Comparison

Rosebud vs My Human Code

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

Head to head
About

Rosebud

This AI-powered companion offers a guided journaling experience for personal growth and emotional wellness. It provides personalized prompts, feedback, and insights based on your entries, helping to reduce stress and gain clarity through structured self-reflection.

Highlights
  • Interactive daily diary with text and voice entries
  • Guided journals using evidence-based frameworks
  • AI-powered pattern recognition and mood tracking
  • Smart goal and habit suggestions
  • Weekly personal growth insights
  • Biometric journal locking
Features
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Rosebud is your personal AI-powered self care companion. Rosebud is a therapist-recommended journaling and self-reflection tool designed to support your personal growth and emotional wellness. Rosebud is a diary that evolves with you, learning from your entries and providing personalized prompts, feedback, and insights tailored for your growth. THE BEST DAILY JOURNALING APP Navigating challenging emotions? Want to better manage stress, anxiety, or overthinking? Rosebud is designed to help you work through difficult emotions and thoughts through structured self-reflection. Whether you prefer to write or speak your thoughts, with just a few minutes of voice or text journaling, you'll reduce stress and gain clarity. REVIEWS Our users tell us: "I absolutely love it. I never thought I would have done AI journaling. I love the prompts and the insights into my personality are amazing and literally help me succeed in life." ~ Cameron T. "I love this app. It's helped me replace doom scrolling while integrating more self reflection and mindfulness throughout my day. The prompts are well thought out, and I've seen an improvement in my mood and self awareness. Highly recommend." ~ Vesna M. "This is turbocharging my journaling habit. Self-reflection x collaborative brainstorming x empathetic feedback = GAME CHANGER!" ~ Chris G. "It feels like daily 'brain hygiene' to use this app, dump out my thoughts and force myself to think through things in a way I might normally avoid." ~ Erica R. "It's like having my own personal coach right in my left pocket. The long-term memory helps me see my thinking traps, patterns, and reframe negative emotions. " ~ Alicia L. FEATURES FOR DAILY SELF IMPROVEMENT Reflect & Process • Interactive Daily Diary: Interactive self-reflection with real-time guidance for text and voice entries • Expert-Crafted Experiences: Guided journals using evidence-based self-reflection frameworks (eg. CBT techniques, gratitude practice, etc.) • Voice Journaling: Express yourself naturally in 20 languages using our advanced transcription or voice mode Learn & Grow • Intelligent Pattern Recognition: AI learns about you and recognizes patterns across entries • Smart Mood Tracker: AI helps you understand emotional patterns and triggers Track Progress • Smart Goal Tracker: AI habit and goal suggestions and accountability • Daily Quotes: Affirmations, haikus, proverbs tailored to you based on your entries • Weekly Personal Growth Insights: Track themes, progress, wins, emotional landscape, and more with comprehensive weekly analysis provided by AI PRIVACY FIRST Your thoughts are personal. Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest to keep your data completely secure. Plus, secure your journal with biometric locking using Face ID, Touch ID, or a personal PIN code for an extra layer of protection. We're on a mission to build a future where everyone has the power to live happier, more fulfilled lives. Rosebud is constantly updated with the latest in psychology and AI technology to provide you with the best self-reflection and personal growth support. Rosebud is a personal growth and wellness tool designed to support self-reflection and goal achievement. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any medical condition, nor is it a substitute for professional mental health care, medical advice, or therapy. If you're experiencing a mental health crisis, please contact emergency services or a crisis hotline immediately. Join thousands of happy Rosebud users today! Your future self awaits. Terms of Service: https://help.rosebud.app/about-us/terms-of-service

About

My Human Code

This app offers a self-directed CBT toolkit and mental wellness companion. It provides guided daily check-ins, personalized AI meditations, and smart journaling to help build healthier thought patterns and emotional intelligence.

Highlights
  • Guided daily check-ins
  • Personalized AI meditations
  • Smart journaling with CBT prompts
  • Thought records and cognitive restructuring
  • Progress tracking with visuals
  • Inner voice companion
Features
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Reveal the code you were born with. Powered by the Gene Keys™, My Human Code turns your birth chart into a journey you walk, and keeps a journal of your dreams, thoughts and moods beside it, with an inner voice that remembers all of it. Three thousand years ago the I Ching described human nature in 64 patterns. The Gene Keys™ show how the moment and place of your birth mark four of them as yours. My Human Code turns that map into a place you can walk. REVEAL YOUR CODE Enter your birth date, time and place once and your Hologenetic Profile is calculated, the same calculation behind the Gene Keys website. Four worlds open from it: Life's Work, Evolution, Radiance and Purpose, built from the keys your own chart holds, so nobody walks quite the same journey. Your profile and the first level of the game are free. Choose one of nine characters and follow a path through forest and river, a winter mountain, islands above the clouds and a jungle lit from within. Walk, jump, duck and gather fragments of light at an easy, steady or demanding pace. Gather a world's fragments and its sigil opens: the Shadow, Gift and Siddhi of your key, written for your chart, followed by Richard Rudd's recorded story for that key. Each key closes with a short contemplation you play rather than read. The game is powered by the Gene Keys™, licensed in partnership with Gene Keys Ltd. KIN Your family, friends and acquaintances, each in their own room, each seeing only what you choose to share. On a heavy day, let them know. They answer with a heart or a line in the voice of their own nature. Send love any day. Choose one practice a week to do together. YOUR ROUTINE Three small practices a day, planned from how your week went, with your kin practices in the same list. Seven Mornings: one practice, seven days in a row. Letters to your future self, sealed until a morning you choose. DREAMS, THOUGHTS AND MOODS Record dreams by voice or text and watch them become vivid illustrations while the patterns beneath are gently drawn out. Every reading is offered, never declared. Move from overthinking to clarity with guided reflection, and track emotional shifts to uncover the triggers and themes you might not notice alone. INNER VOICE A voice that remembers: your dreams, your moods, your routine and the parts of your code you have unlocked. Talk by text or by voice. It listens, waits through your pauses, and answers in a few words. CALM Mind Reset meditations for your current state, Mind Booster readings for your day, and Sleep Mode's theta wave soundscapes with whispered affirmations drawn from your own reflections. Stories, readings and meditations are read aloud, each word lit as it is spoken, in English and Spanish. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your dreams, emotions and reflections are encrypted and always yours, and you decide what your kin see, room by room. Formerly MindFlow: same app, same account, same subscription. SUBSCRIPTION Start with a free 7-day trial, then Premium is $9.99 per month or $74.99 per year. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Premium renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and renewal is charged within the 24 hours before it ends. Manage or cancel in your Apple ID account settings. Premium unlocks: • The whole game: all four worlds, every story and every contemplation • Dreams and thoughts decoded, with illustrated stories • Inner Voice, in writing and by voice • Mind Booster, Mind Reset and Sleep Mode ABOUT THE GENE KEYS™ A contemplative system for self-reflection created by Richard Rudd, exploring 64 archetypes through their Shadow, Gift and Siddhi. The words you read on your journey are theirs. This is an invitation to contemplation, not advice, and not a substitute for professional guidance of any kind. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.myhumancode.com/en/privacy

Screenshots

Rosebud4 screens
My Human Code4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Rosebud at freemium against My Human Code's subscription. Rosebud also leads on ratings volume (3.4K vs 15). My Human Code's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 88%). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Rosebud sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $11.00 per month and My Human Code sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Rosebud against 4.9 for My Human Code. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Rosebud has 3.4K ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 88% of Rosebud's written reviews are positive against 100% of My Human Code's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Rosebud versus My Human Code: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRosebudMy Human Code
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (3.4K ratings)4.9 (15 ratings) — better
Positive reviews88.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3.4K — better15
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size113 MB313 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperJust ImagineThe White Owl LLC

Customer experience

Rosebud

All ratings3,372 ratings
Positive97.2%
Neutral0.8%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews842 reviews
Positive88.1%
Neutral2.4%
Negative9.5%

My Human Code

All ratings15 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Rosebud

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Crashes or freezes on desktop app
  • Compatibility issues on older devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add mood tracking functionality
  • Improve customization of journal templates
  • Implement a search feature for past entries
  • Provide more flexibility with daily entry limits

My Human Code

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Rosebud

Subscriptions8
  • Rosebud Bloom Affiliate7 Days trial$11.001 Month
  • Rosebud Bloom7 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • Rosebud Thrive 2x$24.991 Month
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  • Rosebud Thrive 5x$59.991 Month
  • Rosebud Bloom Affiliate7 Days trial$92.001 Year
  • Rosebud Bloom7 Days trial$107.991 Year
  • Rosebud Thrive 2x$199.991 Year
  • Rosebud Thrive 5x$499.991 Year
5 purchases

My Human Code

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly7 Days trial$74.991 Year
One-time3
  • Gift: 1 Month Premium$9.99
  • Gift: 3 Months Premium$24.99
  • Gift: 1 Year Premium$74.99

Questions

Is Rosebud free?
Rosebud is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is My Human Code free?
My Human Code is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Rosebud or My Human Code?
My Human Code is rated higher. Rosebud averages 4.9 out of 5 from 3.4K ratings, while My Human Code averages 4.9 from 15 ratings.
Do Rosebud or My Human Code have ads?
Neither Rosebud nor My Human Code shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Rosebud or My Human Code?
Rosebud ships an update weekly, and My Human Code weekly. Most recently, Rosebud was updated on October 31, 2026 and My Human Code on October 30, 2026.

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