Graceup vs Gratitude App, Prices and Features

Pick Gratitude: Self-Care Journal if you want a private journal with vision boards, guided courses and affirmations you can listen to or record in your own voice. Pick Graceup if you want to write one good thing a day in about 30 seconds, share it with friends in a private group and read good moments from other people on a public feed. We built Graceup, so we compared the two apps only on what their official pages say, and we point out what the Gratitude app does better.

In this article, “the Gratitude app” means Gratitude: Self-Care Journal by Hapjoy Technologies, the app behind gratefulness.me. It isn’t Gratitude Plus, which is a different app. For a wider comparison of six apps, read our guide to the best gratitude journal apps.

Graceup vs the Gratitude app in one table

Prices are from the US App Store and the official websites, in US dollars, and were checked on November 9, 2026.

	Gratitude: Self-Care Journal	Graceup
Yearly price	$39.99 on its website (the App Store also lists Annual Pro at $29.99)	$29.99
Monthly price	$6.99 on its website (the App Store also lists $4.99)	$6.99
Free trial	On the yearly plan, says its website, and on a monthly plan in the App Store list	Seven days, on both plans
Public community	Not described	Yes, the Explore feed
Private groups	Not described	Yes, up to 50 people per group
Affirmations	Hundreds, plus more than 600 with Pro	More than 2,500 in 19 categories
Vision boards	Yes, one free and unlimited with Pro	No
Widgets	Not described	Yes
Photos in entries	One per entry free, up to five with Pro	With Premium
Platforms	iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Android	iPhone, iPad, Android
US App Store ratings	4.9 from about 45,000 ratings	5.0 from one rating

“Not described” means the Gratitude app’s official pages don’t mention the feature. It doesn’t prove the app lacks it.

Choose the Gratitude app if

• You want a vision board. You build it from photos, quotes and affirmations, sort it into sections and play it as a video with music. Version 6.0.3, released on November 7, 2026, gave the board a corkboard look and a kit you can print.
• You want to listen to affirmations. The app has hundreds of them in folders by topic, such as sleep, healing and confidence. You can also write your own, add music and record them in your voice.
• You want photos or your voice in your entries. The free plan allows one photo per entry and Pro allows up to five. You can also record an entry in your voice.
• You want lessons and things to read. Guided courses arrived in October 2026, and the Daily Zen section has quotes, thank you cards and real stories.
• You use an Apple Watch. The App Store lists the app for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Graceup has no Watch app.
• You want an app with a long track record. Hapjoy has made the app since 2018, and it has about 45,000 ratings in the US App Store.
• You want to keep everything to yourself. The description calls the app “completely private”, and the website says you don’t need an account.

Choose Graceup if

• You want a short entry. Graceup asks one question a day, and you answer in a line or two, in about 30 seconds.
• You want to share with friends. You can create a private group for your partner, family or friends, with up to 50 people, and invite them with a link or a code. Everyone in the group can react to each other’s moments.
• You want to read good moments from other people. The public Explore feed shows moments from people around the world, and your name is never shown there.
• You like looking back once a month. Every entry goes into a jar that opens on the first day of the next month.
• You want affirmations in the same app. Graceup has more than 2,500 affirmations in 19 categories, and the free plan shows 20 a day.

What the Gratitude app does

Gratitude: Self-Care Journal has four main tools, according to its features page: a gratitude journal, affirmations, a Daily Zen section and vision boards. The journal has hundreds of prompts, reminders, a streak and backgrounds and fonts for your entries. Its App Store subtitle is “Affirmations and Vision Board”.

Your entries stay on your device. You can back them up to your own Google Drive or sync them with iCloud, and the website warns that deleting the app without a backup deletes your entries. Since version 6.0.2, you can share an entry as a card to WhatsApp, Instagram Stories or Messages. The official pages don’t describe a feed or groups inside the app.

The free plan includes the journal with prompts and reminders, one photo per entry, free affirmations plus your own, one vision board and backup. Gratitude Pro adds up to five photos per entry, more than 600 premium affirmations, unlimited vision boards, your journal as a PDF and more backgrounds and fonts, according to its pricing page.

What Graceup does

We built Graceup for people who want to write down one good thing a day. The app asks you a question each day, counts your streak and puts your entry in a monthly jar. You can keep a moment private, share it with a group or post it to the Explore feed. Graceup also has reminders, home screen widgets and affirmations you can save or send to a friend as an image.

The free plan includes one entry a day, streaks, the jar, groups, the Explore feed and 20 affirmations a day. Premium adds unlimited entries, photos, a streak restore once a month, unlimited affirmations, monthly recaps, On this day and app themes. Your journal stays on your phone and in your own iCloud or Google Drive, and there’s no email or password login.

Graceup is new and has one rating in the US App Store so far. It has no vision boards, no courses and no Apple Watch app, and photos need Premium.

Gratitude app vs Graceup, prices and free plans

Graceup costs less per year if you compare it with the prices on the Gratitude website: $29.99 instead of $39.99. Both apps cost $6.99 a month on their own pages.

The US App Store lists more Gratitude prices than the website. There are plans named Annual Pro for $29.99, Monthly pro plan for $4.99 and Quarterly pro plan for $9.99, plus Gratitude Pro at $34.99, $39.99 and $6.99 without a stated length. Annual Pro costs the same as Graceup’s yearly plan. The list doesn’t say which plan you’ll be offered, so check the price on the payment screen before you subscribe.

The free plans work differently. The Gratitude website doesn’t mention a daily limit on entries, while Graceup’s free plan has one entry a day. Graceup’s free plan includes groups, the Explore feed and widgets, which the Gratitude app’s pages don’t describe.

Which app keeps your gratitude journal more private?

Both apps keep your journal on your phone and neither asks for an email login. The Gratitude app doesn’t need an account and calls itself “completely private”. In Graceup, your journal stays private unless you post a moment to a group or to Explore, and your name never appears in the Explore feed. If you never want to share anything, the Gratitude app is built for that.

How to try both gratitude apps

Both apps are free to download, so you can use each one for a week and keep the one you still open without a reminder. If friends are the main reason you want an app, our comparison of gratitude apps to use with friends looks at four apps. If affirmations matter more to you than the journal, read our guide to daily affirmations apps, where the Gratitude app also appears.

Graceup is our gratitude journal for iPhone and Android, and it takes about 30 seconds a day. You write one good thing, keep your streak and can share moments with a small private group.

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