Comparison

InnerPulse vs Lisner

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

Head to head
About

InnerPulse

Track your daily mood, identify contributing factors, and monitor your mental health over time using built-in clinical questionnaires. Your data is private and stays on your device, with optional end-to-end encrypted sync.

Highlights
  • Daily mood tracking
  • Clinical questionnaires (PHQ-9, GAD-7)
  • Factor analysis for mood correlation
  • Customizable entries
  • Optional Apple Health integration
  • End-to-end encrypted sync
  • Year in Pixels visualization
Features
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Do you understand why you feel the way you feel? InnerPulse is a mood tracker with built-in clinical questionnaires (PHQ-9, GAD-7). Track your mood every day, see which factors lift or lower it, and keep an eye on your mental health over time. Your data stays on your devices. --- YOUR DATA BELONGS TO YOU No account, no tracking, no ads. App lock protects your entries with Face ID or Touch ID and hides your content in the app switcher too. Optional sync, end-to-end encrypted: when you turn on device sync, InnerPulse encrypts every entry on your device with AES-256 before it goes to your iCloud storage. Your iCloud Keychain carries the key. Neither the developer nor Apple can read the content. Sync is off by default. --- HOW YOU USE INNERPULSE 1. Capture your mood. In the journal, you log your mood on a scale from 1 to 10, write or dictate a few words, and get writing prompts that match your mood and factors. 2. Name your feelings. Pick up to three of 27 feelings in four groups for each entry, from "Calm" to "Overwhelmed". 3. Connect factors. Choose from over 110 factors across 11 areas of life: sleep, nutrition, work, exercise, social life, digital, self-care, health, entertainment, environment, and finances. Add your own factors and categories, with an intensity slider if you like. 4. Customize your entry. Reorder the sections of your entry, hide what you don't need, pin factors, and drag them into order. Shake your iPhone to undo the last action. 5. Connect Apple Health (optional). With your permission, InnerPulse detects matching factors from workouts, sleep, steps, cycle, and water intake: clear matches it sets, unclear ones it suggests. InnerPulse writes your mood and feelings to Apple Health as a State of Mind entry. If you want, the app also suggests sunny and rainy days as factors. 6. Complete clinical questionnaires. In the check-in tab, you answer clinically validated screening instruments: PHQ-9 (depression), GAD-7 (anxiety), K10 (psychological distress), and PHQ-4 (brief screening). You get a score and the severity of your symptoms to take to your next appointment. InnerPulse delivers scores, not diagnoses. 7. Understand your insights. The analysis tab shows you: - which factors go along with your mood, in which direction, and how clearly, - what carries over to the next day, for example after nights with little sleep, - which feelings you name how often, at which mood, and with which factors, - on which weekdays you usually feel better or worse, - how your questionnaire results change over weeks and months, - your whole year as "Year in Pixels", one pixel per day. 8. Make it yours. Choose from four design themes. --- IPHONE, IPAD, AND APPLE WATCH - iPad: in landscape and in the book format of iPhone Duo, every page shows the selection on the left and the detail on the right. - Device sync: entries, questionnaires, and factors stay the same on iPhone and iPad, photos and files up to 25 MB too if you want. - Apple Watch: turn the crown, tap the value, done. The complication shows today's value. - Widgets: Quick log, Week pulse, Year in pixels, and Today's Entry on the home screen, today's entry on the lock screen, with or without your score. With app lock on, Today's Entry hides note and factors. --- PHOTOS, FILES, AND EXPORT Attach photos, PDFs, and other files to entries. InnerPulse removes location data when you add them and does not accept videos. Export your data any time as CSV, as a PDF report for your therapy session, or as a ZIP with a media folder per entry. CSV import brings back data from earlier exports. --- ONE-TIME PURCHASE No subscription, no ads, no selling your data. Shareable via Family Sharing. --- InnerPulse does not replace professional advice or therapy.

About

Lisner

This voice-first journal app allows you to quickly capture thoughts by speaking, with on-device AI transcribing and summarizing your entries. It prioritizes privacy by never storing or sending your audio, offering seamless iCloud backup and a distraction-free interface.

Highlights
  • Voice-first thought capture
  • On-device AI transcription
  • Automatic headline summarization
  • Multi-language support
  • iCloud backup
  • Complete privacy by design
  • Distraction-free interface
Features
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Sometimes you just need someone to listen. Lisner is a voice-first thought journal built for the way busy, creative, and neurodivergent minds actually work. A thought hits you mid-run, mid-meeting, mid-shower — tap once, speak, and it's saved. No typing. No friction. TAP. TALK. DONE. Hold the record button. Speak freely. Lisner transcribes your voice entirely on-device — a state-of-the-art AI model built into your iPhone. Your audio is never recorded, never stored, and never sent anywhere. SMART, ON-DEVICE AI An AI headline summarizes each thought in one crisp line so you can scan your whole week at a glance. If a headline ever gets stale after you edit a thought, Lisner silently fixes it in the background — automatically. SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE Record in any of 99 languages. Lisner detects your language automatically and translates everything into English before saving — no setup required. ICLOUD BACKUP — YOUR THOUGHTS, EVERYWHERE. Lisner seamlessly syncs your thoughts to iCloud. Restore everything on a new device, instantly. You stay in control — iCloud backup is on by default and can be turned off anytime from the Permissions screen. COMPLETELY PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Audio is never stored — only the transcript is kept • Thoughts live locally on your iPhone using Apple's SwiftData • iCloud sync uses Apple's encrypted CloudKit infrastructure • No ads. No tracking. No selling your data. • Delete your account and every thought — on-device and in the cloud — instantly, anytime. BUILT FOR YOUR BRAIN Soft colors. No streaks. No guilt trips. Lisner is a calm, distraction-free space to offload whatever is in your head so you can stop carrying it around. A 30-day Recently Deleted bin means nothing is gone for good until you choose. The best thoughts are the ones you don't lose. Lisner makes sure you never lose them. https://lisner.ai/terms.html

Screenshots

InnerPulse4 screens
Lisner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Lisner at Free against InnerPulse's $8.99. InnerPulse's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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

Lisner is free to download; InnerPulse costs $8.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for InnerPulse against 5.0 for Lisner. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 5 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

InnerPulse ships an update every 5 days, Lisner every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
InnerPulse versus Lisner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInnerPulseLisner
Price$8.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings25 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarvin BlomeVira Holdings, Inc.

Customer experience

InnerPulse

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Lisner

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

In-app purchases

None

InnerPulse

No in-app purchases

None

Lisner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is InnerPulse free?
InnerPulse costs $8.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lisner free?
Lisner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, InnerPulse or Lisner?
InnerPulse and Lisner are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do InnerPulse or Lisner have ads?
Neither InnerPulse nor Lisner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, InnerPulse or Lisner?
InnerPulse ships an update every 5 days, and Lisner every 3 weeks. Most recently, InnerPulse was updated on November 5, 2026 and Lisner on October 31, 2026.

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