Comparison

Monotter vs Daymood

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

Head to head
About

Monotter

This private life-logging app allows you to record brief, diary-like texts that are never shared online. Your entries form a personal timeline, with features like search, location tracking, and status prefixes to organize your thoughts and activities.

Highlights
  • Private life-logging
  • Timeline view of entries
  • Powerful search by hashtag, place, rating
  • Automatic location tracking
  • Status prefixes for tasks
  • Calendar export for events
  • Todo management with checkboxes
Features
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Monotter is a private life-logging app that lets you jot down and store brief, diary-like texts—never shared online. Your accumulated notes form a Timeline, and each individual note is called an Entry. Keep your thoughts and activities securely recorded for personal reflection. • Powerful Search: Filter entries by hashtag, place, or rating • Location Tracking: Automatically record where you make an entry and name places to auto-label future entries at the same location • Status Prefixes: Prepend /start, /end, /todo, or /done to mark “start”, “end”, “todo”, or “done” states • Calendar Export: Export paired /start–end entries as events to iOS Calendar • Todo Management: Display a checkbox on to-do entries—tap to mark as done • Rating System: Tap to rate entries and sort your timeline by date or rating Features: • Apple Watch Support: Add entries from your watch and launch via a complication • Siri Shortcuts: Automate entries with voice, NFC tags, or time-based triggers • Widget: Show your latest or highest-rated entry on the home screen Unlock the 1,000-entry limit with an in-app purchase.

About

Daymood

Track your daily emotions using five distinct feelings and their intensity levels. Log your experiences alongside your feelings and visualize your emotional patterns through various views and monthly statistics. Share your emotional journey as images.

Highlights
  • Record emotions with intensity
  • Log daily experiences
  • Emoji, calendar, and list views
  • Monthly emotion statistics
  • Share feelings as images
Features
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Record your day with five emotions. You can record feelings of joy, sadness, anger, irritability, or fear. Each emotion can also record the intensity from 1 to 100. Just press the emoji just as you feel it. You can record not only feelings but also what happened at that time. Record what emotions and things you have experienced. You can view your emotions in emoji, calendar, and list views. Choose a viewing mode that is comfortable or enjoyable. Provides statistics of monthly emotions. You can see how you felt for a month. You can share your feelings alone. Share your emoji and calendar as images and share with your friends.

Screenshots

Monotter4 screens
Daymood4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Daymood at Free against Monotter's $1.99. Daymood also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.3) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Monotter's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On ads and device support 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

Daymood is free to download; Monotter costs $1.99 up front. Monotter sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Daymood asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Daymood holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Monotter's written reviews are positive against 93% of Daymood's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Monotter ships an update every 2 months, Daymood every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Monotter versus Daymood: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMonotterDaymood
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating3.3 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews92.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB62 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSmallmakeSung Sil Oh

Customer experience

Monotter

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Daymood

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews28 reviews
Positive92.9%
Neutral7.1%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Monotter

One-time1
  • Monotter Unlock$1.99
None

Daymood

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Monotter free?
Monotter costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Daymood free?
Daymood is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Monotter or Daymood?
Daymood is rated higher. Monotter averages 3.3 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Daymood averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Monotter or Daymood have ads?
Neither Monotter nor Daymood shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Monotter or Daymood?
Monotter ships an update every 2 months, and Daymood every 4 days. Most recently, Monotter was updated on November 3, 2026 and Daymood on November 7, 2026.

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