6 Best Daily Affirmations Apps, Free and Paid

The best daily affirmations app depends on how you want to use the sentences. I am is the most popular one and puts affirmations on your Lock Screen, ThinkUp and Mantra let you listen to affirmations in your own voice, and Unique Daily Affirmations gives you one new sentence a day for little money. We built Graceup, one of the six apps here, so we put it where it fits and say what the others do better.

Daily affirmations apps compared in one table

All facts come from each app’s US App Store page, its description, its release notes or its official site. Prices are from the US App Store, in US dollars, and were checked on November 9, 2026.

App	Yearly price	Public community	Private groups	Affirmations	Widgets	Platforms
I am	$59.99	Not described	Not described	Yes, the whole app	Yes, Home Screen	iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Android
Mantra	$14.99 to $59.99	Not described	Not described	Yes, more than 1,000 in 30+ categories	Yes, Home Screen and Lock Screen	iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
ThinkUp	$39.99	Not described	Not described	Yes, 300+, recorded in your voice	Not described	iPhone, Apple Watch, Android
Unique Daily Affirmations	$10.99	Not described	Not described	Yes, one new each day	Yes	iPhone, Apple Watch, Android
Gratitude: Self-Care Journal	$29.99 to $39.99	Not described	Not described	Yes, hundreds	Not described	iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Android
Graceup	$29.99	Yes, the Explore feed	Yes, up to 50 people per group	Yes, more than 2,500 in 19 categories	Yes	iPhone, iPad, Android

“Not described” means the app’s official pages don’t mention the feature. It doesn’t prove the app lacks it. Mantra and Gratitude list several yearly prices in the App Store, so we give the range.

What to check in a daily affirmations app

Before you pick an app, check three things:

1. Where you’ll see the affirmation. Some apps put it on your Lock Screen or in a widget, others send reminders or play audio.
2. Whether you can use your own words. Mantra, ThinkUp, Unique Daily Affirmations, Gratitude and Graceup let you add your own affirmations. All of them except Graceup also let you record your voice.
3. What the free version includes. Only Graceup, ThinkUp and Unique Daily Affirmations say clearly what you get without paying.

In a 2009 study, Joanne Wood and colleagues found that people with low self-esteem felt worse after repeating “I’m a lovable person”, while people with high self-esteem felt only a little better. Our article on whether affirmations work covers this research in more detail.

I am, for affirmations on your Lock Screen

I am is the best known app in this list, with a 4.8 rating from about 738,000 ratings. Its App Store page promises affirmations on your Lock Screen, a new one every day, and reminders on Home Screen widgets. You pick what you want to focus on, such as self-esteem or confidence, and set reminders for different times of day. Its website adds categories, custom backgrounds and themes, and links to the app on Google Play.

The App Store lists I am Premium at $59.99 a year, $14.99 a month or $149.99 for life, along with other unnamed prices. The page doesn’t say which features are free.

I am suits you if you want to see one affirmation every time you pick up your phone and you don’t need a journal.

Mantra, for categories, audio sessions and your own voice

Mantra has more than a thousand “I am” affirmations in more than 30 categories. You hold down a button while you take in an affirmation, swipe for more, make your own collections and add your own sentences. You can also record your voice, listen to guided affirmation sessions and ambient sounds and pick backgrounds and fonts. Mantra’s website describes widgets for the Home Screen and the Lock Screen.

The App Store lists Mantra Premium at several yearly prices between $14.99 and $59.99, $4.99 a month or $74.99 for life. Mantra has a 4.8 rating from about 34,000 ratings. Its website links only to the App Store.

Mantra suits you if you want audio sessions as well as text and you use an iPhone.

ThinkUp, for listening to affirmations in your own voice

ThinkUp is built around your own voice. You choose from more than 300 affirmations for over ten life goals or write your own, record them, add an image and play them with music. ThinkUp can log your practice as Mindful Minutes in Apple Health.

The free version lets you record up to three affirmations with one background music track. According to the description, Premium costs $7.99 a month, $39.99 a year or $99.99 for life. ThinkUp’s website offers the app for iPhone and Android. The last update came out on August 3, 2025, and the app has a 4.7 rating from about 7,500 ratings.

ThinkUp suits you if you want to listen to the same set of affirmations every day, for example with headphones before you sleep.

Unique Daily Affirmations, for one new sentence a day

Unique Daily Affirmations shows one new affirmation a day. You press and hold a button to reveal it, then share it, save it to your favorites or add your own. You can record yourself saying an affirmation and set your own backgrounds. Release notes mention Home Screen widgets.

The description calls the app free. The All Access subscription removes ads and lifts the limits on recordings, backgrounds and phone alerts, and the App Store lists it at $10.99 a year or $39.99 for life. Gopher Apps’ website links to the app on Google Play. The app has a 4.8 rating from about 20,000 ratings.

Unique Daily Affirmations suits you if you want one short sentence a day and the cheapest yearly price in this list.

Gratitude: Self-Care Journal, for affirmations next to a journal and a vision board

Gratitude: Self-Care Journal, made by Hapjoy, combines a gratitude journal with hundreds of affirmations you can read or listen to. You can write your own, add music and record your voice. The app also has a vision board, journal prompts, photos and voice entries in the journal and a Daily Zen section with quotes and stories. Its website links to the app on Google Play.

The App Store lists Gratitude Pro at several yearly prices between $29.99 and $39.99. The app has a 4.9 rating from about 45,000 ratings.

Gratitude suits you if you want affirmations, a journal and a vision board in one app.

Graceup, for affirmations with a 30-second gratitude journal

We built Graceup as a gratitude journal where you write one good thing a day in about 30 seconds. It also has more than 2,500 affirmations in 19 categories, from calm and confidence to grief and sleep. You swipe through them, save the ones that feel true, write your own and send one to a friend as an image. You can set affirmation reminders and add a widget with today’s affirmation to your Home Screen.

The free plan shows 20 affirmations a day and lets you write three of your own. It also includes one journal entry a day, your streak, private groups and the public Explore feed. Premium costs $29.99 a year or $6.99 a month, with a seven-day free trial, and removes the affirmation limits.

Graceup is new and has only one App Store rating so far. Its affirmations are text only, with no audio sessions, and it has no Apple Watch app. It suits you if you want affirmations and a short gratitude journal in one app and want to share some moments with friends.

I am vs Graceup for daily affirmations

I am is built only for affirmations. It puts a new affirmation on your Lock Screen every day and has an Apple Watch app and about 738,000 ratings. If you only want affirmations in front of you all day, I am does that job more directly.

Graceup costs less, $29.99 a year instead of $59.99, and says clearly what you get for free: 20 affirmations a day. It adds a gratitude journal, private groups and the Explore feed. Pick I am if affirmations are all you want. Pick Graceup if you want affirmations and a daily habit of writing down one good thing.

We compare the two apps in more detail, with prices and the free version, in Graceup vs I am.

Is there a free daily affirmations app?

Unique Daily Affirmations calls itself free, and its subscription mainly removes ads and limits. Graceup shows 20 affirmations a day for free, and ThinkUp’s free version lets you record three affirmations. I am, Mantra and Gratitude are free to download, but their App Store pages don’t say which features stay free.

If you want sentences to start with, our list of positive affirmations has 100 grouped by part of life. For gratitude apps, see our comparison of the best gratitude journal apps for iPhone.

We built Graceup as a gratitude journal for iPhone and Android with more than 2,500 affirmations. You write one good thing a day, read a few affirmations and save the ones that feel true.

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