Comparison

Selfrell vs Inner (Official)

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

Head to head
About

Selfrell

This app uses a gamified approach to help users reflect on their emotions and relationships. By turning feelings into collectible creatures and inner strengths into tools, it encourages self-discovery and mental resilience.

Highlights
  • Gamified emotional journaling
  • Collectible creatures and strength tools
  • Reframing negative thoughts
  • Pattern recognition for self-awareness
  • Nurturing relationships
  • Building mental resilience
Features
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Relationships and emotional growth are hard work. But they don’t have to be heavy. Let’s make them feel like play. Selfrell is a new, playful, and symbolic journal that helps you reflect on these feelings. We turn your emotions into 'Crells' - creatures you can understand and your inner strengths into 'Startifacts' - tools you can collect and grow. Stop feeling stuck and start your adventure of self-discovery! How it works? RECORD YOUR MOMENTS: Quickly log difficult emotional triggers ('Cue') or positive memories that build connection ('Foster'). RE FRAME YOUR THOUGHTS: Use your collection of 'Startifacts' (your inner strengths) to practice reframing negative thoughts into positive ones ('Tame'). SEE YOUR PATTERNS: Look back at your journal to *finally* see the patterns behind your feelings and build true self-awareness. What you will build? TRUE SELF-AWARENESS: Recognize your emotional triggers and learn to respond in healthier, more intentional ways. STRONGER CONNECTIONS: Nurture your relationships by reflecting on your patterns and fostering positive moments. MENTAL RESILIENCE: Level up by turning your life challenges into a fun, engaging, and meaningful journey. YOUR COMPLETE TOOLKIT FOR REFLECTION - GAIN UNDERSTANDING: Record emotional behaviors to see your patterns. - PRACTICE REFRAMING: Learn to turn negative thoughts into positive ones. - STRENGTHEN CONNECTIONS: Nurture positive experiences as daily affirmations. - OVERCOME CHALLENGES: Make finding unhealthy patterns more engaging. - GAMIFIED GROWTH: Use a symbolic, RPG approach to make complex problems accessible. - COLLECT YOUR STRENGTHS: Gather 'Startifacts' to reflect your personal growth. - BUILD YOUR WISDOM: Save helpful insights to find perspective when you need it. - AN ADVENTURE WITHIN: Go on a journey to build mental resilience. A NOTE FROM THE FOUNDER I experienced firsthand the challenges of navigating complex relationship dynamics and their impact on mental health throughout my life. I created Selfrell to address this complex issue using a playful approach, making it easier, motivating, and meaningful to understand emotional behaviors. By combining my interests, I want to share the results of my journey and hope to create value for others as much as it has for me. — For more information: Terms of Service: https://www.notion.so/lifeful/Selfrell-Terms-and-Conditions-37eff858f8384f6e8c779eff53c22686 Privacy Policy: https://www.notion.so/lifeful/Selfrell-Privacy-Policy-6ab85eefad814366b22a88b4cb3fc286 If you choose to purchase Selfrell Gold, payment will be charged to your Apple account. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless canceled within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel anytime with your Apple account settings.

About

Inner (Official)

Explore lucid dreaming and conscious sleep with guided practices, psychoacoustic soundscapes, and dream reflection tools. Prepare while awake, construct your night, and carry awareness into your dreams. Capture experiences and identify recurring dream signs for deeper exploration.

Highlights
  • Guided lucid dreaming practices
  • Psychoacoustic sound design
  • Customizable overnight journeys
  • Dream log and sign recognition
  • Conscious exploration chambers
  • Morning reflection prompts
Features
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Some people find Inner by accident. Most find it because something in them was already looking. Inner is a lucid dreaming and consciousness app built for people who want to go further into the aware dream, the threshold between waking and sleep, and the deeper territory of conscious experience. Prepare while awake. Construct your night. Carry awareness across the threshold. Recognize the dream. Bring back what remains. Inner combines guided practice, psychoacoustic sound design, evolving audio environments, recognition cues, and dream reflection into one system for exploring lucid dreaming and conscious sleep. Inside Inner: •Overnight Journeys: construct an evolving night around your intention, environment, duration, feel, and recognition signal. *Or choose Recognition Only: no background sound, just your signal at the planned times, with silence between. •Lucid Journeys: practices for preparing awareness, approaching the threshold, and developing lucid recognition. •Lucid Signal: condition a recognition cue while awake and carry it into the night as a reminder to question the dream. •The Chambers: immersive guided journeys for awareness, altered states, and conscious exploration that move deeper as you do. •The Garden: atmospheric soundscapes for sleep, focus, stillness, and inner exploration. •Dream Log: capture dreams and lucid experiences through voice or text before the details fade. Your first account stays exactly as you wrote it; add remembered details and reflections later, each with its own date. •Dream Signs: as your log grows, Inner notices the signs that keep returning. Rehearse one while awake, and carry it into tonight's Overnight Journey as your recognition focus. •Night Recipes: every Overnight Journey is saved as a Night Recipe. The goal, duration, environment, feel, signal, and the exact moments your signal plays. Repeat a night that worked, or change one thing at a time. •Morning Return: a short reflection when you wake, with one-tap voice entry. Did your sign appear? Did you recognize it? The answers are saved with the dream and the night that came before it. •Practice Memory: over time, Inner shows what you have actually recorded - which nights, signals, and environments came before which dreams. It speaks in observations and possible patterns, never certainty, and your patterns are worked out on your device. •Guides & Practices: explore lessons on lucid dreaming, out-of-body experiences, foundations, and the threshold between waking and sleep. •Live Mix: shape your own sound environment with tones, entrainment, noise, and evolving environments. Inner is free to begin. The full experience is available as a subscription or a one-time purchase, adds the Temple, Abyssal Glass, Cosmic, and Fire Overnight environments, the Journey Creator, and other deeper content. Journeys you've saved stay yours to play. Inner isn't built around streaks, scores, or pressure to perform. Practice while awake. Explore while asleep. Return with something. Move Inner.

Screenshots

Selfrell4 screens
Inner (Official)4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Inner (Official) at weekly against Selfrell's monthly. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Selfrell sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.49 per month and Inner (Official) sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Selfrell against 5.0 for Inner (Official). Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 4 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Selfrell ships an update monthly, Inner (Official) weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Selfrell versus Inner (Official): the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSelfrellInner (Official)
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Number of ratings34 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.0.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB95 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLifeful Five LLCKolor Design LLC

Customer experience

Selfrell

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Inner (Official)

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Selfrell

Subscriptions2
  • Selfrell Gold - Monthly$4.491 Month
  • Selfrell Gold - Annual7 Days trial$41.991 Year
3 purchases

Inner (Official)

Subscriptions2
  • Inner: Deeper Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Inner: Deeper Annually7 Days trial$59.991 Year
One-time1
  • Inner: Deeper Lifetime$249.99

Questions

Is Selfrell free?
Selfrell is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Inner (Official) free?
Inner (Official) is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Selfrell or Inner (Official)?
Selfrell and Inner (Official) are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Selfrell or Inner (Official) have ads?
Neither Selfrell nor Inner (Official) shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Selfrell or Inner (Official)?
Selfrell ships an update monthly, and Inner (Official) weekly. Most recently, Selfrell was updated on November 3, 2026 and Inner (Official) on November 5, 2026.

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