Comparison

FutureYourself vs Letterseal

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

Head to head
About

FutureYourself

Features
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Future Yourself is a calm place to write thoughts, promises, and reminders to the person you are becoming. Write letters to your future self, add photos or voice notes, and choose when each message should return to you. Future Yourself helps you pause, reflect, track small moments of progress, and stay connected to the version of you that kept going. What you can do with Future Yourself: - Write letters to your future self - Add photos and voice notes to your messages - Choose custom delivery times - Set gentle reminders for your reflection routine - Read delivered messages in your inbox - Build a consistent writing habit with streaks - Explore quotes, affirmations, reflection questions, and small challenges - Save inspiration that motivates you or helps you think clearly - Use the iOS widget to start a new future letter faster Future Yourself is for anyone who wants to reflect more often, stay motivated, follow through on personal goals, or send themselves an honest message for a meaningful moment later. Whether you are working on focus, discipline, confidence, gratitude, personal growth, or simply trying to remember what matters, your words will be waiting when the time is right. Your personal letters, photos, voice notes, saved inspiration, streaks, and reminder times are stored locally on your device. FutureYou Premium offers additional features such as personalized inspiration, unlimited letters to your future self, and enhanced reminders. Terms of Use: https://futureyourself.app/terms.html Privacy: https://futureyourself.app/privacy.html

About

Letterseal

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Write a letter to the person you'll become. Seal it. Then let time do the rest. Letterseal is a time capsule for your own words. Tell your future self what today feels like, what you're hoping for, what you're afraid of. Choose the day it opens — next month, next New Year, ten years from now — and seal it. Until then, all you'll see is the countdown. When the day comes, your phone lets you know, and a letter from your past self is waiting. SEALED MEANS SEALED Tap a sealed letter and you see how long is left, not what you wrote. You can still read one early, but it takes a deliberate choice, because the waiting is the whole point. MORE THAN WORDS • Add a photo of the moment you're writing in • Not sure how to start? Pick from 42 questions in six themes, from "How are you, honestly?" to the advice you'd give yourself • Choose a date with one tap: a week, 100 days, six months, a year, next New Year — or any day you like WHEN IT OPENS • Reminders the day before and the moment a letter opens • An opening worth waiting for, with everything you sealed inside • Write back: reply to your past self and keep the answer with the letter • Write to your next self straight from the letter you just read • Save any opened letter as a printable keepsake PDF ALWAYS IN VIEW • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets counting down to your next letter • Start a live countdown on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island for the final hours • A yearly reminder, on a date you pick, to write the next one LETTERSEAL UNLIMITED One payment, yours to keep. No subscription. • Unlimited sealed letters (the free version holds five at a time) • Voice letters — record up to five minutes in your own voice • Up to six photos in every letter • Surprise dates: pick a window and Letterseal chooses the day in secret. Nothing gives it away — not the widget, not the list, not the reminders — until it opens Everyone who bought Unlimited before keeps it and gets all of the above. YOURS ALONE Your letters stay on your phone. There's no account to create, no server, and nothing is tracked or analysed. Lock the app with Face ID if you share your phone. Move your letters to a new phone with a password-protected backup file that only you can open. One switch keeps letter names off the Lock Screen, widgets and notifications.

Screenshots

FutureYourself4 screens
Letterseal4 screens

Verdict

The call

FutureYourself and Letterseal are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. FutureYourself sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and Letterseal sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
FutureYourself versus Letterseal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFutureYourselfLetterseal
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYorick StratmannMURATHAN ORAN

In-app purchases

2 purchases

FutureYourself

Subscriptions2
  • Future Yourself Weekly$0.997 Days
  • Future Yourself Yearly$9.991 Year
1 purchases

Letterseal

One-time1
  • Unlock Unlimited$1.99

Questions

Is FutureYourself free?
FutureYourself is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Letterseal free?
Letterseal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do FutureYourself or Letterseal have ads?
Neither FutureYourself nor Letterseal shows ads.

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