Comparison

Haptic vs Guided Journaling

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

Head to head
About

Haptic

This app helps you build new habits and track your progress by monitoring your daily actions and recording your thoughts and feelings. Analyze your behavior, form positive routines, and become a more disciplined individual with its user-friendly interface and privacy-focused design.

Highlights
  • Track daily actions and habits
  • Record feelings and thoughts
  • Analyze action statistics
  • Form new habits
  • Minimalistic interface
  • Data stored locally
  • Apple Health integration
Features
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Do you want to form new habits and track your progress? Haptic is an ideal helper for monitoring actions and habit formation. Keep track of your actions, record your feelings and thoughts, make new habits and become a better person! Life is defined by the actions we make. Everything matters – the books you read, the kilometers you ran and even every glass you drank early in the morning. Actions form us so it’s important to keep control of them and start good habits based on your actions. Together with Haptic you can: - pick categories of habits (reading books, listening to podcasts, watching movies and series, doing sport), make new actions and record your daily ones in different categories to form habits. - become more disciplined and analyze which actions your life consists of. - record your progress and feelings of sticking to good habits and eliminating the unhealthy ones. How does Haptic work? Research shows that after a number of attempts people still fail to form a new habit. Our app will help you stay on track thanks to action tracking, recording your feelings and thoughts and accurate action statistics for different periods of time. Benefits: - Minimalistic, trendy and nice interface. - Unconditional confidentiality. All the added information is stored on your device only. - No advertising or any other unnecessary notifications. - Convenient integration in Apple Health, Apple Music, Spotify apps. Free and premium accounts You can use Haptic for free. You will need a subscription to create more than 5 user categories, access to extended statistics and unique app icons (to your mood, weather and wallpapers). Contact us Do you have any questions or ideas on how to improve the app? Contact us at haptichq@gmail.com Privacy Policy: hapticapp.com Terms of Use: hapticapp.com Keep your actions under control, form habits and become the best version of yourself!

About

Guided Journaling

This app helps you reflect on your life, form habits, and reduce stress through personalized guided journaling. Analyze trends with over 60 charts, manage tags, and set goals with reminders. Secure your data with on-device encryption and cloud sync.

Highlights
  • Personalized guided journals
  • Habit formation and goal setting
  • Mood and activity tracking
  • Data analysis with 60+ charts
  • On-device encryption and secure backup
  • Export data in multiple formats
Features
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Discover past trends, celebrate now, and take control of your future with the most personalizable guided journal app Features: -Record anything in one place, reflect on your life, form habits, reduce stress, sleep better, feel calmer, and happier through guided journaling -Over 50 ready-to-use mindful journals or create your own custom guided journals to keep consistent journals with text, number, currency, and time fields -Easily create and manage tags for regularly used things such as moods, feelings, activities, and people -Quantity, summary, and time-based goals and reminders to help you to form habits and to be more consistent -More than 60 charts to analyze mood, goals, tracked time, expenses, locations, tags, template answers, and more -Slide along all your previously geotagged entries on the map -Grid view to quickly compare all your answers between different days, weeks, months, and years -On-device encryption and secure backup and sync between your devices with your own encryption key and dropbox account -Look back at your entries with throwbacks -Images on the calendar and map -Export in PDF, JSON, TXT, KML, CSV -Dark mode -Passcode lock

Screenshots

Haptic4 screens
Guided Journaling4 screens

Verdict

The call

Haptic and Guided Journaling both sit at 4.3 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Guided Journaling's written reviews are positive against 54% of Haptic's. Haptic's advantage is ratings volume (15 vs 5). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Haptic sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month and Guided Journaling sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Haptic against 4.4 for Guided Journaling. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 5 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 54% of Haptic's written reviews are positive against 100% of Guided Journaling's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Haptic ships an update every 3 weeks, Guided Journaling every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 11, 2026 and August 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Haptic versus Guided Journaling: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHapticGuided Journaling
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (15 ratings)4.4 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews53.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings15 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB52 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexey SekachovDominik Gyecsek

Customer experience

Haptic

All ratings15 ratings
Positive73.3%
Neutral20.0%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews26 reviews
Positive53.8%
Neutral30.8%
Negative15.4%

Guided Journaling

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Haptic

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Membership7 Days trial$1.491 Month
  • Annual subscription7 Days trial$12.991 Year
2 purchases

Guided Journaling

Subscriptions1
  • DoEntry Monthly Plan$1.491 Month
One-time1
  • Doentry Pro Lifetime$40.99

Questions

Is Haptic free?
Haptic is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Guided Journaling free?
Guided Journaling is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Haptic or Guided Journaling?
Guided Journaling is rated higher. Haptic averages 4.3 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while Guided Journaling averages 4.4 from 5 ratings.
Do Haptic or Guided Journaling have ads?
Neither Haptic nor Guided Journaling shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Haptic or Guided Journaling?
Haptic ships an update every 3 weeks, and Guided Journaling every 2 weeks. Most recently, Haptic was updated on September 11, 2026 and Guided Journaling on August 11, 2026.

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