Happy Thoughts vs Rainbow Journal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Happy Thoughts
This app aims to improve your mindset by focusing on positive thinking and discouraging negative thoughts. It's designed to help users cultivate a successful outlook and achieve their goals.
- Focus on positive thoughts
- Discourage negative thoughts
- Promote successful mindset
- Change thinking patterns
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Change Your Life! Change the way you THINK! Positive Thinkers are Successful. This App focuses on your Positive Thoughts and Discourages Negative Thoughts To Make You Successful. Do you think you are a SUCCESS? If not YOU need this app NOW. THINK SUCCESS TODAY.
Rainbow Journal
This app offers a unique way to track your mental health and emotions using on-device AI. It helps you visualize your mood trends, record daily experiences like weather, and cultivate healthy habits. Enjoy a personalized journaling experience with augmented reality features and seamless device synchronization.
- On-device AI mood analysis
- Augmented Reality Mood Jar™
- Emotion visualization and charts
- Weather recording
- iCloud synchronization
- Habit cultivation
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Say goodbye to mundane diary keeping and hello to a more engaging way of tracking your mental health with Rainbow Journal! This innovative journaling app allows you to effortlessly jot down your thoughts and analyze your mood with the magic of on-device machine learning. WWDC23 Swift Student Challenge Winner - Capture Every Moment with On-Device AI Rainbow Journal empowers you to record swiftly and never miss a beat. On-device AI analyzes your colorful emotions on or offline, ensuring your privacy is always a top priority. - Mood Jar™ - A Mix of Every Mood Experience a mix of every mood, all within your very own Mood Jar™. And now Rainbow Journal is bringing your Mood Jar™ to life through Augmented Reality. - Visualize Your Emotions Easily visualize your emotions and track your mood trends with helpful charts that provide useful insights to help you on your mental health journey. - Record the Weather Whether it's rain or shine, Rainbow Journal will record the weather, helping you contextualize your emotions and experiences. - All Devices, iCloud Sync, and AR Enjoy Rainbow Journal on all your devices, with seamless iCloud synchronization. - Cultivate Habits and Unique Style Develop healthy habits, understand trends in your emotional well-being, and enjoy the app's meticulously designed, unique style. - Support Indie Development By using Rainbow Journal, you're supporting an independent student developer who poured their heart and soul into creating an app that's cute, unique, and feels like home. Start your journey to improved mental well-being today with Rainbow Journal - the colorful way to track your emotions and life experiences.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Rainbow Journal at 100% against Happy Thoughts's 29%. Rainbow Journal also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.0) and update cadence (every 6 months vs every 20 months). Happy Thoughts's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Rainbow Journal holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Happy Thoughts's written reviews are positive against 100% of Rainbow Journal's.
Happy Thoughts ships an update every 20 months, Rainbow Journal every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Happy Thoughts | Rainbow Journal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 20 months | Every 6 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Psi Pi Group | Yuhao Chen |
Customer experience
Happy Thoughts
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In-app purchases
Happy Thoughts
No in-app purchases
Rainbow Journal
No in-app purchases
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