Comparison

Year in Pixels vs MoodPixels

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

Head to head
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Year in Pixels

Features
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Year in Pixels turns your mood into a picture. Every day becomes one colored pixel, and over weeks and months your whole year fills in as a mood mosaic you can read at a glance. Checking in takes about five seconds: tap how you feel, and today's pixel paints itself. YOUR YEAR IN PIXELS - One colored tile for every day, from rough to great - Your whole year on one screen: good stretches, hard weeks, slow changes - Tap any day to see what you logged - Flip back to past years, and share your year as an image A 5-SECOND MOOD TRACKER - Pick a mood with one tap; add emotions, activities, energy or a note only if you want - Check in as often as you like, morning, evening or both - A gentle daily reminder at the time you choose MOOD CALENDAR & DAILY JOURNAL - Browse any month as a colored mood calendar - Your notes and tags stay with the day they belong to PATTERNS & INSIGHTS - Average mood, check-ins and streaks over 7, 30 and 90 days - A mood trend chart that shows where things are heading - See which activities and habits tend to go with your better days - A warm weekly recap and a deeper monthly analysis, written for you on your device HABITS ALONGSIDE YOUR MOOD - Track the habits that matter to you: exercise, sleep, reading, anything - Streaks and completion at a glance, right next to how you felt MAKE IT YOURS - Mosaic color themes to match your style - Export your entries as CSV or JSON anytime PRIVATE BY DESIGN - Your check-ins live on your device and sync only through your own private iCloud - No account to create, no third-party tracking A calmer way to notice how you're really doing, one pixel a day. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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MoodPixels

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One pixel a day — a map of your year in mood. MoodPixels is a minimalist mood journal: pick a color for how you feel each day, and by year's end you have a pixel map that is uniquely yours. Bright seasons and rough patches become visible at a glance. ■ Log a day in three seconds · Five mood levels: great, good, okay, low, awful · One tap is enough; add a private note if you like · Backfill any past day ■ See your patterns · A 12×31 year grid turns your entries into a pixel map · Export the year as an image and share your map · Export CSV — your data is always yours ■ A gentle nudge · Optional daily reminder, at a time you choose · Delivered as a local notification — nothing leaves your device ■ Your data stays yours · Everything is stored only on your iPhone · No account, no cloud, no ads, no analytics SDKs · Deleting the app deletes all its data, permanently ■ A note MoodPixels is a self-tracking tool. It does not provide medical, psychological, diagnostic, or treatment advice. If you are going through a hard time, please reach out to a qualified professional.

Screenshots

Year in Pixels4 screens
MoodPixels1 screens

Verdict

The call

Year in Pixels and MoodPixels 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 · 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Year in Pixels versus MoodPixels: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYear in PixelsMoodPixels
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNeobile LLCZHENYU Lin

In-app purchases

None

Year in Pixels

No in-app purchases

None

MoodPixels

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Year in Pixels free?
Year in Pixels is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MoodPixels free?
MoodPixels is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Year in Pixels or MoodPixels have ads?
Neither Year in Pixels nor MoodPixels shows ads.

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