Comparison

Tiny Mood Garden vs Moss

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Tiny Mood Garden

Features
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Tiny Mood Garden is a gentle daily ritual for your iPhone. Pick today's mood, plant a tiny seed, and watch your week bloom into a small private garden. No account. No ads. No tracking. Your garden stays on your device. What you can do: - Plant one mood each day. - See your week as a tiny garden. - View your month as a soft calendar of plants. - Share a weekly garden snapshot. - Set an optional daily reminder. - Clear your local data anytime. Tiny Mood Garden is not a medical or therapy app. It does not diagnose, analyze, or treat any condition. It is simply a playful way to mark the day.

About

Moss

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Moss is a private journal and diary that stays yours. No account, no login, no sign-up. Your pages live on your iPhone and in your own iCloud, and not even we can read them. Remember the diary with the little lock on it? Moss is that, grown up, and no one else has the key. EVERY DAY, YOUR WAY • Words, photos, videos, stickers and voice, placed anywhere on the page, like a scrapbook that remembers • Rich text, lists, checklists and highlights • Write the whole page in a handwriting font, on the paper and ink you like • Gentle prompts for the days you don’t know where to begin • Sketch with Apple Pencil on iPad SOME DAYS ARE EASIER SAID • Hold to talk: keep the voice note, and watch your words land on the page as you speak • Your voice is turned into words on your iPhone, never on a server • Tell Siri “Add a line to Moss”, or start a page from a widget, Control Center or the Action button HOW WAS THE SKY TODAY? • Give each day a little sky, sunny to stormy, and the words for how it felt • Watch your moods drift across the weeks • If you like, save your State of Mind to Apple Health, and see sleep, steps, daylight and mindful minutes beside your pages YOUR YEARS COME BACK • On this day, a weekly look back, and the pages you kept • Past years sit on a shelf, like books • Threads gather your pages by #tag or theme • Ask your pages: ask anything you’ve ever written and get an answer from your own words, worked out on your iPhone, even offline • Search everything you’ve ever written NOBODY READS IT. NOT EVEN US. • No account, no login, no sign-up • Your pages live on your device and in your own iCloud, synced across your iPhone, iPad and Mac. Nobody at Moss can read them • Lock Moss with Face ID or your own Moss code • Keep several journals; give any one its own code, or tuck it away REST DAYS COUNT No streaks, ever. A quiet day is still a page. Moss is journaling without the guilt. BRING YOUR OLD PAGES • Import your journal from Day One, Apple’s Journal app, Markdown or plain text • Scan a handwritten page from a paper diary, and Moss reads the words MOSS IS FREE No ads, no account, nothing to sign up for. Writing, photos, voice, search, Ask your pages and the Almanac (your year, bound into a book you can keep) are all there from the first page. MADE TO SIT BESIDE DEW If you use Dew, you can see your cycle beside your pages. Only if you want it. Moss works on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Ask your pages and the weekly reflection use Apple Intelligence, on devices that support it. Privacy: https://moss.trydew.app/privacy Terms: https://moss.trydew.app/terms a journal that stays yours. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://moss.trydew.app/privacy/

Screenshots

Tiny Mood Garden4 screens
Moss4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tiny Mood Garden at none against Moss's 4. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Moss sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Tiny Mood Garden asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Tiny Mood Garden versus Moss: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTiny Mood GardenMoss
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBIN ZHAIAbhishek Agarwal

In-app purchases

None

Tiny Mood Garden

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Moss

Subscriptions3
  • Moss Garden · Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Moss Garden · Yearly7 Days trial$34.991 Year
  • Moss + Dew · Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year
One-time1
  • Moss, forever$99.99

Questions

Is Tiny Mood Garden free?
Tiny Mood Garden is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Moss free?
Moss is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tiny Mood Garden or Moss have ads?
Neither Tiny Mood Garden nor Moss shows ads.

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