Mood vs Inner Giraffe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mood
This app helps you understand your emotions by tracking your mood and identifying underlying feelings and needs. It offers guided analysis of situations, providing relief and suggesting new life strategies for improved well-being and joy.
- Guided mood tracking
- Identify feelings and needs
- Written or spoken situation analysis
- Discover hidden needs
- Develop new life strategies
- Track mood statistics and history
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Mood – Track your mood, uncover hidden needs, and find calm Mood’s mission is to analyze your moods and shed light on what they truly mean. Behind every mood lie feelings and needs, often unconscious. Recognizing them brings relief—because most needs simply want to be identified and named! This emotional hygiene, still little known, is a powerful lever for well-being: when we learn to identify our needs, we can ease inner tension and transform how we experience difficult situations. With Mood, you get: - Guided mood tracking: Share your mood, and Mood suggests the associated feelings and needs to help you understand what you’re going through. - Written or spoken situation analysis: Describe a troubling situation; Mood identifies the hidden feelings and needs, then reformulates your experience clearly—free from judgment and limiting beliefs. - Immediate relief: Often, simply expressing a need is enough to ease inner tension. - New life strategies: Mood helps you take a step back and adopt new ways of responding, transforming your habits, broadening your perspective, and experiencing situations differently. - Statistics and history: Track your moods and well-being over time. Mood is the first app that deciphers your mood to uncover hidden needs, bring you relief, and support you in evolving your life strategies—so you can experience situations differently, take care of yourself, and access more joy.
Inner Giraffe
This app helps users practice self-empathy using principles of nonviolent communication (NVC). It provides a convenient way to learn and practice new communication skills, especially for those who grew up in challenging environments.
- Self-empathy practice
- Nonviolent communication (NVC)
- Convenient learning tool
- Vocabulary practice
- Empathy skill development
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Practice self empathy with nonviolent communication (NVC). For those of us who grew up in a dysfunctional environment, learning to communicate with empathy is like learning a new language, and practicing new vocabulary is part of the journey. This app is designed to make the practice as convenient as possible.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Inner Giraffe at fortnightly against Mood's every 3 months. Inner Giraffe also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Inner Giraffe holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 92% of Mood's written reviews are positive against 100% of Inner Giraffe's.
Mood ships an update every 3 months, Inner Giraffe fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mood | Inner Giraffe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (12 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 12.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FizzUp | Edwin Liu |
Customer experience
Mood
Inner Giraffe
In-app purchases
Mood
No in-app purchases
Inner Giraffe
No in-app purchases









