Kubo Journal vs Leveling
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Gratitude entries
- Guided reflection tools
- Sealed release box for worries
- Future self writing
- Scene revision
- PDF export of journal
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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/
Leveling
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YOU WERE NEVER MEANT TO STAY UNRANKED. Leveling turns your real life into a progression system. Your Strength, Mind, Wealth, Influence, Will and Appearance become six evolving Attributes. Together, they determine your Level, reveal where you stand and show you what to do next. No empty motivation. No meaningless streaks. No generic checklist. THE SYSTEM GIVES YOU QUESTS Leveling creates objectives around your actual goals, circumstances and current ability. Your quests can include: • Completing and recording a real training session • Improving your 5K time or strength benchmark • Submitting a tailored job application • Increasing your income, savings or business revenue • Publishing work and building an audience • Breaking a specific distraction or procrastination pattern • Improving your physique, grooming or presentation Daily Quests create momentum. Main Quests target meaningful outcomes. System Quests appear when a weakness, opportunity or pattern demands attention. Player Quests represent something much bigger. BECOME A PLAYER You begin Unranked. Player status cannot be bought, claimed or earned by mindlessly checking boxes. You must complete a serious Player Quest tied to a meaningful real-world achievement. Once earned, Player status is permanent. Then the real climb begins: E RANK D RANK C RANK B RANK A RANK S RANK Your Rank reflects your current position. S Rank has no upper limit. Become a Player. Then rise from E to S. BUILD A LIFE THAT LEVELS WITH YOU • Discover your starting Level • See all six Attributes in one Player State • Receive personalized Daily and Main Quests • Earn XP through completed objectives • Update real results and watch your Attributes change • Progress through increasingly demanding Levels • Earn permanent Player status • Rise through the E–S Rank system • Track major quests, milestones and progression • Set local reminders for your Daily Quests • Keep your personal progression private on your device Leveling is for people who know they are capable of more - and want a System that expects more from them. Your first quests are waiting. Enter the System. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://sircatg.com/leveling/privacy Full access requires a Leveling subscription after the one-month free trial.
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Verdict
Kubo Journal and Leveling 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
Both are free to download. Kubo Journal sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Leveling sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Kubo Journal | Leveling |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dean Huff | Sirca |
In-app purchases
Kubo Journal
- Kubo Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
- Kubo Premium Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Kubo Premium Lifetime$39.99
Leveling
- Leveling1 Month trial$6.991 Month









