Comparison

Colgate Connect vs Heartspring Journal

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

Head to head
About

Colgate Connect

This app works with smart toothbrushes to track your brushing habits and provide personalized guidance for better oral hygiene. Earn points for improved brushing and whitening, redeemable for rewards. It offers guided sessions and can sync with other health apps.

Highlights
  • Personalized brushing guidance
  • Track brushing frequency, duration, and coverage
  • Real-time brushing improvement programs
  • Earn redeemable smile points
  • Offline brushing progress tracking
  • Sync with Apple Health
  • Smart toothbrush head reordering
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Go beyond the guesswork with Colgate Connect smart toothbrushes and connected app technology that combine to guide you to brush better. Every time you brush, sensors embedded in the handle track your progress and get to know your unique brushing style. The Colgate app uses that knowledge to provide personalized guidance to help you brush your best. All in the name of smiles. Get a brush with connections: -Brush better. Track the frequency, duration, and coverage of your unique brushing style to help you brush your best! -Guided brushing. Take charge of your daily oral hygiene with personalized programs that improve your brushing in real time. Make better brushing a no-brainer! -Reward yourself. Improve your brushing while earning points that are redeemable in the app’s shop for whatever items make you smile. These points give you added encouragement to keep you brushing your best, so you can enjoy rewarding results, every time you brush! -On or offline. With Colgate, you don’t always have to keep your phone by the sink. The Colgate smart toothbrush tracks your progress with or without the app open, so you never have to miss a beat—or a molar! -Enjoy your way. Fit Colgate into your life by choosing to use the Colgate App, Colgate Apple Watch App or save information to the Apple® Health App. -Smart reordering: Amazon Alexa can let you know when you need a replacement toothbrush head, or you can set up smart reorders so you always have brush heads when needed. - Transform how you whiten your smile! Get the most out of your whitening LED treatment with our Colgate app. With our app, you can set daily reminders to whiten, track your sessions and get whitening tips while earning smile points redeemable for Colgate products. Enjoy your whiter smile!

About

Heartspring Journal

This app helps you understand your emotions by analyzing your written or recorded journal entries. It identifies hidden feelings and organizes your thoughts by topic and emotion, fostering self-awareness and emotional intelligence.

Highlights
  • Emotion analysis from text and video
  • Personalized reflection prompts
  • Searchable emotional history
  • Topic and emotion-based organization
  • Video journaling
  • Home screen widget
Features
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Understand your emotions, remember how you felt, and build lasting self-awareness with Heartspring, the journal that reads between the lines. Write freely or record a video, and Heartspring reveals the emotions hidden in your words. No mood grids. No picking from a list. Just share what's on your mind, and discover what you're actually feeling. Share Your Story, Discover Your Emotions Open Heartspring, start writing or press record, and let your thoughts flow. Type about your day, vent about what's bothering you, or talk through what happened, however you express yourself best. Heartspring surfaces the emotions present in your words from a vocabulary of nearly 100. The feelings you couldn't name? Heartspring names them for you. Your Emotions, Revealed Heartspring shows you the emotions underneath. Not just "happy" or "sad," but the real nuance: resentment buried under frustration, hope hiding behind anxiety, tenderness you almost missed. Your entries are organized by the topics you shared and how each one made you feel. Reflection Prompts That Go Deeper Add the Heartspring widget to your Home Screen and your emotions will find you.New reflection prompt appear based on what you shared and the feelings we surfaced. Not "how are you feeling today?" but a question only your journal could ask, because it actually knows. Build Your Emotional Memory We remember what we did. We rarely remember how we felt. Every entry builds a searchable emotional history, a living record of your inner life. Look back and see when certain emotions show up, what triggers them, and how they evolve. This is emotional intelligence, built one entry at a time. Journal Your Way Write, record video, or add photos, whatever feels right. Track your streak, revisit past entries, and watch your self-awareness grow. Membership With the Heartspring Membership, unlock the full power of your emotional journey. Record video journal entries to capture the full depth of how you feel, search your entire journal by emotion, topic, or keyword, and access your complete emotion history to discover long-term patterns. Enrich your entries with tags like weather and location for added context, and add photos to capture the moment visually. Read more about our terms here: (https://www.iubenda.com/terms-and-conditions/12480733) Read more about our privacy policy here: (https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/12480733)

Screenshots

Colgate Connect4 screens
Heartspring Journal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Colgate Connect at 71% against Heartspring Journal's 35%. Colgate Connect also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). Heartspring Journal's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months). On price 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. Heartspring Journal sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Colgate Connect asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Colgate Connect holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Colgate Connect has 46K ratings behind it against 6.5K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Colgate Connect's written reviews are positive against 35% of Heartspring Journal's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Colgate Connect ships an update every 2 months, Heartspring Journal every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard9 real differences · 1 level
Colgate Connect versus Heartspring Journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterColgate ConnectHeartspring Journal
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (46K ratings) — better4.6 (6.5K ratings)
Positive reviews70.8% of reviews — better35.4% of reviews
Number of ratings46K — better6.5K
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size266 MB113 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperColgate-Palmolive CompanyOverlap Studios, Inc.

Customer experience

Colgate Connect

All ratings45,965 ratings
Positive97.2%
Neutral1.9%
Negative0.9%
Written reviews271 reviews
Positive70.8%
Neutral6.6%
Negative22.5%

Heartspring Journal

All ratings6,529 ratings
Positive87.9%
Neutral7.1%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews226 reviews
Positive35.4%
Neutral17.7%
Negative46.9%

User reviews

Colgate Connect

From 46K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💯 Excellent toothbrush
  • 🤩 Guided brushing is great
  • 💰 Earn points for rewards
  • 🧠 Motivates better brushing
  • 🧹 Cleans teeth thoroughly

Room to improve

  • 🐛 App connectivity issues
  • 🤔 Inaccurate brushing detection
  • 🚫 Removing useful features
  • 💸 Expensive shipping costs
  • 🕰️ Slow app performance

Heartspring Journal

From 6.5K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Easy to use
  • 👍 Helpful for mental health
  • 👍 Useful for journaling
  • 👍 Detailed reports on mood and day
  • 🔒 Secure with Face ID

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Buggy and crashes frequently
  • 🐛 Recording issues and lost entries
  • 🔒 Requires Face ID, no password option
  • 💰 Premium required for multiple entries per day

Bugs and requests

Colgate Connect

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • App crashes frequently
  • Offline brushing not recorded
  • Brushing streaks not working
  • Points not awarded consistently
  • Bluetooth connectivity problems

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add tongue brushing tracking
  • Allow manual brushing logging
  • Improve angle detection accuracy
  • Customize brushing order/pattern
  • Sync data across multiple devices
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  • Expand rewards/shop options

Heartspring Journal

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Recordings not saving
  • Freezing and crashing issues
  • Dictation not working properly
  • Inconsistent date/time tracking

Requested features

6 requests
  • Ability to edit and trim recordings
  • Option to choose own mood/feelings
  • Unlimited word count per entry
  • Ability to add entries for previous days
  • Export text from diary entries
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  • More customization options

In-app purchases

None

Colgate Connect

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Heartspring Journal

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly Member7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Yearly Member7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Yearly Member7 Days trial$69.991 Year

Questions

Is Colgate Connect free?
Colgate Connect is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Heartspring Journal free?
Heartspring Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Colgate Connect or Heartspring Journal?
Colgate Connect is rated higher. Colgate Connect averages 4.8 out of 5 from 46K ratings, while Heartspring Journal averages 4.6 from 6.5K ratings.
Do Colgate Connect or Heartspring Journal have ads?
Heartspring Journal shows ads; Colgate Connect does not.
Which is updated more often, Colgate Connect or Heartspring Journal?
Colgate Connect ships an update every 2 months, and Heartspring Journal every 9 days. Most recently, Colgate Connect was updated on October 31, 2026 and Heartspring Journal on October 31, 2026.

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