Self vs Mood Journal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Self
This app helps you conduct self-experiments to understand the impact of behavioral changes on your health, wellness, and productivity. It provides tools to set up trials, track outcomes, and gain personalized insights through automated analysis and daily reminders.
- Conduct self-experiments
- Track behavioral outcomes
- Gain personalized insights
- Automated statistical analysis
- Daily check-in reminders
- Data-driven self-improvement
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Self-experimentation is the process of conducting trials where you are both the researcher and the subject. Through modifying your behaviors and reporting outcomes, you can gain concrete insights into the efficacy of whatever self-improvement you seek to make. Self-experimentation is a data-driven way to gain ultra-personal insights into the driving factors behind your health, wellness, and productivity. Through Self-E, you can set up experiments, view your data, and attain individualized insights through automated statistical analysis. Self-E sends daily reminders to check in so that your experiment stays consistent and structured.
Mood Journal
This app helps you track your feelings, reflect on your days, and gain clarity about your life. It combines emotional awareness, daily reflection, habits, and goals into one simple system for intentional living.
- Emotion picker for logging feelings
- Daily journaling and reflection
- Mood and emotion tracking
- Habit and goal tracking
- Monthly and yearly mood charts
- Notes, photos, and tags for memories
- Reminders for consistency
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Plan and understand your daily life with MoodPath. MoodPath helps you track your feelings, reflect on your days, gain clarity about your life, and get better moods. Using the emotion wheel, you can easily name what you feel, understand your patterns, and grow through mindful reflection. This is more than a journal. MoodPath combines emotional awareness, daily reflection, habits, and goals into one simple system for intentional living. About the App Start a journey of self-understanding with MoodPath. More than a diary, it is your personal emotion-based journal designed to help you recognize what you feel, why you feel it, and how it shapes your life. Log your emotions with the emotion wheel, write about your day, track habits, set goals, and see patterns over time. MoodPath brings together emotional awareness, self-care, and reflection in one clear and powerful daily tool. Benefits - Understand your feelings using the emotion picker - Increase awareness of your mood, behavior, and lifestyle - Gain clarity by seeing emotional and life patterns over time - Build better habits and reach meaningful goals - Save memories with daily reflections and photos - Reduce stress by understanding emotional triggers - Stay motivated with affirmations and inspiration - Grow through structured self-reflection Features - Emotion picker to accurately log your feelings - Fast and intuitive daily journaling - Mood and emotion tracking with activities - Habit and goal tracking for personal growth - Monthly and yearly charts to see your emotional journey - Notes, photos, tags, and locations for rich memories - Reminders to stay consistent - Secure backup and restore - Light and dark themes for comfort MoodPath is not just a mood tracker. It is your tool to understand your emotions, reflect on your life, and grow with clarity. Share your experience with MoodPath, your feedback truly matters. For support, contact us at contact@crxapplications.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Self at none against Mood Journal's 11. Mood Journal's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (9 vs 2). On price, rating, 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. Mood Journal sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Self asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Self against 4.9 for Mood Journal. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 9 respectively.
Self ships an update every 6 weeks, Mood Journal every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 11, 2026 and August 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Self | Mood Journal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.9 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.5 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brown University Computing & Information Services | CRX Applications |
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In-app purchases
Self
No in-app purchases
Mood Journal
- Sale Premium - Monthly3 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Premium Subscription - Monthly$3.991 Month
- Full Price Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
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- Sale Premium - Six Months$6.996 Months
- Premium - Monthly3 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Full Price Premium Annuale3 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Sale Premium - Yearly3 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Premium - Yearly3 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Premium Subscription - Annual3 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$39.99
- Full Price Lifetime Premium$49.99









