Comparison

Safe88 vs Kubo Journal

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

Head to head
About

Safe88

Features
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Safe88 looks out for you whenever you need it. Before a night out, a trip, or any moment when you don't feel quite at ease, start a watch session: your trusted contacts see your live location and are alerted right away if something goes wrong. You stay in control, starting and stopping the sharing whenever you want. Never any continuous tracking. WHAT SAFE88 DOES • SOS button: an instant alert to your loved ones with your location, reachable from any screen. You choose what happens on your phone: siren plus a voice saying "SOS sent," siren only, or a discreet silent mode. • Magic word: say your secret word out loud and the SOS goes off on its own, without touching the screen. Detection happens 100% on your device. • Live location: shared ONLY during a session you start, for as long as you set, never permanently in the background. • Trusted contacts: add your loved ones with a simple code. They use the app for free to look out for you, and you can look out for them too. • Safe zones: save the places you trust (home, work) for smarter, more accurate monitoring. • Fake call: trigger a simulated incoming call to slip out of an awkward situation. • Groups: create or join a private space to stay connected with a circle of loved ones. • Community: check a number, a license plate, or a username, and report risky behavior anonymously. • History: look back at the details of your past SOS alerts. • Local emergency number: the app suggests the right emergency number for your country. • Your way: light or dark theme, 17 languages, passcode lock, and export of your data. PRIVACY Your location is only shared during the sessions you start. The magic word is processed locally on your phone. SUBSCRIPTION 7-day free trial, then Safe88 Premium, your choice: monthly, every six months, or yearly. The exact price appears in the app, tailored to your country. Your trusted contact, for their part, uses the app for free. - The subscription renews automatically unless you turn it off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. - Payment is charged to your Apple account when you confirm the purchase. - Manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your Apple account settings. TERMS AND PRIVACY Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://safe-88.com/confidentialite

About

Kubo Journal

This app offers a unique journaling experience focused on gratitude, reflection, and releasing worries. It helps users change their lives by directing attention, letting go of what they can't control, and rehearsing the person they are becoming. Features include guided reflections and a 'release box' for sealed notes.

Highlights
  • Gratitude entries
  • Guided reflection tools
  • Sealed release box for worries
  • Future self writing
  • Scene revision
  • PDF export of journal
Features
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Most journals ask you to record your life. Kubo helps you rewrite it. Kubo is a new kind of journaling practice built on an old understanding — one carried by the great teachers of imagination and manifestation, twelve-step rooms, and now echoed by the science of neuroplasticity: you don't change your life by thinking harder about what's wrong. You change it by choosing where your attention lives, releasing what you can't control, and rehearsing the person you're becoming. What you repeat, you rewire. Kubo gives that repetition a home. THE RITUAL Write what's weighing on you. Seal it into your box. Let it go. Sealed notes can't be reread or edited — that's the point. Recovery rooms have passed this practice down for generations: put it in the box, turn it over, stop carrying what was never yours to carry. A month later, Kubo quietly asks how heavy it feels now — without opening a word. Most things get lighter. Not magic; just what happens when a mind finally stops rehearsing a worry. A COMPLETE DAILY PRACTICE • GRATITUDE — appreciation is the fastest way to change the way you feel, and the way you feel shapes what you notice, choose, and attract into your days. Quick entries for what's good now and what you're looking forward to. • REFLECT — free writing plus guided tools like Reframe, built on a simple truth: your thoughts are not facts. Catch the story you're telling yourself and trade it for a truer, kinder one. • RELEASE — the box. Seal a worry away and choose when it opens: thirty days, a year, or a date that matters to you. Kubo holds it, unreadable, until then — and when the seal breaks, see with your own eyes how far you've come. TOOLS FOR BECOMING (Premium) • FUTURE SELF — write from the life you're creating, as the person already living it. • REVISION — revisit a scene and rewrite it the way it should have gone. Imagination teachers have sworn by this practice for a century; your brain rehearses what you vividly imagine. • ENVISION — dwell in the end result until it feels like home. • Plus expanded prompt packs, up to 10 photos per entry, Insights — including proof of how much lighter your released worries actually got — and a beautiful PDF book of your year. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No servers. No analytics. Your journal lives on your device and in your own iCloud, and sealed notes are encrypted so no one — including us — can read them. Optional Face ID lock. FREE FOREVER Unlimited gratitude, reflections, sealing and release with timed opens, streaks, and a photo per entry. Some people call theirs a worry box. Some call it a God box, a serenity box, a manifestation practice, or simply letting go. Whatever you call it, this much is true: the life you want starts with what you put down — and what you pick up instead. Kubo is a journaling tool, not medical or mental-health care. Privacy Policy: https://deanhuff.com/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

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Kubo Journal4 screens

Verdict

The call

Safe88 and Kubo Journal 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. Safe88 sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Kubo Journal sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Safe88 versus Kubo Journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSafe88Kubo Journal
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size102 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMathieu LepretreDean Huff

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Safe88

Subscriptions5
  • Premium monthly$1.991 Month
  • Safe88 Famille$3.991 Month
  • Premium 6 months$8.956 Months
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  • Premium yearly$17.901 Year
  • Safe88 Famille$44.901 Year
3 purchases

Kubo Journal

Subscriptions2
  • Kubo Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Kubo Premium Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Kubo Premium Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is Safe88 free?
Safe88 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Kubo Journal free?
Kubo Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Safe88 or Kubo Journal have ads?
Neither Safe88 nor Kubo Journal shows ads.

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