2026 vs Pixels
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
2026
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Features: * Year in Pixels: Visualize your entire 2026 in a single, immersive grid. See your emotional trends at a glance. * Daily Logging: Track your mood with 5 colors and add personal notes to remember the moments that matter. * Monthly Recap: Get insights into your month with mood statistics and a scrollable flow of your memories. * Apple Health Sync: Automatically sync your daily emotional health entries with Apple Health (State of Mind). * Bionic Reading: Enjoy enhanced readability with bionic typography across all your personal notes and logs. * Home Screen Widget: Check your daily status instantly. Tap to jump straight into logging your day. * Private & Secure: Your data helps you, not us. Everything is stored locally on your device. * Face ID Lock: Protect your private thoughts with biometric security. * Offline First: No account required. No internet required. Works fully offline. * Data Freedom: Export, restore, and backup your data with iCloud backup utilities.
Pixels
Log your daily mood, sleep, and weather to create a visual representation of your year. This private journal app offers a gentle and beautiful way to track your well-being with customizable options and calming aesthetics.
- Daily mood logging
- Sleep tracking
- Weather logging
- Custom trackers
- Year-at-a-glance grid
- Private by design
- Dreamy themes
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Pixels is a cozy daily journal inspired by the classic “Year in Pixels” page. Pick how you felt, log your sleep, note the weather, and each day becomes one soft, colorful square. Over weeks and months, those little squares grow into a beautiful picture of your whole year. It’s gentle, private, and made to be the loveliest ten seconds of your day. WHAT YOU CAN TRACK Mood: choose from expressive, color-coded feelings Sleep: log your hours and watch your rest take shape Weather: sunny, cloudy, rainy, and more Your own: build custom trackers with your own colors, icons, and questions YOUR YEAR IN PIXELS A full year-at-a-glance grid for every tracker Tap today to log in a tap or two Charts for number trackers like sleep A clear color key so every square makes sense MADE TO FEEL GOOD Six dreamy themes, including a starry night look Soft, pillowy design with cute clouds and sparkles Calm, smooth little animations throughout PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything stays on your device — no account, no sign-up No ads, no tracking, no analytics Export and import your data anytime, so your year is always yours Start today. Color one little square, and let your year bloom.
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Verdict
2026 and Pixels are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | 2026 | Pixels |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | VINCENZO URSANO | Steven Luong |
In-app purchases
2026
No in-app purchases
Pixels
No in-app purchases








