Comparison

Work With Shadow vs Shadow Work Journal

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

Head to head
About

Work With Shadow

Explore your unconscious with guided meditations and self-discovery tools based on Jungian psychology. Understand your archetypes, engage in dialogue with your inner parts, and decode your dreams to foster personal growth and wholeness.

Highlights
  • Archetype discovery and detailed profiles
  • Guided dialogue with inner parts
  • 16 Shadow School lessons
  • Shadow integration meditations
  • Dream symbol interpretation
  • Trigger tracking and analysis
  • Mirror work and self-reflection sessions
Features
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Discover the hidden parts of yourself. InnerParts guides you through Jungian psychology with guided meditations, and deep self-discovery tools. DISCOVER YOUR ARCHETYPES Take the 48-question Shadow Assessment to reveal which of 12 Jungian archetypes shape your unconscious patterns. Get detailed profiles showing your dominant archetype's light and shadow aspects, common triggers, projection patterns, relationship impacts, and personalized integration pathways. TALK TO YOUR SHADOW PARTS Have real conversations with your shadow aspects - the Critic who judges you, the Wounded Child carrying old pain, the Perfectionist demanding more, and others. Explore core beliefs and relationship patterns through guided dialogue. SHADOW SCHOOL 16 expert-crafted lessons take you from beginner to advanced practitioner: - What is the shadow and how it forms - Recognizing projections in daily life - Understanding Jungian archetypes - Advanced integration techniques GUIDED MEDITATIONS Healing journeys designed for shadow integration: - Meeting your shadow self - Parts work meditations - Shadow acceptance practices - Integration visualizations DECODE YOUR DREAMS 100+ dream symbols with shadow-focused interpretations. Your unconscious speaks through dreams - our analyzer helps you: - Record dreams and track symbols - Discover recurring themes and patterns - Connect dreams to shadow aspects TRACK YOUR TRIGGERS What activates your shadow? Sophisticated trigger tracking with: - 8 emotion categories with intensity scales - Body mapping to locate where you feel emotions - Weekly trends and pattern insights MIRROR WORK Self-reflection sessions for self-confrontation and acceptance: - Self-love affirmations - Wounded child healing - Forgiveness practice - Empowerment sessions INTEGRATION JOURNEY Track progress through 8 psychological milestones. Get weekly insights and monthly reports on your growth toward wholeness. PERFECT FOR: - Anyone curious about Jungian psychology - People processing childhood wounds - Those seeking deeper self-understanding - Meditation practitioners wanting psychological focus - Personal growth seekers Begin your integration journey today. Privacy Policy: https://innerparts.app/privacy Terms of Service: https://innerparts.app/terms

About

Shadow Work Journal

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Some things are too heavy to carry and too important to throw away. That's where Shadow Work Journal begins. Every morning, Shadow Work Journal opens to a single prompt. Not a feed. Not a dashboard. Not a choice between seventeen things. One question, written for the part of you that you usually keep quiet. You write. However long you need. There's no word count, no timer demanding productivity, no streak shaming you for a missed day. Just a warm cursor on a dark screen, the way a page looks by candlelight. And when you're done, something unusual happens. Ember asks you a question most journaling apps never will: Do you want to keep this, or burn it? If you keep it, it joins a quiet archive you can return to. If you burn it, the words catch light at the bottom of the screen. Embers rise. The text disintegrates, line by line, into drifting particles that fade into the dark. A single word remains: Released. Then it's gone. Really gone. No trash folder. No cloud backup. No undo. (Ember always asks you to confirm — burning is deliberate, never accidental.) This is not a gimmick. It's the whole point. Jung called it the shadow: the parts of yourself you've hidden — the anger, the shame, the envy, the fear. Shadow work is the practice of dragging them into the light long enough to look at them. The value isn't in the archive. It's in the looking. Ember is built around that truth. Some entries deserve to be kept. Most deserve to be written, witnessed by you, and set down. WHAT'S INSIDE • 370 shadow work prompts, one per day, organized across ten themes: anger, shame, fear, abandonment, control, envy, people-pleasing, identity, family patterns, and self-sabotage • A distraction-free writing space. No formatting tools, no word count, no notifications while you work • Burn mode with a deliberate, ceremonial animation and haptic response — because the act of release should feel like something • A private history of kept entries, and a record (without content) of what you released • A single optional daily reminder at a time you choose. No badges. No guilt. No streaks WHAT'S NOT INSIDE No account. No email signup. No onboarding survey. No ads. No AI watching your words. No analytics. No cloud. Your writing lives on your device and only on your device. TRY IT FIRST. THEN OWN IT. Ember is free to download, and your first three entries are free to keep. Write with it before you decide anything. When you're ready, a single Lifetime purchase unlocks all of it — all 370 prompts, unlimited kept entries, burn mode, Live Activity, notifications — and never asks you for money again. It doesn't renew. It doesn't expire. There is no premium tier waiting above it and no upgrade nudge hiding behind a feature. There's also a weekly option, if you'd rather not pay up front. It unlocks exactly the same app. The Lifetime unlock is the one we'd point you to. Shadow work is personal, and personal work shouldn't be rented to you month after month. Buy the tool once. Own the practice. WHO THIS IS FOR Ember is for people who've encountered Jungian archetypes online, heard about inner child work from a therapist, or felt the pull of shadow work and didn't know where to start. It's for those who have tried bloated wellness apps and closed them within a week, seeking something more substantial. It's for the person who suspects — rightly — that the journal they actually need isn't the one with mood graphs and streak badges, but the one that respects the depth of the work they came to do. Open it tonight. Write the thing you haven't said. Keep it if it's meant to stay. Burn it if it isn't. Either way, you did the work. Privacy Policy: https://www.leanorbit.app/shadowwork/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Work With Shadow4 screens
Shadow Work Journal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Work With Shadow at Free against Shadow Work Journal's $2.99. Work With Shadow also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). Shadow Work Journal's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On 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

Work With Shadow is free to download; Shadow Work Journal costs $2.99 up front. Work With Shadow sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Shadow Work Journal asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Work With Shadow versus Shadow Work Journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWork With ShadowShadow Work Journal
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.2 (18 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings18 — better—
Update frequency—Every 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size182 MB1 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperUKGADGETS LTDLean Orbit LLC

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Work With Shadow

Subscriptions2
  • InnerParts Pro (Weekly)$4.997 Days
  • InnerParts Pro (Annual)$29.991 Year
None

Shadow Work Journal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Work With Shadow free?
Work With Shadow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Shadow Work Journal free?
Shadow Work Journal costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Work With Shadow or Shadow Work Journal have ads?
Neither Work With Shadow nor Shadow Work Journal shows ads.

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