Comparison

Things To Write vs Activity Record

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

Activity Record

Features
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Activity Record is a simple hour-by-hour log of your day. Each hour, you write down what you were doing and rate how strongly you felt one feeling you choose to follow, from 0 for not at all to 100 for the most intense it gets. You can also rate pleasure, how much you enjoyed the hour, and mastery, how much you felt you accomplished given how hard it was. It’s for anyone who wants to see how their days actually go, hour by hour, whether they keep the record to themselves or share it with someone they trust. Logging takes a few seconds. Tap Log this hour, type what you were doing, and move the slider. Pick your feeling from a feelings wheel or write your own, add other feelings you noticed and a note if you want, and reuse the activity from the hour before when nothing changed. Missed a few hours? Catch up later, mark that you were asleep, or save and go straight to the next open hour. After eight rated hours, Patterns opens. It shows maps of your ratings by hour and by day, along with plain sentences about the times of day, days of the week, and activities that went with higher and lower ratings in your record. Your days lists every day you logged, so you can open one and read it back hour by hour. Patterns only describe what you entered. What you make of them is up to you. To keep or share a copy, export a PDF of one day or a date range, with a cover, contents, maps, a week at a glance, and each day you logged. You can also copy a day as text, export a spreadsheet, or save a backup file. Reminders arrive at the hours you choose, up to 12 a day, in general words that never show what you logged. The widget for your Home Screen or Lock Screen shows which hours today are filled in and opens the current hour. On iOS 18 and later, add the Log this hour control to Control Center, the Lock Screen, or the Action button, or just ask Siri. Short Learn articles explain how the record works, how to choose a feeling, and how to read your patterns. Help now keeps crisis lines one tap away. Your record stays private. There are no accounts, ads, or tracking, and nothing is sent to us. Everything stays on your device unless you turn on iCloud sync, which keeps it in your own iCloud account. Lock the app with Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode, and delete everything whenever you like. In English and Spanish, with ratings from 0 to 100 or 0 to 10, a 12-hour or 24-hour clock, and a light or dark appearance. Free, with nothing to buy. Activity Record is a personal log for education and reflection. It is not therapy or medical care, it is not a medical device, and it does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any medical condition. If you have concerns about your mental or physical health, talk with a qualified professional. In an emergency, call 911. If you are in crisis in the United States, call or text 988.

Screenshots

Things To Write4 screens
Activity Record4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Activity Record at none against Things To Write's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Activity Record asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Things To Write versus Activity Record: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThings To WriteActivity Record
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequency—Every 11 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB6 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developer嘉胜 陈Everyday Insight LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Things To Write

One-time1
  • Unlock All Topics$8.99
None

Activity Record

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Things To Write free?
Things To Write is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Activity Record free?
Activity Record is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Things To Write or Activity Record have ads?
Neither Things To Write nor Activity Record shows ads.

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