Comparison

Grateful vs Therassist

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

Therassist

This app helps you build a self-reflection habit through quick check-ins, on-demand recaps, and task management. Log your feelings via voice or text, generate summaries of your thoughts over various periods, and organize your to-dos. It's designed for privacy with local-first data and optional iCloud sync.

Highlights
  • Voice and text check-ins
  • On-demand recap summaries
  • Task management with repeat schedules
  • On-device summarization
  • Siri and Shortcuts integration
  • Optional iCloud sync
  • Multi-language support (English, Simplified Chinese)
Features
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Therassist helps you build a consistent self-reflection habit with quick check-ins, on-demand Rewind recaps, and focused Todos. Use it to notice how you feel, keep track of what matters, and bring clearer notes into therapy sessions or personal planning. What you can do in Therassist: • Check in by voice or text: Log how you are doing in seconds. Speak freely with voice, type a short note, and add a mood before saving. Swipe the floating week strip to browse past days, tap any day to view or add its check-ins, and use the toolbar to jump to a specific month or back to today. • Review Rewinds: Generate recap summaries for the range that fits your schedule, from 1 day up to 30 days. Each recap surfaces recurring worries, recurring positive moments, turning points, unresolved open loops, and open questions you could bring to a therapist. Saved Rewinds sit behind the same floating week strip so you can browse what you've saved by day. • Use English or Simplified Chinese: Choose System, English, or Simplified Chinese in Settings. The interface, notifications, Shortcuts, voice transcription, and new generated summaries follow your selected app language. • Generate summaries on your device: On supported devices, Therassist uses Apple Intelligence on-device. On devices without Apple Intelligence, you can download an optional on-device summarizer (~1 GB, Wi-Fi recommended) and generate recaps fully offline. Manage the download from Settings, and switch between Apple Intelligence and the on-device model anytime. • Use optional Cloud Summary: You can optionally enable cloud recap generation with your own API key. It is off by default and can be disabled anytime. Not available on the China mainland App Store. • Manage Todos: Create Todos quickly, set date and time, and add repeat schedules when needed. Track active and completed tasks with simple progress visibility. • Share recap summaries: Export recap summaries by email when you want to bring your reflections into therapy sessions or personal planning. • Start faster with Siri and Shortcuts: Use Siri and Shortcuts for text and voice check-ins with optional mood selection. • Sync with iCloud if you choose: Keep your check-ins, Rewinds, and Todos in sync across your Apple devices when iCloud Sync is enabled. Privacy-first by design: • No account required • Local-first data model • iCloud sync optional and user-controlled • Optional cloud recap flow is user-controlled • API keys stay in the iOS Keychain on your device Therassist is a companion for reflection and habit-building. It is not a crisis service and does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. If you are in danger or need urgent support, call local emergency services immediately.

Screenshots

Grateful4 screens
Therassist4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Therassist at 5.0 against Grateful's 4.5. Therassist also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 4 months). Grateful's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 26.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Therassist holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Grateful ships an update every 4 months, Therassist every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Grateful versus Therassist: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGratefulTherassist
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (4 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews73.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS10.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developersmoca AGDashan Liao

Customer experience

Grateful

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive73.7%
Neutral10.5%
Negative15.8%

Therassist

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Grateful

No in-app purchases

None

Therassist

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Grateful free?
Grateful is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Therassist free?
Therassist is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Grateful or Therassist?
Therassist is rated higher. Grateful averages 4.5 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Therassist averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Grateful or Therassist have ads?
Neither Grateful nor Therassist shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Grateful or Therassist?
Grateful ships an update every 4 months, and Therassist every 5 days. Most recently, Grateful was updated on November 1, 2026 and Therassist on October 31, 2026.

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