Yardian vs Kubo Journal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Yardian
This smart sprinkler controller features a built-in camera and a water restrictions database to help conserve water, save money, and enhance home security. It automatically adjusts watering schedules based on local weather and regulations, eliminating the need for manual adjustments.
- Built-in camera for monitoring
- Smart Watering Program with local weather data
- Exclusive Water Restrictions Database
- Automatic schedule adjustments
- Over-The-Air (OTA) programming
- IFTTT integration
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The Yardian The Yardian, Your Smartest Sprinkler Controller! Your Easiest-To-Use Smart Device for Home Water Conservation and Family Protection. Save up to 50% of Outdoor Water Usage ------ Yardian is the world’s first smart sprinkler controller with a built-in camera. It’s also the one and only smart sprinkler controller that provides a Water Restrictions Database. Yardian saves water and money, avoid fines of several hundred dollars, and monitor activities in your garage or yard! No More Constant Manual Adjustment ------ The Yardian’s “Smart Watering Program” carefully determines the optimal manner to water your lawn or garden with current, local weather data, your lawn or garden profiles and local water restrictions.The “Program” covers all watering zones by default. The Yardian can be easily set up and operating automatically without any manual programming. Exclusive Water Restrictions Database ------ More and more U.S. urban areas are adding government restrictions to residential water use. In some geographical areas, it is becoming incredibly difficult to maintain a green garden while avoiding penalty fees. With our help, there is no longer any real need to research your local government’s water regulations; the Yardian maintains and updates a water restrictions database that automatically alters your watering schedule to adhere to any required restrictions. The Yardian Provides Peace of Mind ------ Home safety statistics state that “4 burglaries happen every 60 seconds somewhere in the United States…and, it takes only 6 seconds to break through a garage door”. Installing the Yardian in your garage is the perfect security device with its built-in digital camera. It ensures permanent digital eyes, 24/7! Aeon Matrix Ensures Future Proofing of the Yardian ------ Aeon Matrix is able to integrate free Over-The-Air (OTA) programming with all Yardian devices. It conveniently receives new software, configuration settings and encryption updates. The Yardian also works with IFTTT, a web-based service to allow device owners the freedom and flexibility to create customized shortcut applications and actions. These "future-proof" capabilities ensure that this controller is a true investment in evolving smart home management.
Kubo Journal
This app offers a unique journaling experience focused on gratitude, reflection, and releasing worries. It helps users change their lives by directing attention, letting go of what they can't control, and rehearsing the person they are becoming. Features include guided reflections and a 'release box' for sealed notes.
- Gratitude entries
- Guided reflection tools
- Sealed release box for worries
- Future self writing
- Scene revision
- PDF export of journal
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Most journals ask you to record your life. Kubo helps you rewrite it. Kubo is a new kind of journaling practice built on an old understanding — one carried by the great teachers of imagination and manifestation, twelve-step rooms, and now echoed by the science of neuroplasticity: you don't change your life by thinking harder about what's wrong. You change it by choosing where your attention lives, releasing what you can't control, and rehearsing the person you're becoming. What you repeat, you rewire. Kubo gives that repetition a home. THE RITUAL Write what's weighing on you. Seal it into your box. Let it go. Sealed notes can't be reread or edited — that's the point. Recovery rooms have passed this practice down for generations: put it in the box, turn it over, stop carrying what was never yours to carry. A month later, Kubo quietly asks how heavy it feels now — without opening a word. Most things get lighter. Not magic; just what happens when a mind finally stops rehearsing a worry. A COMPLETE DAILY PRACTICE • GRATITUDE — appreciation is the fastest way to change the way you feel, and the way you feel shapes what you notice, choose, and attract into your days. Quick entries for what's good now and what you're looking forward to. • REFLECT — free writing plus guided tools like Reframe, built on a simple truth: your thoughts are not facts. Catch the story you're telling yourself and trade it for a truer, kinder one. • RELEASE — the box. Seal a worry away and choose when it opens: thirty days, a year, or a date that matters to you. Kubo holds it, unreadable, until then — and when the seal breaks, see with your own eyes how far you've come. TOOLS FOR BECOMING (Premium) • FUTURE SELF — write from the life you're creating, as the person already living it. • REVISION — revisit a scene and rewrite it the way it should have gone. Imagination teachers have sworn by this practice for a century; your brain rehearses what you vividly imagine. • ENVISION — dwell in the end result until it feels like home. • Plus expanded prompt packs, up to 10 photos per entry, Insights — including proof of how much lighter your released worries actually got — and a beautiful PDF book of your year. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No servers. No analytics. Your journal lives on your device and in your own iCloud, and sealed notes are encrypted so no one — including us — can read them. Optional Face ID lock. FREE FOREVER Unlimited gratitude, reflections, sealing and release with timed opens, streaks, and a photo per entry. Some people call theirs a worry box. Some call it a God box, a serenity box, a manifestation practice, or simply letting go. Whatever you call it, this much is true: the life you want starts with what you put down — and what you pick up instead. Kubo is a journaling tool, not medical or mental-health care. Privacy Policy: https://deanhuff.com/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Kubo Journal at 100% against Yardian's 43%. Kubo Journal also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.6). Yardian's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (33 vs 1). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Kubo Journal sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Yardian asks for nothing beyond the download.
Kubo Journal holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Yardian has 33 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Yardian's written reviews are positive against 100% of Kubo Journal's.
| Parameter | Yardian | Kubo Journal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (33 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 43.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 33 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 114 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aeon Matrix | Dean Huff |
Customer experience
Yardian
Kubo Journal
In-app purchases
Yardian
No in-app purchases
Kubo Journal
- Kubo Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
- Kubo Premium Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Kubo Premium Lifetime$39.99









