Comparison

Things To Write vs Vitality Weeks

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

Head to head
About

Things To Write

Explore yourself and your life through over 600 curated writing prompts. This app helps improve writing skills, practice mindfulness, and release emotions by encouraging reflection from multiple perspectives.

Highlights
  • 600+ curated writing topics
  • Self-exploration and life recording
  • Emotional release and stress reduction
  • Mindfulness practice
  • Improve writing skills
  • Automatic cloud sync
Features
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"ThingsToWrite" is an app that integrates thinking, writing, and self-exploration, featuring over 600 curated topics to help you reflect on yourself, record your life, and release your emotions from different angles. Whether you're looking to improve your writing skills, enhance mindfulness, or simply pass the time and release inner pressure, "ThingsToWrite" offers a unique writing experience. Each question can be your autobiography, can be your story, can reflect your values, can unleash your imagination. Will your answers to the same question be more mature, more refined, or purer a year from now? How would your friends answer the same question? Don’t know what to talk about on a date? Pick a few questions. Can’t sleep at night? Write a few questions. Feeling anxious? Use questions to organize your thoughts. Main Features: Diverse Topics: Covering self-exploration, emotional memories, life records, creative writing, and more, offering endless inspiration. Answer from Different Angles: Each topic can be answered from multiple perspectives, helping you gain a comprehensive understanding of yourself. Improve Writing Skills: Enhance your language expression and creative thinking by practicing writing continuously. Mindfulness Practice: Record your feelings and thoughts to stay focused, reduce anxiety, and improve mental health. Emotional Release: Use writing to release stress, organize your emotions, and find inner peace. Automatic Cloud Sync: Sync across multiple devices seamlessly.

About

Vitality Weeks

Visualize your life as a grid of weeks, tracking your progress and reflecting on your journey. Set future goals, create time capsules, and mark significant milestones. A personal journal and a unique way to see time pass.

Highlights
  • Life grid visualization (weeks, months, years)
  • Weekly reflections and energy tracking
  • Time capsules for future self messages
  • Milestone tracker with custom icons
  • Personalized 'Walker' character
  • Goal setting with 'Plant a Flag' feature
  • Historical facts and personal landmark celebrations
Features
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Your life is roughly 4,680 weeks. Vitality Weeks turns that number into something you can see — a single grid where every week you've lived is filled in, and every week ahead is waiting. Open the app and the first thing you notice is where you are. Not your age in years. Your age in weeks. The dot on the grid that says: you are here. — REFLECT EVERY WEEK — At the end of each week, write a short reflection. What was the highlight? What was hard? Rate your energy. Over time, you build a private journal of your life — one week at a time. — SEAL A TIME CAPSULE — Write a message to your future self. It seals for 52 weeks. When it opens, you'll remember exactly who you were and what you were thinking a year ago. — MARK WHAT MATTERS — Add milestones to your grid — graduation, first job, a move, a loss, a win. Choose from 22 pixel-art icons. Set reminders so you never forget an anniversary. — MEET YOUR WALKER — A little pixel you strolls beneath your grid: choose the skin tone, hair, outfit and extras. It lives your life: it jogs, reads, sketches or visits the flags you plant, celebrates your landmark days and sleeps when you do. Add up to three family members, kids included, and your walkers stroll together. Put it on your Home Screen with the Your Walker widget. — PLANT A FLAG — Pick a future week for something you want to do, like running a 10K or learning to swim. Each week you work toward it, tap the flag to leave a footprint. When it arrives, mark it done, move it or let it go. No streaks, no guilt. — DAYS WORTH CELEBRATING — Your 10,000th day. Your 2,000th week. A billion seconds. Vitality Weeks marks the personal landmarks most people never notice, on the day they happen. — ON THIS WEEK — See what you wrote, and how you felt, this same week a year ago, or five, or ten. Your own past, resurfaced at the right moment. — LEARN FROM HISTORY — Each day or week, meet someone who accomplished something remarkable at your exact age. Nearly 10,000 facts, each chosen because you'd recognise either the person or what they did — science, art, sport, business, history — in 5 languages. Not your thing? Hide a topic with one tap, or turn facts off. — SEE TIME DIFFERENTLY — Start with this year or this decade, and zoom out to your whole life when you want to. Switch the life view between weeks, months, and years. Turn on "weeks ahead" if you want the countdown, or leave it off and focus on what you've lived. — THREE THEMES — Deep Teal is calm and clear. Obsidian Gold is dark and warm. Retro OS is pure System 7 nostalgia. All three are included. — YOUR DATA, YOUR DEVICE — Everything is stored locally. No accounts. No cloud. No tracking. No ads. No in-app purchases. Your reflections, capsules, and milestones never leave your phone. — FEATURES — • Life grid: weeks, months, or years • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, including Your Walker • Weekly reflections with energy tracking • Time capsules (52-week reveal) • Milestone tracker with icons and reminders • Age-based historical facts • 3 themes, all included • Up to 4 profiles, kids included • A pixel walker that lives your life • Flags with weekly footprints • Alternate app icons • Works fully offline • 5 languages: English, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean A different way to look at time.

Screenshots

Things To Write4 screens
Vitality Weeks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Vitality Weeks at none against Things To Write's 1. Vitality Weeks also leads on ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, rating, ads 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. Things To Write sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Vitality Weeks asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Things To Write against 5.0 for Vitality Weeks. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Things To Write versus Vitality Weeks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThings To WriteVitality Weeks
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB53 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer嘉胜 陈James Shin

Customer experience

Things To Write

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Vitality Weeks

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Things To Write

One-time1
  • Unlock All Topics$8.99
None

Vitality Weeks

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Things To Write free?
Things To Write is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Vitality Weeks free?
Vitality Weeks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Things To Write or Vitality Weeks?
Things To Write and Vitality Weeks are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Things To Write or Vitality Weeks have ads?
Neither Things To Write nor Vitality Weeks shows ads.

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