Comparison

Mood Tracker vs Pixels

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

Pixels

Log your daily mood, sleep, and weather to create a visual representation of your year. This private journal app offers a gentle and beautiful way to track your well-being with customizable options and calming aesthetics.

Highlights
  • Daily mood logging
  • Sleep tracking
  • Weather logging
  • Custom trackers
  • Year-at-a-glance grid
  • Private by design
  • Dreamy themes
Features
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Pixels is a cozy daily journal inspired by the classic “Year in Pixels” page. Pick how you felt, log your sleep, note the weather, and each day becomes one soft, colorful square. Over weeks and months, those little squares grow into a beautiful picture of your whole year. It’s gentle, private, and made to be the loveliest ten seconds of your day. WHAT YOU CAN TRACK Mood: choose from expressive, color-coded feelings Sleep: log your hours and watch your rest take shape Weather: sunny, cloudy, rainy, and more Your own: build custom trackers with your own colors, icons, and questions YOUR YEAR IN PIXELS A full year-at-a-glance grid for every tracker Tap today to log in a tap or two Charts for number trackers like sleep A clear color key so every square makes sense MADE TO FEEL GOOD Six dreamy themes, including a starry night look Soft, pillowy design with cute clouds and sparkles Calm, smooth little animations throughout PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything stays on your device — no account, no sign-up No ads, no tracking, no analytics Export and import your data anytime, so your year is always yours Start today. Color one little square, and let your year bloom.

Screenshots

Mood Tracker4 screens
Pixels4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Mood Tracker at 7 against Pixels's 1. Mood Tracker also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

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 Pixels. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mood Tracker has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Mood Tracker versus Pixels: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMood TrackerPixels
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.5 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJungWoo KwakSteven Luong

Customer experience

Mood Tracker

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

Pixels

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Mood Tracker

No in-app purchases

None

Pixels

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mood Tracker free?
Mood Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pixels free?
Pixels is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mood Tracker or Pixels?
Mood Tracker and Pixels are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 7 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Mood Tracker or Pixels have ads?
Neither Mood Tracker nor Pixels shows ads.

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