Thinky vs Quick Journal
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.
Quick Journal
This app offers a straightforward journaling experience with extensive customization options. Personalize themes, fonts, icons, and layouts to create your ideal digital notebook. Widgets and draft saving features enhance usability for daily reflection.
- Customizable themes and fonts
- App icon and layout personalization
- Home screen widgets
- Save entries as drafts
- Copy and share entries
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Quick Journal is the simplest way to keep a journal. You can customize your journal's theme, fonts, app icon, layout, and even where the composer button is placed. To help you write or keep track of your entries, the app features widgets you can put on your home screen. You can copy or share your entries. You can always come back to an entry later by saving it as a draft, just swipe down and the entry will be saved. Hope you enjoy! EULA https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Quick Journal at none against Thinky's 4. Quick Journal also leads on ads (none vs shown). Thinky's advantage is ratings volume (89 vs 24) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 17.4). 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. Quick Journal asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Thinky against 4.7 for Quick Journal. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 89 and 24 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 84% of Thinky's written reviews are positive against 86% of Quick Journal's.
Thinky ships an update every 2 weeks, Quick Journal every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 7, 2026.
| Parameter | Thinky | Quick Journal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (89 ratings) — better | 4.7 (24 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.3% of reviews | 86.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 89 — better | 24 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 17.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thinky Ltd | Charlie Deets |
Customer experience
Thinky
Quick Journal
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
Quick Journal
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
Quick Journal
No in-app purchases
