ColorDiaryApp vs MoodPixels
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ColorDiaryApp
A simple mood journal that lets you record your day with a single color. Over time, your entries form a colorful mosaic, revealing patterns at a glance. Add optional memos and enjoy privacy with local data storage.
- One color per day mood recording
- Visual color mosaic for mood reflection
- On-device Color Review
- Home screen widget
- Optional memos up to 800 characters
- Data export and import
- Daily reminder notifications
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Not every day needs words. A color is enough. ColorDiary is a simple mood journal where you record your day with one color. Pick the color that matches how you feel, and save. Add an optional memo whenever you want—up to 800 characters. Over time, your calendar turns into a colorful mosaic, making patterns easy to spot at a glance. Try recording a color from your outfit each day and looking back on the colors you wear. Your mood, your outfit, your own way to use ColorDiary—the choice is yours! Features ・ One color per day with a calendar overview ・ Choose the quick simplicity of Basic 24 or the nuance of Expanded 55, arranged as 11 families with 5 levels each ・ A color mosaic to reflect on past moods visually ・ An on-device Color Review counting both exact colors and 11 color families, with weekday and month-phase patterns grouped by family ・ A How Colors Work page explaining color families, review counts, and 4x4 comparison ・ Home screen widget (4x4) for quick recent-color checks ・ Share your 4x4 color image to social apps ・ Send a 4x4 image you found in social apps or Photos via the share sheet and compare it with your recent colors ・ Optional memos up to 800 characters, with a growing input area and one-tap full-text copy while editing ・ Copy or share memo text from its detail screen, or save a txt file named from the first non-empty line ・ Choose a text color for all memos in Settings: Default, Cocoa, Mocha, Purple, or Blue ・ A Memo List in Settings for reviewing memo days and their colors, newest first ・ Edit or delete entries anytime ・ Export and import entries with a manual backup file ・ Daily reminder notifications (time adjustable, can be turned off) ・ In-app support option to help ongoing development Notification permission required. Privacy ・ No account required ・ Your data stays locally on your device (no cloud sync or automatic uploads) ・ Backups are created only when you manually export a file to a location you choose ・ Exported JSON backups are not encrypted and include memos as plain text Version History ・ (1.7) Added memo copy, sharing, txt export, a growing input area, and memo text color settings ・ (1.6) Added Expanded 55, color-family review, How Colors Work, and Memo List ・ (1.5) Added Color Review, 800-character memos, and clearer Mosaic display settings ・ (1.4) Added entry export and import for manual backups ・ (1.3) You can delete a mistaken day from the edit screen and return it to unrecorded ・ (1.2) Added Simplified Chinese localization for the app, widget, and share extension ・ (1.1) Added 4x4 color image sharing and comparison with shared images
MoodPixels
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One pixel a day — a map of your year in mood. MoodPixels is a minimalist mood journal: pick a color for how you feel each day, and by year's end you have a pixel map that is uniquely yours. Bright seasons and rough patches become visible at a glance. ■ Log a day in three seconds · Five mood levels: great, good, okay, low, awful · One tap is enough; add a private note if you like · Backfill any past day ■ See your patterns · A 12×31 year grid turns your entries into a pixel map · Export the year as an image and share your map · Export CSV — your data is always yours ■ A gentle nudge · Optional daily reminder, at a time you choose · Delivered as a local notification — nothing leaves your device ■ Your data stays yours · Everything is stored only on your iPhone · No account, no cloud, no ads, no analytics SDKs · Deleting the app deletes all its data, permanently ■ A note MoodPixels is a self-tracking tool. It does not provide medical, psychological, diagnostic, or treatment advice. If you are going through a hard time, please reach out to a qualified professional.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MoodPixels at none against ColorDiaryApp's 1. MoodPixels also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support 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. ColorDiaryApp sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. MoodPixels asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | ColorDiaryApp | MoodPixels |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daishin Ueyama | ZHENYU Lin |
In-app purchases
ColorDiaryApp
- Donate a cup of coffee.$0.99
MoodPixels
No in-app purchases









