Comparison

Syd vs Moodbeam

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

Head to head
About

Syd

This AI-powered mentor offers personalized, science-backed recommendations to help you improve your physical and emotional health, financial well-being, and social life. Access a hub of resources, gain self-awareness through AI insights, and integrate with Apple Health for comprehensive tracking.

Highlights
  • AI Life Quality Mentor Chat
  • Personalized Science-Backed Recommendations
  • Education Hub (Articles, Meditations, Recipes)
  • AI-Powered Personal Insights
  • Apple Health Integration
  • Life Quality Index™ Tracking
Features
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Discover the life you love with syd™ We all want to uncover our potential to enjoy fulfilling and healthy lives — but often we limit ourselves by the choices we make. Be it striving to find your purpose or optimising your health, you will reach your goal faster with the support of your AI-powered Life Quality Mentor – syd™, available at your fingertips. With the syd™ Super-App, you can get powerful personalised science-backed recommendations and support to discover your pathway towards a life you love. AI Life Quality Mentor: Chat with syd™, your AI Life Quality Mentor, anytime about anything - from physical and emotional health to financial wellbeing, social life, and more. syd™’s responses and guidance are personalised and evidence-based, helping you navigate every aspect of your life quality with confidence. Evidence-Based Recommendations: syd™’s AI is trained on 1.2 million scientific studies and 8.3 billion person-years of data to deliver recommendations that are not only personalised, but proven. Education Hub: Access a library of articles, meditations, recipes, and science-backed resources designed to help you build healthier habits and understand yourself better. Personal Insights: Gain deeper self-awareness through AI-powered insights into your mood, personality, stress, and Life Quality Index™ - revealing patterns, highlighting opportunities for growth, and supporting meaningful, lasting improvements in your life quality. Our proven AI platform is backed by a team of dedicated scientists, mathematicians, engineers and creatives; bringing together the very best in research, global data and genetics – applied for the benefit of entire communities. Integrate Apple Health with syd™ to synchronize and view your biometrics right in the app to tailor recommendations, motivate, and track goal progression. Privacy is at the core of everything we do and we mean it – read more about our terms and conditions here: Terms of service: https://syd.iamyiam.com/en/terms/ Privacy notice: https://syd.iamyiam.com/en/user-privacy/ Our platform and services contain general medical information. The information is not medical advice, and should not be treated as such.

About

Moodbeam

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Moodbeam aims to put the power of self-reflection and emotional awareness in everyone’s hands to make mood visible, conversations easier and the world a happier place. See your highs and lows, explore patterns and trends throughout the day, month or year, add notes, or choose to share your mood profile with those that matter, all in one place. With this information at your fingertips you’ll not only understand more about how and why you were feeling a certain way, but you’ll have the tools to help make decisions leading to a happier, more positive tomorrow. Let’s change the way the world sees mood. FEATURES INCLUDED TRACK AND VISUALISE MOOD Connect your Moodbeam wearable device with the app to easily sync and store how you are feeling wherever you are, whatever you’re doing. Every moment can be reviewed at a time to suit you. See how your day has been, or stay in touch with how someone you care about is feeling, without the need to ask. FIND PATTERNS AND TRENDS By gaining real insight through patterns and trends, Moodbeam brings better understanding of how you feel, helping you live a happier life. At a glance see the moments of each day and week when your feelings were strongest. The more you use your Moodbeam One, the more you will learn. TAKE NOTE Use the app’s journal to make notes that give your Moodbeam moments meaning. This is not only a great way to reflect on your day but it makes it easier for you to look back and make sense of the past. SHARE HOW YOU FEEL Whether it's with family, trusted friends or a health professional, choose and control who you share your mood data with or who shares with you. Understanding how someone you know has been feeling without the need to ask gives you the opportunity to start a simple conversation that can mean so much. DEFINE WHAT MOOD MEANS TO YOU Customise your mood labels depending on what you want to track. Whether general happiness or motivation levels at work, making Moodbeam work for you is simple. ONE ACCOUNT, MULTIPLE DEVICES Use Moodbeam with your whole family on a single device. Learn more about Moodbeam at www.moodbeam.co.uk

Screenshots

Syd4 screens
Moodbeam4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Moodbeam at none against Syd's 1. Moodbeam also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). Syd's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Syd sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $24.99 per month. Moodbeam asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Syd ships an update every 2 weeks, Moodbeam every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on July 18, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Syd versus Moodbeam: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSydMoodbeam
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (11 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews87.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.112.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size263 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperiamYiamMoodbeam Ltd

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Syd

Subscriptions1
  • Discovery Membership$24.991 Month
None

Moodbeam

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Syd free?
Syd is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Moodbeam free?
Moodbeam is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Syd or Moodbeam have ads?
Neither Syd nor Moodbeam shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Syd or Moodbeam?
Syd ships an update every 2 weeks, and Moodbeam every 6 weeks. Most recently, Syd was updated on July 18, 2026 and Moodbeam on September 29, 2026.

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