Comparison

Mood Easy vs Plate Journal

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

Head to head
About

Mood Easy

Features
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Mood Easy is a mood tracker built for people who want simple self-awareness without the complexity. No accounts. No subscriptions. No data collection. Just you and your feelings. QUICK & SIMPLE Log your mood in seconds. Tap one of five emoji buttons โ€” great, good, okay, bad, or awful โ€” and you're done. Add an optional short note if you want, but there's no pressure to journal. YEAR IN PIXELS See your mood patterns with the beautiful calendar view. Each day is a colored square representing your mood. Scroll through months and years to spot trends, recognize patterns, and gain self-insight. BEAUTIFUL WIDGETS Keep mood logging front and center with home screen widgets: โ€ข Small: Prompt to log today's mood โ€ข Medium: Your last 7 days as a mood strip โ€ข Lock Screen: Today's mood at a glance APPLE WATCH Log moods from your wrist. The Watch app offers quick mood selection with haptic confirmation. Add complications to see your mood on your watch face. HEALTHKIT INTEGRATION Mood Easy connects with Apple Health's State of Mind feature (iOS 18+). Your mood entries sync to the Health app where you can see them alongside other wellness data. You control permissions. SUPPORTIVE DESIGN We use calming colors and supportive language. No harsh reds for bad moods โ€” our palette is designed to be gentle and non-judgmental. Even tracking difficult days should feel okay. PRIVACY FIRST Zero data collection. Zero tracking. Zero third-party code. Your mood data is stored only on your device. HealthKit integration is optional and you control it. When you delete the app, your data is gone. Built with SwiftUI. No subscriptions. No ads. Just a great mood tracker.

About

Plate Journal

Features
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Plate Journal is your personal food journal โ€” photograph every meal and capture how it made you feel. - Photo-first logging for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and unlimited Snacks - Rate each meal and track your mood โ€” happy, neutral, sad, or disgusted - Add a meal name and notes about how the food made you feel - Browse your full history in a log grouped by day - Filter your log by meal type, mood, or minimum rating - Weekly Story card: see your top meals, mood summary, and streak for the past 7 days - Everything stays private on your device โ€” no accounts, no cloud, no tracking Built with love for anyone who wants a simple, beautiful record of what they eat and how food affects them.

Screenshots

Mood Easy4 screens
Plate Journal4 screens

Verdict

The call

Mood Easy and Plate Journal are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Mood Easy versus Plate Journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMood EasyPlate Journal
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size6 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatthew StricklandVikram Badrinarayanan

In-app purchases

None

Mood Easy

No in-app purchases

None

Plate Journal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mood Easy free?
Mood Easy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Plate Journal free?
Plate Journal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Mood Easy or Plate Journal have ads?
Neither Mood Easy nor Plate Journal shows ads.

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