Comparison

Buddha Light vs MoodFlow

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

Head to head
About

Buddha Light

Features
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γ€ŠBuddha Light》 is your personal Buddhist practice companion. Daily Practice Calendar – Record your meditation, chanting, Dharma study, or wooden fish practice. Maintain your check-in streak and stay motivated. Beautiful Buddha Wallpapers – Unlock sacred Thangka and Buddha images as you progress. Save them and set them as your lock screen or home screen. Blessings & Wishes – Write your personal wishes or blessings (anonymously if you prefer). Each day, the app will share a few inspiring ones from the community. Dharma Quotes – Receive meaningful Buddhist quotes daily to inspire and guide your spiritual journey. Wooden Fish Practice – Tap the digital wooden fish for merit accumulation. Daily counts contribute toward unlocking wallpapers and tracking your practice. Chant Playback – Listen to calming Buddhist chants and mantras to support meditation, relieve stress, and deepen your spiritual cultivation. Begin your journey of mindfulness, compassion, and wisdom β€” one day at a time.

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MoodFlow

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Bright days, tired evenings, and the low moods you can’t quite name all deserve to be seen gently. MoodFlow is a private, warm app for recording your feelings and spending time with a healing pet. Choose one of seven panda faces β€” glad, angry, worried, preoccupied, sad, afraid, or startled β€” leave a short note, and keep this moment. Moods are no longer a score from 1 to 5. As entries gather, you can look back through the calendar, trends, weekly notes, and monthly reports, and notice the small shifts in yourself. Mori the panda will not rush you, and will not blame you for a missed day. It now lives by the real day: dawn, afternoon, and night change where it waits in the courtyard and how it moves. The Home Screen widget, the daily reminder, and Mori’s page can ask β€œhow are you today?” in five seconds. After you write a mood, Mori answers with a line from your own earlier diary β€” not a stock phrase. At night you can say goodnight. During cherry blossoms, the rainy season, Tanabata, Mid-Autumn, autumn leaves, the winter solstice, New Year, and Lunar New Year, the courtyard quietly changes season. You can still pat it, hug it, feed it, or play, and you can wade in the shallow pool or climb the log slide. After you write down your mood, a few minutes with Mori is also a little time you keep for yourself. Mori sometimes travels alone. Letters arrive from the road, and it may bring back an outfit, a room decoration, or a memory. You can keep those stories, and arrange the room the way you like. While it is still away, the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island show that it is still on the way. One tap takes you back to the courtyard. Main features: - Record a mood with seven panda faces: glad, angry, worried, preoccupied, sad, afraid, startled - Add life tags, including tags you write yourself - Search past entries by mood, feelings, weather, and photos - Mori waits in the courtyard by the real time of day, and answers with matching expressions - A five-second greeting from the widget, daily reminder, or Mori’s page opens the usual full-screen record - After you save, Mori answers with a line from your own diary - A goodnight ritual: a reminder at the hour you choose, and a lamp you can dim in the room - Seasonal courtyard for cherry blossoms, rainy season, Tanabata, Mid-Autumn, autumn leaves, winter solstice, New Year, and Lunar New Year - Look back with a calendar, 7-day / 30-day trends, a four-week comparison, and weekly and monthly reports - Add photos, manually chosen weather, and life tags to private entries - Export your diary for dates you choose - Wade and use the log slide in the bamboo courtyard - Pat, hug, feed, and play for matching responses - Collect letters, outfits, and room decorations from Mori’s journeys - See that Mori is still on the way from the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island - Arrange the tatami room with round windows and shoji; the layout syncs with iCloud - Open or save an entry from Shortcuts or the widget, with a mood already chosen - Use Apple Watch on its own: record a mood, look back, and spend time with Mori without installing the iPhone app first; entries sync when you add iPhone - Available in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, and Japanese - Protect private entries with Face ID, Touch ID, or your device passcode Your writing and photos are not made public. MoodFlow does not provide medical diagnosis, treatment, or emergency help.

Screenshots

Buddha Light4 screens
MoodFlow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MoodFlow at none against Buddha Light's 10. Buddha Light's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Buddha Light sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. MoodFlow asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Buddha Light ships an update every 5 days, MoodFlow weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 4 level
Buddha Light versus MoodFlow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBuddha LightMoodFlow
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 days β€” betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo β€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch β€” better
Requires iOS14.0 β€” better17.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size97 MB285 MB
Age rating17+4+
Developerε…¬εΈεη§°ζ–‡ιŸ¬ εΌ 

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Buddha Light

One-time10
  • MedicineBuddha01$0.99
  • YellowJambhala10$0.99
  • YellowJambhala11$0.99
Show 7 more
  • Vajra02$0.99
  • Mandala05$0.99
  • Mandala06$0.99
  • SwiftandCourageousGreenTara01$0.99
  • AutumnMoonlightMother01$0.99
  • PurpleGoldTara01$0.99
  • AutumnNightMoonMother01$0.99
None

MoodFlow

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Buddha Light free?
Buddha Light is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MoodFlow free?
MoodFlow is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Buddha Light or MoodFlow have ads?
Neither Buddha Light nor MoodFlow shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Buddha Light or MoodFlow?
Buddha Light ships an update every 5 days, and MoodFlow weekly. Most recently, Buddha Light was updated on October 28, 2026 and MoodFlow on October 20, 2026.

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