Comparison

Grateful vs Journal Platinum

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

Head to head
About

Grateful

This app encourages users to recognize and record the joyful moments in their daily lives. Sharing these moments can uplift both the user and others, fostering a global culture of gratitude.

Highlights
  • Discover moments of joy
  • Record everyday moments
  • Share gratefulness with others
  • Enhance personal happiness
  • Contribute to a culture of grateful living
Features
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This app inspires you to discover and take note of the beautiful, graceful, surprising, big and small moments of joy in your everyday life. This does not only enhance your own happiness; by sharing your gratefulness with others, you make them happy, too. By uplifting yourself and others, you contribute to a global culture of grateful living.

About

Journal Platinum

Features
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Three focus goals. Three daily wins. That is the whole thing. Five minutes in the evening — and you walk into a morning that already stands. NEW: DAILY WINS Catch a win the moment it happens — as fast as sending a message. Every win lands on its day. In the evening you see in black and white what you achieved, and your count of wins grows with you. NEW: YOUR JOURNAL Every entry you ever wrote, in one place. Search a word and find the thought that carried you. Filter by Tune-In, Reflection, Focus or your favorites. NEW: PRO The new feature family. Free for a short time. Try it all while it costs nothing. HOW YOU LEAD YOUR DAY • Tune-In. You arrive before the day starts. • Focus. Three goals for today. You set them last night. • Reflection. Three daily wins in the evening — and three goals for tomorrow. WHY THREE • Three goals you carry through a whole day. • Three wins you find on every day — even one that went its own way. • Three fit into five minutes. And five minutes you always have. ALSO INSIDE • Every day gets its own page in your diary • One impulse in the morning • Your entries stay on your device — you take them with you as a file, anytime • Fourteen languages Today starts with you.

Screenshots

Grateful4 screens
Journal Platinum3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Grateful at none against Journal Platinum's shown. Grateful also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.0). Journal Platinum's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 months). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Grateful ships an update every 4 months, Journal Platinum every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Grateful versus Journal Platinum: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGratefulJournal Platinum
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews73.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS10.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB88 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developersmoca AGSebastian Heilmann

In-app purchases

None

Grateful

No in-app purchases

None

Journal Platinum

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Grateful free?
Grateful is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Journal Platinum free?
Journal Platinum is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Grateful or Journal Platinum have ads?
Journal Platinum shows ads; Grateful does not.
Which is updated more often, Grateful or Journal Platinum?
Grateful ships an update every 4 months, and Journal Platinum every 2 days. Most recently, Grateful was updated on October 11, 2026 and Journal Platinum on October 20, 2026.

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