My Emotion Journal vs Inner Map
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My Emotion Journal
Easily log your feelings with a single tap or by using an emotion wheel. This app offers multiple emotion layers for deeper self-reflection and allows you to add notes to track daily influences. It provides mood history and insights to help you spot patterns and progress in your emotional journey.
- Single-tap feeling logging
- Emotion wheel and list view
- Multiple emotion layers
- Add notes to track daily influences
- Mood history and insights
- Dark mode and rest mode support
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My Emotion Journal helps you name what you feel — and see what it adds up to. Tap through a wheel of 130 emotions, from the seven big ones down to the precise word you were looking for. Add a note if you want. That is the whole ritual: a few seconds, once a day. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Log a feeling with the wheel, or with a plain list • Go three layers deep — 7 primary, 41 secondary and 82 tertiary emotions • Hold a slice and sweep to preview an emotion before you pick it • Rename any emotion, change its emoji, hide the ones you never use, or invent your own • Write a note to remember what shaped the moment • Browse your whole history, grouped by day • Export a PDF report — totals, patterns and every note — to keep or to bring to a session • Share a journal privately with someone you trust, as a file • Set one daily reminder, at a time you choose PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything stays on your device. The app makes no network calls at all: no account, no sign-up, no analytics, no ads, no tracking, and nothing to pay for. Delete the app and your journal goes with it. BUILT FOR EVERY DAY • 21 languages, and the words you choose always win over the translation • Light and dark mode • iPhone and iPad • Works completely offline Whether you are building self-awareness on your own, practicing mindfulness, or keeping track between therapy sessions, this is a quiet place to put how you felt.
Inner Map
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Inner Map is a private reflection journal for understanding your mood, emotional patterns, and recurring themes with more clarity. Check in each day and save journal entries that help the app build a thoughtful memory of what you are moving through. You can optionally add birth details for more personalized timing context, but the app works without them. Inner Map combines your current context and recent journal patterns to offer soft, AI-generated reflections without fixed predictions or noisy dashboards. Use Inner Map to: - Notice your current tone, theme, and direction - Reflect through guided journal prompts - Track emotional rhythm over time - Prepare for the next 30 days with Premium - Review watch windows and weekly themes - Build deeper journal memory privately Inner Map is designed to feel calm, spacious, and personal. It is for reflection and journaling, not medical, clinical, crisis, or emergency advice. Premium unlocks unlimited AI reflections, next-30-day planning, deeper journal memory, watch windows, weekly reviews, advanced history, and share/export summaries. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: My Emotion Journal at every 2 days against Inner Map's every 5 weeks. 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
My Emotion Journal ships an update every 2 days, Inner Map every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | My Emotion Journal | Inner Map |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Paulo Henrique Carvalho Bing | Diego Herrera |
In-app purchases
My Emotion Journal
No in-app purchases
Inner Map
No in-app purchases
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