Comparison

PatternEcho vs CBT Thought Diary

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

Head to head
About

PatternEcho

This app helps you discover daily patterns by tracking your mood, activities, and notes. An AI guide analyzes your history to reveal habits that influence your well-being and offers personalized insights.

Highlights
  • Daily mood, activity, and note check-ins
  • AI-driven pattern analysis
  • Private timeline with searchable entries
  • Year-at-a-glance Signal Map
  • Optional birth chart integration
  • Medication tracking (Pro feature)
Features
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PatternEcho finds the patterns in your days. Check in once a day — a mood, a few activities, a one-line note, done in seconds — and Delphine, your AI pattern guide, connects the dots across your real history: which habits lift you, which nights cost you the next morning, what's actually echoing through your weeks. MEET DELPHINE Delphine learns you. Every check-in sharpens her picture — she works from your own logged history, shows her evidence, and grades her past calls against what actually happened to you. The longer you're together, the better she gets. Evidence first, interpretation second. YOUR PRIVATE TIMELINE - Check in, in seconds — mood, activities, and a one-line note - Every entry saved and searchable, with a year-at-a-glance Signal Map - Medication tracking alongside your mood timeline (Pro) - Three themes — pick the look that feels like you MORE SIGNALS, RICHER PATTERNS Delphine can read whatever you choose to give her. Add your birth details and she folds your chart — Sun, Moon, and Rising, computed from your actual birth date, time, and place — into her readings as one more lens on your day, always grounded in your logged data, never a generic template. PATTERNECHO PRO - Delphine's full forecasts, readings, and pattern analysis - Medication tracking - Founding lifetime offer — strictly limited to the first 50 Private by design. Your data, your patterns, your control — delete anything, anytime. Delphine provides informational patterns, not medical or psychological diagnosis or treatment.

About

CBT Thought Diary

Features
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CBT App is a private Cognitive Behavioral Therapy companion and thought diary designed to help you overcome automatic negative thoughts, manage anxiety, and restore emotional balance in under two minutes. Rooted in evidence-based CBT principles, CBT App guides you through interactive Socratic questioning to identify cognitive distortions and build balanced, realistic perspectives. HOW CBT APP HELPS YOU: Socratic Thought Reframing: Challenge overthinking, catastrophizing, and mental traps. Step-by-step guided questioning helps you examine the evidence behind your thoughts and replace irrational beliefs with rational clarity. Cognitive Distortion Detection: Instantly uncover patterns such as mind reading, all-or-nothing thinking, emotional reasoning, and personalization with clear educational explanations. Emotional Intensity and Relief Tracking: Measure your emotion levels before and after each session to visualize your emotional relief and track your cognitive progress over time. Zero-Knowledge Privacy: Your personal thoughts and journal entries stay 100% private on your device. Your mental health data is never sold, tracked, or shared. Transform how you think, reduce daily stress, and build lasting emotional resilience with CBT App. Medical Disclaimer: CBT App is an educational self-help and thought-tracking tool, not a medical device or healthcare provider. The AI-generated reframing exercises and insights do not replace professional psychiatric evaluation, clinical diagnosis, or therapy. If you are experiencing severe psychological distress, suicidal ideation, or a mental health crisis, please immediately contact your local emergency services or a crisis lifeline. Subscription Terms: Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account upon confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period at the selected plan rate. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store Account Settings after purchase. Terms of Use: https://appdocs.notion.site/CBT-App-Terms-of-Use-3ab74df1b3df802da314e56329114709 Privacy Policy: https://appdocs.notion.site/CBT-App-Privacy-Policy-3ab74df1b3df80148c40fdb0128769b6

Screenshots

PatternEcho4 screens
CBT Thought Diary4 screens

Verdict

The call

PatternEcho and CBT Thought Diary 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. PatternEcho sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month and CBT Thought Diary sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
PatternEcho versus CBT Thought Diary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPatternEchoCBT Thought Diary
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB25 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperGraham ChartTuncer Tirnavali

In-app purchases

3 purchases

PatternEcho

Subscriptions2
  • PatternEcho Pro Monthly$8.991 Month
  • PatternEcho Pro Annual$59.991 Year
One-time1
  • PatternEcho Founding Lifetime$109.99
2 purchases

CBT Thought Diary

Subscriptions2
  • CBT Premium$4.997 Days
  • CBT Premium$49.991 Year

Questions

Is PatternEcho free?
PatternEcho is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CBT Thought Diary free?
CBT Thought Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PatternEcho or CBT Thought Diary have ads?
Neither PatternEcho nor CBT Thought Diary shows ads.

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