Viceless vs A Cool Journal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Viceless
This app focuses on building discipline through consistent habit tracking without gamified elements. It offers a clean interface to mark daily progress and build streaks, with advanced analytics and customization available through a premium subscription.
- Minimalist black and white interface
- Track up to 3 habits (free)
- Daily streak tracking
- Weekly journal entries
- Trend charts
- Unlimited habits (Pro)
- Advanced analytics (Pro)
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Most habit trackers turn your life into a game. Discipline doesn't. Viceless is a quiet, focused habit tracker for people who want consistency without the noise. No confetti. No leaderboards. No "save your streak" guilt-trips. Just a clear daily ritual: open the app, mark what you did, build the streak. Repeat. The interface is black and white on purpose. The design stays out of your way. Your effort is the system. ——— HABITS, AND THE ONE-OFF THINGS TOO Habits are the daily work. Tasks are everything else — the call you keep putting off, the bill due Friday, the thing you promised yourself you would handle this week. Write a task on a day, set the time you want to be reminded, and it finds you then. Tasks live on their own calendar, apart from your habits, and they never touch your streak. Checking one off frees the slot for the next one. ——— WHAT YOU GET — FREE • Track 2 habits — both of them in your own words, or pick from the library • 2 tasks at a time, each with its own reminder • Daily streak tracking with a week summary • Trend charts (weekly and monthly) • A daily reminder at 3 PM • Weekly journal — one reflection per week • Fix yesterday when life got in the way WHAT YOU UNLOCK WITH PRO • Unlimited habits, as many in your own words as you like • Up to 10 tasks at a time, each scheduled and reminded • Daily journal, with prompts you can rewrite • Full analytics: best day, weakest day, perfect days, monthly breakdown, day-of-week insights • Catch Up — fix any day of the last week, not just yesterday • Home screen widget — your streak and today's progress, always visible • Custom notification schedule — up to 3 reminders a day, your times, your words • Yearly trend view ——— DESIGNED FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE SERIOUS If you've tried other habit trackers and bounced off them because they felt like games, this one is different. There are no streak freezes. No social feeds. No friend graphs. The app does one thing, very well, and gets out of the way. Your streak earns a discipline badge as it grows — Kindled, Ember, Forged, Hardened, Viceless. Quiet marks of progress, not trophies. PRICING Pro is $44.99 per year — that works out to $3.75 per month, 46% less than paying month to month. Pro is also available for $6.99 per month. Subscriptions auto-renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel or manage your subscription anytime in Apple ID Settings. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. PRIVACY We don't sell your data, and nothing you write is used for advertising. Your habits, tasks and journal entries are encrypted in transit and stored securely, and they are never shared with anyone. We do measure which ads bring people to the app, at the level of the device and the install — never at the level of what you track. The app does not ask to follow you across other apps and websites. The full detail is in the privacy policy below. ——— LINKS Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.vicelessdisciplinetracker.app/privacy Support: support@viceless.co Made by Viceless LLC.
A Cool Journal
This app offers a conversational AI coach to help you understand your personality, identify patterns, and achieve your goals through personalized challenges. It provides insights into your thoughts and emotions, with options to journal, chat with the AI, and track your progress. Your data is kept private and encrypted.
- AI-powered journaling and coaching
- Personality and pattern identification
- Personalized challenges for goal achievement
- Mood and stress tracking
- Photo attachments for entries
- Searchable journal history
- Data export in multiple formats
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A Cool Journal is not just a journal. It is your thinking partner, that turns one-way traditional journaling into a rich two-way conversation with an AI coach who provides real insights into what makes you tick, offers challenges to nudge you towards your goals, and makes journaling a much more fun, insightful, and effective activity. IDENTIFY YOUR PERSONALITY TYPE AND PATTERNS Every time you write a journal entry or chat with your coach, A Cool Journal develops and refines a personal profile that catalogs your tendencies and subconscious drivers. In addition to sharing these insights with you, your coach leverages these to identify the questions that most effectively uncover your tendencies as well as fine tune what challenges will drive real change. TURN INSIGHTS INTO ACTION In addition to providing you personal insights, A Cool Journal offers you a library of bite-sized challenges that are hand-picked by your coach to guide your progress on your goals including areas to: Reduce stress Increase confidence More energy Better Focus Healthier Habits Emotional Balance FEATURES Journal Easy journal to capture your thoughts and emotions. Remember the moment by attaching a photo to any entry. Search for any past journal entries by date, keywords, or mood. Coach Chat with a coach about what's on your mind. Ask the coach for insights and suggestions. A Cool Journal's Coach draws on frameworks including Motivational Interviewing, Solution-focused questioning, and Self-Determination Theory Always optional. On days you just want to write, you can easily skip the coach. Challenges Take action with science-based bite-sized challenges. Track progress Skip any if you are not feeling it. No streaks or guilty reminders. Insights Review periodic "Coach Insight Summaries" that break down what the coach has learned about you overall as well as recent trends it has observed. Track your stress levels, energy, and mood over time. Export Download all journal entries and coach conversations for free as PDF, plain text, or Markdown. PRIVACY FIRST Your data is encrypted in transit using TLS 1.2+ and at rest using AES-256. A Cool Journal is a tool for self-reflection and personal growth. It is not therapy and is not a substitute for professional mental health care. It does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any medical condition. If you are in crisis, contact your local emergency services — in the US, call or text 988. Terms of Use: https://acooljournal.com/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://acooljournal.com/privacy.html
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Verdict
Viceless and A Cool Journal both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of A Cool Journal's written reviews are positive against 50% of Viceless's. A Cool Journal also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). Viceless's advantage is ratings volume (11 vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Viceless sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and A Cool Journal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
A Cool Journal holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Viceless has 11 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Viceless's written reviews are positive against 100% of A Cool Journal's.
Viceless ships an update fortnightly, A Cool Journal every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Viceless | A Cool Journal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Viceless LLC | Eternal Swell LLC |
Customer experience
Viceless
A Cool Journal
In-app purchases
Viceless
- Viceless Pro$4.991 Month
- Viceless Pro$47.991 Year
A Cool Journal
- Coach Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Coach Annual7 Days trial$79.991 Year









