Easlo Journal vs Thoughtful
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Easlo Journal
This app offers a simple and intuitive journaling experience to help users reflect and organize their thoughts. It provides unlimited entries, customizable templates, and iCloud synchronization for seamless use across devices.
- Unlimited journal entries
- Customizable templates
- iCloud synchronization
- Distraction-free writing
- Prompts to guide journaling
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A journal app focused on simplicity and intuitiveness. Writing down your thoughts can help you think more clearly and reflect. But getting started isn’t always easy, especially if you’re new to journaling or your notes app feels too cluttered. With Easlo Journal, the experience is seamless and distraction-free, and you can save templates and prompts to guide your future journaling sessions. Key Features: ・Unlimited entries: Journal as much as you want ・Templates: Save and reuse your favorite journaling prompts ・iCloud Sync: Keep your journal updated across iPhone and iPad
Thoughtful
A private digital journal designed for reflection and thought organization. It offers a clean interface and simple tools to capture and revisit your experiences, with all data securely backed up via iCloud.
- Private journaling space
- Thought capture and organization
- Effortless reflection tools
- Clean iOS aesthetic
- Daily page structure
- iCloud data backup
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Thoughtful is a private space to ponder, write, and reflect. It’s designed to help you capture your thoughts, organize them effortlessly, and revisit them with clarity over time. Every feature is built with care and informed by research on how people process their experiences and memories. The goal is simple: make it easy to record what matters and return to it later. The design follows a clean, native iOS aesthetic paired with simple writing and organization tools, so you can capture thoughts quickly and without friction. Each day lives on its own page, creating a lightweight, structured space that reflects the patterns of daily life. All data is backed up by iCloud, and no one at Thoughtful can read what you write. No account, email, or credit card is required either.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Thoughtful at none against Easlo Journal's 1. Thoughtful also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Easlo Journal's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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. Easlo Journal sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Thoughtful asks for nothing beyond the download.
Thoughtful holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Easlo Journal's written reviews are positive against 100% of Thoughtful's.
Easlo Journal ships an update fortnightly, Thoughtful every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Easlo Journal | Thoughtful |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 5 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Easlo Pte. Ltd. | Brian Lu Chang |
Customer experience
Easlo Journal
Thoughtful
In-app purchases
Easlo Journal
- Pro Lifetime$9.99
Thoughtful
No in-app purchases









