Comparison

Best Decision vs Decision Journal

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

Head to head
About

Best Decision

This app helps you make objective choices by analyzing your options based on your defined criteria and their importance. It guides you through a simple three-step process to identify the best decision and presents results in a clear, sorted list.

Highlights
  • 3-step decision making process
  • Define custom criteria and importance
  • Unlimited decisions, options, and criteria
  • Decision templates
  • Data sync across devices via iCloud
  • Secure with Touch ID/Face ID
  • Share results via message, email, PDF
Features
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Buying new MacBook? Wondering which house is best for your family? Choosing holidays: tropical beach or a spirited trip through Asia? Always make Best Decision! Best Decision is an extremely easy choice-making analytics app. It will tell you which decision is objectively the best, then YOU choose whatever you please. The decision making process in Best Decision is trimmed down to the necessary minimum. It’s a 3-step-down staircase: 1. enter all the choices you’re considering 2. enter all the relevant criteria and their importance 3. estimate how well each option meets each criterion Best Decision takes it from here and the math does the job. As an outcome, you get plain & simple result: your Best Decision and all the other options in order of how well they suit you. So if you are about to make an important decision, let Best Decision's algorithms do the hard work for you. GET IT NOW! Most important FEATURES of Best Decision: 1. UNIVERSAL APP for all your iOS and macOS devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Mac) 2. uses iCloud to automatically SYNC your data between all your devices 3. suitable for COMPLEX and SIMPLE DECISIONS 4. highly FLEXIBLE: + can store unlimited number of decisions, options and criteria + is suitable for different types of decisions + allows to define personal criteria together with their importance + allows to modify all previous inputs + allows to change the order of decisions, options and criteria (tap and hold) 5. Decision TEMPLATES 6. Touch ID, Face ID or password-protect so YOU DECIDE who can access your decisions 7. USER FRIENDLY: guides you easily through the decision making process 8. presents OBJECTIVELY BEST OPTION in comparison with all other sorted by rating results 9. you can SHARE calculated verdict by Message, send it by mail, generate to PDF or save to Photos 10. use 3D Touch ACTIONS on icon to quickly go to the last 3 decisions or create a new one 11. find any decision in your SPOTLIGHT SEARCH by name or considered option 12. work more efficiently with SLIDE OVER and SPLIT VIEW on your iPad

About

Decision Journal

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Decision Journal helps you think clearly about everyday choices. Log what you chose, why it made sense at the time, how confident you felt, and when to review it later. When the outcome is clearer, add a reflection so you can notice patterns in your judgment over time. Use it for work, money, habits, relationships, parenting, career choices, health routines, and ordinary life decisions. Decision Journal stores journal entries locally on your device and does not require an account. The More tab loads a public SHG app directory, and purchases are handled by Apple. There is no cloud sync or AI summary service. Features: - Log decision title, category, choice, rationale, confidence, and review date - Review decisions when they come due - Add outcomes and reflections later - See simple local insights from your entries - Keep a local-first decision history - Browse a reviewed directory of other available SHG apps - Create up to 10 new entries each device-local calendar month for free - Continue reading and editing existing entries on Free - Upgrade for unlimited new entries, tags and tag filters, additional on-device insight summaries, and JSON/CSV export Premium is available as Monthly or Yearly access, with localized prices and terms shown in the app before purchase. Existing Lifetime purchases remain recognized and can be restored; Lifetime is not offered for purchase in this version. Manage or cancel recurring plans through your Apple account settings. Decision Journal is not about perfect decisions. It is about remembering your thinking clearly enough to learn from it. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Best Decision4 screens
Decision Journal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Decision Journal at every 11 days against Best Decision's every 2 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Best Decision sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Decision Journal sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Best Decision ships an update every 2 months, Decision Journal every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Best Decision versus Decision Journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBest DecisionDecision Journal
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (99 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews82.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings99 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 11 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLukasz KowalskiSykes Holding Group LLC

Bugs and requests

Best Decision

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • App keeps crashing when entering choices
  • N/A option negatively affects results
  • Inability to sort/rearrange items in a list
  • Verdict displayed incorrectly (repeated or missing options)
  • Option C score not displayed correctly
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  • Option C marked as best with incorrect score
  • Emailing results doesn't work
  • Syncing with iCloud stopped at 20 items
  • Poor user interface: clicking decision text renames it
  • Verdicts do not show properly, sometimes missing or repeated

Requested features

22 requests
  • CSV export for analysis
  • Display logic in a simple table
  • Sort alphabetic or manually
  • Copy and paste projects
  • Build in a radar / gap analysis chart
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  • Create correlation line chart
  • Manually change order of items
  • Sort Criteria list
  • Export and import information without iCloud
  • 3D Touch in Criteria list for ratings
  • Probability value of options for SWOT analysis
  • Ability to email whole decision
  • Sync between devices
  • Evaluate trade-offs
  • More specific numbering by use of scaling
  • Graphic like diagrams
  • Allow less than six criteria
  • Final analysis not leaving out options
  • List options in numerical order
  • Reorganize order of criterion/options
  • Tap option name to scroll full name
  • Improve poor user interface (e.g., renaming text)

Decision Journal

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Best Decision

One-time1
  • Golden Membership One-time Pay$1.99
3 purchases

Decision Journal

Subscriptions2
  • Decision Journal Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Decision Journal Premium Yearly$12.991 Year
One-time1
  • Decision Journal Premium Lifetime$24.99

Questions

Is Best Decision free?
Best Decision is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Decision Journal free?
Decision Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Best Decision or Decision Journal have ads?
Neither Best Decision nor Decision Journal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Best Decision or Decision Journal?
Best Decision ships an update every 2 months, and Decision Journal every 11 days. Most recently, Best Decision was updated on October 21, 2026 and Decision Journal on October 16, 2026.

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