Murmur vs Mood Button
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Murmur
This app allows you to record your daily thoughts and feelings using your voice. An AI companion listens, transcribes your words, and provides a warm reply. It offers mood tracking, a daily question prompt, and a yearly recap of your entries.
- Voice recording and transcription
- AI companion replies
- Emotion analysis and mood tracking
- Daily question prompts
- Home screen widgets
- Yearly recap
- App lock and cloud backup
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How was your day today? Some moments are hard to write down, but easy to say. Murmur is a private AI voice diary that captures your day in your own voice. Speak your thoughts, feelings, and stories — and an AI companion quietly listens and writes back. ■ Just Speak, It Becomes a Diary Tap a date on the calendar or press the + button to start recording. Pick one of five emotions and tell the story of your day. You can customize the emotions to fit you. ■ An AI Companion That Writes Back When you save an entry, AI listens to your voice, reads the emotion in it, and leaves you a warm reply. Comfort on hard days, shared joy on good ones. ■ Voice to Text, Feelings to Insights Your words are transcribed automatically, with a summary, keywords, and emotion analysis. The monthly report shows how your mood flowed through the month. ■ Question of the Day On days you don't know what to say, a fresh daily question opens the conversation. It can even remember yesterday's story and ask what happened next. ■ Warmth Streak The more consistently you record, the more warmth you build. Murmur helps your daily reflection become a habit. ■ Widgets on Your Home Screen See this month's moods at a glance with the emotion calendar widget. ■ Your Year, Wrapped At the end of the year, Murmur gathers your voices and emotions into a personal recap. Turn favorite moments into emotion cards and share them with friends. ■ Private and Safe Protect your space with app lock (PIN and biometrics), and keep your entries safe across devices with cloud backup. ■ Murmur Premium - Recording time 10 → 20 minutes - AI emotion analysis, summary & keywords - Replies from your AI companion - Photo attachments & monthly report - Cloud backup - No ads Your voice is your most honest diary. Start telling your story today.
Mood Button
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Mood Button is a private voice mood journal for iPhone. Apple MLX runs Qwen3 on device to shape short voice notes into a journal, summary, mood signal, and searchable keywords. No account and no ads. Recording, review, search, and export stay free. One button for quick notes · Hold to record, release to save · Apple Speech is used to turn recordings into text · The day gradually becomes a readable journal draft On-device AI journal shaping · Qwen3 model weights are bundled with the app · Journal generation runs locally on supported physical iPhone devices · Useful for moods, small moments, ideas, tasks, and things you want to find later Calendar, search, and review · Review recent days on a simple calendar · Find small things you mentioned with keyword search · Export local records for backup or personal organization Privacy and optional skins · Recordings, diary text, search terms, and skin preferences stay on this iPhone · Optional weather uses Open-Meteo after Location permission · Hamster Heart is included by default; more home skins are available as a one-time purchase This app is for personal journaling only and does not provide professional advice. It simply helps turn everyday voice notes into a private journal you can revisit.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Mood Button at none against Murmur's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Murmur sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Mood Button sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Murmur | Mood Button |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (82 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 61.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 82 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 1.1 GB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Junhyeok Heo | 渊博 胡 |
Bugs and requests
Murmur
Reported bugs
15 issues- 🐛 Ads appearing after payment
- 🐛 App not working or crashing
- 🐛 Recording not saving or stopping prematurely
- 🐛 Unable to access recordings after changing phones (sync issues)
- 🐛 App crashing on older devices
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- 🐛 No audio playback for recordings
- 🐛 Cannot continue recording after pausing, restarts instead
- 🐛 App not picking up voice or static sound
- 🐛 Doesn't work with AirPods
- 🐛 Recordings not appearing in iPhone files
- 🐛 App crashing on boot
- 🐛 Lost PIN requires email reset, no automatic system
- 🐛 Recording doesn't work with AirPods
- 🐛 Cannot get into the app without setting a PIN
- 🐛 Performance unstable recently, freezing or stopping recordings
Requested features
23 requests- Add ability to download voice files with text and keywords
- Allow viewing other users' voice notes (SNS-like feature)
- Enable shared voice diary management
- Add text input option for recording
- Allow transcription of voice recordings to text
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- Improve date change and editing functionality
- Implement background recording and playback
- Add horizontal mode for iPad use
- Integrate 'notes' feature for emotional context or additional text
- Allow increasing playback speed of voice notes
- Add tags for diary entries for better organization
- Implement dark mode
- Add Touch ID for app lock
- Add text-to-speech feature
- Allow multiple voice entries per day
- Add fingerprint unlock for app settings
- Increase recording time or remove limit
- Add ability to add multiple recordings to one day
- Allow adding more to a recording after pausing
- Add option to customize emotion colors
- Allow weeks to start on Mondays
- Enable recording with AirPods
- Add Face ID unlock
Mood Button
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Murmur
- Monthly Subscription Pass$2.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription Pass$29.991 Year
- Server Synchronization$0.99
- Remove Ads$1.99
Mood Button
- Unlock Home Skins$1.99









