Comparison

Mood Tracker vs DearMood

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

Head to head
About

Mood Tracker

Log your daily mood, habits, and memories in a single entry. Visualize your year through a clean calendar and insightful statistics, revealing patterns in your life over time. Attach photos to revisit cherished moments and gain a deeper understanding of your well-being.

Highlights
  • Daily mood tracking with notes
  • Habit and routine tracking
  • Photo attachment for memories
  • Calendar timeline view
  • Event logging
  • Tagging and location context
  • Interactive statistics
  • Year in Pixels calendar
Features
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Track your mood, habits, memories, and everyday life — all in one daily entry. Yian helps you build a complete picture of your year. Log your mood, write notes, track routines, attach photos, record events, and discover meaningful patterns through beautiful calendars and powerful insights. Every day becomes a small snapshot of your life. Over time, those snapshots reveal trends in your mood, habits, memories, and experiences. Features • Daily mood tracking (1–10) with rich notes and writing prompts • Dailies for tracking habits and recurring routines • Attach photos to preserve your memories • Weekly, monthly, yearly, and timeline calendar views • Year in Pixels calendar • Events with recurring support for appointments, trips, anniversaries, milestones, and more • Personalized insights, trends, and interactive statistics • Detailed breakdowns of your moods, habits, tags, locations, and more • Tags, bookmarks, and locations for better organization • Full-screen note editor designed for longer reflections • App Lock for additional privacy • Dark Mode for a comfortable experience day or night Whether you're keeping a mood journal, daily diary, gratitude journal, or simply recording life, Yian helps you see the bigger picture — one day at a time.

About

DearMood

Easily log your daily feelings and discover personal emotional patterns. This private journal offers quick check-ins with customizable details like emotions, activities, and photos. Gain insights into your wellbeing with visual summaries and detailed analysis.

Highlights
  • 5-level mood scale with emoji
  • Customizable emotions and activities
  • Add photos and notes
  • Mood calendar and Year in Pixels view
  • Detailed emotional insights and patterns
  • Private and ad-free journaling
  • App lock with Face ID/Touch ID
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DearMood is a simple and private mood tracker that helps you record how you feel every day. Build a personal mood journal, discover emotional patterns, and understand what shapes your wellbeing over time. No account. No tracking. No ads. No noise. Just you and your journal. LOG YOUR MOOD IN SECONDS Tap the + button, pick how you feel on a 5-level scale - from Awful to Awesome - and you're done. Or go deeper: add emotions, tag activities, note the weather, attach a photo, and write a note. Your check-in, your way. • 5-level mood scale with expressive emoji • Emotions: Happy, Grateful, Anxious, Stressed, and more • Activities: Work, Exercise, Family, Friends, and more • Weather, sleep, and custom sections you define • Photos and free-text notes • Log entries for any past date SEE YOUR MOOD HISTORY The mood calendar shows every day of the month at a glance - color-coded faces that make patterns easy to see. Tap any day to review or edit your entries. Year in Pixels turns your whole year into a beautiful grid of colored cells so you can instantly see the story of your moods across twelve months. DISCOVER YOUR MOOD PATTERNS The Insights tab transforms your daily logs into meaningful emotional insights: • Average mood score and trend over time • Best and worst days of the week • Time-of-day breakdown - morning, afternoon, evening, night • Top emotions, activities, and weather by frequency and mood impact • Consistency score MAKE IT YOURS DearMood adapts to how you reflect on your day. Add custom sections - social life, symptoms, hobbies, places - and track anything that matters to you. Create your own emotion and activity tags and choose what appears in your daily check-in. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Everything stays on your device. There are no servers, no ads, no analytics, and no one reading your journal. DearMood is completely private by design. Enable app lock with Face ID or Touch ID for an extra layer of protection. DEARMOOD PREMIUM Unlock deeper insights with DearMood Premium: • Advanced insights - trends, week/month/year comparisons • Best Time of Day - discover your peak hours • Emotion, activity, sleep, and weather impact scores • Custom section analysis • Year in Pixels and custom date ranges • PDF & CSV export - beautiful reports or raw data • iCloud Backup - automatic or manual restore anytime Start with a 7-day free trial. Cancel anytime from your Apple ID settings. WHY DEARMOOD? Most mood tracking apps are either too simple to be useful or too complicated to use every day. DearMood finds the balance - quick enough for daily check-ins and powerful enough to reveal meaningful emotional patterns. People who track their moods regularly often gain greater self-awareness, reduced anxiety, and a clearer sense of what improves their wellbeing. DearMood helps you build that habit effortlessly. Start your mood journal today. Subscription details: DearMood Premium is available as a monthly or annual subscription with a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your Apple ID settings. Privacy Policy: https://dearmood.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Mood Tracker4 screens
DearMood4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mood Tracker at none against DearMood's 2. Mood Tracker also leads on ratings volume (8 vs 1). DearMood's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. DearMood sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Mood Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Mood Tracker against 5.0 for DearMood. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mood Tracker has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mood Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, DearMood every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Mood Tracker versus DearMood: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMood TrackerDearMood
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings8 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.5 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB54 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJungWoo KwakShahed Iqbal

Customer experience

Mood Tracker

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

DearMood

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Mood Tracker

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

DearMood

Subscriptions2
  • DearMood Pro Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • DearMood Pro Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Mood Tracker free?
Mood Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DearMood free?
DearMood is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Mood Tracker or DearMood?
Mood Tracker and DearMood are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 8 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Mood Tracker or DearMood have ads?
Neither Mood Tracker nor DearMood shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mood Tracker or DearMood?
Mood Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, and DearMood every 2 days. Most recently, Mood Tracker was updated on October 30, 2026 and DearMood on October 31, 2026.

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