Astronaut's Journal vs Cloud Snippets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Astronaut's Journal
This app offers guided journaling prompts and structured journals to explore your inner self and outer life. It includes sections for clearing your mind, practicing gratitude, interpreting dreams, capturing ideas, tracking goals, and celebrating achievements.
- Guided journaling prompts
- Inner self exploration
- Outer life investigation
- Gratitude journaling
- Dream interpretation
- Goal setting and tracking
- Idea capture
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Astronaut's Journal consists of two categories of journals, and an additional "Discover" section where you can find various stimulating questions to inspire you to write. The first three journals are for investigating your life as it relates to you. The last three journals are for investigating your life as it relates to the outside world. _________________________________________________ INNER SELF: FREE FLOW JOURNAL: designed to help you clear your mind by writing two pages without pausing everyday. You will be alerted when you complete two pages. GOOD THINGS JOURNAL: with Good Things Journal, take a note of the good things in your life that you're grateful for. DREAM JOURNAL: dive into the symbols of your unconscious mind that leak in your sleep. Notice the recurring themes. _________________________________________________ OUTER SELF: IDEAS JOURNAL: note down your spontaneous ideas about work, or snippets for your creative projects. Daily, weekly, or monthly. GOALS JOURNAL: keep your short and long term goals here. Plan them out, and strategize on how to get results in multiple ways. When you accomplish a goal, you can move it to Achievements Journal by swiping left. ACHIEVEMENTS JOURNAL: keep these to remind you in the future what you're capable of. Note down what worked and what didn't, together with crucial steps that resulted in success. _________________________________________________
Cloud Snippets
This app acts as an iCloud-backed manager for text snippets and clipboard history, allowing you to quickly paste frequently used text into any application directly from your keyboard. It syncs seamlessly across your Mac, iPhone, and iPad, ensuring your information is always accessible and securely stored in your private iCloud account.
- iCloud-backed snippet management
- Keyboard text pasting
- Cross-device syncing
- Clipboard history
- Secure private storage
- Share menu integration
- Keyboard search
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Cloud Snippets is a modern iCloud-backed Snippets and Clipboard Manager for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. - No subscriptions, no ads, no registrations or logins, no in-app purchases. - Quickly paste your frequently-used snippets of text into almost any app directly from the keyboard. - Use our FREE Mac app to automatically save your Mac's Clipboard History and easily paste from any of your iCloud devices. - Sync your snippets across all your iCloud devices including Macs, iPhones, and iPads. - All your snippets are securely stored in your private iCloud account. We never have any kind of access to any of your information. - Copy and paste multiple items without having to go back and forth between apps or devices. - Copy something now to paste later. It will be waiting for you in your Clipboard History even if you need to copy something else in the meantime. - You can quickly add new Snippets or save to your Clipboard History via the Share menu. - You can search through your snippets and clipboard history directly from the keyboard.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Astronaut's Journal at 4.9 against Cloud Snippets's 4.0. Astronaut's Journal also leads on ratings volume (35 vs 1). Cloud Snippets's advantage is price ($2.99 vs $9.99) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 7 months). On review sentiment, ads, 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
Astronaut's Journal costs $9.99 and Cloud Snippets $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Astronaut's Journal holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Astronaut's Journal has 35 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Astronaut's Journal ships an update every 7 months, Cloud Snippets every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 10, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Astronaut's Journal | Cloud Snippets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | $2.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (35 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 35 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Deniz Dulat | SageScope Tech |
Customer experience
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In-app purchases
Astronaut's Journal
No in-app purchases
Cloud Snippets
No in-app purchases
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