Comparison

Wisp vs MoodThread

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

Head to head
About

Wisp

This app uses AI to help you understand yourself better through journaling, habit tracking, and goal setting. It offers personalized insights and ensures your reflections remain private on your device. Core features are free, with a subscription unlocking advanced AI capabilities.

Highlights
  • AI-powered journaling with insightful prompts
  • Intelligent habit tracking with reminders
  • Clear goal setting and progress monitoring
  • Personalized insights based on user data
  • Privacy-focused AI processing on-device
  • Unlimited habit and goal creation (free)
Features
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YOUR PRIVATE JOURNAL, BEAUTIFULLY KEPT Wisp is a calm, private journaling app for daily reflection, gratitude, and remembering the days that matter. Write freely, capture how you feel, and look back on your story — all in a space that feels like a real notebook, not another feed to scroll. How you feel each day matters. Journaling is one of the simplest, most proven ways to lower stress, ease anxiety, understand your moods, and be a little kinder to yourself. Wisp makes the habit genuinely easy to start — and, more importantly, easy to keep. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your journal is yours alone. Every entry is encrypted on your device, and you can lock the whole app behind Face ID, Touch ID, or a private PIN. Wisp works fully offline and doesn't require an account, so your most personal words never have to leave your phone. Privacy isn't a setting here — it's the foundation. A JOURNAL FOR THE WHOLE DAY Some days you'll write a page; some days a single honest line. Wisp fits both. • Write as much or as little as you like, or tap a quick daily check-in when words are hard to find. • Capture the moment with photos, voice memos, your mood, tags, and the place you were. • Relive the past with "On This Day" and a beautiful full-screen photo viewer with pinch-to-zoom. GENTLE INSIGHTS, NEVER IN YOUR FACE Wisp quietly helps you notice patterns you'd otherwise miss. • See how your mood trends over time and which themes keep coming up. • Receive a soft weekly reflection and a warm look back at your year. • Keep a gentle streak alive with optional, never-nagging reminders. Wisp uses AI only in the background — to surface a thoughtful reflection or spot a pattern — never to write your journal for you. Your voice always stays your own. NEVER LOSE A WORD "I lost years of entries" is every journaler's nightmare, so Wisp answers it head on: export everything, anytime, as Markdown or JSON — completely free — and import your backups just as easily. No lock-in and no exceptions. Your journal is yours to keep, forever. HOW WISP WORKS • Open Wisp and write, speak, or add a photo — whatever the moment calls for. • Set your mood and a tag or two so entries are easy to find later. • Glance at your mood chart and weekly reflection to see how you're really doing. • Turn on a gentle reminder to protect your streak and keep the habit going. • Lock it all behind Face ID and rest easy. WHY PEOPLE CHOOSE WISP • A premium, distraction-free writing experience that feels like paper. • Real privacy: on-device encryption plus a biometric lock. • Mood tracking, memories, photos, and voice — together in one calm place. • Yours to keep and export, forever. Start today. Write one honest line, and let it grow from there. Available in English, Spanish, and French.

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MoodThread

Features
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MoodThread captures how you feel in 5 seconds and builds a map of your emotional life over time. CHECK IN FAST Slide to your mood, tap your emotions, add a word of context. Done. No journaling, no long prompts — just a quick pulse check you can do on the train, after a meeting, or before bed. Check in from your home screen widget or ask Siri without opening the app. AI PATTERN ANALYSIS MoodThread is the only mood tracker that connects the dots across your entire history. It finds which days you consistently dip, what triggers your best moods, and how your emotional patterns shift over weeks and months. The longer you use it, the smarter it gets. SMART NUDGES Get a gentle alert when something shifts — like tagging "Anxious" three days in a row, or your mood dropping compared to last week. No spam. Just the moments that matter. EMOTION LIBRARY Every emotion you tag builds a personal dictionary — how often it appears, what triggers it, which other emotions it shows up with, and what it means for you specifically. Not a generic definition. Your patterns, your insights. TRIGGER INSIGHTS See exactly how Work, Sleep, Exercise, Relationships, and other context tags impact your mood. Know which triggers lift you up and which bring you down. WEEKLY MOOD DIGEST Every Monday, get a personalized summary of your week — dominant mood, trending emotions, strongest triggers, and a reflection prompt. YOUR EMOTIONAL CALENDAR Color-coded calendar shows your mood at a glance. Spot patterns between weekdays and weekends, busy weeks and quiet ones. Track your check-in streak without pressure. HEALTH & WEATHER CORRELATION Connect Apple Health to see how sleep, exercise, and heart rate affect your mood. Enable weather to automatically track sunny days vs. rainy ones — zero effort, real insight. APPLE WATCH Check in from your wrist with the Digital Crown mood dial. Spin to your mood, tap Save. Your quickest check-in yet. SHARE YOUR WEEK Generate a beautiful styled card of your weekly mood summary and share it with friends, your therapist, or social media. GUIDED BREATHING When your mood drops low, MoodThread offers a gentle breathing exercise — 4 cycles of guided inhale, hold, exhale. No extra app needed. THERAPIST EXPORT One-tap PDF summary of your last 30 days — mood chart, top emotions, triggers, and AI analysis. Designed for a therapist to review in a session. PRIVATE BY DESIGN All mood data stays on your device. AI analysis sends only mood scores and tags to our secure proxy — never your name or personal info. Face ID lock keeps your journal private. PREMIUM FEATURES - AI pattern analysis and mood insights - Weekly AI mood digest - Emotion Library with personal AI interpretations - Trigger correlation analysis - 30/60/90 day trend charts with period comparison - Day-of-week and time-of-day mood charts - CSV export and therapist PDF report - Year in Moods annual recap Free to start. Premium unlocks the intelligence layer. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tomtoro-privacy.vercel.app

Screenshots

Wisp4 screens
MoodThread4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Wisp at 15.1 against MoodThread'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. Wisp sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and MoodThread sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Wisp versus MoodThread: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWispMoodThread
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.6 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB2 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperGXG MedTechTommy Ong

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Wisp

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Membership7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Annual Membership7 Days trial$76.991 Year
3 purchases

MoodThread

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Premium Annual$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium Lifetime$59.99

Questions

Is Wisp free?
Wisp is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MoodThread free?
MoodThread is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Wisp or MoodThread have ads?
Neither Wisp nor MoodThread shows ads.

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