MooDay Diary vs Softly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MooDay Diary
This app allows users to easily record their daily moods and thoughts through a cute and intuitive interface. It offers features like mood icons, photo uploads, and automatic recording of weather and location to enrich journal entries. Users can also search their entries, back them up, and protect their privacy with passcode and Touch ID.
- Six mood icons (Joy, Anger, Sadness, Disgust, Fear, Surprise)
- Journal entries with photos and content
- Automatic weather and location recording
- Calendar and map views for moods and locations
- iCloud backup and restore
- Passcode and Touch ID protection
- Unlimited photo uploads
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Mooday Diary is funny,cute and easy to use ,lets you keep a diary becomes a hobby. +FEATURES - Six Characters Six Moods. Joy,Anger,Sadness,Disgust,Fear and Surprise. - Keep a diary use cute moods icon,express your moods in every day. - List your journal with slide photos & content,content can automatic sliding. - Slide Menu Function - Search journal with content,tags & date. - Automatically record the weather and location. - Waterfall photos style with journal date. - Calendar style let you know your moods quickly. - Map style show your journal location. - iCloud Backup & Restore. - Six Passcode & Touch ID protection. - Change font style & size. +SPECIAL FEATURES - Unlimited photos upload,photos direct connect your photo albums. - Not to worry app will get more hard disk space when you upload photos.
Softly
A private journaling app focused on reflection and emotional well-being. It offers multiple writing styles, a visual emotional calendar, and word pattern analysis. All data is stored locally for complete privacy.
- Multiple writing styles
- Visual emotional calendar
- Word constellation analysis
- Time capsule feature
- On-device data storage
- Face ID protection
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Softly is a private journal for your days. No achievements. No streaks. No productivity metrics. Just you, a word when you want one, and a space that comes back every night to receive you the way you arrived. WRITE HOWEVER FEELS RIGHT Free diary, gratitude in three lines, a mood with a tap of a moon, or an affirmation when you need to hear it. Four ways to leave the day without losing it. YOUR MONTH IN WATERCOLOR Each day lights up with the color of how you felt. A hand-painted emotional calendar — not a bar chart. YOUR CONSTELLATION OF WORDS The words that return most to your writing appear as a constellation that shifts with you. You see patterns without anyone interpreting them for you. TIME CAPSULES Seal a piece of writing today (AES-GCM encrypted). Open it in a month, a year — whenever you're ready to listen to yourself again. TOTAL PRIVACY Everything lives on your device. On-device speech recognition. Face ID for your space. No tracking, no accounts, no server watching. WATERCOLORS THAT BREATHE Each time you return, a new variant of a sprig, flower, or lavender greets you. The notebook changes with you. Softly is for the days you want to write — and for the days you only wanted to open the app. Here, both count.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Softly at 5.0 against MooDay Diary's 4.0. Softly also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 11 days) and review sentiment (100% vs 90%). MooDay Diary's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Softly holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of MooDay Diary's written reviews are positive against 100% of Softly's.
MooDay Diary ships an update every 11 days, Softly every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MooDay Diary | Softly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | TIEN TA LEE | Jean Millan |
Customer experience
MooDay Diary
Softly
In-app purchases
MooDay Diary
No in-app purchases
Softly
No in-app purchases









