Graceup vs Gratitude Plus on Price and Groups

Pick Gratitude Plus if you want to comment on your friends’ entries, track your mood and use an app that more than 21,000 people have rated. Pick Graceup if you want a daily entry that takes about 30 seconds, a public feed that never shows your name and a lower price, $29.99 a year instead of $39.99. We built Graceup, so in this Graceup vs Gratitude Plus comparison every fact about Gratitude Plus comes from its own pages, and we say where it does better.

Graceup vs Gratitude Plus in one table

The Gratitude Plus facts come from its US App Store page, its release notes and its official website. Prices are from the US App Store, in US dollars, and were checked on November 9, 2026.

	Gratitude Plus	Graceup
Yearly price	$39.99	$29.99
Monthly price	$10.99	$6.99
Free trial	One week on the yearly plan	Seven days
Public community	Yes, a public feed	Yes, the Explore feed, without your name
Private groups	Yes, Gratitude Circles	Yes, up to 50 people per group
Comments in groups	Yes, since April 2026	No, reactions only
Affirmations	Yes, 500+ affirmations and quotes in Premium	Yes, more than 2,500, 20 a day free
Mood tracking	Yes, in Premium	No
Family plan	$89.99 a year for two to five people	No
Widgets	Yes, including the lock screen	Yes, including the lock screen
Platforms	iPhone, iPad, Android	iPhone, iPad, Android
App Store rating	4.9 from 21,079 ratings	5.0 from one rating

Gratitude Plus also lists other yearly prices in the App Store, $34.99 and $49.99, so we give the price from its description and website.

How the public feeds differ in Graceup and Gratitude Plus

Both apps have a public feed where you read good moments from people you don’t know. The Gratitude Plus App Store description says you can browse the public feed of gratitude and send messages of encouragement to people around the world. Its September 2026 release notes add topic filters for community posts. Gratitude Plus also has a tab called Explore, where its release notes mention prompts, affirmations, quotes and gratitude reflections by category.

In Graceup, the public feed is called Explore. Your name and profile photo are never shown in Explore, and you choose for each entry whether it goes there. You can react to a moment, save it or send a private message to the person who shared it. The Gratitude Plus pages don’t say whether your name appears in its public feed.

How Gratitude Circles and Graceup groups compare

Gratitude Circles and Graceup groups both let you share entries with a partner, family or friends instead of with everyone. Gratitude Plus says only the people you invite can see a Circle, and members read, react and keep a streak going together. Since April 2026, members can also comment on posts. Each Circle has a weekly reflection, and you can start several Circles and pick which one each post goes to.

In Graceup you create a private group and invite people with a link or a code. A group can have up to 50 people. For each entry you choose who sees it: only you, Explore or one or more of your groups. Your name and photo are visible only to the members of your group, who can react to your moments. Graceup groups have no comments, so if your group wants to talk about each post, Gratitude Plus fits better.

Graceup vs Gratitude Plus on price and the free plan

Both apps are free to download, and both let you share with your groups for free. The Gratitude Plus family page says your family can start a Circle and share every day for free. Premium costs $39.99 a year, after a one-week free trial, or $10.99 a month. The website lists unlimited daily entries, several photos per entry, mood tracking, cloud backup, voice recordings up to five minutes and more than 500 affirmations and quotes among the Premium features.

Graceup’s free plan includes one entry a day, streaks, the monthly Gratitude Jar, groups, Explore and 20 affirmations a day. Premium costs $29.99 a year or $6.99 a month, after a seven-day free trial. It adds unlimited entries, photos and video, unlimited affirmations, monthly recaps and a streak restore once a month.

Over a year, Graceup Premium costs $10 less than Gratitude Plus Premium. For a family, the Gratitude Plus Family Plan covers two to five people for $89.99 a year. Three separate Graceup yearly plans cost $89.97, so the Family Plan only costs less once a fourth person joins.

Choose Gratitude Plus if

• you want to comment on your friends’ entries, not only react to them;
• you want to track your mood and see insights such as your most frequent words;
• your family wants Premium for everyone with one Family Plan;
• you want voice recordings, a map of your entries or a weekly reflection in each Circle;
• you want an app that thousands of people have already rated, which Graceup can’t offer yet.

Choose Graceup if

• you want a daily entry that takes about 30 seconds, with a fresh question each time;
• you want a public feed where your name and photo are never shown;
• you want more affirmations, more than 2,500 in 19 categories, with 20 a day free;
• you like the idea of a monthly jar that opens on the first day of the next month;
• you want to pay less, $29.99 a year or $6.99 a month.

Is Graceup better than Gratitude Plus?

Graceup is better if you want a short daily habit, a cheaper Premium and a public feed that never shows your name. Gratitude Plus is better if your group wants to talk about each entry or you want mood tracking and a family plan. Gratitude Plus has more than 21,000 ratings, and Graceup is a new app with one rating so far.

If you want to compare more than these two apps, see our guide to gratitude apps to use with friends, which also covers Orca and With Gratitude. For apps that work well on your own, read our list of the best gratitude journal apps for iPhone.

We built Graceup as a gratitude journal for iPhone and Android that takes about 30 seconds a day. You write one good thing, keep your streak and can share moments with a small private group or with Explore.

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