Time Caps vs mooding
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Time Caps
This app allows users to create a digital diary with various types of entries, including daily reflections, future messages, and voice notes. It offers features like mood-based coloring, serendipitous retrieval of past entries, and secure privacy protection. Users can also subscribe for enhanced functionalities and premium features.
- Daily mood-based journal entries
- Write messages to your future self
- Record voice notes for the future
- Serendipitous retrieval of past entries
- Secure passcode and biometric lock
- Daily reminders and widgets
- Offline functionality
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***Featured on App Store*** Features: * Daily Caps: One day one cap, different colors for your different moods. * Day Grid: Display journals in grids. Fill your lovely life with colorful daily caps. * Time Fortune: Collect fortunes by writing daily caps. Share in your mood color. * Future Caps: Write to your next birthday, to next Christmas, to the time after the exam/enrollment/entry, to the dear future you. * Echo Caps: Send yourself a piece of voice from the present. * Old Time: Shake your phone like a jar full of caps and meet your old days by serendipity. * Workshop: Regain cap pieces every day to craft more future caps. * Widgets: Meet your lovely widgets, glanceable anytime on your device. * Account System: No more worry about accidentally removing the app or switching to a new phone. * Privacy Protection: Secure your journals with passcode lock or Touch ID/Face ID. * Daily Reminder: One day one cap! * Offline Use: Everything works well under no network connection. * Export & Share: Export your favorite caps to your albums or share them with your friends. * Time Traveler Pro: Subscribe to unlock exclusive features, enhance Daily Caps, double regaining Pieces, and enjoy premium sync. Your lovely designer and developer (same person :D) is working hard to explore and create more cool and useful features. Thanks for your liking and support! If you like it, don’t forget to come back for rating, encouraging your developer and helping Time Caps become better. Ideas or feedback are always welcome. Please email us at: hi.pol.chen@gmail.com. Crafted with love by Pol Terms of Use: https://timecaps.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://timecaps.app/privacy
mooding
This app offers a unique journaling experience, allowing users to record their emotions and thoughts through a creative Ferris wheel metaphor. It helps users process feelings, reflect on growth, and create personalized diary entries.
- Emotional journaling
- Mood tracking
- Personalized diary tickets
- Ferris wheel visualization
- Self-reflection
- Inner child connection
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mooding is a unique journaling app that allows you to heal and easily record your journal and emotions while evoking your inner child. Received multiple App Store "Editor's Choice" and "Today". # Design concept The reality of the Ferris wheel is a place full of all kinds of emotions. Some people fall in love and embrace, some break up and cry, some are alone, some are in groups, there are laughter and there are tears. But no matter what mood, the Ferris wheel will use its mildest speed to respond one by one. mooding is such a Ferris wheel that never closes, no matter positive or negative, it never stops, just like life, constantly carrying our joy, anger and sorrow. To ride on this Ferris wheel, you need a ticket. You can combine rich elements to create a diary ticket that can match your mood at the moment. From the moment you tear off the ticket stub and ride on the Ferris wheel, your diary will be sealed and appear on the Ferris wheel. Only through the diary to put our emotions at rest can we truly let go of the past and move forward bravely. Did you know? At the highest point of the Ferris wheel, that is the closest place to maturity, mooding with you to witness growth. -------- * Subscription payments will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of your purchase. * Subscriptions will automatically renew and payment will be charged to your iTunes account unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours prior to the end of the current Privacy Policy: https://www.ideatiny.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.ideatiny.com/privacy Contact with us: fb@ideatiny.com WeChat: ideatiny_studio
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Time Caps at freemium against mooding's subscription. mooding's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Time Caps sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and mooding sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Time Caps against 4.7 for mooding. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 156 and 96 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 84% and 84% positive.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Time Caps | mooding |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (156 ratings) — better | 4.7 (96 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.7% of reviews | 84.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 156 — better | 96 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 249 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 灿海 陈 | ideaTiny Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Time Caps
mooding
Bugs and requests
Time Caps
Reported bugs
2 issues- 🐛 Interface issues with updates
- 🐛 Face ID issues reported
Requested features
9 requests- Ability to export previous posts
- Lower gem prices for capsules
- More options for describing the day
- Add template feature
- Support dark mode
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- Ability to add photos to daily journal entries
- Option to get one future cap a week
- Allow editing of old time caps without currency
- More descriptive options for daily mood
mooding
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Time Caps
- Time Traveler Pro (Monthly)$3.991 Month
- Time Traveler Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- 1200 Cap Pieces$0.99
- 2888 Cap Pieces$1.99
- 3600 Cap Pieces$2.99
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- 5000 Cap Pieces$3.99
mooding
- Mood Diary (Monthly)$1.991 Month
- Mood Diary (Yearly)$9.991 Year
- Lifetime Member$14.99









