Comparison

Beeminder vs Grateful

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

Head to head
About

Beeminder

Easily log data for your Beeminder goals and receive timely reminders. Visualize your progress with a clear dashboard and integrate with Apple Health for automatic tracking of health metrics.

Highlights
  • Data entry for Beeminder goals
  • Goal progress dashboard
  • Customizable reminders
  • Apple Health integration
  • Automatic metric tracking
Features
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Add data to your Beeminder goals, get reminders, and see a dashboard of your progress on the Beeminder Data Entry Companion App. Beeminder is goal-tracking with teeth. We plot your progress along with a bright red line on your graph. Don't let your datapoints cross the red line! The Beeminder app also allows you to sync goals with your Apple Health data, so you can automatically track steps, distance, and other metrics without manually entering data.

About

Grateful

This app helps you cultivate a more positive outlook by making gratitude easy and fun. It offers daily prompts, allows you to add photos, and lets you easily browse past entries. Your journal remains completely private, stored only on your device.

Highlights
  • Daily gratitude prompts
  • Add photos to entries
  • Browse entries by time or prompt
  • Customizable prompts
  • Private and local storage
  • Edit past entries
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According to researchers at the Harvard Medical School, “Gratitude helps people feel more positive emotions, relish good experiences, improve their health, deal with adversity, and build strong relationships.” Grateful was created to make expressing gratitude in your life both easy and fun, as well as to remind you, during those down moments, of the many blessings in your life (that you've documented in Grateful). *Daily Prompts to Start You Off* With its simple interface and daily prompts, Grateful is designed to make reflection and giving thanks both a joyful and easy process. Daunted by a blank page? Not quite sure where to start? Grateful will greet you with one question, such as. 'What made you smile today'? or 'What made today a good day?'. All you have to do is answer. It can be a simple word. Or a simple paragraph. Grateful allows for both. You can also add a photo to support your thoughts. *Easy to Browse your Past Entries* Grateful's simple journal feed lets you browse your entries by TIME or by PROMPT. Want to see all the things that made you smile this year? Jump to those entries in your timeline. Want to see what your state of mind was last January? Jump to that month in your timeline. *Our Prompts or Yours* Grateful gives you the flexibility to make the journal truly yours. When sit down to write an entry, Grateful will start you off with a prompt. You have the option of: 1.) Answering the prompt 2.) Choosing a different prompt 3.) Writing your own prompt *Totally Private* No sign ups. No logins. No Facebook integration. All you data resides only on your device. FREE Features: • 15 journal entries • Unlimited reminders • No login of any kind required. This journal is for you only. • Each session starts with a prompt, making writing easy. • Grateful lets you answer the prompt and also save any additional thoughts for later reading. • Ability to edit past entries • Customize your timeline - show entries by time, prompt, tag, or randomly Additional PREMIUM Features (available with one-time upgrade or with a Growth Bundle subscription): • Unlimited entries (Free version allows 15 entries) • Data backup with Dropbox and iCloud • Passcode with Face ID for added privacy security • Ability to create your own prompts to answer • Export your entries to file (PDF or CSV format) Grateful‘s GROWTH BUNDLE is an optional monthly or annual subscription. If you choose to upgrade, payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, for the chosen plan's price. Subscriptions may be managed and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to your iTunes/App Store Account Settings after purchase. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. Read more about our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy here: • Terms of Service: https://growthbundle.com/terms-of-service/ • Privacy Policy: https://growthbundle.com/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

Beeminder3 screens
Grateful4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Beeminder at none against Grateful's 13. Grateful's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.2) and ratings volume (3K vs 77). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. Grateful sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Beeminder asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Grateful holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Grateful has 3K ratings behind it against 77, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 51% of Beeminder's written reviews are positive against 48% of Grateful's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Beeminder ships an update every 3 months, Grateful every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Beeminder versus Grateful: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeeminderGrateful
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (77 ratings)4.6 (3K ratings) — better
Positive reviews51.4% of reviews — better48.1% of reviews
Number of ratings773K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB126 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaker and Baker LLCKodeon, Inc.

Customer experience

Beeminder

All ratings77 ratings
Positive80.5%
Neutral1.3%
Negative18.2%
Written reviews107 reviews
Positive51.4%
Neutral7.5%
Negative41.1%

Grateful

All ratings3,044 ratings
Positive91.2%
Neutral2.4%
Negative6.5%
Written reviews264 reviews
Positive48.1%
Neutral8.7%
Negative43.2%

User reviews

Beeminder

From 77 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💪 Effective motivation and accountability tool
  • 📊 Clear goal tracking with visual graphs
  • 🔗 Seamless integration with Apple Health and other services
  • ⚡ Fast and responsive app performance
  • 🎯 Simple, focused interface for data entry

Room to improve

  • 🚫 Cannot create or manage goals within the app
  • 🚫 Cannot sign up for new accounts in the app
  • ⏳ Slow loading times for data and graphs
  • 🔄 Data entry delays and sync issues
  • ❌ Limited app functionality compared to website

Grateful

From 3K App Store ratings

What we love

  • ✨ Simple and effective
  • 📷 Ability to add photos
  • 🗓️ Helpful prompts and reminders
  • 💻 Clean and intuitive interface

Room to improve

  • 💰 Paid subscription required after limited free entries
  • 🔒 Lack of customer support and unresponsive developers
  • 💾 Issues with data backup and restoration
  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs

Bugs and requests

Beeminder

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • Login failures with 'Invalid credentials' error
  • App crashes on startup or after data entry
  • Goals not displaying after update
  • Graphs taking excessive time to load
  • Data entry freezing or hanging
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  • Keyboard not dismissing after entering values
  • Facebook, Google, and Twitter login failures
  • Syncing issues with Apple Health causing false derailments
  • App crashes on iPhone SE and older devices
  • Blank screens and placeholder text on first page

Requested features

10 requests
  • Widget feature for at-a-glance progress data
  • Ability to create and manage goals within the app
  • Ability to sign up for accounts directly in the app
  • URL minder trigger button for word count checks
  • Easy access to goal fine print details
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  • Ability to set breaks within the app
  • Dark mode option
  • Modern UI/UX redesign
  • Improved home menu for single-graph users
  • Better integration with automatic data sources

Grateful

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashing on launch
  • Inability to restore previous purchases
  • Entries disappearing or not saving properly

Requested features

4 requests
  • Calendar view to track progress
  • Custom prompt writing
  • Improved photo handling and display
  • Cloud sync across devices

In-app purchases

None

Beeminder

No in-app purchases

12 purchases

Grateful

Subscriptions11
  • Grateful Growth Bundle: Month$3.991 Month
  • Grateful Premium$14.991 Year
  • Grateful Premium7 Days trial$14.991 Year
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  • Annual Subscription$14.991 Year
  • Grateful Growth Bundle: Yearly$18.991 Year
  • Grateful Growth Bundle: Yearly$29.991 Year
  • Grateful Premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Grateful Premium1 Year trial2 variants$29.991 Year
  • Grateful Premium$29.991 Year
  • Grateful Growth Bundle: Yearly$39.991 Year
  • Grateful Growth Bundle: Yearly1 Year trial$59.991 Year
One-time1
  • One-Time Premium Upgrade$4.99

Questions

Is Beeminder free?
Beeminder is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Grateful free?
Grateful is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Beeminder or Grateful?
Grateful is rated higher. Beeminder averages 4.2 out of 5 from 77 ratings, while Grateful averages 4.6 from 3K ratings.
Do Beeminder or Grateful have ads?
Neither Beeminder nor Grateful shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Beeminder or Grateful?
Beeminder ships an update every 3 months, and Grateful every 2 months. Most recently, Beeminder was updated on October 23, 2026 and Grateful on October 29, 2026.

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