Comparison

Grateful vs LinesKept

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

LinesKept

Features
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A calm, private home for the lines you never want to lose. LinesKept is where the quotes and passages that move you finally live in one place: captured, organized, and easy to find again. Save a line from a book, a talk, or a friend, add the author and source, and keep your own note about why it stuck. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Capture a quote with its author, source, page, and a private note - Gather quotes into collections, with three ready-made starter collections of public-domain lines: Stoic Calm, Courage, and Wit and Wisdom - Tag quotes by theme, then browse by author or by theme - See a new quote resurface every day on the Today screen - Search everything: text, authors, sources, and themes - Make beautiful share cards in six warm styles - Export a keepsake PDF of your quotes, or a CSV backup YOURS, ON EVERY DEVICE Your library syncs across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac with iCloud. There is no account to make, no ads, and no tracking of any kind. Your quotes stay in your own private iCloud. FREE AND PRO Keep up to 30 quotes for free, with every collection, search, and the daily quote included. The Lifetime unlock is a one-time purchase of $9.99 USD that removes the limit and adds unlimited quotes, share cards, and PDF and CSV export. Pay once, keep it forever. No subscription. Questions or ideas? Use Contact Support inside the app and we will reply. The Lifetime unlock is a one-time purchase governed by the Apple Standard End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Grateful4 screens
LinesKept4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Grateful at none against LinesKept's 1. Grateful also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 18.0). LinesKept's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months). On price, ads 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. LinesKept sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Grateful asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Grateful ships an update every 4 months, LinesKept every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Grateful versus LinesKept: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGratefulLinesKept
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews73.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS10.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developersmoca AGInnovaLabWorks

In-app purchases

None

Grateful

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

LinesKept

One-time1
  • LinesKept Lifetime$9.99

Questions

Is Grateful free?
Grateful is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LinesKept free?
LinesKept is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Grateful or LinesKept have ads?
Neither Grateful nor LinesKept shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Grateful or LinesKept?
Grateful ships an update every 4 months, and LinesKept every 3 weeks. Most recently, Grateful was updated on October 11, 2026 and LinesKept on October 7, 2026.

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