Comparison

Aloe Bud vs Feeljar

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

Head to head
About

Aloe Bud

This app provides gentle reminders for daily self-care activities, helping you stay hydrated, reconnect with loved ones, and reflect on yourself. It encourages positive habits without guilt and allows you to track your progress.

Highlights
  • Encouraging push notifications
  • Hydration reminders
  • Reconnect with loved ones prompts
  • Self-reflection check-ins
  • Personal activity log
  • Customizable reminder schedules
Features
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Aloe Bud is self-care for the highly connected human. It is not meant to and should not replace mental health care or the support of loved ones, but it is a valuable—and free—tool to help bridge gaps in making self-care as accessible and personal as possible. Aloe Bud gently brings awareness to activities of daily life, using encouraging push notifications, rather than guilt or shame. ↪ Discord: discord.gg/QRKpwGz ↪ Twitch: twitch.tv/aloebudgarden ↪ X: x.com/aloebud ↪ Privacy: https://www.aloebud.app/privacy ↪ Terms of Use: https://www.aloebud.app/terms-of-use Whether you're trying to stay hydrated or need reminders to reconnect with loved ones, check in, and reflect on yourself in real-time or whenever you need. Aloe Bud should feel casual, yet play an important role in your life. Celebrate tiny victories in your personal activity log, which can be accessed when you touch the icon at the top. Scroll through recently completed check-ins and reflections and look back on your progress day by day. Aloe Bud sends reminders ONLY when you add them, and can be set at specific times from daily to weekdays, weekends, or any other arrangement you can think of. If you would like to enhance your experience and help support our growth, we offer in-app purchases. They allow you to add as many self-care activities, check-ins, journal, and activity log entries as well as unlimited customization of reminder schedules. Membership options: 1 month - $4.99 1 year - $49.99 Designed out of the pure necessity of their own mental health journey, Aloe Bud creator Serenity Discko searched the App Store for something, anything to help with their basic self-care. After trying and ignoring countless self-care apps and feeling guilty for doing so, finding one that met her needs and lifestyle became frustrating. They believed there was no better time to start designing a gentle, all-in-one self-care app, using their own experiences, affinity for pixel art, and the needs of their community to bring this simple idea to life. All data remains on your device and is kept there until the app has been deleted from your device. We collect non-personal, or identifiable analytical data to improve your experiences.

About

Feeljar

Features
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Ephemera is a private, healing journal for fleeting emotional moments. Capture a photo, voice memo, or a few words — each tagged with your current mood. Let your fragments accumulate quietly, away from social media noise. • 8 mood tags: tender, heartbeat, grievance, healing, lonely, peaceful, moved, relieved • Photo, audio recording, and text fragments • Favorites collection & random recall • Annual emotion museum with mood distribution • Daily healing quote • Consecutive day streak • Solar term tags auto-applied • Fully private, stored on-device only

Screenshots

Aloe Bud4 screens
Feeljar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Feeljar at none against Aloe Bud's 9. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Aloe Bud sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Feeljar asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Aloe Bud versus Feeljar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAloe BudFeeljar
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (6.9K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews84.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings6.9K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB6 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperAloebud LLC长贵 周

Bugs and requests

Aloe Bud

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Unable to restore previous purchases
  • Progress and history data getting deleted
  • Inconsistent behavior when checking in/completing activities

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add widgets for quick access
  • Allow editing/deleting of completed activities
  • Provide calendar view to track progress
  • Ability to create custom activities and reminders
  • Integrate with Apple Health app

Feeljar

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Aloe Bud

Subscriptions2
  • Billed Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Billed Yearly$49.991 Year
One-time7
  • Premium Reminders$1.99
  • Custom Reminders$3.99
  • Reminders Bundle$4.99
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  • Donate $5$5.00
  • Donate $20$20.00
  • Donate $50$50.00
  • Donate $100$100.00
None

Feeljar

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Aloe Bud free?
Aloe Bud is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Feeljar free?
Feeljar is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Aloe Bud or Feeljar have ads?
Neither Aloe Bud nor Feeljar shows ads.

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