Moon vs OnPlot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Moon
This app provides a private journal that syncs with lunar cycles. Track your moods, observe moon phases, and discover personal patterns over time with gentle reminders and customizable widgets.
- Private, device-only journaling
- Automatic moon phase tagging
- Current moon phase details
- Moonrise/moonset and sunrise/sunset times
- Yearly calendar of lunar events
- Mood tracking across lunar cycles
- Daily, full moon, and new moon reminders
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Find your next words with a private moon journal, guided writing prompts and mood tracking. Explore your own patterns alongside the Moon. Some days, the words come easily. Other days, you need somewhere to start. Moon-Journal brings your thoughts, emotions and the lunar cycle into one calm, starry space. Write a little, notice how you feel, and build a picture of your own patterns over time. FIND YOUR NEXT WORDS Open the inspiration library while you write. Choose a guided reflection or explore prompts inspired by the current moon phase. Turn a moment, a sky event or a personal reflection into a journal entry without losing your place. DISCOVER YOUR PATTERNS See your entries on an interactive lunar wheel, with one dot for each entry and colors for the emotions you recorded. Explore nearby entries, filter by emotion or time frame, and compare your recorded moods across moon phases. Personal insights grow with your journal and show how much data supports each finding. A JOURNAL YOU CAN RETURN TO Capture your feelings alongside your thoughts. Entries keep their moon phase, illumination and Moon-in-sign details for you to revisit. Search your writing and filter by date, emotion, phase or Moon sign to find the moments you want to remember. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your journal is stored on your device, not uploaded to our servers. No journal account is required. Add an optional PIN lock and use Face ID or Touch ID on supported devices. Export your entries, save a journal backup and restore it when you need to. FOLLOW THE MOON Explore today's phase, illumination, distance and the next major phase. Browse the lunar calendar by month and year, see full and new moons ahead, and explore moonrise, moonset, sunrise and sunset with visual timelines for your chosen location. MAKE ROOM FOR WONDER Keep track of meteor showers, eclipses and the changing seasons. Explore your Western and Chinese signs, or use your sign with today's moon as another starting point for reflection. Choose your signs yourself or enter an optional birthday. KEEP YOUR SKY CLOSE Add Moon Today, Next Full Moon, Meteor Showers or Upcoming Events widgets to your Home Screen. Choose daily journal reminders and the sky-event notifications you want to receive. MADE FOR YOUR SCREEN A refreshed design brings the same calm experience to iPhone and iPad, with side-by-side layouts on iPhone Duo when unfolded. SUBSCRIPTION A monthly or annual subscription is required to use Moon-Journal. Eligible subscribers can start with a 7-day free trial. After the trial, your selected subscription renews automatically unless cancelled. Manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings. Prices and trial eligibility are shown before purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://moon-journal.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://moon-journal.com/privacy
OnPlot
This AI-powered planner helps you effortlessly organize your day. Simply speak or type your to-dos, and it intelligently creates tasks, schedules, reminders, and routines. View your entire day in a clear timeline and sync with your Apple Calendar.
- AI-assisted task creation
- Natural language input (voice/text)
- Daily timeline view
- Apple Calendar integration
- Home screen widgets
- Recurring routines
- Customizable themes
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OnPlot is an AI-assisted daily planner and scheduler designed to make organizing your day feel effortless. Speak or type what you need to do, and OnPlot helps turn it into organized tasks, scheduled activities, reminders, timers, and routines—all in one clear daily view. PLAN NATURALLY Tap “Tell me what you need to do” and speak naturally, or type instead. You can say something like: “Piano lesson at 5, finish my homework, and remind me to take out the trash in 20 minutes.” OnPlot can separate what you said into multiple activities, clean up titles, identify timing, and organize each item before you add it. YOUR DAY, AT A GLANCE See tasks and scheduled activities together in a simple timeline so you always know what’s coming next. Create and manage: • Tasks • Fixed and flexible scheduled activities • Timers and reminders • Important dates • Recurring routines CALENDAR Move between days or open the full calendar to see your plans across weeks and months. APPLE CALENDAR Connect Apple Calendar to bring scheduled activities into OnPlot and keep your plans together in one place. Tasks and reminders remain separate, helping keep your calendar clean. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Stay organized without opening the app. OnPlot widgets can help you: • Check off today’s tasks • See what’s coming next • Jump quickly into voice entry REMINDERS & TIMERS Get notified about scheduled activities, tasks, timers, reminders, and important dates so nothing important slips through the cracks. RECURRING ROUTINES Set activities to repeat daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, or on selected days—great for classes, workouts, lessons, chores, and everyday routines. MAKE ONPLOT YOURS Choose between Light, Dark, and System appearance modes, then personalize the app with color themes including OnPlot, Sunrise, Midnight, Ocean, Cherry, Forest, and more. BUILT TO STAY SIMPLE OnPlot is designed to help you spend less time maintaining a productivity system and more time actually getting things done.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: OnPlot at none against Moon's 2. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Moon sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. OnPlot asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Moon against 5.0 for OnPlot. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 6 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Moon ships an update fortnightly, OnPlot every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Moon | OnPlot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Phoenix Fire Technology LLC | Clara Ling |
Customer experience
Moon
OnPlot
In-app purchases
Moon
- Moon Journal Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Moon Journal Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
OnPlot
No in-app purchases









