Comparison

iMoodJournal vs mood!

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

Head to head
About

iMoodJournal

Track your mood, sleep, medication, and more with this comprehensive personal journal. Discover patterns and gain insights into your well-being through customizable charts and smart hashtagging.

Highlights
  • Mood and wellness tracking
  • Customizable notes and records
  • Automatic reminders
  • Animated mood history chart
  • Smart hashtag system
  • Summary and landscape charts
  • Geolocation visualization
Features
Currently charting
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This beautiful app is an ultimate journal, personal diary and mood charting tool. It can track not only mood, but anything you like: sleep, medication, symptoms, stress and anxiety, energy level, cycles, etc. It will help you discover causes of your ups and downs, and get surprising insights into yourself! * Featured on NY Times, NY Daily News, made "The Best Bipolar Disorder Apps of the Year" by Healthline, voted "Top 10 apps for health and wellness" by Rewire Me, recommended by expert on Psychcentral.com and many other specialists. Key features: - Colorful editable scale to rate overall well-being. - Possibility to keep notes to record thoughts and experiences. You can create really long mood records, edit them any time you wish and even create records in the past if you missed a scheduled recording. - Automatic reminders – as many as needed per day, including random ones. - Animated mood history chart to browse history of mood records. - Smart #hashtags system to establish associations between moods and experiences by adding #hashtags to records. Mark your emotions, people surrounding you, any other objects or activities with #hashtags. Examples: #angry, #surprised, #friends, #workout. iMoodJournal will show how your feelings and your surrounding affect your wellbeing in long term. - Special hashtags to track any measurable essences, like medication, sleep, level of stress, etc. Use #hastags with colons and numeric values, like #aspirin:40mg or #sleep:8h - Top Positive and Negative #hashtags charts to spot triggers of mood changes and filter mood records by #hashtags. - Gorgeous summary charts to recognize time-based patterns in mood, which include full mood history, as well as weekly and daily average charts. - Large landscape mood chart to visualize #hashtags values to discover correlations between mood and any measurable essences like medication, sleep, etc. - Visualization of moods on the map if geolocation is enabled. - Backup, synchronization and protection with passcode. - Possibility to attach self-portrait photos to mood records and realize how your mood affects your appearance. - Sharing moods with friends on social networks (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) or sending them by email. WHEN DO I NEED A MOOD DIARY AND TRACKING TOOL? Mood diary is frequently offered by psychologists and therapists to help us discover facts about ourselves that otherwise slip our attention. You may experience a diagnosed condition like bipolar, OCD, depression, etc. Or you may want to track symptoms of PMS, IMS, PMDD, PPD, or track menstrual cycles. You may have stressful job, like manager reporting to executives or customer facing specialist, which makes you feel exhausted at the end of your long day. You may be on emotional rollercoaster as your partner is making your heart tear apart. Or you may simply be curious to know yourself better. This app may help! Bring your iMoodJournal to your therapist or discuss it with your close friend to maximize its positive impact on your life. * To get the best out of the app, please keep regular records (preferably 2 – 3 times a day) of your mood with tags and self-portraits for at least 1 – 2 weeks. The Weekly Cycle chart requires several weeks of records to generate meaningful output. We wish you the very best experience with iMoodJournal. Please send us your feedback at support@imoodjournal.com. * Note that we have no means to reply if you try to get in touch using App Store reviews. Please contact us by email at support@imoodjournal.com or via our website contact form – we provide full developer support and will be happy to hear from you and resolve any issue quickly, should you have any questions, suggestions, or problems. More about the app: http://www.imoodjournal.com Follow us on Twitter @iMoodJournal and on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/IMoodJournal/

About

mood!

This app provides a private space to log your emotions, reflect on your day, and share your feelings with friends. It offers daily mood tracking, inspirational quotes, and features to foster connection and self-awareness.

Highlights
  • Daily mood tracking
  • Emotional pattern analysis
  • Connect with friends feature
  • Curated quotes and content
  • Habit building with streaks
  • Widgets for quick access
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mood! is your digital safe-space to track how you feel, reflect on your day, and stay connected with the people who matter most. Build a daily habit with quick mood tracking, streaks, and widgets that help you understand your emotional patterns over time. With “Connect with Friends”, you can share your recent mood with close friends and see how they’ve been feeling too - creating quiet, pressure-free awareness in everyday life. Get inspired through curated quotes and uplifting content designed to shift your perspective, improve your mindset, and support you through different moments in life. mood! helps you stay consistent, reflect more often, and feel more connected - to yourself and to others :)

Screenshots

iMoodJournal4 screens
mood!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: mood! at Free against iMoodJournal's $2.99. mood! also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks). iMoodJournal's advantage is ratings volume (175 vs 5) and chart position (#32 vs unranked). On rating, review sentiment, 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

mood! is free to download; iMoodJournal costs $2.99 up front. iMoodJournal sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and mood! sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

mood! holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iMoodJournal has 175 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 86% and 86% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iMoodJournal ships an update every 3 weeks, mood! every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
iMoodJournal versus mood!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriMoodJournalmood!
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.4 (175 ratings)4.6 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews86.0% of reviews — better85.7% of reviews
Number of ratings175 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
Best chart rank#32 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperInexika Inc.Moritz Breuer

Customer experience

iMoodJournal

All ratings175 ratings
Positive87.4%
Neutral4.0%
Negative8.6%
Written reviews336 reviews
Positive86.0%
Neutral5.7%
Negative8.3%

mood!

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral7.1%
Negative7.1%

Bugs and requests

iMoodJournal

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes when accessing graphs
  • Inability to record bedtimes in AM hours
  • Location tracking enabled without permission

Requested features

5 requests
  • More mood/emotion options
  • Ability to edit past entries
  • Integration with other health/wellness apps
  • Expanded data export and analysis tools
  • Multiple user profiles

mood!

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

iMoodJournal

One-time1
  • Avatars$1.99
6 purchases

mood!

Subscriptions2
  • mood!+ Monthly$1.991 Month
  • mood!+ Yearly$12.991 Year
One-time4
  • Donate Banana$1.99
  • Donate Coffee$3.99
  • Donate Steak$14.99
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  • mood!+$24.99

Questions

Is iMoodJournal free?
iMoodJournal costs $2.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is mood! free?
mood! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, iMoodJournal or mood!?
mood! is rated higher. iMoodJournal averages 4.4 out of 5 from 175 ratings, while mood! averages 4.6 from 5 ratings.
Do iMoodJournal or mood! have ads?
Neither iMoodJournal nor mood! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iMoodJournal or mood!?
iMoodJournal ships an update every 3 weeks, and mood! every 9 days. Most recently, iMoodJournal was updated on November 10, 2026 and mood! on November 3, 2026.

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