Comparison

Dreamfire vs DreamWave Journal

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

Head to head
About

Dreamfire

This app offers a guided dream journal and interpretation service. It uses AI and unique Dream Guides to help users understand symbols, emotions, and patterns in their dreams for deeper self-awareness. It also includes a daily journal and pattern tracking features.

Highlights
  • Guided dream interpretation
  • AI dream analysis
  • Dream journal with symbol tracking
  • Daily journal for waking life reflection
  • Dream stats and pattern visualization
  • Integration exercises
Features
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A guided dream journal and dream interpretation app for deeper self-understanding. Dreamfire helps you record dreams, explore dream meanings, and uncover the patterns shaping your inner world. At the heart of Dreamfire is a curated cast of Dream Guides—each offering a unique voice, perspective, and interpretive style. Instead of a single generic analysis, your dreams are reflected through guides designed to illuminate symbols, emotions, and personal themes in different ways. Whether you’re capturing vivid dreams, tracking recurring symbols, or reflecting on your waking life, Dreamfire turns dreamwork into a grounded, intuitive practice. GUIDED DREAM INTERPRETATION Receive personalized dream interpretations shaped by thoughtfully designed Dream Guides. Advanced AI supports the process behind the scenes—analyzing dream symbols, emotional tones, and narrative patterns to deliver insights that feel intentional, reflective, and human. This is AI dream interpretation, refined into meaningful guidance. A POWERFUL DREAM JOURNAL Capture dreams the moment you wake, before details fade. Dreamfire’s dream journal allows you to: • Record dreams quickly and naturally • Reflect on emotions and waking-life experiences • Build a personal archive of dream symbols and themes Over time, your dream journal becomes a living map of your inner world. DAILY JOURNAL AND INTEGRATION Dreamfire also includes a Daily Journal for reflection beyond your dreams. Many interpretations include Integration Exercises that invite you to journal, reflect, and apply insights in your waking life—helping transform understanding into practice. DREAM STATS & PATTERN TRACKING Dreamfire helps you see what your mind is repeating. Dream Stats visualize: • Recurring dream symbols • Emotional patterns across dreams • Themes that evolve over time This turns dream analysis into clarity—not guesswork. FEATURES • Dream Journal – Capture dreams before they fade • Daily Journal – Reflect on waking life and emotions • Dream Interpretation – Guided insight through unique Dream Guides • AI Dream Analysis – Personalized interpretation of symbols and themes • Dream Stats – Visualize recurring patterns and meanings Dreamfire is more than a dream journal. It’s a guided reflection space—where dreams, meaning, and self-awareness meet. Terms of Use (EULA): [https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/](https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/)

About

DreamWave Journal

Explore and understand your inner world through multi-layered journaling. Record experiences with audio, build a personal symbol dictionary, and engage with AI-guided reflection. Includes tools like binaural beats and breathing exercises to support deeper states of awareness.

Highlights
  • Multi-layered journaling
  • Audio recording for quick journaling
  • Personal symbol dictionary
  • Socratic-style AI reflection
  • Custom practice plans and routines
  • Binaural beats and breathing guides
  • Track dreams, lucid dreams, OBEs, and more
Features
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Cultivate Inner Awareness One space for dreams, OBEs, journeys & meditation. Discover your personal symbol language, build a consistent practice, and integrate insights into your waking life. WHAT DREAMWAVE JOURNAL OFFERS • Multi-layered journaling to explore, understand, and integrate • Quick journaling with audio recording • Create a personal symbol library through reflection and self-inquiry • Socratic-style AI that asks questions to support your own contemplation • Build a personalized daily Practice with milestones, flexible scheduling, and a habit tracker • Guided Courses with interactive lessons • Organize entries, notes, and symbols into custom Groups • Tools: meditation timer, binaural beats, breathe-along guide, lucid cues • A Tracker that reveals your patterns: lucidity trends, streaks, and moon phases • Track many experiences: dreams, lucid dreams, OBEs, and more In a world that pulls attention outward, DreamWave offers space to turn inward. When we remember dreams and reflect on inner experience, something shifts. A MULTI-LAYERED WAY TO JOURNAL Most apps help you record dreams. DreamWave invites you deeper. Layer 1, Capture: record the experience in text or voice notes. Layer 2, Objective: track details that matter, from sleep quality to lunar phase to techniques used. Layer 3, Subjective: explore themes, symbols, emotions, and felt sense. Layer 4, Integration: reflect on insights and how to apply them in everyday life. Each layer is optional. Go as deep as serves you. BUILD YOUR OWN SYMBOL LIBRARY Generic dream dictionaries can't capture the personal language of your inner world. DreamWave favors self-discovery: by reflecting on your emotions and lived experience, symbols reveal meanings unique to you. You are your own best interpreter. AI AS COMPANION, NOT INTERPRETER DreamWave's AI uses Socratic-style questioning to support reflection, without telling you what your experiences "mean." It is entirely optional and can be toggled on or off, supporting your process, not replacing it. BUILD A PRACTICE THAT FITS YOUR LIFE Shape a daily Practice around your own path: one simple checklist, not scattered plans. • Set an optional rhythm: Morning, Afternoon, Evening, or Anytime • Choose specific days or set a goal like "3x this week" • Stay motivated with Milestones, goal progress bars, and a color-coded habit calendar LEARN AS YOU GO WITH COURSES Guided Courses turn ideas into practice with interactive lessons that invite you to use the app as you learn: write an entry, set an intention, or add to your Symbol Library. Topics include Dream Recall and Dreamtime Journaling. GATHER WHAT BELONGS TOGETHER WITH GROUPS Bundle related entries, notes, and symbols into custom collections, each with its own cover image, so a theme stays in one place. HONOR ALL INNER EXPERIENCES DreamWave supports a wide spectrum: Dreams • Lucid Dreams • Out-of-Body Experiences • Meditation • Liminal Dreams • Journeys These are touchstones, not definitions. What matters most is the awareness you bring. TOOLS TO SUPPORT DEEPER STATES Meditation Timer: a distraction-free timer to hold your practice. Binaural Beats: audio frequencies to support rest, focus, and dream awareness. Breathe Along Guide: guided breathing to calm the body. Use presets or create your own. Lucid Cues: optional timed reminders during sleep to support lucidity. SEE YOUR PATTERNS OVER TIME The Tracker brings your practice into view across This Week, Monthly, and Yearly on one page: lucidity trends, experience breakdowns, streaks, and moon phase. WHO DREAMWAVE IS FOR • Those developing lucid dreaming skills • Explorers of out-of-body experiences • Meditators integrating insights • Anyone curious about their dreams and inner exploration SUBSCRIPTION Free to download. DreamWave Pro unlocks everything with a 14-day free trial, then $6.99/month or $59.99/year. Terms of Use (EULA): https://dreamwavejournal.com/terms-of-service

Screenshots

Dreamfire4 screens
DreamWave Journal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: DreamWave Journal at none against Dreamfire's shown. DreamWave Journal also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 5 days). Dreamfire's advantage is iOS requirement (12.2 vs 14.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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. Dreamfire sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and DreamWave Journal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Dreamfire against 5.0 for DreamWave Journal. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dreamfire ships an update every 5 days, DreamWave Journal daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Dreamfire versus DreamWave Journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDreamfireDreamWave Journal
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings23 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.2 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size190 MB164 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperRichard EdwardsErin Singleton

Customer experience

Dreamfire

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

DreamWave Journal

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Dreamfire

Subscriptions1
  • Dreamfire Premium (Monthly)$9.991 Month
One-time2
  • 3 Key Pack$1.99
  • 10 Key Pack$4.99
2 purchases

DreamWave Journal

Subscriptions2
  • DreamWave Pro Monthly14 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • DreamWave Pro Annual14 Days trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Dreamfire free?
Dreamfire is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DreamWave Journal free?
DreamWave Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Dreamfire or DreamWave Journal?
Dreamfire and DreamWave Journal are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Dreamfire or DreamWave Journal have ads?
Dreamfire shows ads; DreamWave Journal does not.
Which is updated more often, Dreamfire or DreamWave Journal?
Dreamfire ships an update every 5 days, and DreamWave Journal daily. Most recently, Dreamfire was updated on October 24, 2026 and DreamWave Journal on October 18, 2026.

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