Opal vs Subscription Organizer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Opal
This private journaling app uses AI to help you understand your thoughts and emotions. It offers guided prompts, ambient soundscapes, and the ability to write, speak, or add photos to your entries. AI tools analyze your writing to reveal patterns and insights, all while prioritizing your privacy with on-device storage.
- AI-powered pattern analysis
- Guided journaling journeys
- Voice and image entry support
- Multiple journal organization
- On-device privacy controls
- Prompt-based or blank page entries
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Opal is a guided journal and diary to delve deeper: why you react the way you do, what you actually want, what your dreams keep trying to show you. Pick a guide from a large free library, follow a ten day series, or open a blank page and write whatever is on your mind. A FREE LIBRARY OF GUIDES Browse guides on finding clarity, purpose and direction, relationships, attachment styles, limiting beliefs, Stoic philosophy, gratitude, and more. Each guide walks you through a sequence of questions, with an example answer beside every prompt so you always have somewhere to begin. TEN DAY SERIES When you want a longer practice, start a series. Shadow Work spends ten days with the parts of yourself you usually avoid, from the inner critic to the golden shadow. Deep Manifest helps you name the desire underneath the goals you keep setting. The Dreaming Life teaches you to record your dreams and follow the figures and images that keep returning. A new day appears on your home screen each morning, and each one builds on what you wrote before. GUIDED AUDIO JOURNALING Some pages open with a short recorded practice. Press play, close your eyes, and let a memory or an image surface. When the audio ends, write about what came up and where you felt it in your body. Ambient soundscapes are there too, for when you want rain or low tones behind your writing. WRITE YOUR WAY Type, talk, or write by hand. Voice entries are saved as tapes you can replay, each with a transcript you can read back. Add photos to any entry, and keep separate journals for the different threads of your life. CONNECT DOTS ACROSS TIME Opal reads across your entries and shows you what it finds: recurring themes, emotional patterns, relationship dynamics, dream symbols. Each week, month, and year it assembles a reflection drawn from your own words, shows you the passages it relied on, and keeps it in your archive. You can also ask your journal a question and get an answer grounded in what you actually wrote. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your writing is stored on your device. No account required, no cloud sync by default, no data sold. Lock Opal with a password. When you use an AI feature, names, places, and other identifying details are masked on your phone before anything is sent, and you decide how much context is shared. Your entries are never used to train AI models. Export or delete them whenever you like. ENDORSED BY THERAPISTS "Opal encourages deep self-expression and deep self-acceptance while also giving tools for change." Leanne Domash, Ph.D., Psychologist and Author Opal is free to download, with a free library of guides. Opal Premium unlocks [premium features]. Start with one prompt tonight. Questions: opaljournal@gmail.com Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Subscription Organizer
Effortlessly manage all your recurring payments in one organized place. Track renewal dates, costs, and cancellation details without sifting through emails. Visualize your spending with clear summaries and charts across all your subscriptions.
- Centralized subscription tracking
- iCloud sync across devices
- Attach screenshots and notes
- Detailed cost summaries
- Monthly and yearly spending charts
- Powerful search and filtering
- Archive inactive subscriptions
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Most subscription details are buried in email. When you need a price, renewal date, or cancellation address, you end up searching through hundreds (or thousands) of messages. Subscription Organizer gives you one clean place to store and see it all—synced with iCloud across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. You stay in control of your subscriptions. Add a subscription in seconds and keep important information together, such as company details, contact information, or a short note about why you subscribed. Attach screenshots of emails or receipts so proof stays with the subscription instead of getting lost in your inbox. Understand costs at two levels Each subscription includes its own cost summary, showing what that service has cost you over time. In addition, the Cost Overview gives you a combined view across all subscriptions—grouped by year and month, with clear totals and charts—so you can see how your spending adds up overall. Finding things is fast. Search by name, filter by category or status, sort by dates, or view subscriptions grouped by category. When a subscription is no longer active, archive it to keep the history without clutter. This makes it easy to revisit past subscriptions if you ever need them again. Highlights - Clean, focused design - iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac - Attach screenshots to any subscription for clarity - Per-subscription cost summaries - Cost Overview with monthly and yearly breakdowns and charts - Powerful search, filters, sorting, and category grouping - Archive subscriptions without deleting their history - Privacy-first: your data lives in your private iCloud via CloudKit Stop searching your inbox. Keep every subscription clear, current, and in one place.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Opal at Free against Subscription Organizer's $1.99. Opal also leads on ratings volume (37 vs 1). Subscription Organizer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On rating, update cadence, ads 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
Opal is free to download; Subscription Organizer costs $1.99 up front. Opal sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $7.99 per month. Subscription Organizer asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Opal against 5.0 for Subscription Organizer. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Opal has 37 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Opal ships an update every 8 days, Subscription Organizer every 11 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Opal | Subscription Organizer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (37 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 37 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 11 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.1 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 359 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Darby Tarlow | Doreen Kroemer |
Customer experience
Opal
Subscription Organizer
In-app purchases
Opal
- Premium Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
Subscription Organizer
No in-app purchases
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