Moodly vs How is it?
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Moodly
This app helps you understand your emotional well-being by tracking your mood and identifying patterns. It provides daily insights into how activities and social interactions affect your feelings, allowing you to see long-term trends and gain self-awareness.
- Track mood with questionnaires
- Daily insights on activities and friends
- Review past mood changes
- Data analysis for self-insights
- Identify mood-affecting factors
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Introducing Moodly - Mood Tracker Moodly is the ultimate companion app for individuals seeking to enhance their emotional intelligence and gain valuable insights into their mood patterns. Through a meticulously designed questionnaire-based system and advanced data analysis, Moodly empowers users to see how their mood is affected by different factors and trends throughout the day as well as long term. Key Features: • Track your mood by completing Moodly's throughout the day. • View daily insights about your activities and friends. • Look back through past days to see how you've changed. • Moodly crunches the numbers to let you gain valuable insights about yourself and your mood.
How is it?
Quickly track your daily progress with simple button presses and emojis. View your progress over time, spot patterns, and customize the app to fit your needs. Your data stays private on your device.
- One-tap progress recording (thumbs up/down/so-so)
- Add emojis to entries
- Home Screen widgets and Lock Screen controls
- View daily, weekly, and 50-day progress
- Day-time grid for pattern spotting
- Customizable phrases and emoji stickers
- Data export as CSV
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It’s easy to forget your progress when you’re frustrated. Mood trackers aren’t reflecting the progress you’ve made and diaries need too much attention. How is it? is the quick and easy solution. Simply open, press a button and that’s it. All just happening on your device. How is it? is a tool for it to look back, see your progress and spot patterns in your day-to-day routine. Record your progress - Press thumbs up, thumbs down or "so-so" - Add emojis to your recording - iOS 18: Add a Control on your Lock Screen or to the Control Center to quickly open the app - NEW: Use the Home Screen widget to quickly record on the fly - NEW: Use the shortcut "Record an entry" in Apple Shortcuts to create automations Reflect on it - See your progress daily - See changes throughout the week - Reflect on the last 50 days of progress - Spot patterns in your day-to-day routine with the day-time grid (after 14 days of records) Make it yours - Adjust your phrase or question - Add or remove emoji stickers - Change the color theme Your data, period. - Only on your device - Export your data anytime as CSV How is it? might not have all the features you want. It's not fancy. It won't regularly consume your time, storage space, or money. But it’s just enough to help you keeping track of your progress at low cost, payed once.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Moodly at Free against How is it?'s $0.99. How is it?'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence 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
Moodly is free to download; How is it? costs $0.99 up front. Moodly sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. How is it? asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Moodly against 5.0 for How is it?. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Moodly ships an update every 5 weeks, How is it? monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Moodly | How is it? |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alan Easterling | Christian Xu |
Customer experience
Moodly
How is it?
In-app purchases
Moodly
- Moodly Premium$5.99
How is it?
No in-app purchases









