Comparison

Seedlit vs Stroll

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

Head to head
About

Seedlit

This app helps you build a consistent journaling habit by visually representing your progress with a growing plant. Track your mood, set reminders, and access writing prompts to encourage daily reflection. All your entries are private and stored locally, with optional iCloud sync for backup.

Highlights
  • Rich text editing
  • Voice-to-text dictation
  • Photo support
  • Daily mood tracking
  • Plant health visualization
  • Streak tracking
  • Writing prompts
Features
Read full description

Seedlit is a journaling app that grows with you. Write daily, track your mood, and keep your plant healthy as you build consistency. Open the app and start writing. Rich text formatting, photos, and voice-to-text are all there when you want them. Everything auto-saves as you type. Just write and close. Your plant reflects your journaling habit. Keep writing and it stays healthy and vibrant. Miss a few days and it starts to wilt. Its appearance changes across six states based on your consistency, so you can always see at a glance how you're doing. Your home screen shows your plant's health, your current streak, a week-at-a-glance strip, and how many days you've journaled this month. Track your mood each day with a simple tap. Your calendar fills up with color over time, showing patterns you might not notice otherwise. Monthly and annual views let you see your journey at a glance. Tap any day to read what you wrote or add a new entry. Set a daily reminder at whatever time works for you. When you're stuck, tap the lightbulb for a writing prompt. Dark mode is fully supported. Every screen, every color, every detail adapts. Your journal is private by design. All entries are stored on your device. No accounts, no sign-ups, no tracking. Optional iCloud sync keeps everything backed up across your Apple devices. Works completely offline. Features: - Rich text editing with bold, italic, underline, highlight, text colors, and adjustable font sizes - Voice-to-text dictation - Photo support - Daily mood tracking - Plant health system with six visual states - Streak tracking and monthly progress - Daily reminders - Monthly and annual calendar views with mood colors - Writing prompts - Write entries for any past date - Full dark mode support - JSON export - Optional iCloud sync - Works completely offline - No account required Privacy Policy: https://www.seedlitapp.com/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://www.seedlitapp.com/terms

About

Stroll

Features
Read full description

Some of your clearest thinking happens on a walk — and then it's gone by the time you're home. Stroll is a calm place to keep it. Leave your phone behind, take an unplugged walk (a sunrise one is lovely), and when you're back, write down the thoughts that surfaced. That's the whole app. No feeds, no streaks that punish you, no noise. WALK FIRST, PHONE SECOND The best walks are unplugged, so Stroll is built to work even when your phone never came along. Just enter how long you were out when you get home. Prefer to time it? Bring your phone on airplane mode — the timer keeps perfect time even with the screen locked and no signal. ONE NUMBER THAT ONLY GROWS Stroll adds up every walk into a single, quiet total: the time you've spent walking and thinking. It never resets and never guilts you. It just grows. A GENTLE PLACE TO REFLECT • A simple, notebook-style space for what came to mind • A calm prompt to get you started • Your past reflections, gathered by day • A quiet "look back" months later, so you can see how your thinking has changed PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No login. No ads. No analytics. Your reflections live on your device — they're never sent to a server, and no one (including me) can read them. Optional iCloud Backup keeps a private copy in your own iCloud so your words survive a new phone. FREE, AND IT'LL STAY FREE Stroll is free with nothing locked away. If it's helped you, you can leave a one-time tip to support an independent maker — but there's no pressure, and tipping never unlocks anything. Take a walk. Let your mind wander. Keep what it brings back.

Screenshots

Seedlit4 screens
Stroll4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Stroll at every 2 days against Seedlit's weekly. Stroll also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). 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

Seedlit ships an update weekly, Stroll every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Seedlit versus Stroll: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSeedlitStroll
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAldur LLCConnor Burns

In-app purchases

None

Seedlit

No in-app purchases

None

Stroll

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Seedlit free?
Seedlit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stroll free?
Stroll is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Seedlit or Stroll have ads?
Neither Seedlit nor Stroll shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Seedlit or Stroll?
Seedlit ships an update weekly, and Stroll every 2 days. Most recently, Seedlit was updated on October 24, 2026 and Stroll on October 25, 2026.

Other comparisons