Happy Haru vs NoteGarden
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Daily happiness moments
- Record personal joys
- Character interaction
- iCloud sync
- Home screen widgets
- Customizable update times
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A small, adorable world of everyday happiness. Every evening, Haru shares a moment of happiness β 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 youβre 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 β 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 β 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.
NoteGarden
Easily capture your day with mood icons, photos, and short notes. Revisit past moments through a calendar view, photo timeline, and "On This Day" memories. Secure your entries with app lock and sync across devices via iCloud.
- Mood tracking with icons
- Photo and short note entries
- Calendar and timeline views
- Search and favorites
- iCloud sync
- App lock security
- 30-day trash recovery
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NoteGarden is a gentle journaling app that lets you quickly save todayβs mood, photos, and notes, then look back on them later. It is designed to feel lighter than a traditional diary, while keeping your records safely stored. Choose your mood, add photos, and write a short note β your entry is saved automatically. [ Key Features of NoteGarden ] Record today in under a minute β’ Quickly choose todayβs mood with 10 mood icons β’ Add photos and notes to simply capture your day β’ Write notes neatly line by line with bullet lists β’ Organize entries more easily with tags β’ Keep your writing safe with automatic saving Look back with calendar and timeline views β’ Review past entries with daily moods and previews β’ Browse older records more easily with monthly section headers β’ Jump quickly to a specific year when you have entries across multiple years β’ See the time written and whether an entry was edited β’ Find the records you need with favorites and search β’ Revisit memories from the same date with the βOn This Dayβ card Photo timeline β’ View photos added to your entries by date β’ Look back on past moments in chronological order from the Photos tab β’ Keep photos safely stored together with your records Reflect on your records with statistics β’ View your records by This Month, Last Month, This Year, Last Year, or All Time β’ Check record count, photo count, character count, and average character count β’ See your mood distribution at a glance with a donut chart β’ Track your journaling habit with your writing streak Safe backup and sync β’ Continue viewing your records and photos across devices with iCloud sync β’ Keep a single backup file with file export and import β’ Protect your private records with app lock β’ Restore deleted entries from the 30-day trash NoteGarden is made for people who find it hard to write a long diary every day. A mood, a photo, and a short note can be enough to remember your day. Save today in a small way, and quietly return to it later.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: NoteGarden at Free against Happy Haru's $0.99. Happy Haru's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and chart position (#57 vs unranked). On review sentiment, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
NoteGarden is free to download; Happy Haru costs $0.99 up front. NoteGarden sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Happy Haru asks for nothing beyond the download.
Happy Haru ships an update every 9 days, NoteGarden every 8 days. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.
| Parameter | Happy Haru | NoteGarden |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free β better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 8 days β better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No β better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free β better |
| Best chart rank | #57 β better | β |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad β better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.1 β better |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 296 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Analog Lab Corp. | ChanGyu Kang |
Customer experience
Happy Haru
NoteGarden
In-app purchases
Happy Haru
No in-app purchases
NoteGarden
- NoteGarden Pro Lifetime$1.99








