Comparison

SHIFT vs Color Mood Circle

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

Head to head
About

SHIFT

This app offers guided EFT tapping sessions to manage stress, overthinking, and low energy. Choose sessions based on your current feeling and follow audio and visual cues for quick emotional resets throughout your day.

Highlights
  • Guided EFT tapping sessions
  • Sessions categorized by feeling, focus, time, style, and voice
  • Clear tapping-point visuals
  • Optional background music
  • Save favorite sessions
  • Track practice and activity
  • Onboarding for learning tapping points
Features
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Less stress. More you. SHIFT makes EFT tapping simple and accessible for moments of stress, anxiety, racing thoughts, tension, or everyday overwhelm. Choose how you’re feeling, find a session that fits the moment, and follow calming audio with clear visual guidance through each tapping point. No tapping experience required. FEEL BETTER RIGHT FROM YOUR HOME SCREEN Add the SHIFT widget for quick access whenever you need a reset. Choose a full guided session or try a Quick Shift—a short, one-round tapping experience for moments when you only have a few minutes. WHY SHIFT • Guided EFT tapping and affirmations • Quick Shifts for fast resets • Sessions for stress, sleep, confidence, focus, and motivation • Clear visual guidance for every tapping point • Multiple guided voices and optional background music • Filters to help you quickly find the right session • Favorites, practice history, and progress tracking • Beginner-friendly tapping-point guidance HOW IT WORKS 1. Choose what you’re feeling or want to shift. 2. Pick a session that fits your time and focus. 3. Follow the guided audio, words, and tapping-point visuals. Whether you’re starting your day, preparing for a difficult moment, rebuilding confidence, or winding down for sleep, SHIFT gives you a practical reset you can use whenever you need it. SHIFT is designed for everyday wellness and self-guided emotional resets. It is not medical care, therapy, or emergency support.

About

Color Mood Circle

Features
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Your mood has a color. Color Mood Circle lets you capture how you feel in one playful gesture: drag the pin around the color wheel until it feels right, then let go. CAPTURE A MOOD IN SECONDS • Twelve moods on one wheel, from Peaceful, Calm and Happy to Angry, Sad, Exhausted and Tired • Check in as often as you like through the day; every mood is saved with its time • Your mood shows in large type above the wheel, while the center blends the colors as you move • Gentle haptics as you pass from one mood to the next • Tap the emoji to show or hide the glowing color blobs SEE YOUR PATTERNS • Look back over today, the past week, month or year, or everything at once • A mood distribution shows which feelings came up most often • A short quote to go with it; pull down for a new one • Remove any entry you don't want to keep NEW: THE JOURNAL • A monthly calendar where each day carries the color of its last mood • Move between months or jump straight back to today • Open any day, today included, to see every mood you logged and when • Write a note for each day; it saves as you type MADE FOR iPHONE • Rebuilt from the ground up for iOS 26 • Designed for Dark and Light mode • Works with VoiceOver and Dynamic Type, and respects Reduce Motion PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no sign-up. Your moods and notes stay on your iPhone.

Screenshots

SHIFT4 screens
Color Mood Circle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: SHIFT at every 10 days against Color Mood Circle's every 7 months. SHIFT also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SHIFT ships an update every 10 days, Color Mood Circle every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
SHIFT versus Color Mood Circle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSHIFTColor Mood Circle
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (10 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 7 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size624 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZaylin TsakirisTobias Reithmeier

In-app purchases

None

SHIFT

No in-app purchases

None

Color Mood Circle

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SHIFT free?
SHIFT is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Color Mood Circle free?
Color Mood Circle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SHIFT or Color Mood Circle have ads?
Neither SHIFT nor Color Mood Circle shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SHIFT or Color Mood Circle?
SHIFT ships an update every 10 days, and Color Mood Circle every 7 months. Most recently, SHIFT was updated on October 30, 2026 and Color Mood Circle on October 31, 2026.

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