Journaling

Daily journaling & mood logs

Opportunity

Demand

74 / 100

Total review volume in the niche

Competition

69 / 100

Leader dominance + strong rivals (lower is better)

Feasibility

6 / 100

Stale leaders + thin strong field = beatable

Why this score

Apps analyzed48

Total ratings880,636

Median ratings2,206

Leader share37%

Strong competitors23

Stale leaders10%

Avg top-10 stars4.73

Top competitors

App	Stars	Ratings	Price	Last update
Journal Apple Inc.	4.78	326,793	Free	10 months ago
Day One: Daily Journal & Diary Bloom Built Inc	4.83	118,362	Free	4 days ago
Reflectly - Journal & AI Diary Kodeon, Inc.	4.57	81,692	Free	13 days ago
DailyBean - simplest journal BlueSignum Corp.	4.81	70,666	Free	8 hours ago
Daylio Journal - Mood Tracker Relaxio s.r.o.	4.77	61,829	Free	21 days ago
Planner & Journal - Zinnia Pixite Inc.	4.57	56,301	Free	1 month ago
My Diary - Journal with Lock BetterApp Tech Co., Limited	4.74	28,208	Free	6 days ago
Diary With Password 帆杨	4.72	27,107	Free	2 months ago
Mininote - Cute note and diary Xiamen ShenZhuo Information Technology Co., Ltd.	4.79	20,951	Free	3 months ago
5 Minute Journal・Daily Diary Intelligent Change LLC	4.76	17,573	Free	1 month ago

⚠️ Proof-of-concept scoring (provisional heuristic, not the production formula). Live Apple Search API data, cached locally 6h. Stale = no version update in >180 days.