Mango 5Star vs AppJournal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mango 5Star
This home screen widget app is designed for Apple developers and podcasters. It highlights only positive 5-star reviews for your app or podcast, helping to boost your mood and focus on positive feedback.
- Displays only 5-star reviews
- Home screen widget
- Focuses on positive feedback
- Boosts mood for developers
- Supports Apple platforms
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Apple developers and podcasters: have you ever let one negative review ruin your day? Chances are, you have other more important positive 5-star reviews. But we are humans. We are too vulnerable to the negative feedbacks. And we don’t take enough advantage of the positive ones. Mango 5Star is a home screen widget app built for you. It displays *only* 5-star reviews of your app or podcast on Apple platforms. Let those 5-star reviews boost your mood every time you look at your home screen.
AppJournal
A utility for indie app developers to log key milestones, app ideas, and changes. Track featured status, metadata updates, awards, and price adjustments with detailed entries and notes. Supports Siri Shortcuts and iCloud sync across Apple devices.
- Log app milestones and changes
- Track app ideas with attributes
- Multiple predefined entry types
- Siri and Shortcuts integration
- iCloud sync across Apple devices
- Universal purchase for multiple platforms
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AppJournal provides indie app developers with a simple utility to record app milestones & changes. Developed for Apple platform developers, you can use AppJournal to track when your app has been featured, changes youʼve made to metadata, awards won, prices changes and much more. Each entry supports multiple fields for recording multiple data types and the ability to set the date and add notes too. AppJournal contains these great features: JOURNAL AppJournal keeps track of your appʼs history by enabling you to create new entries when you make changes or have something to celebrate. APP IDEAS Keep track of all your money-making app ideas in one place. AppJournal makes it easy to store a list of all your app ideas with the ability to add attributes such as priority, difficulty, potential names and any other notes you have about the app. With the power of Apple Intelligence you will be able to generate app names and even ideas themselves. ENTRY TYPES Built-in to AppJournal are multiple entry types which can be complemented with additional metadata, such as which platforms a change was made for, links to an article that the app was featured in and from/to fields so you can see exactly what is different. The entry types included are: - Idea Created - Started Building - Released App - Released Update - Removed from Sale - Updated App Icon - Updated App Icon - Updated Metadata - Updated Platforms - Updated Languages - Updated Regions - Featured - Reached Milestone - Won Award - Price Change - In-App Purchase Price Change - Switched Payment Model SHORTCUTS Create & manage apps, entries & ideas with Siri and the Shortcuts app. SYNC All data is stored securely in iCloud and is available across multiple Apple platforms so you can record & view journal entries from anywhere. UNIVERSAL PURCHASE Get this app across multiple Apple platforms with a single purchase. If you like this app, I’d really appreciate it if you could take the time to leave a positive review! Having issues? Please get in touch: Email: support@adamfoot.dev Website: https://adamfoot.dev Please note some features may require an AppJournal Pro subscription which can be purchased in the app. You can cancel at anytime. Terms: https://adamfoot.dev/terms-of-use
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: AppJournal at Free against Mango 5Star's $2.99. AppJournal also leads on update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 2 months). Mango 5Star's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 3.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 8). On review sentiment, 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
AppJournal is free to download; Mango 5Star costs $2.99 up front. AppJournal sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Mango 5Star asks for nothing beyond the download.
Mango 5Star holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mango 5Star has 14 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 94% of Mango 5Star's written reviews are positive against 100% of AppJournal's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Mango 5Star ships an update every 2 months, AppJournal every 4 weeks. Both last shipped on October 26, 2026.
| Parameter | Mango 5Star | AppJournal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (14 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 94.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #156 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mango Umbrella LLC | Adam Foot |
Customer experience
Mango 5Star
AppJournal
In-app purchases
Mango 5Star
No in-app purchases
AppJournal
- AppJournal Pro (Weekly)3 Days trial$0.997 Days
- AppJournal Pro (Monthly)$1.991 Month
- AppJournal Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$4.991 Year
- Small Tip$1.99
- Medium Tip$4.99
- Large Tip$9.99
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- AppJournal Pro (Lifetime)$14.99
- Huge Tip$19.99
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