Shadow Work vs FutureNote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shadow Work
Explore your inner self through interactive stories and guided conversations. Uncover hidden strengths and recurring patterns by engaging with archetypal guides and reflecting on daily prompts. Integrate the parts of yourself you've pushed away to foster personal growth.
- Interactive daily stories with choices
- Conversations with Jungian archetypal guides
- Dream journaling and symbol exploration
- Personalized insights archive
- Journaling prompts and tarot cards
- Spirit Animal personality test
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Shadow work often means facing a blank page and hard questions on your own. Bayun makes it easier. You step into short stories, make choices, and talk things through with guides who help you see what's beneath the surface. ◆ WHAT IS SHADOW WORK Carl Jung called the shadow the parts of ourselves we push away. It isn't only our dark side. It also holds strengths we learned to hide, like confidence, creativity, and authenticity. Pushed into the unconscious, these parts don't disappear. They show up as triggers, projections, and patterns that keep repeating. Jung warned that what we don't face within ourselves meets us outside as fate. Shadow work isn't about fixing yourself. It's about noticing the parts of you that have been hidden, and learning to integrate them. ◆ HOW BAYUN WORKS ▸ DAILY STORIES Each day, a new story puts you inside a moment that might feel familiar. At key points you choose what to do, and each choice reveals an insight and a question to reflect on. ▸ INNER GUIDES Talk by voice or text with four guides based on Jung's archetypes: the Persona about how you show up around others, the Shadow about your triggers, the Anima about your emotions, and the Self about your direction in life. ▸ DREAM JOURNAL Your dreams may be trying to tell you something. Jung saw them as messages from the unconscious. Record them and explore what their symbols might mean. ▸ YOUR ARCHIVE Over time, Bayun collects your insights, so you can see which triggers and patterns keep coming back. ◆ ALSO INSIDE - Shadow work prompts for journaling - Collectible tarot cards and archetypal symbols - Spirit Animal personality test - Tales for Midlife: classic stories retold for the middle years, with a new theme every month ◆ TRY IT FREE Your first three stories are free. If they speak to you, unlock the full journey. Terms of Use: https://catbayun.com/terms-and-conditions Privacy Policy: https://catbayun.com/privacy-policy
FutureNote
Capture your thoughts and feelings in a digital time capsule. Write letters to your future self, seal them for days, months, or years, and receive them back with a photo of your surroundings. Engage in a dialogue with your past self.
- Write letters to your future self
- Seal letters for future delivery
- Add photos of your surroundings
- Track mood shifts over time
- Organize letters into chapters
- Receive notifications for opened letters
- Reply to past selves
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You wrote it on your hardest day. You read it from the other side. Or you wrote it on the day everything felt possible again. Both belong here. FutureNote is a time capsule for what you actually feel today. Write it down. Choose a mood. Photograph the place you are sitting — not your face, but the desk, the window, the room. Then seal the letter: seven days, a month, a year, ten years. Sealed means sealed. Nobody opens it early. Not us, not you. There is no button that changes that and no price that unlocks it. On average, people tap a sealed letter six times before the day arrives. On the day you chose, it comes back. First the photo, for three seconds. Then your words, line by line. And then you write back — to the person you were. Tell them what happened. Whether the fear came true. Whether the hope was right. And seal it again. Month after month, year after year, a conversation with yourself grows. WHY IT WORKS Your memory keeps the facts but loses the feeling. Within weeks, the texture of a hard day softens into a vague summary, and the evidence of your own growth disappears with it. FutureNote captures the feeling before it fades and returns it when you are ready to read it. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Seal a letter for a week, a month, a season, a year, or a decade • Add a photo of where you were — the room, the desk, the window • Choose the mood you are writing in, and see how it shifts over time • Organize letters into chapters and watch a timeline of yourself build • Get a notification the moment a letter is ready to open • Write a reply to who you were, and seal it again YOUR LETTERS ARE YOURS Your letters are encrypted and belong only to you. They are not read, not sold, and never used to train anything. Write the first one today. Meet yourself later. Privacy Policy: https://futurenoteapp.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://futurenoteapp.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Shadow Work at 76 against FutureNote's 6. FutureNote's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 90%) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Shadow Work sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and FutureNote sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 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 — 4.8 for Shadow Work against 4.7 for FutureNote. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shadow Work has 76 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 90% of Shadow Work's written reviews are positive against 100% of FutureNote's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | Shadow Work | FutureNote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (76 ratings) — better | 4.7 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 76 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 194 MB | 111 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Oleg Azbukin | Markas Giniotis |
Customer experience
Shadow Work
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In-app purchases
Shadow Work
- Monthly Subscription$5.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription$29.991 Year
- Unlock Premium$14.99
FutureNote
- Premium$2.991 Month
- Premium7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Premium$4.991 Month
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- Premium$9.991 Year
- Premium$24.991 Year
- Seal Just This Note$0.99
- Premium Lifetime$19.99
- Premium Lifetime$49.99
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