Gratitude app alternatives: 6 apps like Gratitude, by what you want

A guided morning and evening routine: 5 Minute Journal

5 Minute Journal, by Intelligent Change, turns gratitude into a short guided practice with morning and evening entries, prompts, reminders, streaks, daily quotes and weekly challenges, Face ID protection and export to PDF. Premium adds photos and video, your own questions, a mood tracker and a widget. It runs on iPhone and iPad with an Apple Watch companion app and, as of November 2026, has a 4.8 average from about 17,600 US ratings.

• Best for: a guided few minutes to start and end each day, including on Apple Watch.

Gratitude with the people you love: Gratitude Plus

Gratitude Plus, by Redwheel Apps, keeps a private gratitude journal and adds Gratitude Circles that you create or join with a partner, family or friends. It also offers prompts, “memories” of past entries, a public feed where you can encourage others, daily affirmations and quotes, reminders, and a daily mood with trends and insights. As of November 2026 it has a 4.9 average from about 21,000 US ratings.

• Best for: sharing gratitude with a partner, family or friends, and seeing your moods over time.

The simplest habit: Three Good Things Journal

Three Good Things Journal, by Asher Dale, keeps to one practice: write down three good things that happened today, which it says takes about a minute. You can add photos and videos, look back by list or calendar, set a daily reminder and keep a streak; it says there is no account to create and no ads. As of November 2026 it has a 4.8 average from about 1,900 US ratings.

• Best for: a one-minute daily habit with nothing else to learn.

Affirmations first: Mantra or I am

If you mostly used Gratitude for its affirmations, try an affirmation-first app. Mantra offers 1,000+ “I am” affirmations, fresh daily ones and your own lines, and lets you record yourself and listen back, as Gratitude does, plus guided sessions, 4-7-8 breathing and lock screen widgets, in 10 languages. I am, by Monkey Taps, is simpler: affirmations from categories you choose, through reminders and home screen widgets, on iPhone and Android in 13 languages. As of November 2026, Mantra has a 4.8 average from about 34,000 US ratings and I am 4.8 from about 739,000.

• Best for: Mantra, if you want to keep recording your own voice, with guided audio added.
• Best for: I am, if you want ready-made affirmations at a glance, on iPhone or Android.

A mood diary and affirmations from a conversation: Moti

Moti, our app, keeps a simple diary: one entry a day with an optional photo and a mood, from Stormy to Radiant, a month view where written days glow, a 30-day mood chart and a day streak. It has no gratitude prompts or vision boards, and the diary does not feed the affirmations.

Moti's affirmations come from a chat or live voice talk with an animated companion, shaped by your goals and tone. Instead of recording each line, you record about 30 seconds once, live in the app, and your cloned voice reads every new line; reminders and a home screen widget bring them back.

The limits: iPhone only for now and English only; your own and shared voices need Pro or Premium and are 18+. There is no sleep timer, no offline downloads, no lock screen widget and no breathwork or meditation, and Moti is not therapy.

• Best for: affirmations about your own week, read aloud, next to a simple daily mood log.

Who should stay with Gratitude

• Gratitude journaling is your main habit, with prompts, photos and entries in your own voice.
• You use vision boards: none of the alternatives here describe them, as of November 2026.
• You want a journal, affirmations and vision boards in one app, with no account.
• You want the same app on iPhone and Android.