PrincipleX vs Mood Garden
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PrincipleX
Capture, reflect on, and grow with your personal principles. This app helps you organize your guiding beliefs and build the habit of living by them through daily reminders and journaling.
- Create and organize personal principles
- Manage principles with folders and tags
- Daily principle practice reminders
- Reflective journaling for personal growth
- Pin important principles for daily focus
- iCloud sync across devices
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Keep useful ideas from getting lost in your saved notes. Collect your own principles, reading excerpts and life lessons, then return to them with reminders and reflection. SAVE WHAT YOU WANT TO REMEMBER Write down a personal principle, a quote or a lesson from experience. Add its source and the context behind it. Build a personal library of ideas worth revisiting. ORGANIZE YOUR COLLECTION Use folders, tags and sources to bring structure to thoughts from work, reading and everyday life. SEE YOUR IDEAS AGAIN Choose daily reminders, pin a principle you want to keep in mind, or revisit it in a Home Screen widget. Set a rhythm that works for you. MAKE THE MEANING YOUR OWN Add reflections to each principle. When was it useful? What do you understand differently now? Keep the idea and your experience together. DISCOVER, SHARE AND SYNC Explore ideas to add to your library, turn a principle into a shareable image, and use iCloud sync across your own compatible devices. START FREE. UNLOCK ONCE. Save up to 20 principles for free. A one-time lifetime purchase removes the limit on adding principles, with no subscription. Signature Color and purchases to support the developer are separate, optional items and are not included in the lifetime unlock. Local prices appear in the app. Use Restore Purchases to check existing access. OPTIONAL SIRI ACCESS On supported systems running iOS 27 or later, you can allow Siri to find, read or open saved principles. Access to reflections is controlled separately. Availability depends on your device, language, region and system settings. Privacy policy: https://xzwings.com/xzwings/principlex.html Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Mood Garden
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Record your moments, and grow your secret garden! Every entry you make becomes nourishment for your plants. Here, recording isn’t just about writing words. Every rise and fall of emotion turns into a drop of dew or a ray of sunlight, nurturing the plants in your garden. As you watch them grow and bloom, you’ll find that caring for your plants is also a way of caring for yourself. [Mood Diary] Record your daily moods with various paper templates, express freely. [Garden Growth] Gain nutrients by recording moods and unlock new plants. [Rich Materials] Themes, papers, effects, stickers, and fonts to decorate your world. [Healing Effects] Snow, starlight, fireworks… Create your dreamy garden. [Data Insights] Visualize your mood changes and growth journey. [Theme Switch] Multiple color themes to match your feelings. Let every emotion be gently kept. Start your journey to your Mood Garden today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Mood Garden at every 9 days against PrincipleX's every 3 weeks. Mood Garden also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). 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
Both are free to download. PrincipleX sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Mood Garden sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PrincipleX ships an update every 3 weeks, Mood Garden every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PrincipleX | Mood Garden |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 157 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 旭 夏 | RuZheng Liu |
In-app purchases
PrincipleX
- Monthly Plan$2.991 Month
- Annual Plan$14.991 Year
- A Coffee$1.00
- Signature Color$3.00
- Lifetime Access$9.99
Mood Garden
- MoodGarden Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
- MoodGarden Pro Yearly$8.991 Year
- MoodGarden Pro Lifetime$14.99









