Daymood vs PaperWords
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Record emotions with intensity
- Log daily experiences
- Emoji, calendar, and list views
- Monthly emotion statistics
- Share feelings as images
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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.
PaperWords
Capture thoughts and memories with a simulated paper writing experience. Decorate notes with patterns, stickers, and photos to make recordings more personal and ceremonial. Generate unique images for social media sharing.
- Simulated paper writing experience
- Decorate notes with patterns and stickers
- Attach photos to notes
- Generate personalized images for social media
- Multiple writing modes
- iCloud multi-device synchronization
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The feeling brought by simulated paper. Write a few lines of text on a small note. Decorate with favorite patterns. Let the text become warmer. Make recording more ceremonial. What you can do too: Attach the photo to a small note. Decorate with stickers again. The photos have also become better looking! #Function [+] Written records: you can use it to write journals, diaries, poems, etc. [+] It can generate personalized pictures, which you can use to post on social platforms. [+] Three modes can be selected: Single-line Mode, Paper-piece Mode, Paper-photo Mode. [+] Various decorations, background colors, character colors and fonts for you to choose. [+] iCloud realizes multi device synchronization, and diary data will never be lost (iOS13 and above system support). #Suggestions [+] Email: ghymail@foxmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Daymood at 93% against PaperWords's 50%. Daymood also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). PaperWords's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, 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
Both are free to download. PaperWords sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Daymood asks for nothing beyond the download.
Daymood holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 93% of Daymood's written reviews are positive against 50% of PaperWords's.
Daymood ships an update every 4 days, PaperWords every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Daymood | PaperWords |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.5 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 92.9% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sung Sil Oh | 洪跃 管 |
Customer experience
Daymood
PaperWords
In-app purchases
Daymood
No in-app purchases
PaperWords
- Unlimited Storage$0.99
- Single-line Mode$1.99
- Paper-photo Mode$2.99
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- PaperWords PRO$3.99
