Thinky vs mood!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Thinky
This app offers a secure and simple way to journal your thoughts and feelings. It automatically classifies your mood, provides writing prompts, and allows for cloud backup. Track your emotional patterns with visual graphs and set reminders to build a consistent journaling habit.
- Automatic mood classification
- End-to-end encryption
- Writing prompts
- Cloud backup and sync
- Photo attachments
- Daily reminders
- Visual mood graph
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Say hello to effortless journaling with Thinky, the beautifully simple and secure free journal. Take the guess work out of your thoughts and feelings as automatic mood classification tracks life’s ups and downs, leaving you time to focus on what really matters. Start the habit of a lifetime with Thinky, with your wellbeing at heart. More Thinky features: - Safely tuck your thoughts away with our state-of-the-art end-to-end encryption, keeping your private feelings just that: private. - Not sure where to start? Thinky’s writing prompts will help you focus on your wellbeing and remove that blank-page fear. - Create your free account to securely backup and sync your entries to the cloud - Add a splash of colour to your timeline and bring your posts to life with a photo, perfect for those times when words aren't enough. - Complete your post in a few seconds thanks to our simple, no-fuss interface, perfect for journaling on-the-go. - Never miss an entry: build the habit of daily journaling with reminders and streaks to incentivise you to keep up your practice. - Take the guess work out of your emotions and let Thinky’s automatic mood classification do all the hard work for you. - With each post, grow your bespoke visual mood graph and see how your mood ebbs and flows over time. - Take a moment for reflection, and ask Thinky to remind you of special posts at a future date. - Search your entries quickly and easily and see if you can spot patterns in your thoughts. - See in the dark with Dark Mode, perfect for late night journaling. - Keep your journal private with the Face ID lock. Now is the time to focus on you: download Thinky, your intuitive mindfulness companion.
mood!
This app provides a private space to log your emotions, reflect on your day, and share your feelings with friends. It offers daily mood tracking, inspirational quotes, and features to foster connection and self-awareness.
- Daily mood tracking
- Emotional pattern analysis
- Connect with friends feature
- Curated quotes and content
- Habit building with streaks
- Widgets for quick access
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mood! is your digital safe-space to track how you feel, reflect on your day, and stay connected with the people who matter most. Build a daily habit with quick mood tracking, streaks, and widgets that help you understand your emotional patterns over time. With “Connect with Friends”, you can share your recent mood with close friends and see how they’ve been feeling too - creating quiet, pressure-free awareness in everyday life. Get inspired through curated quotes and uplifting content designed to shift your perspective, improve your mindset, and support you through different moments in life. mood! helps you stay consistent, reflect more often, and feel more connected - to yourself and to others :)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: mood! at none against Thinky's shown. Thinky's advantage is ratings volume (95 vs 5) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Thinky sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and mood! sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Thinky against 4.6 for mood!. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Thinky has 95 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 84% of Thinky's written reviews are positive against 86% of mood!'s.
Thinky ships an update every 2 weeks, mood! every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Thinky | mood! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (95 ratings) — better | 4.6 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.3% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 95 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thinky Ltd | Moritz Breuer |
Customer experience
Thinky
mood!
Bugs and requests
Thinky
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes when navigating to past dates
- Privacy key not working for login
- Wind down and bedtime alerts not working
Requested features
14 requests- Increase word limit
- Ability to export entries
- Tagging entries for search
- Add a return button for new lines
- Bullet points feature
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- Edit past entries
- Add more features and color customization
- Ability to add entries to specific dates
- iPad version
- Pin separate from phone for access
- Dark mode
- Advanced analytics
- Change daily entry order (asc/desc)
- Previews for entries
mood!
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Thinky
- Coffee-sized tip$0.99
- Sandwich-sized tip$2.99
- Pizza-sized tip$4.99
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- A very generous tip$9.99
mood!
- mood!+ Monthly$1.991 Month
- mood!+ Yearly$12.991 Year
- Donate Banana$1.99
- Donate Coffee$3.99
- Donate Steak$14.99
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- mood!+$24.99








