Comparison

Feelly vs Somna

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

Head to head
About

Feelly

This app provides a private space for journaling thoughts and emotions through writing or voice. It helps users understand how activities and routines influence their feelings by visualizing patterns over time. Gentle care moments and Apple Health integration offer deeper insights into emotional well-being.

Highlights
  • Voice journaling with automatic transcription
  • Add context like places and activities
  • Mood calendar and emotional pattern view
  • Gentle moments of care and reflection stories
  • Apple Health integration for holistic insights
  • On-device privacy and no ads
Features
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Feelly is a calm, private space to journal your thoughts and reflect on your emotions in a way that feels natural. Whether you prefer writing or speaking, Feelly helps you pause and check in with yourself without pressure or forced prompts. You can write freely about your day or use voice journaling when typing feels difficult. Your voice reflections are automatically transcribed so you can revisit them later, making reflection easy and effortless. You can also add context like places and activities to better understand how different moments affect how you feel. Feelly does not ask you to rate your mood every day. Instead, reflections are invited in meaningful moments, such as after a workout or a mindful activity. This context based approach makes emotional tracking feel more real and less repetitive. Over time, Feelly brings your reflections together into a mood calendar and emotional pattern view. This helps you notice how your emotional balance shifts across days and weeks, and how routines, activities, and habits influence how you feel. Feelly also includes gentle moments of care designed to help you slow down. Start your day with a short reflection story or quote, take a mindful breathing break, name what you are feeling, or engage with small playful experiences that encourage presence and calm. Feelly can also create on device reflection stories inspired by your recent feelings to support thoughtful pauses throughout the day. For deeper insights, Feelly integrates with Apple Health so you can explore how sleep, workouts, heart rate, and mindfulness relate to your emotional well being, without overwhelming data or complex charts. Your privacy comes first. Everything you log stays on your device and in your iCloud. There are no ads, no tracking, and no selling of your data. Feelly is simply a safe space for honest self reflection. Feelly is for anyone who wants to journal consistently, reflect with intention, and better understand their emotional patterns at their own pace. Download Feelly and make space for your feelings, one moment at a time. Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy https://codersb.com/#privacy Terms of Service https://codersb.com/#terms

About

Somna

Features
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Somna is a calm space to understand what keeps repeating inside you - and respond with care. It helps you notice emotional patterns as they show up in your thoughts, feelings, body, and behaviour, so you can meet them more gently over time. With Somna, you can: • Capture the thoughts that keep looping • Notice how they show up emotionally and in your body • Calm your nervous system when things feel intense • Practice a steadier, kinder response • Watch familiar patterns soften with repetition When something flares up, Somna offers gentle support exercises - like breathing and grounding - to help your body settle before your mind tries to reason. Somna Plus adds optional, opt-in reflection: • Coach Mode - gentle AI support to help you find steadier language • Weekly Reflection - a short summary of emotional patterns over time You can use Somna fully without subscribing. Your data stays private. Somna is designed to work locally on your device. Nothing is shared unless you choose to enable optional features. Somna is a wellness and self-reflection tool. It isn’t a replacement for professional care. Use Somna whenever you need a quieter place to land. This app uses Apple's standard End User License Agreement (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Feelly4 screens
Somna4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Feelly at 3 against Somna's 1. On price, update cadence, 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. Feelly sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per 7 days and Somna sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Feelly ships an update every 5 days, Somna weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Feelly versus Somna: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFeellySomna
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (13 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews85.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBalamuthu LakshmanasamyBen Howdle

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Feelly

Subscriptions3
  • Feelly Weekly$0.497 Days
  • Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Yearly3 Days trial$29.991 Year
1 purchases

Somna

Subscriptions1
  • Somna Plus$6.991 Month

Questions

Is Feelly free?
Feelly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Somna free?
Somna is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Feelly or Somna have ads?
Neither Feelly nor Somna shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Feelly or Somna?
Feelly ships an update every 5 days, and Somna weekly. Most recently, Feelly was updated on October 30, 2026 and Somna on October 8, 2026.

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