Comparison

Thoughts vs MomentCards

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

Head to head
About

Thoughts

A private chat-style diary for capturing thoughts, memories, and experiences. Organize entries with photos, voice notes, and tasks, track your mood and habits, and secure your data with biometric locks.

Highlights
  • Chat-style diary entries
  • Multimedia attachments (photos, voice, files)
  • Mood and habit tracking
  • Future self messages
  • Customizable chat appearance
  • Biometric app lock
  • iCloud sync
Features
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Your thoughts. Your memories. Your personal space. Thoughts is your private diary in the familiar chat style. Write down thoughts, capture experiences, and collect everything you don't want to forget - quickly, personally, and without distraction. • Capture thoughts like news Organize your entries in personal chats and supplement them with photos, files, drawings, voice recordings and tasks. • Reflect on mood and everyday life Record how you feel, keep a gratitude diary, and keep an eye on your habits. • Rediscover memories Browse your entries, rediscover them in the calendar and get insights into your past weeks. • Letters to your future self Write down thoughts, wishes, or tasks that only reappear at a time of your choice. • Personally designed Customize your chats with colors, icons, and backgrounds, and create thoughts the way you want. • Protected and private Lock the entire app or individual chats with Face ID, Touch ID, or your device code. • With iCloud Sync your listings between your Apple devices from your private iCloud storage. • Directly from the home screen Capture your current mood with the widget or open a new idea with a few steps. Thoughts is the place for everything that moves you. Write it down. Keep it. Think about it.

About

MomentCards

Features
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10 days until the birthday. 571 days together. 3 hours until the concert. MomentCards keeps the days that matter to you in view. Every moment gets its own card with an emoji, a color and, if you like, a photo. Tap a card to see the exact time, down to the second. Countdowns and count-ups • Count to a date or since a date, with a time if you want • Yearly dates like birthdays roll over automatically • For count-ups you decide what the next goal is: every month, a custom interval, round numbers of days or the anniversary Design • Backgrounds with a gradient, an emoji pattern, a solid color or your own photo • Crop the photo separately for the detail view, the card and the widget • A timeline to the next goal, and confetti on the big day Widgets and Lock Screen • Widgets in three sizes, with your photo if you like • Choose which card a widget shows, and for medium and large widgets the cards next to it • Lock Screen widgets • In the final hours the countdown runs as a Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island Reminders • On the day, the day before, when you reach a goal and on anniversaries Sharing • As an image for stories or chats • As a MomentCard file: anyone with the app adds the card, photo included, with one tap Also • Templates for birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, Christmas and more • Emoji suggestions that match your title • Archive and backup • In English and German Your data stays on your iPhone. No account, no ads, no tracking. Made in Switzerland.

Screenshots

Thoughts4 screens
MomentCards4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Thoughts at 3 against MomentCards's 1. On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Thoughts versus MomentCards: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThoughtsMomentCards
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size113 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLuca RingJan Nicolas Meier

In-app purchases

None

Thoughts

No in-app purchases

None

MomentCards

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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