Comparison

Moods Faster vs Patterns

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

Head to head
About

Moods Faster

Quickly log your daily moods to Apple Health with just a few taps. Explore your mood history with efficient views and customize moods to match your personal expression. Unlock full history and advanced features with an optional purchase or subscription.

Highlights
  • Quick mood logging
  • Apple Health integration
  • Mood history exploration
  • Customizable moods
  • Live activity check-ins
  • Optional in-app purchases
Features
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Quickly log moods to Apple Health, and explore your entire mood history. The best time to start building a history of your moods was years ago. The second best time is now. Moods Faster can help you get there. If you want to log your mood every day it has to be really quick to do, and that's the core design principle of Moods Faster. Log a mood in two taps, optionally adding emotions and context detail. Live activity check-ins let you log your mood with one tap right from your lock screen. And you can customize the colors, icons, direction, and granularity of the moods so it syncs with how you think. Moods Faster also lets you quickly get an understanding of your entire mood history from Apple Health, in compact and efficient views. If you've logged moods to Apple Health in the past, then they'll be right here waiting for you, and you can continue adding to them. Moods Faster allows you to log your moods, and view the last two months history for free. Full history, live activity check-ins, watchOS app, and full customization are available with More Moods, either as a one-time purchase or a subscription. The app is crafted with care, private by design, ad-free, and made by an independent app maker. Privacy policy: https://chojubo.me/moods-faster/privacy-policy Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Patterns

Easily log daily symptoms, habits, and other factors with a few taps. Discover personalized insights into what triggers your migraines, pain, mood, and more. Visualize your health patterns over time and gain a better understanding of your well-being.

Highlights
  • Log symptoms with colored bubbles
  • Track anything: symptoms, food, meds, habits
  • Discover trigger correlations
  • Visualize patterns over months
  • Log from Home Screen widget
  • Add notes or photos to days
  • Export data as spreadsheet
Features
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Find what triggers your flares. Patterns is a simple symptom tracker that finds what affects your migraines, gut, pain, mood, sleep and energy. Tap what happened today. Patterns does the rest. LOG YOUR DAY IN A FEW TAPS • Every tracker is a colored bubble: tap the ones that happened, then save the day • Watch your day fill with color as the bubbles fly into the calendar • Track anything your way: symptoms, foods, meds, habits, or 1–5 ratings like pain or anxiety • Drag bubbles wherever you like • Log from the Home Screen widget without opening the app • Add a note or photo to any day DISCOVER YOUR TRIGGERS • "Bloating is more likely the day after dairy." • Patterns looks at all of your days at once: effects that show up days or weeks later, triggers that build up, and triggers that only matter together • It learns your cycle, too: what shows up before your period, and what makes it late • A heads-up when something that usually leads to a symptom just happened • Every insight shows the numbers and the exact days behind it SEE WHAT IT'S STILL CHECKING • Patterns tells you how sure it is about every insight • It notices links that are still forming, and says how many more days would confirm or rule them out SEE PATTERNS OVER MONTHS • Every logged day becomes a ring of colors • Switch between month and year to see your seasons at a glance • A recap at the end of each month PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-in • Everything stays on your iPhone • No ads, no tracking • Export your data as a spreadsheet anytime Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://patternsios.netlify.app/support#privacy Patterns shows correlations in your own logs. It isn't a medical device and doesn't give medical advice.

Screenshots

Moods Faster4 screens
Patterns4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Patterns at none against Moods Faster's 3. Patterns also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). Moods Faster's advantage is ratings volume (26 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Moods Faster sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.95 per month. Patterns asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Moods Faster against 5.0 for Patterns. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Moods Faster has 26 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Moods Faster ships an update weekly, Patterns every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Moods Faster versus Patterns: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMoods FasterPatterns
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (26 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings26 — better1
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB2 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperNick LeithAnna Xu

Customer experience

Moods Faster

All ratings26 ratings
Positive96.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.8%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

Patterns

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

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Moods Faster

Subscriptions2
  • More Moods · Monthly7 Days trial$1.951 Month
  • More Moods · Yearly7 Days trial$17.951 Year
One-time1
  • More Moods · Lifetime$44.95
None

Patterns

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Moods Faster free?
Moods Faster is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Patterns free?
Patterns is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Moods Faster or Patterns?
Patterns is rated higher. Moods Faster averages 4.9 out of 5 from 26 ratings, while Patterns averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Moods Faster or Patterns have ads?
Neither Moods Faster nor Patterns shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Moods Faster or Patterns?
Moods Faster ships an update weekly, and Patterns every 4 days. Most recently, Moods Faster was updated on October 31, 2026 and Patterns on November 1, 2026.

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