Comparison

Mood Scanner vs Sanity

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

Head to head
About

Mood Scanner

Simulate a mood scanner with realistic graphics to entertain friends and family. This app is for amusement only and does not detect actual moods.

Highlights
  • Realistic scanning graphics
  • Simulates mood detection
  • Entertain friends and family
  • Amusement purposes only
Features
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This app is intended for entertainment purposes only and does not provide true mood detector functionality. Shock your friends and family with the cool scanning graphics that make your iPhone screen look like a real Mood scanning device!

About

Sanity

This AI-powered app provides brutally honest, structured assessments of your ideas, from business plans to life decisions. Get unbiased feedback on strengths, weaknesses, and market reality, complete with a verdict and score. Share your critiques or revisit past ideas in your personal archive.

Highlights
  • AI-powered idea assessment
  • Structured critiques (strengths, weaknesses, market reality)
  • Verdict and score out of 10
  • Shareable critique links
  • Personal archive of past ideas
  • Honest, unbiased feedback
Features
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Everybody's got an idea: yours is almost certainly terrible. Let's make sure. Sanity Check is an AI-powered consultant and confidant that delivers brutally honest, structured assessments of whatever you're cooking up — business plans, startup pitches, hot takes, life decisions, investment theses, or creative projects. Think of it as a consultancy review written by someone who genuinely doesn't care about your feelings. Your friends, family, and colleagues will lie to you. Your favorite chatbot will lie to you. We won't. HOW IT WORKS Type in your idea with a title, description, and category. Tap submit. Within seconds, you'll receive a multi-section critique covering strengths, weaknesses, market reality, and more - capped off with a verdict and a score out of 10. THREE VERDICTS DEMOLISHED — Your idea has been laid to rest. SHAKY — Proceed with extreme caution. SURVIVED — Against all odds, this might not be terrible. Every critique ends with a sharp one-liner summary you'll either frame on your wall or try to forget. SHARE THE DAMAGE Got demolished? Share it. Survived? Prove it. Every critique generates a shareable link so your friends, co-founders, or enemies can see exactly how your idea held up. Public critique pages live at sanity-check.app — no app download required to view. THE GRAVEYARD OF IDEAS Every critique you've ever received lives in the Graveyard tab - a monument to your folly. It's your personal archive of ideas that have been tested, judged, and laid to rest. Revisit old critiques, track your scores over time, and see if your ideas have improved with the passage of time (they have not). PRICING • 1 free trial critique — no credit card, no commitment, no quarter. • Pro: $4.99/month for 30 critiques • Booster Pack: $1.99 for 15 extra critiques (never expire) Monthly credits are used first. Booster credits carry over indefinitely. WHY SANITY CHECK? Most AI tools tell you what you want to hear. Sanity Check tells you what you need to hear. It's the friend who actually says "that's a terrible idea" before you quit your job to open a blockchain restaurant. Except this friend has read every business book, studied every market failure, and has zero emotional investment in your ego. Whether you're a founder pressure-testing a pitch, a creative seeking honest feedback, or just someone who wants to know if their hot take holds up — Sanity Check is the reality check you didn't know you needed. Powered by Claude AI. Designed to be useful. Built to be merciless.

Screenshots

Mood Scanner2 screens
Sanity4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Sanity at 5.0 against Mood Scanner's 2.8. Sanity also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (daily vs every 13 months). Mood Scanner's advantage is ratings volume (39 vs 3) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Mood Scanner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Sanity sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sanity holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mood Scanner has 39 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mood Scanner ships an update every 13 months, Sanity daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Mood Scanner versus Sanity: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMood ScannerSanity
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.8 (39 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews10.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings39 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 13 monthsDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB6 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperFahad ManzoorJOSEPH PAUL RAYMOND

Customer experience

Mood Scanner

All ratings39 ratings
Positive41.0%
Neutral5.1%
Negative53.8%
Written reviews29 reviews
Positive10.3%
Neutral13.8%
Negative75.9%

Sanity

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Mood Scanner

One-time1
  • Pro Version$3.99
2 purchases

Sanity

Subscriptions1
  • Sanity Check$4.991 Month
One-time1
  • Booster Pack$1.99

Questions

Is Mood Scanner free?
Mood Scanner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sanity free?
Sanity is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Mood Scanner or Sanity?
Sanity is rated higher. Mood Scanner averages 2.8 out of 5 from 39 ratings, while Sanity averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Mood Scanner or Sanity have ads?
Mood Scanner shows ads; Sanity does not.
Which is updated more often, Mood Scanner or Sanity?
Mood Scanner ships an update every 13 months, and Sanity daily. Most recently, Mood Scanner was updated on October 24, 2026 and Sanity on October 22, 2026.

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