Remindfulness vs Prompted Journal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Remindfulness
This app helps integrate mindfulness into your daily routine with customizable practice reminders. Choose from over 100 prompts and unique alert sounds, or create your own. Schedule reminders at set intervals or opt for random delivery to foster a consistent mindfulness practice.
- Over 100 practice reminders
- Customizable reminder timing (random or scheduled)
- Choice of alert sounds or custom tones
- Create custom reminders
- Share reminders with others
- Auto suspend and resume functionality
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As featured in Cosmopolitan. Life moves fast, and most of it slips by on autopilot. Remindfulness sends gentle reminders throughout your day to pause, breathe, come back to the present, and remember who you really are. These aren't generic wellness tips. The reminders included draw on a wealth of non-denominational spiritual teachings, the perennial wisdom found at the heart of every tradition yet belonging to none: presence, gratitude, surrender, compassion, and reconnection with your Source. Each one has been distilled into a practice simple enough to do in a few moments, in the middle of anything. If you walk a spiritual path, whatever its shape, these reminders will feel like coming home. You have learned so many ways to reconnect with your Source, to bring your attention to the Present Moment... If only you could remember to do them throughout your busy day! Remindfulness is designed to run quietly in the background and gently call you back to your truth throughout your waking hours. This extends spiritual practice beyond isolated periods of meditation or contemplation. Woven into the fabric of your day, it can become a real way of life. Over a hundred simple yet powerful practices have been created so that you can perform them easily, in the space of no more than a few moments, often without having to physically move or even close your eyes: a breath received with gratitude, a blessing silently sent, a question that dissolves the mind's chatter, a return to the awareness behind your thoughts. This makes them easy to do the moment they appear on your screen, no matter what else you might be in the middle of. And even when you can't read a reminder right away, for example while driving or in a meeting, the simple awareness of its arrival can be your prompt to spend the next five minutes being as present as possible. FEATURES - Over 100 beautiful practice reminders. - 26 unique alert sounds, plus a Random option. - Time reminders to arrive at regular intervals, or choose random timing and how many arrive within your chosen time frame. - Custom reminder editor for writing your own. Then tell the app to use ours, yours, or a mixture of both. - NEW: Import a whole list of your own reminders at once. Paste a column from a spreadsheet, or a list from your notes, one per line. - NEW: Back up your reminders with a tap, then restore them any time through Import. - Auto suspend and resume sleeps the app overnight and wakes it with you in the morning. - Sound on or off at a touch, and share any reminder with loved ones via email or text message. Customization lets you shape how Remindfulness works for you. Choose whether reminders arrive with an alert tone, and which one. Choose random timing, and how many reminders you'd like, or pick a regular interval that suits your rhythm. Suspend the app while you sleep, without quitting it, and reminders resume by themselves in the morning. You can also write your own reminders and save them in a list, and now bring a whole list in at once, or back your list up for safekeeping. Tell the app to draw from your reminders exclusively, not at all, or shuffled in with ours via the Yours, Ours, and All options. NOTE: For the best experience, allow notifications for Remindfulness in your device's Settings > Notifications, and open a reminder from time to time; iOS quietly pauses notifications from apps whose alerts are never viewed. Please enjoy Remindfulness. I created it to help me, throughout my day, to return joyfully to the present moment. I hope it will help you do the same. Remindfulness... Helping you remember to be mindful Freedom Techniques www.remindfulnessapp.com
Prompted Journal
This app provides a guided journaling experience with over 190 prompts and "Dive Deeper" questions to encourage self-reflection and personal growth. It helps users establish a consistent self-care routine through daily reminders and offers privacy with no data storage required.
- 190+ journal prompts
- "Dive Deeper" questions
- Daily reminders
- PDF export
- Custom prompt creation
- Private journaling
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Discover your daily self-care companion: Prompted Journal, a daily journal and diary designed to foster self-reflection and personal growth through carefully crafted daily journal prompts. This daily diary is not just about writing down mundane events; it's about engaging in a rewarding self-care routine through thoughtful writing prompts that inspire self-discovery. Our daily journal and diary app offers 190+ journal prompts to kick-start your writing and reflection journey. With daily reminders to ensure you stay on track, maintaining a consistent journaling habit has never been easier. This daily diary app is all about helping you develop a strong self-care practice through the power of writing. The key features of our daily journal and diary app include: * A comprehensive library of journal prompts, ensuring diverse and thought-provoking topics for daily reflection * "Dive Deeper" questions accompanying each prompt, allowing you to explore your thoughts more thoroughly * Daily reminders to help you establish a consistent journaling habit * PDF export functionality, enabling you to print, email, or save your diary entries for future reference * A customizable experience, with the ability to create your own unique journal prompts * A focus on privacy: entries are stored on your device, and no account is required Transform your daily journaling and diary experience with Prompted Journal and make self-care a priority. By dedicating just five minutes a day to journaling, you can reap the benefits of a deeply enriching self-care routine that fosters personal growth and well-being. Our daily journal and diary app is designed to make journaling easy and enjoyable, so you can focus on what truly matters: nurturing your inner self. At Prompted Journal, we're committed to creating writing apps that promote self-care and wellness. If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to reach out to us. Your privacy is our top priority, and we've built this daily diary journal with that in mind. Get ready to embark on a journey of self-discovery and growth with the Prompted Journal daily journal and diary app – your everyday self-care companion. Privacy Policy: https://oatmealapps.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Prompted Journal at 4.8 against Remindfulness's 3.7. Prompted Journal also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (95% vs 66%). Remindfulness's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. Remindfulness sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Prompted Journal sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Prompted Journal holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Prompted Journal has 6.9K ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 66% of Remindfulness's written reviews are positive against 95% of Prompted Journal's.
Remindfulness ships an update every 12 months, Prompted Journal every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Remindfulness | Prompted Journal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (20 ratings) | 4.8 (6.9K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.2% of reviews | 94.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 20 | 6.9K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Naomi Janzen | Oatmeal Apps |
Customer experience
Remindfulness
Prompted Journal
User reviews
Remindfulness
From 20 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ✨ Highly customizable reminders
- 🧘♀️ Promotes mindfulness and self-awareness
- 💡 Inspiring and thought-provoking messages
- 🎵 Beautiful and soothing sounds
- ⌚ Works well on Apple Watch
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent bugs and crashes
- 🚫 Ads are intrusive and disruptive
- 🔇 Sound notifications not working
- ⏳ Reminders not appearing consistently
- 🤔 Confusing or complex settings
Prompted Journal
From 6.9K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💖 Great for self-reflection
- 🔒 No ads or data collection
- 👍 Simple and user-friendly interface
- 🤗 Helpful and thought-provoking prompts
- 🌟 Aesthetically pleasing design
Room to improve
- 🐛 Issues with editing/deleting past entries
- 🔍 Lack of search/filter functionality
- 📱 Compatibility issues on larger screens
- 🔁 Repetitive prompts
Bugs and requests
Remindfulness
Reported bugs
28 issues- No sound for notifications
- Custom reminders not showing up
- App freezes or crashes
- Reminders disappear too quickly
- App stops working after iOS updates
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- Notifications not triggering reliably
- App turns itself off
- Time settings are broken
- App quits from notification shortly after opening
- Hangs and only shows the first reminder
- Quotes disappear before they can be read
- Banner alerts don't stay
- Last quote doesn't stay long enough to read
- Ad version is unusable due to frequent ads
- Asked to share app every time a notification is opened
- Alarmas no suenan en hibernación del iPhone
- App doesn't work as advertised
- App is inoperable, freezes when customizing
- App crashes when trying to customize
- App freezes on option screen
- App freezes and only shows first reminder
- App stops working, frozen
- App turns itself off
- App is buggy and confusing
- App freezes on option screen and won't return to main screen
- App freezes and refuses to work
- App keeps freezing
- Sound option doesn't work
Requested features
8 requests- Add more sound options
- Allow reminders less frequent than daily (e.g., weekly, monthly)
- Option for once a day or specific times/days
- Port to Apple Watch for proper alert tone
- Improve UI and iPhone 5 optimization
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- Increase the limit of custom reminders
- Add backup or data sharing options
- Dark mode option
Prompted Journal
Reported bugs
2 issues- Entries disappearing or being lost
- Blank screens when opening the app
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to add custom prompts
- Option to password protect entries
- Exporting/printing journal entries
- More variety in prompt types
In-app purchases
Remindfulness
- Remove Ads$4.99
Prompted Journal
- Prompted Journal Monthly14 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Monthly3 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Premium$11.991 Year
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- Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
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