Comparison

Mood Pass vs Nowadays

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

Head to head
About

Mood Pass

This app helps couples communicate their emotional states and needs more effectively. It allows users to share their mood, express needs like needing space, and send gentle connection nudges. The goal is to foster greater emotional clarity and reduce misunderstandings.

Highlights
  • Share mood to partner's home screen
  • Express needs like 'I need space'
  • Send gentle connection nudges
  • Create custom moods with emojis
  • Use personal words for expression
Features
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Built for couples who want fewer misunderstandings and more emotional clarity. Whether you’re feeling off, need space, or just crushed a big win. Some days you want closeness. Others, a little space. Mood Pass helps you show how you feel, without needing the perfect words. No more “What’s wrong?” loops. No more mismatched energy. Just clarity, care, and connection. Mood Pass helps you to: - Share your mood to your partner’s Home Screen - Express your needs, like “I need space” or “I’d love a hug” - Send gentle nudges to stay connected - Create custom moods, define your own vibes and pair them with emojis - Use your own words, because presets aren’t always enough Built for couples who: - Are in a long-distance relationship and want to feel closer between calls - Live together and want fewer unnecessary conflicts - Struggle to express how they feel in the moment - Want to feel seen without always having to explain How to get started with Mood Pass: - Both you and your partner download the app - Enter your partner’s name and share your unique 6-digit code. - Once they enter the code on their phone, you’re connected and ready to start sharing your mood. Upgrade to Mood Pass Plus to unlock the full mood library, custom emotions, personalized messages, and playful nudges. Speak your mood. Be understood. Stay connected. Whether you’re across the room or across the country, Mood Pass helps you stay emotionally connected. --- This app contains a subscription: You can subscribe for a plus account with unlimited access to all moods in the library, custom emotions, customised messages, access to nudges, new monthly content and no ads. The subscription period is 1 year with a 3 day trial or 1 month. Link to our Terms of Use: https://www.vanilla.nl/terms-of-use/ Link to our Privacy Policy: https://www.vanilla.nl/privacy-policy/

About

Nowadays

This app offers a private daily check-in for relationships, asking one question per day. Users respond by rating their feelings, creating a visual history of relationship patterns over time. It's designed as a personal reflection tool, not for professional advice.

Highlights
  • Daily one-minute check-in
  • Rate feelings with a slider
  • Tag life events
  • Add personal notes
  • Visualize relationship patterns
  • Track progress by area
Features
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Nowadays is a quiet, private daily check-in for your relationship. Once a day it asks one plain question and you answer by dragging a face, warmer or heavier, in a few seconds. Over time those small check-ins become a picture of how things have actually felt, so you can see the patterns memory tends to blur. A mirror, not a judge. Nowadays never scores your relationship, never gives advice, and never tells you to stay or leave. It keeps your record and shows you its shape, warm days rising in peach, heavier days settling in blue, never red-and-green, because you are not being graded. WHAT YOU DO • A one-minute daily check-in, a gentle question and a face you drag, frown to smile. • Mark a moment, tag what happened (time together, a good talk, closeness, a fight) if you like. • Add a note in your own words. Everything optional, always. WHAT YOU SEE • A timeline where each day leans warm or heavy, with life events on the day they happened. • A calendar of how each day felt, and a "lately" line of your overall warmth. • Progress by area, connection, communication, intimacy, respect, appreciation, quality time. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Your entries are encrypted and stay on your device. We can't read them. • Face ID or a PIN locks the app before you write anything, and it auto-locks when you leave. • A decoy PIN can open an empty version of the app. Notifications never reveal the question. • No ads. Nothing sold. No partner access, ever. FREE, AND HONEST ABOUT IT Nowadays is free to use for the daily check-in, the full timeline and calendar, notes, and every privacy feature. Nowadays More (optional) adds deeper chart views and PDF export. Nowadays is a personal reflection tool, not medical or professional advice, and not a crisis service. If you are in danger or crisis, please contact your local emergency services. Terms of Use (EULA): https://nowadays.love/terms Privacy Policy: https://nowadays.love/privacy

Screenshots

Mood Pass4 screens
Nowadays4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Nowadays at 5.0 against Mood Pass's 4.3. Mood Pass's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 5 days) and ratings volume (10 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Mood Pass sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Nowadays sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Nowadays holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mood Pass has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mood Pass ships an update daily, Nowadays every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Mood Pass versus Nowadays: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMood PassNowadays
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (10 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings10 — better2
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVanilla b.v.Alexander Jacobs

Customer experience

Mood Pass

All ratings10 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

Nowadays

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Mood Pass

Subscriptions3
  • Mood Pass Plus Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Mood Pass Plus Yearly Special3 Days trial$11.951 Year
  • Mood Pass Plus Yearly3 Days trial$35.901 Year
2 purchases

Nowadays

Subscriptions2
  • Nowadays More Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Nowadays More Yearly$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Mood Pass free?
Mood Pass is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Nowadays free?
Nowadays is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Mood Pass or Nowadays?
Nowadays is rated higher. Mood Pass averages 4.3 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Nowadays averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Mood Pass or Nowadays have ads?
Neither Mood Pass nor Nowadays shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mood Pass or Nowadays?
Mood Pass ships an update daily, and Nowadays every 5 days. Most recently, Mood Pass was updated on October 24, 2026 and Nowadays on October 31, 2026.

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