Comparison

EmotionSurf vs Small Magics

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

Head to head
About

EmotionSurf

Explore your emotional landscape with intuitive swipes and a vast library of feelings. Track your patterns, learn coping techniques, and gain deeper self-awareness. Your emotional journey is private and secure, staying on your device.

Highlights
  • Intuitive swipe interface
  • Over 250 emotions in library
  • Emotion history tracking
  • Coping techniques access
  • Private and secure on-device data
Features
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Discover and navigate your emotional landscape through an intuitive, engaging experience. With simple swipes, explore a rich spectrum of feelings and develop deeper emotional awareness. - Intuitive Swipe Interface: Navigate your emotional landscape with natural, fluid gestures - Comprehensive Emotion Library: Explore over 250 emotions organized into categories - Emotion History: Track your emotional patterns over time and identify meaningful trends - Coping Techniques: Access practical strategies for managing difficult emotions - Private & Secure: Your emotional journey stays completely private—all data remains securely on your device PERFECT FOR - Daily emotional check-ins - Mindfulness and self-awareness practice - Building a richer emotional vocabulary - Understanding your feelings with greater clarity - Personal growth and self-discovery - Identifying emotional patterns over time Whether you're feeling vibrant, uncertain, or overwhelmed, Emotion Surf helps you identify, understand, and navigate your emotional states with confidence. The app's detailed emotion descriptions help you pinpoint exactly what you're feeling, while the tracking features reveal your emotional rhythms over time. Start your journey to better emotional intelligence today. Download now and begin surfing your emotions in a whole new way.

About

Small Magics

Features
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Small Magics is a quiet oracle for the tender, low-energy end of a day. A grimoire is meant to hold great and mysterious magic. This one holds only small magics: the candle lit anyway, the cup held in two hands, the one brave thing the size of a matchhead. Forty-three small spells you can cast from bed, on a quarter tank, in the dark, with the door cracked open to let the evening in. Light a candle. Turn the one that calls to you. Sit with it as long as you like. Leave whenever you are ready. That is the whole of it. The book keeps no score and counts no days. There are no streaks, no badges, no notice that you ever missed a day, and nothing that could ever make a low night feel like a failure. For a reader whose energy genuinely varies, an app that keeps no score and applies no pressure is a rare kindness, and it is the whole point. It waits for you, patiently, for as long as you need, and asks nothing while it waits. Six chapters of gentle incantations: Spells for a Quarter Tank, for rest and the truth that not today is a whole spell. The Kind Dark, where the night is a blanket, not a threat. Kindling, courage returning at your own pace, one small brave thing at a time. The Loosening, letting the day go where it goes. Hearthspells, being seen, and home as a feeling. Ironroot, the quiet strength you have carried without once noticing. Everything stays on your device. No account, no ads, no subscription, nothing watching. What you draw is yours alone.

Screenshots

EmotionSurf4 screens
Small Magics4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: EmotionSurf at 12.0 against Small Magics's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
EmotionSurf versus Small Magics: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEmotionSurfSmall Magics
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyDaily—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB104 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperViktoriia BochkovaDrew Douglass

In-app purchases

None

EmotionSurf

No in-app purchases

None

Small Magics

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is EmotionSurf free?
EmotionSurf is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Small Magics free?
Small Magics is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do EmotionSurf or Small Magics have ads?
Neither EmotionSurf nor Small Magics shows ads.

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