Moodflow vs Pixels
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Moodflow
Track your emotions, moods, thoughts, and well-being with daily surveys. Gain profound self-understanding through insightful data analysis and identify factors influencing your mental health. Develop better habits with 28-day challenges and personalize your experience.
- Daily mood and emotion tracking
- Year in Pixels visualization
- Habit and routine planner
- Gratitude journaling
- Sleep tracking
- Data analysis and insights
- Customizable interface
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Moodflow is the calm, private mood tracker and journal that shows you what lifts you up and what pulls you down. Rate your day, tap a few emotions, and you're done. Over time Moodflow turns those quick check-ins into a clear picture of your life: a calendar full of color, your Year in Pixels, and Insights that connect your mood with your sleep, activities, people, places and habits. LOG IN SECONDS • Rate your mood from 1 to 5 and pick your emotions • Add a journal note and photos, only if you want to • Activities, sleep, people, places and weather in one tap • Log as many entries a day as you like UNDERSTAND YOURSELF • Insights that find what is linked to your good and bad days • Calendar, Year in Pixels and a mood spiral of your whole year • Vitals: energy, stress and focus at a glance • Symptoms and medications, side by side with your mood BUILD BETTER HABITS • Habits with streaks you can actually keep • Routines that walk you through your morning or evening, step by step • 28-day challenges to start something new • Guided breathing for calmer moments YOUR BODY, YOUR CYCLE • Follow your cycle and see how your month feels • Connect Apple Health and your sleep and steps fill in on their own, and your moods can flow back as State of Mind. It's optional, and it all stays on your phone. ALWAYS WITH YOU • Home and Lock Screen widgets • Apple Watch: log a mood or a symptom and tick off habits from your wrist • Siri: just ask Siri to log a mood MADE FOR YOU, KEPT PRIVATE • Your entries stay on your device, protected by Face ID or a PIN • Backups you control • Make it yours with colors, mood faces and backgrounds Moodflow is free to download and use every day. Moodflow Plus unlocks deeper Insights and extras. Terms of Use: https://www.moodflow.co/tos Privacy Policy: https://www.moodflow.co/pp
Pixels
Visually track your daily mood and emotions with a color-coded calendar grid. Log feelings, habits, and symptoms to gain insights into your mental well-being over time. Offers a private and beautiful way to build self-awareness.
- Daily mood tracking
- Journal notes
- Symptom and habit logging
- Yearly color grid visualization
- Emotional pattern spotting
- Customizable moods and colors
- Reminders
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Pixels turns every day into a single colored square on a yearly grid. Your mood, at a glance, for the entire year. TRACK YOUR MOOD • Pick a mood from custom categories • Add a journal note for deeper reflection • Log symptoms, habits, and how you really feel SEE THE FULL PICTURE • Watch your year fill up pixel by pixel • Spot emotional patterns across weeks and months • Detailed stats and charts for your mental health journey PRIVATE & BEAUTIFUL • No ads, no tracking • Customizable moods, colors, and reminders Join thousands of people building self-awareness, one day at a time. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pixels at 4.8 against Moodflow's 4.5. Pixels also leads on review sentiment (97% vs 77%) and update cadence (every 11 days vs every 5 weeks). Moodflow's advantage is ratings volume (222 vs 45). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Moodflow sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.49 per month and Pixels sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pixels holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 222 and 45 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of Moodflow's written reviews are positive against 97% of Pixels's.
Moodflow ships an update every 5 weeks, Pixels every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Moodflow | Pixels |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (222 ratings) | 4.8 (45 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.3% of reviews | 96.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 222 — better | 45 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 114 MB | 78 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Web Free IO | Teo Vogel |
Customer experience
Moodflow
Pixels
Bugs and requests
Moodflow
Reported bugs
3 issues- Entries disappearing after updates
- Crashes when adding new data
- Calendar and analytics not working properly
Requested features
4 requests- Add password protection or privacy settings
- Improve sync and backup functionality
- Expand customization options
- Integrate with other health/fitness apps
Pixels
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Moodflow
- Moodflow Plus3 Days trial$3.491 Month
- Moodflow Plus3 Days trial$9.993 Months
- Moodflow Plus3 Days trial$14.996 Months
Pixels
- Pixels Cloud+7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Pixels Cloud+$1.991 Month
- Pixels Cloud+7 Days trial$21.991 Year
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- Pixels Cloud+$21.991 Year
- Pixels+$4.99
