Comparison

How We Feel vs Angry Notes 2

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

Head to head
About

How We Feel

Capture life's simple moments with a beautifully designed journal. Easily record thoughts, emotions, and gratitude with text and photos. Organize your memories and enjoy a private, ad-free experience.

Highlights
  • Visual journaling with text and photos
  • Daily prompts and custom prompt creation
  • Photo Journey Board
  • Passcode lock for privacy
  • iCloud sync and backup
  • Ad-free experience
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Use Brighter to create a visual collection of the simple moments in your life. Capture those fleeting moments of the day: something beautiful you see, a simple revelation, an unexpected emotion, a moment of gratitude. Brighter is for the moments in between. It’s a simple, no frills journal, beautifully designed. Create an entry in seconds. Answer a prompt. Or make your own. Add some words and/or a photo. That’s it. Brighter is a simple, flexible tool to help you appreciate the little (and big) things in your life. ENTRY IDEAS: • Thoughts • Emotions • Reflections • Revelations • Gratitude • Moods • Anything FEATURES: - Simple, beautiful design with an array of soothing colors to choose from - Quickly create entries with text and photo - Daily prompts from an expanding library of prompts - Create your own custom prompts (premium feature) - Filter journal entries by prompt or by day, week, month, or year - A Photo Journey Board is automatically created from all the photos you add to your entries - Motivating quotes within the app - Daily reminders - Passcode lock for enhanced privacy - Access your boards from both iPhone and iPad via iCloud sync - Automatic iCloud backup - Unlimited journal entries (premium feature) - Unlimited quotes (premium feature) - No login or registration required - No ads of any kind - No data of any kind stored on our own servers. All data resides on your device and in your iCloud account. FREE TRIAL: Brighter is free to download and the trial version allows you: • 10 entries • 2 custom prompts • 1 daily reminder • 7 favorites (entries, photos and quotes) • 50 motivational quotes PREMIUM UPGRADE INCLUDES: • Unlimited entries • Unlimited custom prompts • Unlimited daily reminders • Unlimited favorites • Unlimited motivational quotes • iCloud Backup • iCloud sync across iPhone and iPad Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Angry Notes 2

Features
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Color, color, color! Angry Notes 2 lets you manage text records across different groups. Press the + button at the top-right corner to create a group. And long-press a group to set a color to it. Tapping the disclosure arrow of a group, you can see all text records under it. Apply one of twelve colors other than black to the title if a text record is important. You can protect data with Face ID/Touch ID while you are away from your device. - Features - 1. Create groups. Add a text record to the group you select. 2. Long-press a group and select a color to apply. 3. Move a text record from one group to another. 4. Set a color to the title of a text record you select. 5. Use Face ID or Touch ID to protect personal data while you are away. 6. Create a QR code out of the text record you select. 7. Export a group you select. Import an entire group from a backup file. 8. Select a font size (20, 30, 40, 50 points) and a font (Helvetica, AmericanTypewriter, Georgia, Impact). 9. Reorder groups. 10.Reorder text records within the group they belong to. - System requirements 1. iOS 16.0 - Limitations 1. The user can have as many as two groups and as many as five text records without the Unlimited usage IAP.

Screenshots

How We Feel4 screens
Angry Notes 24 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Angry Notes 2 at daily against How We Feel's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. How We Feel sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Angry Notes 2 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

How We Feel ships an update every 3 weeks, Angry Notes 2 daily. Both last shipped on September 18, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
How We Feel versus Angry Notes 2: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHow We FeelAngry Notes 2
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (25 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings25 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developertreebetty LLCTomoyuki Okawa

In-app purchases

5 purchases

How We Feel

Subscriptions4
  • Best-Self Bundle: Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly$11.991 Year
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  • Best-Self Bundle: Yearly$12.991 Year
One-time1
  • Best-Self Bundle: Lifetime$19.99
1 purchases

Angry Notes 2

One-time1
  • Unlimited usage$0.99

Questions

Is How We Feel free?
How We Feel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Angry Notes 2 free?
Angry Notes 2 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do How We Feel or Angry Notes 2 have ads?
Neither How We Feel nor Angry Notes 2 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, How We Feel or Angry Notes 2?
How We Feel ships an update every 3 weeks, and Angry Notes 2 daily. Most recently, How We Feel was updated on September 18, 2026 and Angry Notes 2 on September 18, 2026.

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