Comparison

Murmur vs Mood Button

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Mood Button

Features
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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.

Screenshots

Murmur4 screens
Mood Button4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Murmur versus Mood Button: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMurmurMood Button
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (82 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews61.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings82 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB1.1 GB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJunhyeok 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

4 purchases

Murmur

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription Pass$2.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription Pass$29.991 Year
One-time2
  • Server Synchronization$0.99
  • Remove Ads$1.99
1 purchases

Mood Button

One-time1
  • Unlock Home Skins$1.99

Questions

Is Murmur free?
Murmur is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mood Button free?
Mood Button is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Murmur or Mood Button have ads?
Murmur shows ads; Mood Button does not.

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