LumenSeed vs Backspace
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LumenSeed
Cultivate mindfulness and positivity with a daily gratitude journal. Log your thoughts, reflect on your journey, and connect with others through a shared community wall. Features include speech-to-text, custom reminders, and offline access.
- Daily gratitude logging
- Community Gratitude Wall
- Daily challenges
- Inspiration prompts
- Timeline view
- Custom reminders
- Offline and secure storage
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LumenSeed is your personal gratitude journal app, designed to help you stay mindful, positive, and present. Easily log daily gratitude, reflect on your growth, and now—share appreciation with the world through our all-new Community Gratitude Wall. NEW in this version: Community Gratitude Wall – Share what you’re grateful for anonymously with the LumenSeed community. Explore others’ posts, like inspiring entries, and feel connected through shared moments of gratitude. Key Features: • Daily Gratitude Logging – Write or speak your daily gratitude with ease using quick entry or speech-to-text. • Community Gratitude Wall – Post your gratitude anonymously and uplift others by liking shared reflections. • Daily Challenges – Join themed challenges, mark your progress, and stay motivated to journal regularly. • Inspiration Prompts – Spark ideas with thoughtful prompts when you need a little boost. • Timeline View – Revisit your gratitude journey with beautifully organized entries by date. • Custom Reminders – Stay on track with customizable notifications. • Dark Mode – Journal comfortably anytime with a soothing dark theme. • Offline & Secure – Your data is private and stored locally—no cloud required. • Home Screen Widget – Log gratitude or get inspiration directly from your device’s home screen. • Streak Tracker – Build momentum and celebrate consistency with visual streak tracking. Whether you’re just starting your gratitude journey or deepening your mindfulness practice, LumenSeed helps you celebrate life’s everyday joys—big and small. Start cultivating positivity today—download LumenSeed and join a growing community grounded in gratitude.
Backspace
This private journaling app allows you to write down your unfiltered thoughts and set a timer for them to be automatically deleted. It's designed for emotional release, ensuring your thoughts remain private and temporary.
- Write unfiltered thoughts
- Set automatic deletion timers
- Temporary thought storage
- No accounts required
- No cloud storage
- No tracking or analytics
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Backspace is a private journaling and mental wellness app for writing thoughts and letting them go. Use Backspace to: Write unfiltered thoughts Choose a release time (minutes or hours) Automatically delete thoughts when time expires No accounts. No cloud storage. No tracking or analytics. Backspace is designed for emotional release, not long-term storage. Your thoughts stay private, local, and temporary — just like they should.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: LumenSeed at 16.0 against Backspace's 18.2. 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for LumenSeed against 5.0 for Backspace. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively.
| Parameter | LumenSeed | Backspace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Yasaman DerisZadeh | Ruth Edouard |
Customer experience
LumenSeed
Backspace
In-app purchases
LumenSeed
No in-app purchases
Backspace
No in-app purchases









