Comparison

Perspective, a mindful journal vs baseline

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

Head to head
About

Perspective, a mindful journal

This app provides a safe space for daily reflection and self-discovery. It helps you capture thoughts, moods, and interests to gain insights, make better decisions, and manage anxiety. Rediscover yourself and improve your mental well-being through guided journaling.

Highlights
  • Daily reflection prompts
  • Mood tracking
  • Capture thoughts and interests
  • Personal discovery insights
  • Anxiety management
  • Self-discovery
Features
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This here, then, is a safe place for you to be honest and get in touch with yourself again, for too often we allow ourselves to be agitated by everything around us and too rarely do we pause to help our mind catch up. It's time to slow down, spend some time thinking about our lives and try to learn from our own experiences. What better way then to simply engage in a conversation with your future and past self? Perspective is a unique journaling experience that captures your thoughts, moods, and interests over time and prompts reflection and insight to help you make personal discoveries and learn about yourself. We hope it'll help you make better decisions in your life, allow you to better manage your anxieties and those moments when you feel low. We hope it'll help you rediscover yourself and fall in love again with the awesome person that you are. We started out with this big idea that we want to help people, we want to add our small contribution to making the world just a little bit better. And for that, this app absolutely needed to be completely free. It's tricky, it makes it so much harder to find the time to improve it, but some of the feedback we've got from people telling us it's made their life better... it's worth it. We're not gonna be the #1 app in the store, we're not gonna be the best app out there, just because we don't have the resources to do so. But we're honest in our intentions and we think it's vital that not only the people who can pay should have access to a tool that could potentially improve their mental health. That being said, though, all our users have iPhones... so, that might not be the best logic. Regardless, it's free just because it's the right thing to do. We hope you enjoy it.

About

baseline

This app offers a distraction-free journaling experience to help you understand your emotions and improve mental well-being. Track your mood, reflect on your feelings, and gain insights through weekly surveys and visualizations. Your data is encrypted and secured with a passphrase.

Highlights
  • Distraction-free journaling
  • Mood tracking with two scales
  • Upload pictures and screenshots
  • Journaling and mood log reminders
  • Weekly mental health surveys
  • Mood change visualizations
  • Passphrase data lock
  • Financial support fund
Features
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Understanding what you’re feeling and why is often way harder than it should be. baseline is here to help. By giving you a distraction-free, easy way to journal and track your mood, baseline gives you easy opportunities to write and reflect on what you’re feeling throughout the day. With time, you’ll start to understand yourself and your brain better. baseline is designed not just to help you write and reflect more often, but also to help you understand more about yourself and your mood over time. You’ll get mental health surveys and reviews each week, and we have beautiful visualizations across our app that are designed to help you better see what you’re going through and when you’re struggling. We know we’re dealing with really sensitive information here, so we’re committed to keeping your personal information 100% secure. Everything you write and upload to baseline is encrypted, so we can’t even see what you’ve written. You can also protect your data in-app against people who might have access to your device. Start journaling and mood tracking today with baseline. Features: - Write about how you’re feeling whenever you want, and rate your mood with two different scales - Upload pictures and screenshots to remember important moments - Set reminders to keep yourself accountable to your journaling and mental health goals - View all of your mood logs at a glance, and see how your mood changes over time - Take mental health surveys to track things like anxiety, depression, and stress over time - Lock your data with a passphrase to stop people who might have access to your device from reading it - Find mental health support, including financially with the baseline Gap Fund, which can help users cover “gaps” in their finances - 100% free, forever.

Screenshots

Perspective, a mindful journal4 screens
baseline4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: baseline at none against Perspective, a mindful journal's 8. Perspective, a mindful journal's advantage is ratings volume (1.6K vs 115) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 14.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Perspective, a mindful journal sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. baseline asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Perspective, a mindful journal against 4.7 for baseline. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Perspective, a mindful journal has 1.6K ratings behind it against 115, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 91% of Perspective, a mindful journal's written reviews are positive against 86% of baseline's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Perspective, a mindful journal ships an update fortnightly, baseline every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Perspective, a mindful journal versus baseline: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPerspective, a mindful journalbaseline
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.6K ratings) — better4.7 (115 ratings)
Positive reviews90.5% of reviews — better86.1% of reviews
Number of ratings1.6K — better115
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS10.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBlinky LLCbaseline health

Customer experience

Perspective, a mindful journal

All ratings1,599 ratings
Positive94.7%
Neutral2.7%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews497 reviews
Positive90.5%
Neutral4.8%
Negative4.6%

baseline

All ratings106 ratings
Positive92.5%
Neutral1.9%
Negative5.7%
Written reviews36 reviews
Positive86.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative13.9%

User reviews

Perspective, a mindful journal

From 1.6K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Simplicity and clean design
  • 🔒 Secure with passcode/fingerprint
  • 💡 Unique features like mood tracking and interests
  • 👍 Helpful for mental health and self-reflection

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional bugs and crashes
  • 🔍 Lack of search/export functionality
  • 🔍 Concerns about app being abandoned by developers
  • 🔍 Mandatory mood/week rating can be annoying

baseline

From 115 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Free and no ads
  • 👍 Simple and intuitive interface
  • 👍 Useful for self-expression and authenticity
  • 👍 Helps appreciate small moments and cope with bad times
  • 👍 Great for writers who never journaled before

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Hourly logging reminders delete old ones
  • 🐛 Fails to support basic use case of multiple reminders
  • 🐛 Internet connection issues causing data loss
  • 🐛 Audio recordings erased when internet fails
  • 🐛 Basic features, wishes for more solutions

Bugs and requests

Perspective, a mindful journal

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Text disappearing when exiting the app
  • Inconsistent behavior when rating past weeks
  • Compatibility issues with newer devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more mood/emotion options
  • Allow customization of app appearance (colors, fonts, etc.)
  • Implement ability to export journal entries
  • Add support for video uploads
  • Improve sync/backup functionality

baseline

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Hourly logging reminders delete old ones after the 11th
  • App tells user they are not connected to the internet when they are
  • Audio recordings are erased instead of saved when internet connection fails
  • Blank white screen after opening app through notification and writing an entry
  • Entries deleted without warning

Requested features

9 requests
  • AI short summary of rants with generalized headlines
  • Sort notes by topic/category and tags
  • Aesthetic themes for personalization
  • Ability to edit recent logs
  • More interactive features like emoticons or affirmations
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  • Randomize notification time
  • Option to go back and log a skipped day
  • Allow Apple Silicon Macs to download the app
  • More advanced weekly recap features for healthcare team reporting

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Perspective, a mindful journal

One-time8
  • apple$1.99
  • bottle of water$2.99
  • hamburger$3.99
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  • coffee$4.99
  • big coffee$5.99
  • pizza$9.99
  • whole pizza$14.99
  • dinner and drinks$49.99
None

baseline

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Perspective, a mindful journal free?
Perspective, a mindful journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is baseline free?
baseline is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Perspective, a mindful journal or baseline?
Perspective, a mindful journal is rated higher. Perspective, a mindful journal averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1.6K ratings, while baseline averages 4.7 from 115 ratings.
Do Perspective, a mindful journal or baseline have ads?
Neither Perspective, a mindful journal nor baseline shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Perspective, a mindful journal or baseline?
Perspective, a mindful journal ships an update fortnightly, and baseline every 3 weeks. Most recently, Perspective, a mindful journal was updated on October 22, 2026 and baseline on October 23, 2026.

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