Comparison

One Question Journal vs What doing

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

Head to head
About

One Question Journal

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One question a day. In time, the chapters of your life. Every day, a single question appears. You answer it once, then it's sealed. No editing. No rewriting. No polishing. One honest sentence is enough. YOUR LIFE, IN CHAPTERS Keep writing and One Question starts to see the stretches your life fell into: a town you lived in, a summer away, something you kept at, a person who filled your days, a season. Each one becomes a chapter, named and dated, opening with your own first line. • Where it happened and how it began • A cover for every chapter, painted on your device by Image Playground • With Pro: how it felt, moments you might have forgotten, what changed, and then and now, side by side • With Pro: what the whole stretch meant, told back to you by Apple Intelligence Chapters wait until there's enough behind them to be true. BRING YOUR YEARS WITH YOU Import from Day One, Apple's Journal app, Journey or Daylio, or any JSON, CSV, Markdown, text or PDF file. Dates, places, titles and moods come across, so your timeline, map, chapters and On This Day are full from your first day. Changed your mind? Take an import back in one tap. EVERY DAY • A new question every day, and a reminder at the hour you actually write • Sealed the moment you save • Mark how you felt, or leave it blank • Keep the place you wrote from, if you want to • A few words back after you write, drawn from the days behind your entry LOOKING BACK • Memories: search every entry by words, places or people • On This Day: what you wrote a week, a month, a year ago • Rediscover: a past day worth finding again • Journal Map: every place you've written from, coloured by how you felt • Last week and last month, looked back on, with a line of your own from each • Insights: streaks, mood patterns, and Year in Review, the whole year as a calendar of moods WHEREVER YOU WRITE • Apple Watch, with dictation, mood logging and complications • iPad and Apple Vision Pro • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • Apple Health: your writing counts as Mindful Minutes, if you allow it PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your entries live on your device and sync only through your own iCloud account. No analytics are collected on what you write. Chapters, reflections and cover paintings are made on your device, and your writing is never sent anywhere to be read. Export everything as plain text whenever you like. ONE QUESTION PRO Writing, moods, places, the map, Memories, Insights and your list of chapters are free. Pro opens what's inside each chapter: how it felt, the moments worth finding again, what changed, then and now, and what it all meant. It also opens place chapters, every town month by month, and the rest of Rediscover. Pro is a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm your purchase. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it anytime in your App Store account settings. Apple Intelligence features need a compatible device with Apple Intelligence turned on. Without it, chapters and reflections are written plainly, from the facts of your entries. Open the app. Answer. Close. Come back tomorrow. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FvMmplIKdVqdNNUvUbjTZG2xFViBbCRU_QP8vu3dUxI

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What doing

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今、何をしていますか?アクティビティをひとつ選ぶと、AIによってかわいい動物キャラクターがミニチュアの世界で動き出します。 What Doingは、あなたの日常のひとときを愛らしい3Dシーンに変えてくれます。勉強中でも、料理中でも、ゲーム中でも、お昼寝中でも、選んだキャラクターが小さくて居心地のよいジオラマの中でその様子を再現します。 機能: 用意されたアクティビティから選択、または自由に入力 好きな動物キャラクターを選択(猫、犬、クマ、ウサギなど) AIが毎回ユニークなミニチュアシーンを生成 現在のアクティビティをiOSのホーム画面ウィジェットとして表示 ルームを作成して、友達やパートナーとリアルタイムで状態を共有 お互いの状況をひとつの合成シーンで一緒に確認 ルーム機能 — つながりを保つ: 招待コードでプライベートルームを作成できます。2人がそれぞれアクティビティを更新すると、両方のキャラクターが登場する合成画像が生成されます。カップルや友達、ルームメイト同士で楽しくつながるのにぴったりです。 ウィジェット: ホーム画面にウィジェットを追加すれば、アプリを開かなくても最新のアクティビティシーンをひと目で確認できます。 最初は無料で数回利用でき、その後はサブスクリプションに登録するとAI画像生成が無制限で使えるようになります。 利用規約: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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One Question Journal4 screens
What doing4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: What doing at 15.1 against One Question Journal's 26.2. On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. One Question Journal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and What doing sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

One Question Journal ships an update weekly, What doing every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
One Question Journal versus What doing: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOne Question JournalWhat doing
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS26.215.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB44 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperWaseef Akhtarikeharalab

In-app purchases

2 purchases

One Question Journal

Subscriptions2
  • One Question Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • One Question Pro Yearly$14.991 Year
1 purchases

What doing

Subscriptions1
  • premium$0.991 Month

Questions

Is One Question Journal free?
One Question Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is What doing free?
What doing is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do One Question Journal or What doing have ads?
Neither One Question Journal nor What doing shows ads.
Which is updated more often, One Question Journal or What doing?
One Question Journal ships an update weekly, and What doing every 9 days. Most recently, One Question Journal was updated on November 9, 2026 and What doing on October 31, 2026.

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