks location. Members are exclusive to one tier. A persistent notification keeps all tiers visible. Optional front-check reminders. Friends & Syncing Optional end-to-end encrypted networking, off by default; the relay sees only encrypted blobs. Add friends with short mutual codes and see their front live. Privacy Buckets set what each friend sees: members, groups, journal, history, profile, whiteboard, or planner. Link your own devices: pick which sends first, then everything syncs both ways, pictures included. Pin up to five friends into the notification, or the iOS Live Island. Member Profiles Profile pictures, 900×300 banners, names, pronouns, roles, colors, rich-text bios with full Markdown. Freeform tags and colored groups with multi-group membership. Facets and Custom Fronts for parts that aren't members. Filter, search, sort six ways. Tier badges when fronting. Archive dormant members: history preserved, restorable. Your Words Rename Headmate, Front, Facet, and more. The whole app follows your system's language. Observatory Mode Turns Plural Star into a manual status tracker and journaling app with a rebuilt UI for the Singlets in our lives, granting almost every feature. For non-plural friends, family, and caretakers. Day Planner Calendar of appointments and repeating reminders, each with its own mark color and alerts. Whiteboard Freeform canvas: pen, shapes, fill, and eraser. Custom Fields Define your own per-member fields, eight types from text to Markdown. Reorderable, renameable, exportable. Mailbox System-wide mail between headmates: per-member inboxes with unread badges, replies, and pinning. Syncs across devices. System Polls Polls the whole system can vote on. Vote tallies, voter tracking, optional closure. One vote per member; changeable until closed. System Map Chart relationships between headmates on an interactive force-directed graph. Members join as you create relationships. History & Insights Front History: timestamped log of every switch by day, with co-front and co-conscious tiers inline. Member History: every session, mood/location/note change, energy, and journal entry per headmate, with totals. Add retroactive entries with three-tier support and overlap detection. System Statistics Total fronting time, session and message counts, with time-range filtering. Leaderboards for fronters, co-fronters, co-conscious, chatters, moods, and locations. Peak Hours shows when your system is most active. System Chat Local-only IRC-style chat, up to 100 channels. Speaker is independent of who's fronting; chat doesn't affect front or history. Text, images, replies, emoji reactions. Archive channels to free storage. System Journal The same rich-text entries with full Markdown as member profiles. Tag by author and topic hashtag. Optionally lock individual entries or the whole journal with passwords. Import & Export Import full system data from Simply Plural, PluralKit, Octocon, Ampersand, Ourcana, HiveMind, Tupperbox, Parallax, PluralLog & PluralSpace. Export as .zip, HTML, or email summary with per-category toggles. Import .txt, .md, or .json directly as journal entries. Multilingual 24 languages: English, Español, Français, Deutsch, Português, Suomi, Norsk, Italiano, Türkçe, Bahasa Melayu, Tiếng Việt, ไทย, 简体中文, 繁體中文, 日本語, Русский, Українська, Nederlands, Íslenska, हिन्दी, Afrikaans, 한국어, Svenska, Polski. Auto-detects on first launch.

Screenshots

SelfTalking1 screens
Plural Star4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Plural Star at 4.5 against SelfTalking's 4.0. Plural Star also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume 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. SelfTalking sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Plural Star asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Plural Star holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 50 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of SelfTalking's written reviews are positive against 88% of Plural Star's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SelfTalking ships an update every 5 weeks, Plural Star every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
SelfTalking versus Plural Star: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSelfTalkingPlural Star
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (20 ratings)4.5 (50 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.6% of reviews87.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2050 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB31 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperShigenori KumagaiZachary Boyle

Customer experience

SelfTalking

All ratings20 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral15.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive60.6%
Neutral24.2%
Negative15.2%

Plural Star

All ratings50 ratings
Positive88.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative8.0%
Written reviews32 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral6.3%
Negative6.3%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

SelfTalking

One-time1
  • Upgrade$3.99
None

Plural Star

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SelfTalking free?
SelfTalking is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Plural Star free?
Plural Star is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SelfTalking or Plural Star?
Plural Star is rated higher. SelfTalking averages 4.0 out of 5 from 20 ratings, while Plural Star averages 4.5 from 50 ratings.
Do SelfTalking or Plural Star have ads?
SelfTalking shows ads; Plural Star does not.
Which is updated more often, SelfTalking or Plural Star?
SelfTalking ships an update every 5 weeks, and Plural Star every 5 days. Most recently, SelfTalking was updated on October 29, 2026 and Plural Star on October 31, 2026.

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