Visual Schedule Planner vs Mood
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Visual Schedule Planner
This app provides a customizable visual representation of daily events, offering audio and visual support to ease transitions and anxiety. It allows for detailed task modeling with activity schedules and video clips, making it ideal for home, school, or work.
- Daily, weekly, monthly event views
- Custom images and sounds
- Activity schedules
- Video modeling
- Timer and checklist
- Notes with PDF export
- Password-protected settings
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Visual Schedule Planner is a completely customizable visual schedule iPad app that is designed to give an individual an audio/visual representation of the “events in their day". In addition, events that require more support can be linked to an “activity schedule” or “video clip” to help model the task even further. Visual Planner is perfect for home, school, work or community environment. The app is designed for individuals who may benefit from visual support to ease transitions, anxiety, or who simply need a way to visually represent their day. FEATURES INCLUDE: -Ability to view events daily, weekly or via a monthly calendar. -Custom images -Custom sound -Activity schedules -Video Modeling -Timer -Checklist -Reminders -Notes Visual Schedule Planner was designed with a completely customizable easy-to-use interface, with multiple custom features. Overview of Features: --EVENTS CAN BE VIEWED DAILY, WEEKLY OR MONTHLY --CUSTOM IMAGES “Events” of the day and “Activity Schedules” can be customized with images from the photo album on the iPad, by one of the apps 1500+ icons, images taken from the built in camera (iPad2 only) or from the apps internet image search. --CUSTOM SOUND ”Events” also allow an audio clip to be added to the images by voice recording or Text-to-speech.*Using Flite Open Ears. --VIDEO MODELING and ACTIVITY SCHEDULES Events in a schedule can also be linked to a VIDEO CLIP or an ACTIVITY SCHEDULE to help model an “EVENT. For example, the event @12pm ”LUNCH” can be linked to an ACTIVITY SCHEDULE that shows a task analysis on “How to make a sandwich” or could be linked to a VIDEO CLIP of a person modeling “How to make a sandwich”. --CHECKLIST and TIMER feature for Activity schedules. Activity schedules have the option of having a “checklist feature” and/or a visual “timer” to help keep the individual on task. Both these features can be turned on or off via the settings menu. --NOTES App allows user or a professional to take notes about the individual’s day. These notes can then be emailed as a PDF for future reference. --QUICK ACCESS to Activity Schedules and Video Clips User can access previously saved video clips and activity schedules at a moment’s notice via the icons on the home page. These can also be “hidden” to prevent unwanted access. --PASSWORD PROTECTED SETTINGS MENU Allows user to: -Hide “QUICK” activity schedules , video clip and notes access icons. -Hide Editing features -Hide image libraries -Hide Clock -Hide Checklist -Hide access to video clip libraries -Hide access to Quick Activity Schedules
Mood
Track your emotions and life events to understand how they connect. This app provides a journal for recording feelings and daily happenings, with summary pages and charts to visualize trends over time. Set reminders to ensure consistent tracking and generate email reports.
- Log emotions and daily events
- Journaling functionality
- Summary pages and charts
- Email report generation
- Customizable reminders
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Mood-Log is designed to help you keep track of your emotions as they change throughout the day and from day to day. You do this by creating new Mood-Log entries, recording any emotions you are currently experiencing and other information about yourself. You can use Mood-Log as a journal to keep track of events in your life and watch for connections between your daily life and the emotions you experience. A summary page and charts show you what’s happening over time. You can send email reports from within Mood-Log and you can set reminders that will prompt you to create a Mood-Log entry at different times in the day.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Mood at Free against Visual Schedule Planner's $14.99. Mood also leads on rating (4.4 vs 2.3) and review sentiment (88% vs 49%). On ratings volume, 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
Mood is free to download; Visual Schedule Planner costs $14.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Mood holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 33 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 49% of Visual Schedule Planner's written reviews are positive against 88% of Mood's.
Visual Schedule Planner ships an update every 4 months, Mood every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Visual Schedule Planner | Mood |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $14.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.3 (13 ratings) | 4.4 (33 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.9% of reviews | 88.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 | 33 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 117 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Good Karma Applications, Inc | Barry Langdon-Lassagne |
Customer experience
Visual Schedule Planner
Mood
In-app purchases
Visual Schedule Planner
No in-app purchases
Mood
No in-app purchases
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