Comparison

dear. vs DreamMap

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

Head to head
About

dear.

Digitally preserve and organize your cherished cards. Scan them to create a digital collection, sort by various criteria, and even generate PDFs. Never lose a memory again, even if you decide to discard the physical card.

Highlights
  • Scan and store cards digitally
  • Organize cards by year, event, or category
  • Create and share PDF collections
  • Edit card details and images
  • Create user profiles and card collections
Features
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Open a sweet birthday card and don’t know what to do with it? Throw it away? Keep it in a box under your bed where it’s never to be seen again? Organize and preserve those memories with dear. Scan and keep all your cards in one place. Organize cards by year, event, holiday, category, person, or any other way you can think of. Create and share PDFs for your scans. Now you don’t have to feel bad about tossing that birthday card from Aunt Sally. To get started begin with the following steps:   • Create a user profile   • Create your first card collection   • Create and scan your first cards   • Upload a collection image   • Edit a Card in the following ways:        • Scan new images        • Update the "from" field        • Update the description field Thank you for using dear. Please email support@thedearapp.com with feedback or any questions.

About

DreamMap

This app helps you capture, analyze, and understand your dreams. It uses established interpretive traditions and a peer-reviewed framework to reveal patterns and provide weekly narrative readings. Your dream data is stored privately on your device.

Highlights
  • Fast dream capture via voice
  • On-device speech recognition
  • Symbol interpretation from cited traditions
  • Pattern recognition and motif tracking
  • Weekly narrative dream readings
  • Private and secure dream storage
Features
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DreamMap is a quiet place to map what your dreams already know. Capture your dreams while they're fresh. Watch them reveal patterns over time. Read them through centuries of accumulated wisdom — not new-age guesswork, but real interpretive traditions, cited and grounded. — Capture is fast. Tap the microphone and speak. Apple's on-device speech recognition turns it into text instantly. Audio never leaves your phone. A gentle morning notification helps you catch dreams while they're still vivid. — Every reading is grounded. DreamMap pairs your dream with symbol interpretations drawn from Jung's archetypes, Freud's symbolism, Artemidorus's Oneirocritica, Talmudic dream tradition, Hindu sources, and American folk lore. Each reading cites the source it's drawing on, so you can read deeper. — Patterns reveal themselves. As your library grows, recurring motifs surface. The Map view shows your dreams as a constellation of connections. The Analysis tab tracks how each motif evolves through the four-phase Motif Analysis and Phase Model (MAP), a peer-reviewed framework published by Jenni and Roesler in Behavioral Sciences (2024). — Weekly readings. Every week DreamMap reads your dreams as a series, not in isolation, and produces a narrative grounded in Structural Dream Analysis (Roesler), the continuity hypothesis, and your own motif trajectories. Specific to you. Cited. Yours. — Designed for your rhythm. A morning nudge for dream capture while details are still close. A quiet evening reflection ping when there's something worth noticing. Both optional, both gentle, both respect your time. — Private. Your dreams are stored under your own account and never shared. The symbolism corpus that grounds your readings was built from public-domain sources with full author attribution. For: — Long-time dream journalers who want their library to mean something — Therapists, analysts, and counselors looking for a practical SDA / MAP companion — Anyone curious about what their inner life is saying About the methodology: DreamMap's analysis is grounded in peer-reviewed Jungian dream research, particularly the Motif Analysis and Phase Model (Jenni & Roesler, Behavioral Sciences, 2024) and Roesler's Structural Dream Analysis. Where it draws on individual symbol traditions, it cites them by name — Jung, Freud, Artemidorus, Talmudic, Hindu, or American folk — so every reading can be verified and explored further.

Screenshots

dear.4 screens
DreamMap4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: dear. at 40 against DreamMap's 5. On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for dear. against 5.0 for DreamMap. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: dear. has 40 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
dear. versus DreamMap: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterdear.DreamMap
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (40 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings40 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerdearly LLCTaylor Korensky

Customer experience

dear.

All ratings40 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews26 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

DreamMap

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

dear.

No in-app purchases

None

DreamMap

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is dear. free?
dear. is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DreamMap free?
DreamMap is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, dear. or DreamMap?
dear. and DreamMap are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 40 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do dear. or DreamMap have ads?
Neither dear. nor DreamMap shows ads.

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