Comparison

Happy Haru vs DayCanvas

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

Head to head
About

Happy Haru

This app offers a daily dose of happiness through short videos, calming music, and encouraging messages. Users can also record their own moments of joy with photos and words, receiving warm responses from the app's character. It features iCloud sync and home screen widgets for easy access to memories and daily updates.

Highlights
  • Daily happiness moments
  • Record personal joys
  • Character interaction
  • iCloud sync
  • Home screen widgets
  • Customizable update times
Features
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A small, adorable world of everyday happiness. Every evening, Haru shares a moment of happiness โ€” a short video, gentle music, and a few warm words. Family, friends, neighbors, and even a little yellow cat. Haru's sparkling everyday moments unfold, one day at a time, for 365 days. Write as if youโ€™re exchanging a diary with Haru, and easily and joyfully record your own small moments of happiness. - Capture your own small happiness with photos and words - Haru responds to your diary with a warm, heartfelt word - Keep your memories safe with iCloud sync - Meet Haru on your Home Screen with widgets - Customize your story update time Little moments of happiness โ€” hold onto them before they drift away. Spend time with Haru, and you might just become a master of finding joy in the ordinary. From the makers of MOODA โ€” the emotion diary loved by over 1 million users worldwide. Now available at a special launch price. Follow @happy.haru.official on Instagram for more stories.

About

DayCanvas

Features
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DayCanvas๋Š” AI๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ํ•œ ํŽธ์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋กœ ์ •๋ฆฌํ•ด์ฃผ๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์ฑ™๊น€ ์ผ๊ธฐ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์บ˜๋ฆฐ๋” ์•ฑ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ์ •, ์‚ฌ์ง„, ๊ฐ์ •, ๋ฉ”๋ชจ๋ฅผ ํ•œ ๊ณณ์— ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๋ฉด AI ์ฑ™๊น€์ด๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ๋Œ์•„๋ณด๋ฉฐ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ํŽธ์ง€ ํ˜•ํƒœ์˜ ์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ–  ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋ถ„๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ถ”์ฒœํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค - ์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊พธ์ค€ํžˆ ์“ฐ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๋ถ„ - ๊ฐ์ •์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๋ถ„ - AI ์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•ด๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๋ถ„ - ์ผ์ •๊ณผ ์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๋ถ„ - ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋‚จ๊ธฐ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๋ถ„ โ–  AI ์ฑ™๊น€์ด๊ฐ€ ์จ์ฃผ๋Š” ๋‚˜๋งŒ์˜ ์ผ๊ธฐ ์งง๊ฒŒ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•ด๋„ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋™์•ˆ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ์ผ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ •์„ AI๊ฐ€ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ณ  ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ๊ธ€๋กœ ์ •๋ฆฌํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ–  ๊ทธ๋‚  ๋ฉ”๋ชจ์™€ ์•Œ๋ฆผ ์ฒดํฌ๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ๋กœ ํ•  ์ผ์„ ๋‚จ๊ธฐ๊ณ , ๋ฉ”๋ชจ ์•Œ๋ฆผ์„ ์ตœ๋Œ€ 3๊ฐœ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋งž์ถฐ ๋‘˜ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๋‚ ์งœ๋ฅผ ๊ธธ๊ฒŒ ๋ˆ„๋ฅด๋ฉด ๋ฉ”๋ชจ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๊ณ , ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ํƒญํ•˜๋ฉด ์ผ์ •, ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ ํƒญํ•˜๋ฉด ์ผ๊ธฐ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ–  ๊ฐ์ • ์ผ์ง€๋กœ ๋ณด๋Š” ํ•œ ๋‹ฌ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ ๋‹ฌ๋งˆ๋‹ค ๋งˆ์Œ ์ ์ˆ˜์™€ ๊ฐ์ • ๋น„์ค‘์„ ํ•œ๋ˆˆ์— ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. Signature์—์„œ๋Š” AI ์ฑ™๊น€์ด๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๋ฃจ์— ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ, ๊ทธ๋‹ฌ์˜ ํ๋ฆ„์„ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ํ•œ๋งˆ๋””๋กœ ์งš์–ด ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ–  AI ํŽธ์ง€ ์ฃผ๊ฐ„ยท์›”๊ฐ„ ๊ธฐ๋ก์„ ๋ชจ์•„, ๋‚˜์—๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๋‚ด๋Š” ํŽธ์ง€์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋Œ์•„๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ์Œ“์ธ ํ•˜๋ฃจ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์„์ˆ˜๋ก ํŽธ์ง€๋Š” ๋” ๊นŠ์–ด์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ–  ํ…Œ๋งˆ์™€ ํฐํŠธ๋กœ ๋‚˜๋งŒ์˜ ์บ”๋ฒ„์Šค ๊ธฐ๋ถ„์— ๋งž๋Š” ํ…Œ๋งˆยท๊ธ€์”จ์ฒด๋กœ ์บ˜๋ฆฐ๋”์™€ ์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊พธ๋ฐ€ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๊ธฐ๋ก์ด ์Œ“์ผ์ˆ˜๋ก ํ™”๋ฉด์ด ๋‚˜์˜ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋А๊ปด์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ–  ์บ˜๋ฆฐ๋”์™€ ์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ•œ ํ™”๋ฉด์—์„œ ์ผ์ •๊ณผ ๊ธฐ๋ก์„ ๋”ฐ๋กœ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•  ํ•„์š”๊ฐ€ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ฌ๋ ฅ์—์„œ ๋‚ ์งœ๋ฅผ ์„ ํƒํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ทธ๋‚ ์˜ ์ผ์ •, ์‚ฌ์ง„, ๊ฐ์ •, ์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ์— ํ™•์ธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ–  ๊ฐ์ •์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ• ๊ธฐ๋ถ„๊ณผ ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜์—ฌ ๋‚˜๋งŒ์˜ ๊ฐ์ • ํ๋ฆ„์„ ๋Œ์•„๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ–  ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋‹ฌ ์œ„์ ฏ โ€” ํ•œ ๋‹ฌ์˜ ๊ธฐ๋ก ๋ฐ€๋„ ์œ„์ ฏ์—์„œ ๋‚ ์งœ๋งˆ๋‹ค ์ผ๊ธฐ ์œ ๋ฌดยท๋ฌด๋“œ ์ƒ‰ยท์งง์€ ์ผ์ • ์นฉ์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ ๋‹ฌ์˜ ํ๋ฆ„์„ ํ•œ๋ˆˆ์— ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋งŽ์ด ์“ด ๋‚ , ๊ธฐ๋ถ„์ด ์˜ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ„ ๋‚ ์ด ํŒจํ„ด์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์—ฌ, ๋งค์ผ ํ•œ ์ค„์„ ์ด์–ด ์“ฐ๊ธฐ ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ–  ์‚ฌ์ง„๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋‚จ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์ถ”์–ต ๊ทธ๋‚ ์˜ ์‚ฌ์ง„๊ณผ ๊ธฐ๋ก์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ €์žฅํ•˜์—ฌ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋„ ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๊บผ๋‚ด๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. DayCanvas์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ํ•œ ํŽธ์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋กœ ๋‚จ๊ฒจ๋ณด์„ธ์š”. โ–  ์ด์šฉ์•ฝ๊ด€ ๋ณธ ์•ฑ์˜ ์ž๋™ ๊ฐฑ์‹  ๊ตฌ๋… ์ด์šฉ์•ฝ๊ด€์€ ์•„๋ž˜ ๋งํฌ์—์„œ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Happy Haru4 screens
DayCanvas4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: DayCanvas at Free against Happy Haru's $0.99. DayCanvas also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

DayCanvas is free to download; Happy Haru costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 6 level
Happy Haru versus DayCanvas: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHappy HaruDayCanvas
Price$0.99Free โ€” better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.615.1 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size296 MB218 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAnalog Lab Corp.HYUK JUN LIM

In-app purchases

None

Happy Haru

No in-app purchases

None

DayCanvas

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Happy Haru free?
Happy Haru costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is DayCanvas free?
DayCanvas is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Happy Haru or DayCanvas have ads?
Neither Happy Haru nor DayCanvas shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Happy Haru or DayCanvas?
Happy Haru ships an update every 9 days, and DayCanvas every 9 days. Most recently, Happy Haru was updated on November 5, 2026 and DayCanvas on October 31, 2026.

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