Jourful vs Oasis Lights
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Jourful
A privacy-focused social journaling platform that digitizes the experience of creating and sharing personal journeys. Capture life's moments with images and text, share them privately with friends and family, and revisit cherished memories.
- Create digital journals with images
- Update journals in real-time
- Share journals privately with friends and family
- Search, bookmark, and react to journal entries
- Privacy-focused with no ads or tracking
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Journey, Joyful, and Journal inspire the name Jourful, a privacy-focused social journaling platform. Physical Journals are a popular but inconvenient way to share life's many journeys. Jourful digitizes this experience. Jourful captures the joy of making and sharing Journals with the ease and reach of the internet. At Jourful, our app is our product and you are our customer. Jourful is built with privacy and health at its core: - No ads, no tracking, no AI training - Your data is private unless you choose to share with friends & family - Spend more time in life and less time in an app * Tell Tell your journeys by creating digital Journals with images. You can update your Journals and even add or remove pages as your stories unfold to share in real time. * Share Share your Journals with close friends and family. Unless you share, your Journals remain privately available only to you. * Enjoy & Revisit Enjoy new experiences from Journals shared with you by friends and family, or revisit experiences in your own Journals. Search, bookmark, and use emoji to share your thoughts with the Journal.
Oasis Lights
This app intelligently adjusts your home lighting throughout the day, mimicking natural light cycles. It wakes you gently, energizes you during the day, and helps you relax in the evening, all automatically.
- Adaptive lighting throughout the day
- Gentle wake-up light
- Energizing daytime light
- Relaxing evening glow
- Automatic light adjustments
- Simple setup
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Oasis gives you better lighting, built around your day. Oasis wakes you up with gentle light in the morning, shifts to warm energizing light during the day, and helps you wind down with a cozy amber glow in the evening - all without you lifting a finger. Setup is simple and done in minutes. If you want to adjust the brightness, warmth, or timing, you can do that easily in the app. It’s light that feels good, looks good, and works without you thinking about it. Highlights: • Light that adapts to your day • No schedules to manage • Helps you relax and sleep better
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Verdict
Jourful and Oasis Lights both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Jourful's written reviews are positive against 58% of Oasis Lights's. Oasis Lights's advantage is ratings volume (5.6K vs 1) and update cadence (every 11 days vs every 6 weeks). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Jourful against 4.9 for Oasis Lights. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Oasis Lights has 5.6K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Jourful's written reviews are positive against 58% of Oasis Lights's.
Jourful ships an update every 6 weeks, Oasis Lights every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Jourful | Oasis Lights |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.9 (5.6K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 57.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5.6K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 84 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jourful, Inc. | Mixtiles Ltd |
Customer experience
Jourful
Oasis Lights
Bugs and requests
Jourful
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Oasis Lights
Reported bugs
3 issues- App won't connect to lights
- Lights won't pair with app
- App login and account setup problems
Requested features
2 requests- Fix app connectivity issues
- Improve setup and onboarding process
In-app purchases
Jourful
No in-app purchases
Oasis Lights
No in-app purchases
