MoodFire vs Vayla, mental wellness support
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MoodFire
This app offers practical tools for managing difficult moments, including mood check-ins, CBT-inspired prompts for anxious thoughts, grounding exercises, and guided breathing. It aims to provide a calmer way to reconnect with yourself and unwind, especially before sleep.
- Mood check-ins with pattern analysis
- CBT-inspired thought reframing prompts
- Guided grounding exercises
- Sixty-second guided breathing
- Calming bilateral audio for sleep
- Gentle prompts for self-reconnection
- Apple Watch integration
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When your mind won’t shut off, open MoodFire. Check in. Reframe. Breathe. Unwind. A calmer way back to yourself. Good to know before you download: MoodFire is a subscription app and there’s no free version. If you’re new, you start a 7-day free trial during setup, before any of the tools open. If you don’t cancel, it then renews monthly or yearly. MoodFire is a companion for the hard moments, right there on your phone. Small, practical tools you can open at 11 p.m. without feeling worse. Not another wellness app to fail at. No streak shaming. No urgency. Just quiet, useful things for the days when you need them. Check in A short mood check-in to see how today is landing. Over time, notice patterns in your mood, anxiety and the rhythm of your week. Optional wellbeing reviews use the GAD-7 and PHQ-9, public-domain questionnaires, for a steadier read on the trends. MoodFire does not diagnose anxiety, depression or any mental health condition. It is designed to support reflection and self-awareness. Reframe CBT-inspired prompts for anxious or unhelpful thoughts. Slow the moment down. Notice the pattern. Find a more balanced perspective. A practical place to land when overthinking takes over. Ground Short, gentle grounding exercises for moments when you feel overwhelmed or caught in your thoughts. Bring your attention back to the present, one quiet step at a time. Breathe One, three or five minutes of guided breathing. Whenever you’re ready. No timers shaming you, no goals to hit. Just a way to settle the body when the mind won’t. Unwind Calming bilateral audio designed for rest, decompression and the slow descent into sleep. For the 11 p.m. version of you who can’t quite switch off. Spark Small prompts and gentle nudges that help you reconnect with yourself and take the next small step. On your wrist MoodFire lives on your Apple Watch too. Check in from the wrist in a few taps, no phone in sight, and breathe with the same calm pacing. It all syncs quietly back to your iPhone. A gentle daily habit MoodFire is designed for everyday use without pressure. Streaks and reminders are quiet by design. You don’t have to use everything every day. Open the app, check in, choose what feels useful. Small step, real one. Helpful insights See your mood trends, anxiety patterns, check-in rhythm and well-being habits, shown simply. No dashboards demanding action. Connect Apple Health and MoodFire will quietly correlate your sleep, resting heart rate, heart rate variability and steps with your check-ins. Those Apple Health readings stay on your device. MoodFire can support you when you are: • Feeling anxious or overwhelmed • Tracking your mood over time • Stuck in overthinking or a thought loop • Looking for CBT-inspired reflection tools • Needing a grounding exercise in the moment • Looking for a calmer evening routine • Taking a moment to unwind before sleep A calmer kind of app MoodFire is not a social network. There are no feeds, no likes, no public sharing. Just a private space to come back to yourself and use practical tools when you need them. A note on what MoodFire is and isn’t MoodFire is designed for everyday well-being support and self-awareness. It is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat or cure any mental health condition. If you need urgent help or feel at risk, please contact 911 or the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, or speak with a qualified mental health professional. Subscription MoodFire Premium unlocks everything in the app. New users start with a 7-day free trial. After the trial it renews monthly or yearly, depending on the plan you choose, at the price shown in the app for your region, unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://moodfire.io/privacy
Vayla, mental wellness support
Process your thoughts and emotions in just two minutes daily. Get personalized insights, coaching, or mental rehearsals for everyday stressors. Your sessions are completely private and saved to your journal.
- 2-minute daily practice
- Emotion detection and personalized approach
- Direct answers, coaching conversations, or mental rehearsals
- Private and secure, no account needed
- Structured journal entries to track patterns
- Offline functionality for journal access
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Not another AI chatbot. No endless chats. No generic advice. No prompting skills required. Vayla is a 2-minute daily practice for processing what's on your mind. Describe what's weighing on you, and Vayla reads the emotion, picks the right approach, and gives you exactly what you need: a new perspective, a mental rehearsal, a direct answer, or a short coaching conversation. TRULY PRIVATE No account. No login. No email. No user ID of any kind. Your sessions are stored on your phone and nowhere else. When Vayla generates a response, it sends your situation to the AI anonymously: no name, no identity, no history attached. After the response comes back, nothing is kept on any server. The things you would never type into ChatGPT because it is tied to your name and stored on their servers, you can type here. We cannot see your data. We cannot access your data. We do not want your data. When you can't find the words Vayla now starts with how your body feels, not a blank page. Tap what fits and go straight to a two-minute tool made for that moment: Racing thoughts → a breath to steady your body Numb or frozen → a few small moves to get going Overwhelmed → say it out loud, then let it go Stuck on a decision or a conversation → a clear way through The techniques are drawn from DBT and ACT — the same skills therapists teach — reworked to take almost no effort when you have none to give. Prefer your own words? That's always one tap away. Vayla is a self-help companion, not a substitute for professional care. HOW IT WORKS 1. Type what's on your mind (or use voice) 2. Vayla detects the emotion and recommends an approach 3. Get your output: a reframe, an exercise, and one small step 4. Done. Session saved to your journal. Under 2 minutes. One situation at a time. THREE PRIMARY WAYS TO WORK THROUGH IT Just tell me: Direct answers when you need content, not coaching. Topics to discuss, steps to follow, exact words to say. No questions back, just what you need. Talk it through: A short coaching conversation. Vayla asks 4-6 questions that help you find your own clarity. Most sessions take 3-4 minutes. Rehearse it: A vivid mental rehearsal you can run in your head. Practice the hard conversation, the big meeting, the difficult moment before it happens. YOUR JOURNAL REMEMBERS Every session is saved as a structured journal entry: the emotion, the intensity, the reframe, the exercise, the action step. Over weeks and months, your journal becomes a map of your emotional patterns. See what triggers you. Track what actually helps. Notice when things shift. The journal writes itself. You just bring what's on your mind. WHAT VAYLA IS NOT Vayla is not therapy. Not a diagnosis tool. Not a crisis service. If you are in crisis, Vayla will connect you with real support resources (988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, Crisis Text Line). Vayla is for the everyday weight: the work stress, the relationship friction, the parenting moments, the 2am spirals, the things that sit heavy but do not need a therapist. Just a way through. BUILT DIFFERENT 2-minute sessions, not endless chats One reframe, one exercise, one step: not 500 words of advice Tracks your emotional patterns over time No account, no server storage, genuinely private Works offline after generation (your journal is always available) Supports English, Hindi, and Gujarati Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: MoodFire at free against Vayla, mental wellness support's freemium. MoodFire also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. MoodFire sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Vayla, mental wellness support sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for MoodFire against 5.0 for Vayla, mental wellness support. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.
MoodFire ships an update every 3 days, Vayla, mental wellness support weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MoodFire | Vayla, mental wellness support |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 116 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MOODFIRE LTD | Leo Apps LLC |
Customer experience
MoodFire
Vayla, mental wellness support
In-app purchases
MoodFire
- MoodFire Premium7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- MoodFire Premium Yearly7 Days trial$45.991 Year
Vayla, mental wellness support
- Vayla Pro$7.991 Month
- Vayla Pro3 Days trial$39.991 Year
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