Comparison

Mood vs baseline

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Guided mood tracking
  • Identify feelings and needs
  • Written or spoken situation analysis
  • Discover hidden needs
  • Develop new life strategies
  • Track mood statistics and history
Features
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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.

About

baseline

This app offers a distraction-free journaling experience to help you understand your emotions and improve mental well-being. Track your mood, reflect on your feelings, and gain insights through weekly surveys and visualizations. Your data is encrypted and secured with a passphrase.

Highlights
  • Distraction-free journaling
  • Mood tracking with two scales
  • Upload pictures and screenshots
  • Journaling and mood log reminders
  • Weekly mental health surveys
  • Mood change visualizations
  • Passphrase data lock
  • Financial support fund
Features
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Understanding what you’re feeling and why is often way harder than it should be. baseline is here to help. By giving you a distraction-free, easy way to journal and track your mood, baseline gives you easy opportunities to write and reflect on what you’re feeling throughout the day. With time, you’ll start to understand yourself and your brain better. baseline is designed not just to help you write and reflect more often, but also to help you understand more about yourself and your mood over time. You’ll get mental health surveys and reviews each week, and we have beautiful visualizations across our app that are designed to help you better see what you’re going through and when you’re struggling. We know we’re dealing with really sensitive information here, so we’re committed to keeping your personal information 100% secure. Everything you write and upload to baseline is encrypted, so we can’t even see what you’ve written. You can also protect your data in-app against people who might have access to your device. Start journaling and mood tracking today with baseline. Features: - Write about how you’re feeling whenever you want, and rate your mood with two different scales - Upload pictures and screenshots to remember important moments - Set reminders to keep yourself accountable to your journaling and mental health goals - View all of your mood logs at a glance, and see how your mood changes over time - Take mental health surveys to track things like anxiety, depression, and stress over time - Lock your data with a passphrase to stop people who might have access to your device from reading it - Find mental health support, including financially with the baseline Gap Fund, which can help users cover “gaps” in their finances - 100% free, forever.

Screenshots

Mood4 screens
baseline4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: baseline at every 3 weeks against Mood's every 3 months. baseline also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and ratings volume (106 vs 12). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Mood against 4.7 for baseline. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: baseline has 106 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 92% of Mood's written reviews are positive against 86% of baseline's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mood ships an update every 3 months, baseline every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Mood versus baseline: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMoodbaseline
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (12 ratings) — better4.7 (106 ratings)
Positive reviews92.0% of reviews — better86.1% of reviews
Number of ratings12106 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.614.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFizzUpbaseline health

Customer experience

Mood

All ratings12 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive92.0%
Neutral8.0%
Negative0.0%

baseline

All ratings106 ratings
Positive92.5%
Neutral1.9%
Negative5.7%
Written reviews36 reviews
Positive86.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative13.9%

Bugs and requests

Mood

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

baseline

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Hourly logging reminders delete old ones after the 11th
  • App tells user they are not connected to the internet when they are
  • Audio recordings are erased instead of saved when internet connection fails
  • Blank white screen after opening app through notification and writing an entry
  • Entries deleted without warning

Requested features

9 requests
  • AI short summary of rants with generalized headlines
  • Sort notes by topic/category and tags
  • Aesthetic themes for personalization
  • Ability to edit recent logs
  • More interactive features like emoticons or affirmations
Show 4 more
  • Randomize notification time
  • Option to go back and log a skipped day
  • Allow Apple Silicon Macs to download the app
  • More advanced weekly recap features for healthcare team reporting

In-app purchases

None

Mood

No in-app purchases

None

baseline

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mood free?
Mood is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is baseline free?
baseline is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mood or baseline?
Mood is rated higher. Mood averages 4.8 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while baseline averages 4.7 from 106 ratings.
Do Mood or baseline have ads?
Neither Mood nor baseline shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mood or baseline?
Mood ships an update every 3 months, and baseline every 3 weeks. Most recently, Mood was updated on October 4, 2026 and baseline on October 2, 2026.

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