Mood Tracker vs Shadow Work
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Mood Tracker
This app helps you understand your emotions by tracking daily moods, feelings, and thoughts. It offers insightful analytics and personalized journaling to improve mental well-being and manage stress.
- Daily mood logging
- Insightful analytics and charts
- Personalized journal entries
- Privacy-focused data storage
- Identify emotional trends and triggers
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Discover a deeper understanding of your emotions with Emotion Diary - Mood Tracker. This intuitive app is your personal journal for tracking daily moods, emotions, and thoughts. Whether you're seeking to improve your mental well-being, manage stress, or simply keep a record of your day-to-day feelings, Emotion Diary provides the tools you need to stay in tune with yourself. Key Features: - Daily Mood Tracking: Easily log your emotions with a few taps. Choose from a range of moods and determine what influenced your mood to reflect how you truly feel. - Insightful Analytics: Visualize your emotional patterns with charts and graphs. Identify trends and triggers that impact your mental health. - Personalized Journals: Add notes, thoughts, or whole journals to each mood entry. Capture the context behind your emotions to gain deeper insights. - Privacy First: Your data is secure and private. Your entries are for your eyes only and will stay on your device. Start your journey toward self-awareness and emotional well-being today. With Emotion Diary - Mood Tracker, tracking your moods has never been easier or more insightful. Download now and take the first step toward a happier, healthier you! Our terms and conditions can be found here: https://mood-tracker.app/terms
Shadow Work
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Shadow work is the practice of turning toward the parts of yourself you usually push away. The fear, the anger, the old hurt, the patterns you repeat without meaning to. Umbra gives you a quiet, private place to do that work at your own pace. This is a journal built for one thing: honest self-reflection, guided gently. WHAT YOU GET A library of prompts, grouped by theme. Meeting your shadow, childhood, relationships, self-worth, anger, fear, and projection. Each prompt is open and non-judgmental. It invites you to look, not to fix. A prompt each day. Open the app and there is one thoughtful question waiting. No scrolling, no noise. Just a place to start. A clean writing screen. Plain text, soft type, and autosave so you never lose a word. Nothing between you and the page. Your history, kept gently. A simple record of what you have written and the days you showed up. A light streak and a quiet calendar reflect your effort back to you, calmly. A missed day just starts the count again, with no penalty and no pressure. An optional daily reminder. Set a time that fits your routine, or leave it off. Your choice. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your entries never leave your phone. There is no account, no login, and no cloud. The app works fully offline. We do not have a server that could read your writing, because there is no server. What you write here is yours alone. A CALM PLACE TO THINK Shadow work can bring up heavy feelings. Umbra is built to hold that gently. Move slowly. Skip a prompt that feels like too much. Come back when you are ready. There is no streak to protect and nothing to lose by taking your time. The app is also a fine general guided journal if you are not here for shadow work specifically. The prompts open doors, wherever you want to walk through them. A NOTE ON CARE Umbra is a tool for self-reflection. It is not therapy and it is not a substitute for professional support. If you are struggling, please reach out to a qualified professional or a trusted person in your life. SUBSCRIPTION Umbra is free to download and comes with a free trial. After the trial, a subscription keeps the full library and all features unlocked. You can choose a weekly or yearly plan. Price, trial length, and renewal terms are shown clearly before you subscribe, and you can cancel anytime in your App Store settings. Payment is charged to your Apple ID, and a subscription renews automatically unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the period ends. Terms of Use and Privacy Policy links are available on the subscription screen and below. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://dev16nath.github.io/umbra-legal/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Shadow Work at none against Mood Tracker's shown. Shadow Work also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 10 days). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Mood Tracker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Shadow Work sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Mood Tracker ships an update every 10 days, Shadow Work every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mood Tracker | Shadow Work |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | โ |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 3 days โ better |
| Ads | Yes | No โ better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | โ |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Rene Weinhold | Devanuj Nath |
In-app purchases
Mood Tracker
- Mood Plus - Weekly14 Days trial$1.997 Days
- Mood Plus - Monthly14 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Mood Plus - 6 Months14 Days trial$29.996 Months
Shadow Work
- Weekly7 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Yearly$39.991 Year









