Reify vs Strive Journal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Reify
This app helps you visualize and achieve your financial goals by letting you create virtual savings targets. You can contribute extra money whenever you save, and even share your goals with friends for mutual motivation. Once a goal is met, you can enjoy the reward together.
- Create unlimited saving goals
- Visualize abstract goals
- Contribute extra money to goals
- Share goals with friends
- Cross-platform account access
- Dark mode support
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Reify is an app that allows you to create virtual goals you can contribute to whenever you catch yourself having extra money (such as when you stop yourself from that fifth bubble tea this week). Finding it hard and a little lonely to do this alone? Share your goals with friends. Motivate each other. Spend it all together when the goal has been reached. Achieving your monetary goals has never been easier. Fully free. Features: - Create as many goals as you need. - Cross platform; create an account and access your goals across the platforms supported by Reify - Dark mode support Reify; [verb] make (something abstract) more concrete or real.
Strive Journal
This app helps you achieve your long-term goals through structured planning, journaling, and supportive exercises. Track your progress, share your journey with others, and reflect on your achievements.
- Goal setting and planning
- Progress journaling
- Shareable goals
- Daily Gratitude exercises
- Affirmations
- Dear Future Self letters
- Wheel of Life assessment
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Increase your chance of achieving your long term goals and/or help others achieve theirs. Goal setting & Journaling Set goals, make a plan, visualize and stay focused. These are the key ingredients to achieving long-term goals. Write about your progress and look back on your life with appreciation on what you have achieved. Share your goals with friends and family, or keep them private for yourself. Add extra incentive to achieve your goals or the goals of others by adding supports. Once the objective has been finished, you choose to give it or not. Strive Journal comes with several exercises to increase your chance of succeeding: - Daily Gratitude - Affirmations - Dear Future Self - Wheel of Life Daily Gratitude A daily practice to focus on the positive instead of the negative Affirmations Set affirmations for yourself to embed beliefs and activate the law of attraction Dear Future Self Write letters to your future self. Predict what your future will look like and by visualizing and writing about it, increase your chance of actually getting there. Wheel of Life Discover which area in your life needs extra attention and set goals for this. Track your progress over the long term
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Strive Journal at 5.0 against Reify's 4.5. Reify's advantage is update cadence (daily vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). 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.
Strive Journal holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Reify ships an update daily, Strive Journal fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Reify | Strive Journal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kar Rui Lau | Remco Simonides |
Customer experience
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In-app purchases
Reify
No in-app purchases
Strive Journal
No in-app purchases









