Guided Journaling vs Recs
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Guided Journaling
This app helps you reflect on your life, form habits, and reduce stress through personalized guided journaling. Analyze trends with over 60 charts, manage tags, and set goals with reminders. Secure your data with on-device encryption and cloud sync.
- Personalized guided journals
- Habit formation and goal setting
- Mood and activity tracking
- Data analysis with 60+ charts
- On-device encryption and secure backup
- Export data in multiple formats
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Discover past trends, celebrate now, and take control of your future with the most personalizable guided journal app Features: -Record anything in one place, reflect on your life, form habits, reduce stress, sleep better, feel calmer, and happier through guided journaling -Over 50 ready-to-use mindful journals or create your own custom guided journals to keep consistent journals with text, number, currency, and time fields -Easily create and manage tags for regularly used things such as moods, feelings, activities, and people -Quantity, summary, and time-based goals and reminders to help you to form habits and to be more consistent -More than 60 charts to analyze mood, goals, tracked time, expenses, locations, tags, template answers, and more -Slide along all your previously geotagged entries on the map -Grid view to quickly compare all your answers between different days, weeks, months, and years -On-device encryption and secure backup and sync between your devices with your own encryption key and dropbox account -Look back at your entries with throwbacks -Images on the calendar and map -Export in PDF, JSON, TXT, KML, CSV -Dark mode -Passcode lock
Recs
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A home for your taste. The things you love are scattered across the internet - movies on Netflix, restaurants on Maps, books on Goodreads, articles in tabs you'll never reopen. Recs brings them together into a beautiful collection you can share. Recs is not a bookmarking tool. Bookmarks are storage - things you save and forget. Recs is curation - things you choose because they're worth recommending. Think Spotify playlists, but for everything. A Rec is anything worth recommending - a movie, a restaurant, an article, a product, a place. A Deck is a curated collection of Recs around a theme - something you're proud to share. Save from anywhere - one tap from any app using the share button. Every Rec becomes a visual card with image, title, and domain logo. Create Decks, follow people with great taste, and discover Recs from people you trust. People don't follow links. They follow taste.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Recs at none against Guided Journaling's 2. Recs also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks). Guided Journaling's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads and device support 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. Guided Journaling sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Recs asks for nothing beyond the download.
Guided Journaling ships an update every 2 weeks, Recs weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Guided Journaling | Recs |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Dominik Gyecsek | Praveen Ilangovan |
In-app purchases
Guided Journaling
- DoEntry Monthly Plan$1.491 Month
- Doentry Pro Lifetime$40.99
Recs
No in-app purchases
Questions
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