Comparison

Rhino Journal vs FeelingPrepper

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

Head to head
About

Rhino Journal

A private journaling app that uses AI to analyze your entries and provide insights into your emotional state. Track your mood over time with visual aids and personalized feedback to foster self-understanding and emotional balance.

Highlights
  • AI-powered emotional analysis
  • Daily reflection and insights
  • Mood tracking with calendar view
  • Emotional pattern recognition
  • Personalized dashboard
  • Face ID privacy protection
Features
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Rhino Journal is a calm, private space to reflect, understand your emotions, and build emotional balance—one day at a time. Write freely about your day, thoughts, or feelings. After each entry, Rhino Journal generates a thoughtful AI takeaway that summarizes your emotional state, energy level, vibe score, and offers gentle analysis and suggestions to help you gain clarity and perspective. Visualize your emotional journey over time with a calendar-based mood view, where each day is paired with a feeling label and emoji. Dive deeper with insights and pattern cards, including mood heatmaps, to recognize trends, cycles, and shifts in your mental and emotional state. Your home dashboard keeps you grounded with daily reminders, recent reflections, and a clean overview of your journaling habit. Personalize the app’s theme to match your style and protect your entries with Face ID for complete privacy. Sign in with Apple makes getting started simple and secure. Rhino Journal is designed to be distraction-free, deeply personal, and supportive—helping you reflect with intention, understand yourself better, and stay balanced over time.

About

FeelingPrepper

This mental wellness app offers CBT-based journaling to help manage stress and low mood. It features behavioral activation and cognitive reframing tools, with gamified progress and a private journaling space.

Highlights
  • Behavioral activation (GRAPES)
  • Cognitive Triangle reframing
  • Daily self-reflection check-ins
  • Gamified progress with pet companion
  • Data export to CSV
  • Private journaling
Features
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FeelingPrepper is a personal mental-wellness journaling app that helps you build healthy daily habits using two evidence-based CBT (Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy) tools. Whether you're managing stress, low mood, or just want to stay grounded, Feeling Prepper gives you a simple, private space to check in with yourself every day. WHAT YOU'LL DO • GRAPES — Behavioral activation made simple. Log one small activity across six categories (Gentle with yourself, Relaxation, Accomplishment, Pleasure, Exercise, and Social) to build momentum and beat low mood. • Cognitive Triangle — Reframe unhelpful thinking. Tap into the connection between your Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors to understand patterns and respond differently. • Daily check-ins — A quick, judgment-free space to reflect on how you're doing. STAY MOTIVATED Progress is gamified with a daily streak and a pet companion that grows alongside your habits. Small steps, every day, add up. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your journal is yours. All entries are your own private content. Manage everything from Settings: • Export your data anytime as a CSV file • Permanently delete your account and all data, right inside the app • Local-only reminders — no tracking, no ads THOUGHTFUL REMINDERS Optional local notifications nudge you for daily check-ins, streaks, milestones, and your companion — all toggleable in Settings. No spam. IMPORTANT FeelingPrepper is a self-help wellness tool. It is not a medical device and is not a substitute for professional care, diagnosis, or treatment. If you are in crisis, in-app resources include 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline), the Crisis Text Line, and 911. Start small. Feel prepared.

Screenshots

Rhino Journal4 screens
FeelingPrepper4 screens

Verdict

The call

Rhino Journal and FeelingPrepper are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and ads among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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 Rhino Journal against 5.0 for FeelingPrepper. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Rhino Journal versus FeelingPrepper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRhino JournalFeelingPrepper
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 6 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB3 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSiddharth VaithinathanMUSTAQIM BINBURHANUDDIN

Customer experience

Rhino Journal

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

FeelingPrepper

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

In-app purchases

None

Rhino Journal

No in-app purchases

None

FeelingPrepper

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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