Comparison

Strive Journal vs Grateful

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

Head to head
About

Strive Journal

This app helps you achieve your long-term goals through structured planning, journaling, and supportive exercises. Track your progress, share your journey with others, and reflect on your achievements.

Highlights
  • Goal setting and planning
  • Progress journaling
  • Shareable goals
  • Daily Gratitude exercises
  • Affirmations
  • Dear Future Self letters
  • Wheel of Life assessment
Features
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Increase your chance of achieving your long term goals and/or help others achieve theirs. Goal setting & Journaling Set goals, make a plan, visualize and stay focused. These are the key ingredients to achieving long-term goals. Write about your progress and look back on your life with appreciation on what you have achieved. Share your goals with friends and family, or keep them private for yourself. Add extra incentive to achieve your goals or the goals of others by adding supports. Once the objective has been finished, you choose to give it or not. Strive Journal comes with several exercises to increase your chance of succeeding: - Daily Gratitude - Affirmations - Dear Future Self - Wheel of Life Daily Gratitude A daily practice to focus on the positive instead of the negative Affirmations Set affirmations for yourself to embed beliefs and activate the law of attraction Dear Future Self Write letters to your future self. Predict what your future will look like and by visualizing and writing about it, increase your chance of actually getting there. Wheel of Life Discover which area in your life needs extra attention and set goals for this. Track your progress over the long term

About

Grateful

Features
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Grateful - Daily Gratitude Journal Build a calmer, more positive mindset with a simple, beautiful gratitude practice. FEATURES: - Quick Daily Entries - Write what you're grateful for in seconds - Add Photos - Attach memories to your reflections - Streak Tracking - Stay motivated with daily streaks - Calendar View - See your journey at a glance - Insights & Analytics - Word clouds, top tags, and a 30-day activity chart - 5 Beautiful Themes - Choose colors that inspire you - Smart Tags - Organize entries with hashtags - Daily Prompts - Never run out of ideas WHY GRATITUDE? Research shows daily gratitude practice reduces stress, improves sleep, increases happiness, and strengthens relationships. PRIVACY FIRST: - 100% private - all data stays on your device - No account required - No ads or tracking - Your data is yours alone Start your gratitude journey today.

Screenshots

Strive Journal4 screens
Grateful4 screens

Verdict

The call

Strive Journal and Grateful are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Strive Journal versus Grateful: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStrive JournalGrateful
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRemco SimonidesNorthstar Apps LLC

In-app purchases

None

Strive Journal

No in-app purchases

None

Grateful

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Strive Journal free?
Strive Journal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Grateful free?
Grateful is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Strive Journal or Grateful have ads?
Neither Strive Journal nor Grateful shows ads.

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