How We Feel vs Weekly Intention
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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/
Weekly Intention
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Weekly Intention holds one thing — what matters this week — and keeps it gently present on every screen you check. It is not a to-do list, not a habit tracker, not a journal. It does not nag, score, or grade. It asks for one sentence on Monday and steps out of the way. — One Intention, One Week Set what matters this week. Change your mind any time — there is no streak to break, no penalty for revising. The current week always shows first; past weeks stay recallable and searchable. Everywhere you look The same intention appears on iPhone, iPad, Mac, the Home Screen widget, the iPhone Lock Screen widget, the macOS menu bar, and Apple Watch — including a Smart Stack rectangular widget on Watch that surfaces at the start of your week. Set it once, see it everywhere you look. Private by Design Your intentions live in your own iCloud account. There is no server, no account to create, no analytics, no third-party services, no ads. We never see what you write. Quiete by Design No notifications. No reminders. No streaks. No engagement loops. The app earns the open by being useful on arrival — not by pulling you back.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Weekly Intention at none against How We Feel's 5. How We Feel's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.2). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. How We Feel sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Weekly Intention asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | How We Feel | Weekly Intention |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (25 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | treebetty LLC | Uwe Bury |
In-app purchases
How We Feel
- 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
- Best-Self Bundle: Lifetime$19.99
Weekly Intention
No in-app purchases
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