DearMood vs FounderMind
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DearMood
Easily log your daily feelings and discover personal emotional patterns. This private journal offers quick check-ins with customizable details like emotions, activities, and photos. Gain insights into your wellbeing with visual summaries and detailed analysis.
- 5-level mood scale with emoji
- Customizable emotions and activities
- Add photos and notes
- Mood calendar and Year in Pixels view
- Detailed emotional insights and patterns
- Private and ad-free journaling
- App lock with Face ID/Touch ID
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DearMood is a simple and private mood tracker that helps you record how you feel every day. Build a personal mood journal, discover emotional patterns, and understand what shapes your wellbeing over time. No account. No tracking. No ads. No noise. Just you and your journal. LOG YOUR MOOD IN SECONDS Tap the + button, pick how you feel on a 5-level scale - from Awful to Awesome - and you're done. Or go deeper: add emotions, tag activities, note the weather, attach a photo, and write a note. Your check-in, your way. • 5-level mood scale with expressive emoji • Emotions: Happy, Grateful, Anxious, Stressed, and more • Activities: Work, Exercise, Family, Friends, and more • Weather, sleep, and custom sections you define • Photos and free-text notes • Log entries for any past date SEE YOUR MOOD HISTORY The mood calendar shows every day of the month at a glance - color-coded faces that make patterns easy to see. Tap any day to review or edit your entries. Year in Pixels turns your whole year into a beautiful grid of colored cells so you can instantly see the story of your moods across twelve months. DISCOVER YOUR MOOD PATTERNS The Insights tab transforms your daily logs into meaningful emotional insights: • Average mood score and trend over time • Best and worst days of the week • Time-of-day breakdown - morning, afternoon, evening, night • Top emotions, activities, and weather by frequency and mood impact • Consistency score MAKE IT YOURS DearMood adapts to how you reflect on your day. Add custom sections - social life, symptoms, hobbies, places - and track anything that matters to you. Create your own emotion and activity tags and choose what appears in your daily check-in. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Everything stays on your device. There are no servers, no ads, no analytics, and no one reading your journal. DearMood is completely private by design. Enable app lock with Face ID or Touch ID for an extra layer of protection. DEARMOOD PREMIUM Unlock deeper insights with DearMood Premium: • Advanced insights - trends, week/month/year comparisons • Best Time of Day - discover your peak hours • Emotion, activity, sleep, and weather impact scores • Custom section analysis • Year in Pixels and custom date ranges • PDF & CSV export - beautiful reports or raw data • iCloud Backup - automatic or manual restore anytime Start with a 7-day free trial. Cancel anytime from your Apple ID settings. WHY DEARMOOD? Most mood tracking apps are either too simple to be useful or too complicated to use every day. DearMood finds the balance - quick enough for daily check-ins and powerful enough to reveal meaningful emotional patterns. People who track their moods regularly often gain greater self-awareness, reduced anxiety, and a clearer sense of what improves their wellbeing. DearMood helps you build that habit effortlessly. Start your mood journal today. Subscription details: DearMood Premium is available as a monthly or annual subscription with a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your Apple ID settings. Privacy Policy: https://dearmood.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
FounderMind
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Think like the greatest founders who ever lived. FounderMind delivers hand-picked, source-verified quotes from 200+ legendary founders, CEOs, investors, and pioneers — Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Sara Blakely, Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, Jeff Bezos, and many more. Every quote shows its real source — a speech, a shareholder letter, a book, an interview — with the year. No fake quotes. Ever. WHY FOUNDERMIND • 580+ quotes from 200+ icons of business, science, sport, and art • Sources you can trust — every line cites where and when it was said • Official speech videos — watch iconic moments (Stanford, Harvard, and more) right from the quote • Daily drip — get 1–6 quotes a day, on your schedule • Widgets — home screen and lock screen, rotating every hour • Clips — save favorites and share beautiful quote cards • Works fully offline MEET YOUR ARCHETYPE Answer a few questions and FounderMind builds your personal motivation plan — Pioneer, Challenger, Commander, or Seeker. FOUNDERMIND PRO (optional) Unlock speech videos with transcripts and multiple daily reminders with an auto-renewable subscription (yearly with a 3-day free trial, or weekly). Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings. Terms of Use: https://alphabyteinc.github.io/foundermind-legal/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://alphabyteinc.github.io/foundermind-legal/privacy.html Portraits are sourced from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses; photographer credits are listed in Settings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: DearMood at 3 against FounderMind's 1. DearMood also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. DearMood sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and FounderMind sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | DearMood | FounderMind |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shahed Iqbal | AlphaByte, Inc. |
In-app purchases
DearMood
- DearMood Pro Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- DearMood Pro Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
FounderMind
- FounderMind Pro Weekly$5.997 Days
- FounderMind Pro Yearly (Sale)$19.991 Year
- FounderMind Pro Yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year









