Comparison

DoThread vs Sylva

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

Head to head
About

DoThread

This app offers a flexible journaling experience to track moods, habits, and life events. Organize your thoughts with custom threads, gain insights through analytics, and stay consistent with daily reminders. Your data is private and syncs across devices.

Highlights
  • Customizable threads for notes, moods, and metrics
  • Fast capture with text, photos, and mood logging
  • Number tracking with custom units
  • Location and weather data integration (opt-in)
  • Apple Shortcuts and Siri integration
  • Powerful analytics and trend visualization
  • Daily reminders for consistency
  • iCloud and WebDAV sync
Features
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A journal that keeps up with you. Write an entry, tap a mood, tick off the swim, log the weight — DoThread holds all of it in threads you shape yourself. Free to start. No account, no one else's servers. WRITE PROPERLY Markdown where you want it: headings, lists, quotes, bold. Up to four photos in a single entry. Place and weather attach themselves, if you let them. LOG IN ONE TAP Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets record a mood or a check-in without opening the app. Put the Control Centre control on your Action Button and it is a single press. Ask Siri, or build it into a Shortcut. AN ENDLESS PAGE Canvas threads drop the timeline entirely: an endless page you write anywhere on, in handwriting-style fonts if you like. Photos, stickers and sticky notes drag, resize and rotate. Give the page a colour and a texture, and export all of it as one PDF. SIX KINDS OF THREAD Journals, mood trackers, daily check-ins, number trackers, checklists and freeform canvases. Pin the ones you live in to the top. Each with its own colour, its own moods if the standard ones don't fit, and Face ID on the private ones. SEE WHAT YOU'D MISS Two months of moods on one calendar. A streak you can watch grow. Numbers charted week by week. Search every word you have ever written, across every thread at once. YOURS, PROPERLY Everything syncs across your devices with iCloud, or to your own server over WebDAV if you would rather. Export to Markdown, or take a full backup you can restore. Nothing is locked in. DOTHREAD PRO One subscription unlocks everything: canvas threads, unlimited threads of every type, widgets, four photos per entry, analytics, custom moods, Face ID protection and WebDAV. A daily reminder, if you want one. Dark mode, Dynamic Type and VoiceOver throughout. Available in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian and Dutch. --- For technical assistance, reach our team at contact@chelodo.com Privacy Policy: https://chelodo.com/apps/dothread/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://chelodo.com/apps/dothread/terms

About

Sylva

Features
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Sylva turns your focus time into something you can see grow. Set a timer — 15, 25, 45, 60 minutes, or any custom length — and start your session. Stay focused and off your phone, and your tree grows alongside you. Leave the app before time is up, and the tree doesn't make it. Simple as that. Every completed session becomes a tree in your own personal forest. Over time, you'll build a collection that reflects the real focus you've put in — not points, not streaks for the sake of streaks, just a quiet record of the time you made for yourself. FEATURES - Pomodoro-style focus timer with flexible durations - A growing tree that visually reflects your progress in real time - Your own forest — every session saved, successes and misses alike - Weekly stats: total focus time, current streak, longest streak, success rate - Clean, calm interface designed to stay out of your way - Available in English and Turkish, matching your device language automatically Sylva doesn't track your location, doesn't require an account, and doesn't need permissions it doesn't use. Your focus data stays on your device. Whether you're studying, working, or just trying to put your phone down for a while, Sylva gives you a simple reason to stay present — one tree at a time. Focus. Grow.

Screenshots

DoThread4 screens
Sylva4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sylva at none against DoThread's 2. Sylva also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). DoThread's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. DoThread sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Sylva asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DoThread ships an update every 5 days, Sylva every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
DoThread versus Sylva: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDoThreadSylva
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChelodoElvan nal

In-app purchases

2 purchases

DoThread

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year
None

Sylva

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DoThread free?
DoThread is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sylva free?
Sylva is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do DoThread or Sylva have ads?
Sylva shows ads; DoThread does not.
Which is updated more often, DoThread or Sylva?
DoThread ships an update every 5 days, and Sylva every 2 weeks. Most recently, DoThread was updated on October 30, 2026 and Sylva on October 31, 2026.

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