Waffle vs Deepwell

Waffle is the #1 shared journal app for staying connected and getting to know your partner, family, friends, or anyone you care about better. By journaling together on Waffle, you and your journal members will feel seen, heard, and loved. THE BEST SHARED JOURNAL APP Waffle lets you practice self-care together with your favorite people. Journaling consistently can be hard on your own, but it's easier and more fun together, like sharing a warm, fluffy waffle. Share photos and videos to tell them about your day, record memories, and capture the little things that might otherwise be forgotten—all in one journal. STAY UPDATED LIFE UPDATES "Documenting our married life together -- the highs, lows, and little things in between" - Amber "I love when I get notifications" - Karla No matter how far apart you are or how busy your day is, Waffle lets you take intentional moments to connect. Open the Waffle app at the end of the day, unwind, and share your story. If you thought about them during the day, let them know in your journal entry! WAFFLE TIME "When my friend says "Waffle time, people!" at the end of the day, my face lights up" - Lucy "Especially helped my girlfriend to recenter at the end of the day and see the many good parts of life that are easily drowned out." - Herman WAFFLE OF THE DAY QUESTIONS "Get to know each other better even though we've been married for 20 years" - Faith "It's a form of therapy. Brought me and my sister closer than ever." - Rita Waffle of the Day questions are designed to strengthen your relationships. By answering them each day, you and your journal members will get to know each other better. It helps you understand what's on their mind and lets them know what's on yours. Waffle makes sharing easy, with no pressure, in a relaxed and non-confrontational way. AESTHETIC JOURNAL COVERS "Allowed me and my mom to connect on a deeper level" - Cecilia "Allows me to vent in a constructive way" - Isabella Your everyday tool should be pretty and aesthetically pleasing. Choose the cover that lifts your spirits the most. Waffle can help you if you are: • A long-distance couple • A military family staying connected during deployment • Looking to make therapy sessions more effective by sharing your day-to-day events and feelings with your therapist • A mother and daughter communicating better in a non-confrontational way • Reuniting and staying connected with your childhood friends • Trying to stay off social media and focus on the relationships that matter most • Strengthening your faith through a prayer journal • Reconnecting after a long marriage • An engaged couple getting ready for married life • Offering emotional support to your best friend • Making parenting or co-parenting easier • Sharing your baby photos with context • Practicing gratitude in a group • Dealing with an eating disorder • Increasing sexual intimacy in your relationship • In a long-distance relationship, struggling with time differences • Looking to improve couple therapy • Looking to connect with your children A NEW FORM OF THERAPY "It's a therapy for us" - Mariah "Extra helpful for my therapy sessions" - Isabella "Honestly this app is helping us more than our marriage counseling did" - Holly We believe that shared journaling is a new form of therapy that can restore meaningful human connections—connections that are essential to our emotional health and well-being but are rapidly disappearing in our society. With Waffle Plus, you’ll be able to: • Add photos and videos to any entry • Record and attach voice memos • Unlock unlimited premium daily question decks • Choose from our entire collection of premium covers • Export your journal as a printable PDF Say hi at support@journal.com or visit wafflejournal.com. Terms: https://www.wafflejournal.com/terms Privacy policy: https://www.wafflejournal.com/privacy-policy

Every other shadow work app hands you a deck of prompts. You work through it, and once you've seen the cards, the app becomes a plain diary. Deepwell doesn't have a deck. You write the thing you keep turning over — the argument, the flash of envy, the moment you went quiet and didn't know why. Deepwell reads what you actually wrote and asks one question that follows from it, in your own words. Not the next card. A question that could only have been asked about your entry. Answer it, or keep it for later. Either way it's yours. THE PATTERN MAP Over weeks, the same things start to resurface under different circumstances. Deepwell finds them and builds you a map: each recurring theme hanging at a depth set by how often it has come back and how long it has persisted, threaded to the entries it came from — with your own sentences as the evidence. A theme that has followed you for eight months sits visibly deeper than one from last week. Nothing is invented. Every pattern is quoted from something you wrote. WHAT'S IN IT • One generated follow-up question per entry, written from your text • The Pattern Map — recurring themes by depth, with the entries behind each one • Threads that keep an entry, its question and your answer together • Everything stored on your device, with no account and no sync • Export everything as plain text, any time FREE AND FULL DEPTH Writing is never limited. The free tier includes three generated questions a week and the two shallowest patterns on your map. Full Depth removes the ceiling: unlimited questions, every pattern at every depth, a written read on how each one moves over time, and export. A NOTE ON WHAT THIS ISN'T Deepwell is a journal. It doesn't assess, diagnose or treat anything, and it isn't a substitute for a therapist or a doctor. If your writing keeps taking you somewhere hard, that's worth saying to a person — crisis lines are in Settings, always. Terms of Use (EULA): https://killex00.github.io/tos2 Privacy Policy: https://killex00.github.io/privacy-policy2 Deepwell Full Depth is an auto-renewable subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the period ending. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings.