Emotion Sphere vs Uplume
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Emotion Sphere
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Emotion Sphere – Record Your Feelings as a Beautiful Sphere, Every Hour Emotion Sphere allows you to record your current feelings every hour using emojis, and visualizes your daily emotions as a single, colorful sphere. Based on the emotions you select, colors softly blend together, expressing your mental state throughout the day as a beautiful gradient. The app also aggregates emotions from users around the world, letting you view the “Global Emotion Sphere” from the previous day at a glance. With no social features, no sharing, and no comparisons, Emotion Sphere offers a calm space to quietly reflect on your feelings. [Simple Hourly Emotion Tracking] ・Record your emotions once every hour by selecting an emoji ・Automatically generate a daily “Emotion Sphere” based on emotion ratios ・A countdown timer shows when the next entry is available Emotion Color Mapping ・Happiness → Yellow ・Sleepiness → Blue ・Sadness → Light Blue ・Anger → Red ・Love → Pink As emotions overlap, colors blend smoothly, capturing the “landscape of your mind” within a single sphere. [Your Personal Emotion Gallery] ・Review your daily emotion data in a simple list ・Each day is saved as a unique emotion sphere ・Visualize long-term emotional changes and patterns [Explore the World’s Emotion Sphere] ・Aggregate emotion data from users worldwide ・View the world’s collective mood as a single sphere ・Gently observe the differences between your emotions and global trends [Notifications to Build a Habit] ・Receive push notifications when it’s time to record your emotions ・Helps you stay consistent and build a healthy habit [Perfect For] ・Visualizing your emotional flow ・Tracking feelings without writing long journal entries ・Supporting daily mental well-being ・Understanding global emotional trends ・Anyone looking for a quiet, distraction-free app [Easy to Use] ・Open the app and select an emoji ・No complex settings and no social features ・Designed exclusively for dark mode for a calm experience 【Auto-Renewable Subscription】 Premium features are available with an auto-renewable subscription. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. The subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your App Store account settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: http://sasakyy.com/emotion/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ [Disclaimer] This app does not provide medical or psychological diagnoses. All information is intended for personal awareness and self-care purposes only.
Uplume
Log your daily emotions and visualize them as a unique color gradient Aura. Over time, your calendar fills with these colors, offering a visual representation of your emotional journey and the presence of better days amidst challenges. Discover a wider vocabulary for your feelings and share your state with trusted individuals without social media pressures.
- Daily emotion logging
- Color gradient Aura visualization
- Extensive emotion vocabulary
- Private sharing with trusted contacts
- Calendar-based mood overview
- Self-reflection space
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Every day you log an emotion, you're building evidence. Evidence that the hard weeks don't last. Uplume® turns your daily feelings into colour. Log up to three emotions a day and watch them become a unique gradient Aura — a colour that belongs to that day alone. Over time, your calendar fills in, and something quietly powerful happens: you can see, in colour, that your lows are always surrounded by better days. THE DAILY RITUAL Thirty seconds. Up to three feelings. One beautiful Aura. That's the whole check-in. A CALENDAR THAT TELLS THE TRUTH Watch your month fill with colour. The hard weeks are real — and so is everything that comes after them. 228 EMOTIONS TO DISCOVER Most of us know maybe ten words for how we feel. The Emotion Mixer helps you find the ones you didn't have language for yet. YOUR PEOPLE, WITHOUT THE NOISE The Universe lets your closest people see how you're really doing today — no likes, no followers, no performance. Just quiet presence. Uplume is a space for reflection, not a tracker, not a tool to fix you. It's proof that you are already okay — and always were. — Uplume is for self-reflection and is not a substitute for professional mental health support. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Uplume at none against Emotion Sphere's shown. Uplume also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 weeks). Emotion Sphere's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On price 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
Both are free to download. Emotion Sphere sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Uplume sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Emotion Sphere ships an update every 5 weeks, Uplume every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Emotion Sphere | Uplume |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Ryogo Owashi | Alina Ermakova |
In-app purchases
Emotion Sphere
- Emotion Sphere Premium (Monthly)7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Emotion Sphere Premium (Annual)7 Days trial$29.991 Year
Uplume
- Uplume Monthly$4.991 Month
- Uplume Annual14 Days trial$34.991 Year
- Uplume Lifetime$89.99









