Prompted Journal vs Deepwell
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Prompted Journal
This app provides a guided journaling experience with over 190 prompts and "Dive Deeper" questions to encourage self-reflection and personal growth. It helps users establish a consistent self-care routine through daily reminders and offers privacy with no data storage required.
- 190+ journal prompts
- "Dive Deeper" questions
- Daily reminders
- PDF export
- Custom prompt creation
- Private journaling
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Discover your daily self-care companion: Prompted Journal, a daily journal and diary designed to foster self-reflection and personal growth through carefully crafted daily journal prompts. This daily diary is not just about writing down mundane events; it's about engaging in a rewarding self-care routine through thoughtful writing prompts that inspire self-discovery. Our daily journal and diary app offers 190+ journal prompts to kick-start your writing and reflection journey. With daily reminders to ensure you stay on track, maintaining a consistent journaling habit has never been easier. This daily diary app is all about helping you develop a strong self-care practice through the power of writing. The key features of our daily journal and diary app include: * A comprehensive library of journal prompts, ensuring diverse and thought-provoking topics for daily reflection * "Dive Deeper" questions accompanying each prompt, allowing you to explore your thoughts more thoroughly * Daily reminders to help you establish a consistent journaling habit * PDF export functionality, enabling you to print, email, or save your diary entries for future reference * A customizable experience, with the ability to create your own unique journal prompts * A focus on privacy: entries are stored on your device, and no account is required Transform your daily journaling and diary experience with Prompted Journal and make self-care a priority. By dedicating just five minutes a day to journaling, you can reap the benefits of a deeply enriching self-care routine that fosters personal growth and well-being. Our daily journal and diary app is designed to make journaling easy and enjoyable, so you can focus on what truly matters: nurturing your inner self. At Prompted Journal, we're committed to creating writing apps that promote self-care and wellness. If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to reach out to us. Your privacy is our top priority, and we've built this daily diary journal with that in mind. Get ready to embark on a journey of self-discovery and growth with the Prompted Journal daily journal and diary app – your everyday self-care companion. Privacy Policy: https://oatmealapps.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Deepwell
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Every other shadow work app hands you a deck of prompts. You work through it, and once you've seen the cards, the app becomes a plain diary. Deepwell doesn't have a deck. You write the thing you keep turning over — the argument, the flash of envy, the moment you went quiet and didn't know why. Deepwell reads what you actually wrote and asks one question that follows from it, in your own words. Not the next card. A question that could only have been asked about your entry. Answer it, or keep it for later. Either way it's yours. THE PATTERN MAP Over weeks, the same things start to resurface under different circumstances. Deepwell finds them and builds you a map: each recurring theme hanging at a depth set by how often it has come back and how long it has persisted, threaded to the entries it came from — with your own sentences as the evidence. A theme that has followed you for eight months sits visibly deeper than one from last week. Nothing is invented. Every pattern is quoted from something you wrote. WHAT'S IN IT • One generated follow-up question per entry, written from your text • The Pattern Map — recurring themes by depth, with the entries behind each one • Threads that keep an entry, its question and your answer together • Everything stored on your device, with no account and no sync • Export everything as plain text, any time FREE AND FULL DEPTH Writing is never limited. The free tier includes three generated questions a week and the two shallowest patterns on your map. Full Depth removes the ceiling: unlimited questions, every pattern at every depth, a written read on how each one moves over time, and export. A NOTE ON WHAT THIS ISN'T Deepwell is a journal. It doesn't assess, diagnose or treat anything, and it isn't a substitute for a therapist or a doctor. If your writing keeps taking you somewhere hard, that's worth saying to a person — crisis lines are in Settings, always. Terms of Use (EULA): https://killex00.github.io/tos2 Privacy Policy: https://killex00.github.io/privacy-policy2 Deepwell Full Depth is an auto-renewable subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the period ending. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Prompted Journal at 16.4 against Deepwell's 18. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Prompted Journal sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Deepwell sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Prompted Journal | Deepwell |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (6.9K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 94.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6.9K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 18 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Oatmeal Apps | Marek Sokol |
Bugs and requests
Prompted Journal
Reported bugs
2 issues- Entries disappearing or being lost
- Blank screens when opening the app
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to add custom prompts
- Option to password protect entries
- Exporting/printing journal entries
- More variety in prompt types
Deepwell
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Prompted Journal
- Prompted Journal Monthly14 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Monthly3 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Premium$11.991 Year
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- Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
Deepwell
- Deepwell Premium Monthly$7.991 Month
- Deepwell Premium Yearly$39.991 Year
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