Worrydolls vs Emoke
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Worrydolls
This app provides a digital worry doll to help you manage anxiety and stress. Share your worries with the doll, track them over time, and find a sense of calm by revisiting past concerns.
- Digital worry doll companion
- Share worries with the doll
- Track worries over time
- Journaling for anxiety
- Review past worries
- Sense of calm
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Worrydolls gives you a small doll who is ready to listen to what is worrying you. Tell your worry to the doll, then track it over time. You can use Worrydolls like a journal to help you overcome anxiety and stress. The idea of worrydolls started with the indigenous people of Guatemala. The first worrydoll was given to the princess Ixucane as a special gift from the sun god, with the promise that the worrydoll could handle any worry a person could have. Ever since, tiny worrydolls made leftover cloth have been given to worried people. Whisper a single worry to the worrydoll, and hide it under their pillow. As soon as the worrydoll is told the worry, sorrow, or fear, it takes the burden and carries it from then on. The app works the same way! Just tell a single worry to the Worrydoll, and the Worrydoll will carry it for you. In this way, you can have worrydolls on your phone. When your worry is finished, you can tell the worrydoll that he/she does not need to worry anymore. You can always look back at your old worries to feel a sense of calm. My grandmother gave me tiny worrydolls because I was always worrying as a child. Now, you can have Worrydolls on your phone. I hope that the worrydolls can help you just like they helped me. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Emoke
This app offers a gentle way to track your daily emotions through a unique journaling ritual. It allows you to log feelings with stickers and short notes, then visualize them as a fading mood roll with a mindful breathing exercise. Gain insights into your emotional patterns over time without pressure.
- Mood journaling ritual
- Mood sticker selection
- Short note entries
- Visual mood roll
- Mindful breathing cues
- Emotional pattern tracking
- Mood statistics
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Use Emoke to gently check in with your feelings. Emoke is a calm little mood journal built around a simple paper-roll ritual. Instead of facing a blank page, you tap, pick a mood sticker, write a few words, let your feelings settle into a tiny “mood roll”, and then gently light it on screen with a short mindful breathing cue to help ease your emotions. How it works Tap the mood roll to start today’s entry Choose a mood sticker that matches how you feel Add a short note on a small paper tile Watch your tile slide into the roll — like putting today’s feelings somewhere safe What Emoke helps you do Capture small moments Log your emotions in just a few taps, whenever something moves you. See patterns over time Open Mood Review to look back on past entries, and notice how your feelings change day by day. Understand your emotional rhythm In Mood Stats, see how often different moods appear in a week or a month, so you can better understand your own patterns. Designed to feel gentle, not overwhelming Emoke focuses on small, manageable steps: one sticker, one line, one tiny ritual at a time. It’s made for people who want to keep track of their inner world without pressure, rules, or long paragraphs. Following the simple on-screen “hold to inhale, release to exhale” cue, use a tiny virtual match to light the mood roll and watch it slowly fade, giving your thoughts and emotions a gentle way out with each breath. Privacy & purpose Your mood entries are stored on your device. Emoke is for self-observation and emotional journaling only. It does not provide medical or therapeutic advice. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Worrydolls at 15K against Emoke's 5. Emoke's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 weeks) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). 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. Worrydolls sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Emoke sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Emoke holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Worrydolls has 15K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Worrydolls's written reviews are positive against 98% of Emoke's.
Worrydolls ships an update every 3 weeks, Emoke every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Worrydolls | Emoke |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (15K ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.8% of reviews | 98.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 241 MB | 145 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Peter Wieben | Wenxiu Huang |
Customer experience
Worrydolls
Emoke
Bugs and requests
Worrydolls
Reported bugs
2 issues- App freezing when reaching character limit
- Inconsistent behavior with locking/unlocking the app
Requested features
5 requests- Remove character limit for writing worries
- Add ability to edit, delete, or organize past worries
- Implement more customization options for worry dolls
- Incorporate AI-powered responses or advice from dolls
- Add sorting/filtering options for past worries
Emoke
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Worrydolls
- Magic Mode7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Magic Mode - Yearly$24.991 Year
- Magic Mode One Time Unlock$69.99
Emoke
- emoke Pro (Monthly)$1.991 Month
- emoke Pro (Lifetime)$9.99









