Recollections vs LogZero
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Recollections
This app offers a simple, private way to track your daily mood and feelings. Log your emotional state with optional notes and photos, and review your history to understand patterns. Designed for reflection without pressure or gamification.
- Daily mood logging (Low, Okay, Good, Great)
- Optional notes and photo attachments
- Calendar history view
- Pattern insights
- Gentle daily reminders
- Offline-first design
- Face ID and PIN locking
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Recollection is a private, offline-first mood tracking app designed for a simple daily check-in. Log how you feel once a day in under a minute. No streaks, no pressure, no account required. FEATURES • Daily mood logging with four simple states: Low, Okay, Good, Great • Optional notes for each entry • Optional photo attachment for a visual memory of the day • Calendar history to revisit past entries • Insights that help you notice patterns over time • Gentle daily reminder, only if you enable it • Backup and restore your entries directly through your own files • Fully offline by default • Face ID and PIN locking for on-device privacy • Dark mode DESIGNED FOR REFLECTION, NOT GAMIFICATION Recollection is built to feel calm, honest, and low-pressure. Missed days are fine. The goal is awareness, not perfection. PRIVACY FIRST Your entries stay on your device. Recollection does not require an account with us and does not track you. PREMIUM Try the app out for the first 3 logging days. If you like it and want to support me, you can buy the app outright, no subscriptions. Standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA) https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
LogZero
This app allows you to track various aspects of your life, including mood, habits, food, exercise, and medication, all on your device. It focuses on privacy and security, offering insights into your data without collecting or sharing it.
- Mood tracking with emotions and gratitude
- Food logging with macro and nutrient tracking
- Weight tracking with goal setting
- Exercise logging and impact analysis
- Todo list management
- Medication adherence tracking
- Data correlation and insights
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Track Everything. Share Nothing. LogZero is the all-in-one private life tracker for mood, habits, food, weight, exercise, meditation, medication, todos and more. Everything stays on your iPhone. No ads. No cloud. No accounts. No analytics. LogZero has security and privacy integrated into it's DNA. LogZero is built by Andrew Hoffman, LLC — owned by Andrew Hoffman: a cybersecurity architect, author and educator. ONE OFFLINE APP FOR YOUR ENTIRE DAY Mood module — multi-step daily entries with emotions, activities, gratitude notes, and free-form text. The depth of a private diary, the speed of a tap. Food module — daily recording of macros against your own targets. Can be configured to track additional vitamins, nutrients and supplements. Scan labels or log manually. Weight module — log weight over time, set goals, configure charts for easier data review. Exercise module — log workout minutes rapidly and build data to see how your workouts impact your mood and weight. Todo module — prioritized, filterable cross-day tasks with tags, completion trends, and a planning view. Meditation module — daily meditation tracking tied to correlations module to show it's impact on your mood. Medication module — schedule medication and supplement protocols, adherence tracking, prescription refill reminders and more. Correlation module — analyze data from all the other modules to draw insights into what is impacting your weight, mood and behavior. Correlation module — the most important insights from the other modules, charted, configurable and readable at at glance. 100% PRIVATE. 100% ON-DEVICE. LogZero has no servers. None. Every entry — every mood, meal, weight, symptom, medication dose, and meditation minute lives on your device and nowhere else. We can't see your data by design, and this sets our app apart from almost every competitor. No Data Collected — verified by Apple's privacy label No account required No ads. No telemetry. No third-party SDKs. Works fully offline — designed for airplane mode, weak signal, and people who explore beyond the bounds of cellular internet Full data export to CSV or JSON, anytime with optional encryption using AES-256 If you've moved away from other apps because of privacy or security concerns, LogZero is the app you are looking for. Privacy and security are baked into LogZero's DNA. SEE THE PATTERNS, NOT JUST THE ENTRIES LogZero's correlation engine surfaces relationships between your trackers: how exercise shifts your mood, what foods line up with weight changes, which activities precede your best days. The kind of analysis a cloud app uses your data to build, but instead done entirely on your phone, for your eyes only. LOGZERO PRO Free is genuinely useful — every tracker works end-to-end without paying. Pro unlocks deeper analytics, biometric & passcode support, encrypted backups, and personalization controls. $4.99/month — low-commitment, cancel anytime $34.99/year — best value, save ~42% $99 lifetime — pay once, own it forever (regularly $149) Cancel anytime in iOS Settings. WHY LOGZERO EXISTS Most wellness apps make money by selling your data, serving you ads, creating artificial scarcity, sending you to affiliate links and so on. LogZero's only revenue is your subscription. That's the entire business model — and the reason your data never leaves your phone. Track everything. Share nothing. LEGAL INFORMATION Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://logzero.app/privacy/#policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: LogZero at freemium against Recollections's paid. LogZero also leads on ratings volume (9 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Recollections sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and LogZero sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Recollections against 5.0 for LogZero. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LogZero has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Recollections | LogZero |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FRANK TROY LI | Andrew Hoffman, LLC |
In-app purchases
Recollections
- Recollections Lifetime$1.99
LogZero
- LogZero Pro — Monthly$5.001 Month
- LogZero Pro — Annual1 Month trial$35.001 Year
- LogZero Pro — Lifetime$49.00









