Dew vs Postmarks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dew
This alarm clock requires users to type a positive affirmation to dismiss it, encouraging a kinder start to the day. It offers customizable sounds, wallpapers, and a "Reflect" tab to review past affirmations. Optional Pro features include personalized affirmations and widgets.
- Type affirmation to dismiss alarm
- Customizable alarm sounds
- Beautiful wallpapers
- Reflect tab for past affirmations
- Built-in affirmation suggestions
- Personalized affirmations (Pro)
- Widgets (Pro)
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Dew is an alarm that builds morning momentum on your own terms. Whether you start your day with a kind sentence about yourself, a quick mental warmup, or physical movement, Dew ensures your morning begins with intention and not panic. Most alarms yank you into the day. Dew invites you in. How it works Set your alarm the night before and choose your morning mission (or no mission). When it rings, the alarm won't turn off until your mission is complete. Your completed missions unlock your local Progress Dashboard, while your typed affirmations get saved to a quiet Reflect feed, giving you a space to look back on every morning you showed up for yourself. What's inside: Interactive Missions: Choose between typing positive affirmations, mindful text copying, focused math problems, or motion-tracked physical movements like pushups and squats. Progress Dashboard: Track your morning consistency and view lifetime volume metrics for your completed missions. A real alarm that rings through Silent mode and Focus Sounds across four moods: Gentle, Uplifting, Classic, and Loud Beautiful wallpapers: Morning Light, Calm & Grounded, Affirmations, and Simple Colors Built-in affirmation suggestions when you're too tired to think of something A Reflect tab that saves every affirmation you've typed, so you can look back on your journey Dark and light mode Push notifications to send yourself your positive message Dew Pro (optional, there is a lifetime option and also a recurring subscription option) grants you: - Access to all missions - Personalized affirmations crafted for how you think and feel - New daily affirmations generated just for you - Small and Medium Widgets which display your next alarm time and your latest affirmation - Support ongoing development 7-day free trial, then $19.99/year or $4.99/month. Cancel anytime in Settings. Subscription auto-renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel subscriptions in your Apple Account settings. Who Dew is for: - Anyone who wakes up hard on themselves - People looking to build a consistent, intentional morning routine - Anyone who's tried alarm apps that feel like a punishment - Morning journalers who want something lighter Privacy first Your affirmations and mission metrics stay securely synced to your account. We don't sell your data. Pro affirmation generation uses OpenAI with no personally identifying information attached. Privacy Policy: [https://dewalarm.com/privacy] Terms of Use: [https://dewalarm.com/terms] Made with care by a small team. Thank you for waking up with us.
Postmarks
This app transforms daily steps into a journey across real-world locations, rewarding users with collectible stamps and a personal travel passport. It encourages consistent walking by providing a destination and purpose for each outing, turning movement into a meaningful adventure.
- Virtual travel across real cities
- Collectible vintage postage stamps
- Personalized travel passport
- Automated daily journal entries
- Habit building through gamification
- Unlockable 'After Dark' stamp collections
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Turn your daily steps into a journey across Japan and East Asia. Postmarks transforms ordinary movement into a slow, meaningful adventure. Walk in real life while traveling between real cities, collecting vintage stamps, finding souvenirs, earning achievements, and filling a passport that grows with every step. This is not another pedometer. It is a reason to go outside. ◆ YOUR WALK HAS A DESTINATION Every step moves you along routes inspired by real places—from Tokyo and Kyoto to snowy northern roads, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and historic routes across China. ◆ EXPLORE JAPAN AND EAST ASIA Begin with Heart of Honshu, a complete journey included free. Expand across Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and China. Choose your pace, discover secret detours, and revisit completed routes. ◆ COLLECT VINTAGE STAMPS Reach a city and unlock a handcrafted vintage stamp. • Common, Rare, Epic, and Legendary stamps • Hidden secret-stop stamps • Separate Day and After Dark collections • Stories revealing the real places behind the artwork Every stamp marks movement you actually made. ◆ FIND SOUVENIRS Trail Finds turn walks into small discoveries. Pick up keepsakes from stalls, festivals, markets, shrines, parks, and stranger corners of the journey. Keep them in your Backpack and revisit each find’s story. Some are common, some rare, and some appear only After Dark. ◆ UNLOCK ACHIEVEMENTS Earn badges for steps, streaks, routes, destinations, secret stops, souvenirs, and special combinations. Display them in your Badge Case—some goals stay hidden until discovered. ◆ MEET YOUR TRAVELER CARD Your Traveler Card brings together your route, walking tier, stamps, achievements, and favorite keepsakes. Make it yours with collectible banners, frames, and seals. ◆ WALK WITH FRIENDS Connect privately using invite codes, exchange Traveler Cards, follow each other’s progress, and spot friends’ seals across the map. Postmarks shares coarse virtual-route progress—not your live location or raw health data. You control whether friends see your weekly steps and recent activity. ◆ EXPLORE EVERY CITY Reached cities include curated guides to local food, landmarks, culture, history, and surprising details. Artwork stories connect each stamp to the place that inspired it. ◆ WALK BY DAY OR AFTER DARK After Dark transforms familiar routes with a moonlit map, its own stamps, and night-only discoveries. Switch modes on unlocked routes without returning to the first city. ◆ A JOURNAL THAT WRITES ITSELF Postmarks creates travel-journal entries with your steps, streak, route progress, reached cities, and memorable moments. Read your history—or replay your journey day by day on the map. ◆ BUILD A HABIT NATURALLY A city ahead, a stamp to earn, a souvenir to find, or a streak to protect makes every outing part of something bigger. Forgot to log yesterday? Everyone gets one-day retroactive logging, helping you keep your journey honest without losing momentum. ◆ KINTSUGI TOKENS Mend one missed streak day from the last week. Your step totals stay honest; only the streak continues. Every traveler starts with one free token. ◆ PROTECT YOUR PROGRESS Secure your journey with Google or Apple sign-in. Your routes and collections stay connected to your account and can be recovered on another device. ◆ FREE TO START Heart of Honshu includes a full route across Japan with cities, stamps, secret stops, journaling, Trail Finds, achievements, and the core experience. Optional one-time purchases unlock more routes across Japan and East Asia, additional collectibles, expanded pace options, and Day / After Dark access. No subscription required. Walk the world, one stamp at a time. Terms of Use: https://getpostmarks.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://getpostmarks.com/privacy
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Verdict
Dew and Postmarks are too close to call on the numbers: across 10 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Dew sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Postmarks sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. 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 Dew against 5.0 for Postmarks. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 8 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Dew | Postmarks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 202 MB | 236 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Renat Norderhaug | Yutaro Sakairi |
Customer experience
Dew
Postmarks
In-app purchases
Dew
- Dew Pro - Monthly$4.991 Month
- Dew Pro - Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Dew Pro - Lifetime$49.99
Postmarks
- Kintsugi Token$0.99
- Korea & Taiwan Pack — Day$3.99
- Japan Explorer Pack — Day$5.99
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- Northern Japan Pack — Day$5.99
- Korea & Taiwan Pack — Day & Night$5.99
- Japan Explorer Pack — Day & Night$7.99
- Northern Japan Pack — Day & Night$7.99
- Postmarks: Japan$9.99
- Lifetime All-Access$24.99
- Lifetime All-Access Promotion Only$24.99







