Comparison

Essence Journal vs NutriScout

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

Head to head
About

Essence Journal

A private and ad-free digital journal for capturing your feelings and daily essence. Log moods with rich detail, track self-care, and revisit your entries through an elegant calendar archive.

Highlights
  • Free writing with prompts
  • Nuanced mood logging
  • Daily essence visualization
  • Self-care and appointment tracking
  • Elegant calendar archive
  • Private by design
Features
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Essence Journal is a calm, grown-up place to capture how you actually feel — without the clutter, ads, or teen-app noise. Open it on a lunch break or in five quiet minutes: write freely, log a feeling in a word instead of an emoji, and watch the day's "essence" take shape on a living ink field. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Write freely, or with a gentle daily prompt, a gratitude page, or a guided deep-reflection page. • Log nuanced moods from a rich palette — or add your own words — with triggers and notes. • See your day's essence: a computed score and tone drawn from every feeling you log. • Tend the small things — water, self-care rituals, hobbies, and upcoming appointments. • Revisit everything in an elegant calendar archive that tints each day by mood, with week-over-week trends and plain-English patterns. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your journal is yours. The core writing experience, your privacy, and your data are never paywalled. LIFETIME OWNERSHIP Essence Journal is a one-time purchase — no subscription, no renewals. Pay once and it is yours to keep, forever. Privacy Policy: https://preview.apppublishing.ai/legal/essence-journal/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://preview.apppublishing.ai/legal/essence-journal/terms

About

NutriScout

Track your food and supplement intake to ensure you're meeting your daily nutrient targets. Visualize your progress with color-coded indicators and trend charts to understand the effectiveness of your regimen.

Highlights
  • Log food and supplements easily
  • Visualize nutrient targets (green, amber, red)
  • Customizable food and supplement library
  • Daily and weekly target tracking
  • Trend charts and adherence reports
  • On-target streak tracking
Features
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NutriScout is a nutrient tracker for people who take supplements as well as eat food — and who want to know whether the two together are actually hitting their targets. Log a meal or a supplement in seconds. Every vitamin, mineral, electrolyte and macro you care about turns green, amber or red against a target you set yourself, so you can see at a glance what your day was actually short of. SEE THE WHOLE DAY IN ONE DIAL A day score that counts up as you log, ringed by one status light per nutrient. Tap any of them for what you took, what you were aiming for, and where the gap is. BUILT FOR SUPPLEMENTS, NOT JUST MEALS Keep your own library of foods and supplements with the exact per-serving amounts off the label — every value is yours to edit, because your bottle is the only source that matters. Duplicate yesterday's smoothie with one tap. TARGETS THAT ARE YOURS Start from published daily values and change any of them. Track by the day or by the week. An electrolyte panel puts sodium, potassium, magnesium and calcium side by side. SEE WHETHER IT IS WORKING Trend charts per nutrient, a coloured calendar of every day you logged, an on-target streak, and weekly adherence — the answer to "are these supplements doing anything?" NUTRISCOUT PLUS (optional subscription) The free plan keeps your logging, your library, your dashboard, your streak and your full history, and tracks eight nutrients. Plus adds: - Every nutrient tracked, not just eight - Weekly targets as well as daily - 30-day trends and reports (the free plan shows the last 7 days) - Hydration tracking - CSV export of your own data Monthly or yearly, with a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends; manage or cancel it in your App Store settings. NutriScout is a wellness tracking tool, not medical advice. Talk to a healthcare professional about your own needs. Privacy Policy: https://j25en7ynw4.accountnotify.app/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://j25en7ynw4.accountnotify.app/terms

Screenshots

Essence Journal4 screens
NutriScout4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: NutriScout at freemium against Essence Journal's paid. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Essence Journal sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and NutriScout sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Essence Journal against 5.0 for NutriScout. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Essence Journal versus NutriScout: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEssence JournalNutriScout
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3 — better2
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB43 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerheather sherryTONI LYNN KNUTH

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Essence Journal

One-time1
  • Lifetime Ownership$9.99
2 purchases

NutriScout

Subscriptions2
  • NutriScout Plus Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • NutriScout Plus Yearly7 Days trial$23.991 Year

Questions

Is Essence Journal free?
Essence Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is NutriScout free?
NutriScout is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Essence Journal or NutriScout?
Essence Journal and NutriScout are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Essence Journal or NutriScout have ads?
Neither Essence Journal nor NutriScout shows ads.

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