Comparison

Moodsearch vs MoodThread

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

Head to head
About

Moodsearch

This app helps you identify recurring patterns in your emotions, thoughts, and reactions. It offers quick check-ins and gentle insights to foster self-awareness and understanding of your personal trends.

Highlights
  • Emotional check-ins
  • Track feeling evolution
  • Identify recurring patterns
  • Gentle insights
  • Self-reflection tool
Features
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Moodsearch is an AI mental health companion that gets to know you over time. Talk to it about whatever is going on in your life — relationships, anxiety, work, family, burnout, decisions, insecurities, or the thoughts you can't seem to get out of your head. Moodsearch doesn't just respond to each conversation in isolation. As you keep talking, it builds context about you and looks for recurring patterns across what you say: the situations that set you off, the ways you tend to react, the thoughts you keep returning to, and the places where you may be starting to change. What does Moodsearch do? Moodsearch helps you make sense of your thoughts, emotions, and behavior by identifying patterns across your conversations. Its insights are informed by a library of more than 100 psychological and behavioral patterns reviewed by therapists and mental health professionals. As you use Moodsearch, it looks for recurring themes involving things like overthinking, relationships, self-worth, avoidance, anxiety, boundaries, perfectionism, attachment, and more. You can talk to Moodsearch whenever something is on your mind — whether you're trying to understand an argument, a relationship, a decision, a stressful day, or a feeling you can't quite explain. Over time, Moodsearch connects what you say across different moments in your life. It can help you notice what keeps repeating, what tends to bring certain patterns out, and where your responses may be starting to change. The result is a growing record of how you think and feel — and a way to notice things about yourself that can be difficult to see from inside your own head. Who built Moodsearch? Moodsearch is built by therapists and mental health professionals, researchers, engineers, and designers working together to create a better way to understand yourself through the things you say every day. Features of Moodsearch No judgment: Say what you really feel, and get personalized support. Long-term growth: Moodsearch is designed to help you understand yourself more clearly over time. 24/7, text anytime: Talk to Moodsearch whenever something is on your mind. Privacy-first design: Share with confidence that your chats are secure and private. A fully personalized program: Moodsearch learns from your conversations and builds a personalized understanding of you over time. Get insights tailored to what you're going through right now. SUBSCRIPTIONS AND IN-APP PURCHASES Moodsearch offers optional monthly and annual auto-renewing subscriptions that unlock premium features and a more personalized experience. You can also make optional in-app purchases to unlock additional daily insights. Payment will be charged to your Apple Account when your purchase is confirmed. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://moodsearch.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://moodsearch.com/privacy Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy: https://moodsearch.com/chd-privacy-policy

About

MoodThread

Features
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MoodThread captures how you feel in 5 seconds and builds a map of your emotional life over time. CHECK IN FAST Slide to your mood, tap your emotions, add a word of context. Done. No journaling, no long prompts — just a quick pulse check you can do on the train, after a meeting, or before bed. Check in from your home screen widget or ask Siri without opening the app. AI PATTERN ANALYSIS MoodThread is the only mood tracker that connects the dots across your entire history. It finds which days you consistently dip, what triggers your best moods, and how your emotional patterns shift over weeks and months. The longer you use it, the smarter it gets. SMART NUDGES Get a gentle alert when something shifts — like tagging "Anxious" three days in a row, or your mood dropping compared to last week. No spam. Just the moments that matter. EMOTION LIBRARY Every emotion you tag builds a personal dictionary — how often it appears, what triggers it, which other emotions it shows up with, and what it means for you specifically. Not a generic definition. Your patterns, your insights. TRIGGER INSIGHTS See exactly how Work, Sleep, Exercise, Relationships, and other context tags impact your mood. Know which triggers lift you up and which bring you down. WEEKLY MOOD DIGEST Every Monday, get a personalized summary of your week — dominant mood, trending emotions, strongest triggers, and a reflection prompt. YOUR EMOTIONAL CALENDAR Color-coded calendar shows your mood at a glance. Spot patterns between weekdays and weekends, busy weeks and quiet ones. Track your check-in streak without pressure. HEALTH & WEATHER CORRELATION Connect Apple Health to see how sleep, exercise, and heart rate affect your mood. Enable weather to automatically track sunny days vs. rainy ones — zero effort, real insight. APPLE WATCH Check in from your wrist with the Digital Crown mood dial. Spin to your mood, tap Save. Your quickest check-in yet. SHARE YOUR WEEK Generate a beautiful styled card of your weekly mood summary and share it with friends, your therapist, or social media. GUIDED BREATHING When your mood drops low, MoodThread offers a gentle breathing exercise — 4 cycles of guided inhale, hold, exhale. No extra app needed. THERAPIST EXPORT One-tap PDF summary of your last 30 days — mood chart, top emotions, triggers, and AI analysis. Designed for a therapist to review in a session. PRIVATE BY DESIGN All mood data stays on your device. AI analysis sends only mood scores and tags to our secure proxy — never your name or personal info. Face ID lock keeps your journal private. PREMIUM FEATURES - AI pattern analysis and mood insights - Weekly AI mood digest - Emotion Library with personal AI interpretations - Trigger correlation analysis - 30/60/90 day trend charts with period comparison - Day-of-week and time-of-day mood charts - CSV export and therapist PDF report - Year in Moods annual recap Free to start. Premium unlocks the intelligence layer. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tomtoro-privacy.vercel.app

Screenshots

Moodsearch4 screens
MoodThread4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Moodsearch at 15.1 against MoodThread's 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. Moodsearch sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and MoodThread sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Moodsearch versus MoodThread: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMoodsearchMoodThread
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (30 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings30 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB2 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperCohost Tech, Inc.Tommy Ong

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Moodsearch

Subscriptions4
  • Ray Subscription$7.991 Month
  • Moodsearch Premium Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Moodsearch Plus Monthly7 Days trial$12.991 Month
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  • Moodsearch Premium Yearly$79.991 Year
3 purchases

MoodThread

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Premium Annual$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium Lifetime$59.99

Questions

Is Moodsearch free?
Moodsearch is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MoodThread free?
MoodThread is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Moodsearch or MoodThread have ads?
Neither Moodsearch nor MoodThread shows ads.

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