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
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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

Easily log your daily emotions and track their fluctuations over time. Record your mood with a simple tap, add context with notes, and visualize trends through insightful graphs. Access your full history and advanced analytics with the premium version.

Highlights
  • Daily mood recording
  • Situation and reason notes
  • Yearly mood overview
  • Calendar-based history
  • Mood trend analytics
  • Customizable week start day
Features
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Why don't you record your daily mood and grasp the change in your mood? This app is an app that allows you to easily record your current mood. Simply scroll or tap the arrows to select your mood on the home screen and tap the Save button to record your current mood. If you fill in the situation and reason at that time in the memo column, you can save it according to your mood. On the "Yearly" screen, the average daily mood is displayed in a list. On the "History" screen, the mood recorded on the date selected in the calendar is displayed. You can also modify the data with the edit button on the top right of the data. In addition, you can add data that you forgot to record with the "Add" button. On the "Analytics" screen, you can view graphs of changes in mood over the week, month, and year. On the "Settings" screen, you can set the first day of the week for the calendar. You can choose to start Monday or Sunday. In the free version, you can check the history for up to one week. If you want to check all the history, please consider purchasing the premium version in the app. ---------------------- Terms of Use and Privacy Policy: https://akikibai-laboratory.jimdofree.com/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

iMoodJournal4 screens
Mood4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Mood at Free against iMoodJournal's $2.99. iMoodJournal's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 8 months). On rating, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for iMoodJournal against 4.4 for Mood. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 175 and 95 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of iMoodJournal's written reviews are positive against 57% of Mood's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iMoodJournal ships an update every 3 weeks, Mood every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
iMoodJournal versus Mood: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriMoodJournalMood
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.4 (175 ratings)4.4 (95 ratings) — better
Positive reviews86.3% of reviews — better57.1% of reviews
Number of ratings175 — better95
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 8 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperInexika Inc.Kei Suefuji

Customer experience

iMoodJournal

All ratings175 ratings
Positive87.4%
Neutral4.0%
Negative8.6%
Written reviews335 reviews
Positive86.3%
Neutral5.7%
Negative8.1%

Mood

All ratings92 ratings
Positive85.9%
Neutral5.4%
Negative8.7%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive57.1%
Neutral14.3%
Negative28.6%

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
1 purchases

Mood

One-time1
  • PREMIUM$4.99

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 4.4 from 95 ratings.
Do iMoodJournal or Mood have ads?
Mood shows ads; iMoodJournal does not.
Which is updated more often, iMoodJournal or Mood?
iMoodJournal ships an update every 3 weeks, and Mood every 8 months. Most recently, iMoodJournal was updated on October 26, 2026 and Mood on October 27, 2026.

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