Tinge vs Skillwise
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tinge
Log your daily emotions by tapping colors, which visually represent your mood like weather patterns. Your day is displayed as a flowing river, and days stack into a wall for a monthly overview. All data is stored privately on your device.
- Color-coded mood logging
- Visual 'river' of daily feelings
- Monthly mood overview 'wall'
- Home screen widget logging
- On-device data storage
- Optional Face ID lock
- Apple Health integration
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Tinge is a mood tracker and emotion diary for iPhone and iPad. Tap one of twelve colors whenever you feel something, and your day draws itself as a river of feelings — no typing, no questionnaires, no account. It's for anyone who wants to see how their days really feel, without the homework: no streaks, no scores, no prompts asking you to reflect. Color is the only voice. HOW IT WORKS Twelve feelings, twelve colors: joy, gratitude, surprise, love, calm, anger, fear, anxiety, loneliness, sadness, disgust and guilt. Each one lives in a small glass vial that fills as you tap it. Every tap becomes a drop in today's river — joy pools gold, anxiety runs indigo, calm settles teal. Tap once for a passing mood; tap again and again when the feeling is big. By evening, your day reads like a weather report. THE RIVER Time is the water, your feelings are the ink. Your day flows left to right, from 4 AM to now, as a thin stream that keeps running even through the hours you felt nothing. Each feeling lingers downstream for a while, and the river rises with lighter feelings and sinks with heavier ones, so a day that leans upward literally looks lighter. Tap a moment to add a feeling you forgot; drag to scrub back through your day. THE WALL Days stack into a wall of little rivers, with a 30-day curve of your ups and downs. Pinch to zoom out to a month grid, each day tinted by its strongest feeling. A PAGE FOR EVERY DAY Share any day as a page from a tear-off calendar: its river, the date, its strongest feelings and a line of classic literature chosen for its mood. Wordsworth, Dickinson, Shakespeare, Austen and more, quoted word for word from public-domain editions; in every language the lines come from that language's own writers. QUICK LOGGING Log from the Home Screen widget, with Siri ("Log Joy in Tinge"), the Action button, or straight from the daily reminder — long-press the notification and tap a color without opening the app. APPLE HEALTH Optionally save every tap to Apple Health as a State of Mind entry (write-only), so your feelings sit next to your sleep and activity. Off until you turn it on. AI RECAP, WRITTEN ON YOUR DEVICE A few lines about your last 30 days, written on your iPhone or iPad by Apple Intelligence (on devices that support it). No cloud AI: your diary is never sent to a server. NOTES, PHOTOS AND DAY NAMES Long-press a color to attach a note or a photo. Name your days — or let Tinge name them for you: Still Water, Spiral, Honeyed, Mixed Weather. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your diary stays on your device, synced only through your own iCloud if you want it. Optional Face ID lock. Export everything as CSV or JSON, anytime. No account. No ads. No analytics. Only anonymous crash reports, which you can turn off. Free, for iPhone and iPad. In English, Dutch, German, French and Spanish — pick the app's language in Settings. Tinge — tap a color, read your day.
Skillwise
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Skillwise is a calm, private DBT diary card and skills notebook — the daily tool you fill in and bring to your therapy session. Built with dignity for people practising Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. No judgement, no streaks, no pressure. A colour never labels an emotion, and crisis help is always one tap away. YOUR DAILY TOOLS • Daily diary card — emotions with intensity, urges, skills used and notes, in under a minute • The four DBT skill modules — mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness — short, practical cards, available offline • Help Now — crisis lines for your country and a personal safety plan • Full history, gentle reminders, biometric app lock, encrypted iCloud sync and CSV export SKILLWISE PRO (optional) • Therapist PDF report — your week's diary card, formatted to bring to your session • Guided chain analysis — trigger, vulnerabilities, links, behaviour, consequences • Trends — your emotions, urges and most-helpful skills over time, described, never diagnosed • Extended skill guides PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your entries stay on your device and your own encrypted iCloud. No account required, no analytics, no ads, no data sold. Delete everything in one tap. Skillwise complements therapy — it never replaces it, diagnoses, or gives clinical advice. SUBSCRIPTION Skillwise Pro is available as a monthly or annual auto-renewable subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. The annual plan includes a 7-day free trial. Price is shown in the app in your local currency. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://develak.com/privacy-policy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tinge at none against Skillwise's 3. Skillwise's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Skillwise sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Tinge asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Tinge | Skillwise |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TIT B.V. | Develak |
In-app purchases
Tinge
No in-app purchases
Skillwise
- Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
- Pro Annual7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Pro Lifetime$59.99









