Strive Journal vs Grateful
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Goal setting and planning
- Progress journaling
- Shareable goals
- Daily Gratitude exercises
- Affirmations
- Dear Future Self letters
- Wheel of Life assessment
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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
Grateful
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Strive Journal | Grateful |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Remco Simonides | Northstar Apps LLC |
In-app purchases
Strive Journal
No in-app purchases
Grateful
No in-app purchases









