Comparison

Moodvale vs Notes

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

Head to head
About

Moodvale

This app helps you understand your feelings by logging your mood daily. It provides insights into emotional patterns and trends over time. All your data is stored privately on your device.

Highlights
  • Quick daily mood check-in
  • Visualize emotional patterns
  • Weekly and monthly insights
  • Private data storage
  • Gentle reminders
  • Calendar browsing
Features
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How was your day? Capture your mood in a few taps, keep the moments that matter, and discover patterns in your everyday life. Start your Moodvale journal for free. ** MEET MOODVALE ** A mood tracker when you have a moment. A personal diary when you have more to say. Moodvale gives you a gentle way to check in with yourself, without the pressure of filling a page. Use it for daily reflection, a gratitude journal, or a record of the activities that fill your days. From a quiet morning to a big milestone, every kind of day has a place. ** A FEW TAPS TO GET STARTED ** Pick how you feel, then choose what you have been doing. That is enough for an entry. Add a note, a photo or a voice memo whenever you want to keep more of the story. As your journal grows, explore your mood calendar and charts to see how your days fit together. Revisit a memory, notice a recurring pattern, or simply take a moment to reflect. ** MAKE YOUR JOURNAL YOURS ** - Check in with a mood and activities, even when you do not feel like writing. - Personalize mood names and activities to reflect your life. - Keep photos and voice memos alongside your notes. - Write longer entries with text formatting, or begin with a gratitude template. - Browse a colorful mood calendar and find past entries with search. - See your recorded days come together in a Year in Pixels. - Explore basic mood charts and track changes over time. - Set reminders for a journaling routine that works for you. - Unlock deeper mood and activity insights, detailed weekly and monthly reports, and full yearly statistics with Moodvale Pro. - Make reflection more personal with additional mood styles and custom writing templates in Pro. Insights are based on your own entries and help you reflect on patterns; they do not establish cause and effect. ** IPHONE, IPAD & APPLE WATCH ** Keep a quick journal on iPhone and enjoy more room to write and review on iPad. Check in from your wrist with Apple Watch. After setup with your iPhone, record a mood and activities, save check-ins offline, and sync them to your iPhone when a connection is available. ** PRIVACY & YOUR DATA ** Your journal is personal. You choose how to keep it. - Start without creating a Moodvale account. - Protect access to your journal with a PIN lock. - Keep entries on your device, with optional sync through your private iCloud database. - Export your records as CSV or JSON. - Keep your saved entries if you cancel Pro. ** FREE TO START. MORE WITH PRO. ** Daily check-ins, journal history, search, basic statistics, privacy lock and export are free. Optional monthly or annual Moodvale Pro subscriptions unlock advanced insights, reports and personalization. The annual plan includes a 7-day free trial for eligible users; the monthly plan has no free trial. Prices and eligibility are shown before purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. After the trial, the annual plan renews at the price shown before purchase. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Use Restore Purchases to restore access. Start with one check-in. Make space for your day with Moodvale. --- Privacy Policy: https://www.happypig.cloud/static/com.moodcheck.app/Moodvale_privacy_en.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Moodvale Terms: https://www.happypig.cloud/static/com.moodcheck.app/Moodvale_terms_en.html

About

Notes

Capture thoughts, reminders, and ideas in a secure, private space. Notes save automatically as you type, with fast search and optional biometric locking for your peace of mind. Organize with color-coding and choose from classic or modern themes.

Highlights
  • Automatic saving as you type
  • Biometric note locking (Face ID/fingerprint)
  • Fast search across all notes
  • Color-coded organization
  • Lined paper mode
  • Modern and classic themes
Features
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Stop losing your notes. Simple Notepad gives you a reliable place to write thoughts, reminders, and ideas that save automatically and stay completely private. • One-tap note creation - Open the app and start typing immediately • Auto-save as you type - Never lose a single word, even if your phone dies • Fast search across all notes - Find anything by typing a few words • Lock notes with Face ID or fingerprint - Keep private thoughts secure • Color-coded organization - Pick from 12 colors to sort your notes • Lined paper mode - Write on ruled lines with a classic red margin Perfect for busy parents tracking kids' schedules, students organizing study notes, or anyone who needs to capture thoughts quickly. Whether you're jotting down a grocery list during lunch or writing meeting notes between calls, this notepad works the way paper should work - except you can search it later. Choose between Modern theme for a clean look or Classic theme for a warm, paper-like feel. View notes as colorful cards or a simple list. Drag to reorder, long-press to delete, or share text through your phone's built-in share menu. Your notes live only on your device. No accounts, no syncing, no cloud storage. Just a simple, private notebook that saves everything automatically and finds it instantly when you need it. The app gets out of your way so you can focus on what matters - getting thoughts out of your head and onto the page. No complicated features, no learning curve, no subscription fees. Download Simple Notepad and start writing notes that actually stick around. Your thoughts deserve a safe place to live.

Screenshots

Moodvale4 screens
Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Moodvale at none against Notes's shown. Moodvale also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (daily vs weekly). Notes's advantage is ratings volume (9 vs 2). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Moodvale holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 9 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Moodvale ships an update daily, Notes weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Moodvale versus Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMoodvaleNotes
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.6 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings29 — better
Update frequencyDaily — betterWeekly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS16.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer淑丽 王Stijn Aa

Customer experience

Moodvale

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Notes

All ratings9 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Moodvale

No in-app purchases

None

Notes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Moodvale free?
Moodvale is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Notes free?
Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Moodvale or Notes?
Moodvale is rated higher. Moodvale averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Notes averages 4.6 from 9 ratings.
Do Moodvale or Notes have ads?
Notes shows ads; Moodvale does not.
Which is updated more often, Moodvale or Notes?
Moodvale ships an update daily, and Notes weekly. Most recently, Moodvale was updated on September 29, 2026 and Notes on October 3, 2026.

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