Moleskine Journal vs GoBagPlus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Moleskine Journal
Record your life's moments with rich media, text entries, habit tracking, and mood logging. This app transforms journaling into a mindful ritual, offering prompts and visual depth to your memories.
- Text journal entries
- Custom and suggested prompts
- Habit tracker
- Rich media content
- Mood tracker
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Capture life’s moments with the Moleskine Journal app. More than a diary, Moleskine Journal allows you to add different media to each written entry, bringing texture, color and depth to your memories. Effortlessly capture your thoughts, showcase your favorite images, and log your mood and daily habits. Reflect on your experiences and personal growth with ease. Moleskine Journal transforms your journaling routine into a daily ritual that inspires consistency and mindfulness. This beautifully designed app is a powerful companion for your personal journey, always on hand to capture everything. Features: TEXT JOURNAL ENTRIES Easily capture your thoughts and experiences with intuitive text journal entries. Document your daily reflections and ideas with ease and simplicity. CUSTOM AND SUGGESTED PROMPTS Enhance your journaling with a selection of prompts from our extensive library or create custom prompts that align with your personal interests and goals. HABIT TRACKER Track your daily habits and routines with ease. Visualize your progress and stay motivated as you work toward building and maintaining positive habits. RICH MEDIA CONTENT Enrich your journal entries with diverse media content. Add images, videos, and audio to create a vibrant and engaging record of your life’s moments. MOOD TRACKER Monitor your emotional well-being with the mood tracker, allowing you to log your feelings and gain insights into your emotional patterns over time. Terms of Service: https://www.moleskineeveryday.com/terms
GoBagPlus
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GoBagPlus is your field-ready preparedness companion — designed by people who care about resilience without the paranoia. WHAT IT DOES • GO BAG TRACKER — Inventory every kit you own. Photos, categories, quantities. Expiry and rotation reminders at 30, 7, and 1 day so nothing rots in the bottom of the bag. • HOME RESERVE — Your pantry counterpart. Barcode-scan groceries on the way in. Photograph a receipt and Smart Capture extracts the items. Reserve items count toward your Go Bag's readiness — no double-counting. • SCENARIOS & KITS — Start from a scenario (72-hour home kit, family evacuation, power outage, pet emergency, and more). The Build Kit Wizard generates a tailored kit and auto-allocates items you already have. Your readiness score updates live as you add things. • HOUSEHOLD READINESS — One number across every scenario-backed bag. See what's expiring this month, what's overdue for maintenance, and which critical items are missing. Per-scenario rings show where the gaps are. • FAMILY PLANNER — Roster every adult, child, elderly relative, and pet. Health profiles, medication schedules with refill reminders, emergency and doctor contacts. Sensitive screens are gated by Face ID with a 5-minute unlock window so quick re-opens don't re-prompt. • OFFLINE LIBRARY — Curated public-domain preparedness content (Ready.gov, FEMA, CDC) downloadable per-item or in bulk per collection. Read everything offline once saved. • DISCOVER BOOKS — Search Project Gutenberg's catalogue from inside the app. Download books directly from Project Gutenberg, then import them into your private library. EPUB, PDF, TXT — read with the system reader. • DOCUMENTS VAULT — Encrypted private storage for passports, insurance, prescriptions, and medical letters. Biometric gate by default. • EXPORTS — Printable PDFs of your bag manifest, scenario checklists, emergency contacts wallet card, medication list, and full household inventory snapshot. WHAT IT WON'T DO • Sell paranoia. • Track you across apps. The app contains zero third-party analytics SDKs. • Resell your inventory data. Your private inventory lives in your iCloud private database — not our servers. • Hoard pirated PDFs. Every title in the curated library is public-domain or openly licensed, with the source recorded. HOW IT'S FUNDED A single Premium subscription — $4.99/month or $34.99/year, with a one-month free trial. We're a small independent studio (QuikTipz Limited, Ireland). Apple takes their cut; the rest pays for hosting, content curation, ongoing development, and answering every support email. Free forever for the basics: one Go Bag, the home pantry tracker, expiry reminders, and browsing the public catalogue. Upgrade when you want unlimited bags, the full library, the Build Kit Wizard, household readiness, and family planner. WHO IT'S FOR People who keep a kit by the door rather than dig a bunker. New parents who want a single place to track the family-emergency plan. Anyone who lives somewhere weather happens. The point of being prepared is so you don't spend the rest of your life worrying about it. LEGAL • Privacy policy: https://www.gobagplus.app/legal/privacy • Terms of use (EULA): https://www.gobagplus.app/legal/terms • Apple's standard EULA also applies: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple ID settings.
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Verdict
Moleskine Journal and GoBagPlus are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Moleskine Journal sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and GoBagPlus sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Moleskine Journal ships an update every 2 weeks, GoBagPlus every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Moleskine Journal | GoBagPlus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2.7K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 41.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2.7K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 232 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Moleskine Srl | QUIKTIPZ LIMITED |
Bugs and requests
Moleskine Journal
Reported bugs
5 issues- Tasks and events not syncing properly
- Journal entries disappearing or not saving
- App freezing and crashing on various devices
- Inability to delete or cancel account/subscription
- Photos not uploading or disappearing from entries
Requested features
5 requests- Add monthly calendar view
- Allow handwritten notes with Apple Pencil
- Integrate with Apple Reminders and Health
- Improve task management and recurring tasks
- Add more customization options
GoBagPlus
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Moleskine Journal
- Journal Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
- Bundle - Monthly Plan7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Journal Premium Annual Add-On7 Days trial$19.991 Year
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- Journal - Annual Flash Plan7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Bundle - Annual Welcome Plan7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Bundle - Annual Plan7 Days trial$39.991 Year
GoBagPlus
- GoBag+ Premium Monthly1 Month trial$4.991 Month
- GoBagPlus Premium Annual1 Month trial$34.991 Year
Questions
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