Dream Eater vs DreamMap
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dream Eater
Explore the subconscious with an AI-powered dream journal. Record, analyze, and visualize your dreams with personalized interpretations and moon phase insights. Track patterns and build a visual gallery of your dream world.
- AI Dream Analysis
- Dream Visualization
- Moon Phase Integration
- Voice Recording
- Organized Dream Library
- iCloud Sync
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You wake at 3 a.m. with a dream still vivid. Say it out loud or type it, and Dream Eater keeps it safe, with the real moon and sky of that night beside it. THE JOURNAL IS FREE, FOREVER Voice capture that works offline and turns your words into text on your iPhone. Drafts that survive a crash. A calendar, search, tags, favorites, export. No account, no sign-up, nothing standing between you and the half-remembered. A READING IN YOUR OWN WORDS Ask for a reading and get a reflection, not a verdict. It quotes your dream back to you, asks open questions, and names the tradition when one reads an image a certain way (Jungian, Gestalt, folk). It never claims a symbol has one fixed meaning, and it never claims to know what will happen. THE MOON AND THE SKY Every dream is stamped with the moon phase and the Moon's sign from that night, computed on your iPhone. Add your birth details if you like, and see your chart and what is passing through it. Astrology here is a reflective lens, not evidence about your life, and it is optional. PATTERNS THAT ARE TRUE See your streak, your tones and feelings, the themes that keep coming back, and when you dream. If you ask whether the moon matters, the app tells you honestly how many nights it takes to say anything, and shows what chance alone would give you. ART MADE FROM YOUR DREAM Turn a dream into a picture in one of six styles, from soft dreamscape to ink wash to collage. Save it, or share a card with the dream's title and the moon. BUILT FOR THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT A Record button on the Lock Screen and in Control Center, a moon widget, a Bedside theme that keeps the light low. Large text, VoiceOver and Reduce Motion are supported throughout. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your dreams, recordings, transcripts, tags and birth details stay on your device. When you ask for a reading, the dream text goes to our server and on to Google's Gemini model to write it, and our server keeps no dream text afterward. You choose whether readings are on, and you can delete everything from Settings. FREE, PLUS, OR PAY AS YOU GO Three readings a week are free. Plus unlocks unlimited readings, dream art in six styles, follow-up questions and your sky. Start with a 7-day free trial on the annual plan, or skip subscriptions and buy credits that never expire. Dream Eater is for reflection and entertainment. It is not medical, psychological or therapeutic advice. If you are struggling, support is one tap away in Settings, Help, Crisis resources. Available in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese. Plus is an auto-renewing subscription, monthly or annual, with a 7-day free trial on the annual plan for new subscribers. The price is shown in the app before you subscribe. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation, and the subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel in Settings, Apple Account, Subscriptions. A lifetime purchase is also available. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://mako.midgarcorp.cc/privacy/dreameater
DreamMap
This app helps you capture, analyze, and understand your dreams. It uses established interpretive traditions and a peer-reviewed framework to reveal patterns and provide weekly narrative readings. Your dream data is stored privately on your device.
- Fast dream capture via voice
- On-device speech recognition
- Symbol interpretation from cited traditions
- Pattern recognition and motif tracking
- Weekly narrative dream readings
- Private and secure dream storage
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DreamMap is a quiet place to map what your dreams already know. Capture your dreams while they're fresh. Watch them reveal patterns over time. Read them through centuries of accumulated wisdom — not new-age guesswork, but real interpretive traditions, cited and grounded. — Capture is fast. Tap the microphone and speak. Apple's on-device speech recognition turns it into text instantly. Audio never leaves your phone. A gentle morning notification helps you catch dreams while they're still vivid. — Every reading is grounded. DreamMap pairs your dream with symbol interpretations drawn from Jung's archetypes, Freud's symbolism, Artemidorus's Oneirocritica, Talmudic dream tradition, Hindu sources, and American folk lore. Each reading cites the source it's drawing on, so you can read deeper. — Patterns reveal themselves. As your library grows, recurring motifs surface. The Map view shows your dreams as a constellation of connections. The Analysis tab tracks how each motif evolves through the four-phase Motif Analysis and Phase Model (MAP), a peer-reviewed framework published by Jenni and Roesler in Behavioral Sciences (2024). — Weekly readings. Every week DreamMap reads your dreams as a series, not in isolation, and produces a narrative grounded in Structural Dream Analysis (Roesler), the continuity hypothesis, and your own motif trajectories. Specific to you. Cited. Yours. — Designed for your rhythm. A morning nudge for dream capture while details are still close. A quiet evening reflection ping when there's something worth noticing. Both optional, both gentle, both respect your time. — Private. Your dreams are stored under your own account and never shared. The symbolism corpus that grounds your readings was built from public-domain sources with full author attribution. For: — Long-time dream journalers who want their library to mean something — Therapists, analysts, and counselors looking for a practical SDA / MAP companion — Anyone curious about what their inner life is saying About the methodology: DreamMap's analysis is grounded in peer-reviewed Jungian dream research, particularly the Motif Analysis and Phase Model (Jenni & Roesler, Behavioral Sciences, 2024) and Roesler's Structural Dream Analysis. Where it draws on individual symbol traditions, it cites them by name — Jung, Freud, Artemidorus, Talmudic, Hindu, or American folk — so every reading can be verified and explored further.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DreamMap at none against Dream Eater's 7. DreamMap also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Dream Eater sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. DreamMap asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Dream Eater against 5.0 for DreamMap. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 5 respectively.
| Parameter | Dream Eater | DreamMap |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Midgar Oy | Taylor Korensky |
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Dream Eater
DreamMap
In-app purchases
Dream Eater
- Dream Eater Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
- Dream Eater Premium Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- 5 Dream Credits$2.99
- 15 Dream Credits$7.99
- Credits Mega Pack (50)$24.99
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- Credits - Giga Pack (100)$39.99
- DreamEater Premium Lifetime$249.99
DreamMap
No in-app purchases









