Comparison

Meeting Guide vs DriftJournal

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Meeting Guide

Find Alcoholics Anonymous meetings easily with this free app. It lists over 150,000 meetings, updated twice daily, from various A.A. service entities worldwide. You can search by your current location or by entering a specific address.

Highlights
  • Find A.A. meetings
  • Over 150,000 meetings listed
  • Updated twice daily
  • Search by current location
  • Search by entered location
  • Privacy-focused design
Features
Currently charting
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Brought to you by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., Meeting Guide is a free of charge app that provides meeting information from A.A. service entities in an easy-to-access format. Over 150,000 A.A. meetings are currently listed. The information is refreshed twice daily by relaying meeting information from more than 500 A.A. service entities; area, district, intergroup/central offices, and international General Service Office websites (some of which are listed on (A.A. Near You). To learn how to get your local A.A. website connected, please visit our support site https://meetingguide.helpdocs.io for A.A. web servants. Privacy Notice Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. respects your privacy. • If you choose to share your location with the app, your geographic coordinates will be transmitted, so that we can provide you the list of meetings near you when you are actively using the app. • If you choose not to share your location, you can still find meetings by entering a location in the search bar, in which case you will receive a list of meetings near the location you entered. •You can change your option for sharing location data by going into your Settings Privacy Location on iOS. •The app does not keep your geolocation or search information. •Your IP address, searches, and other usage information are collected by Google analytics, but only to generate aggregate data to help us improve the app. •There is no ad-tracking on this app. To learn more about privacy on this app click here: https://www.aa.org/meeting-guide-app-privacy-policy To learn more about privacy at A.A.W.S. click here https://www.aa.org/terms-of-use

About

DriftJournal

Features
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DriftJournal is a dream journal built for the moment you wake up. Capture a dream in seconds while it is still fresh, tag the themes and symbols that recur, and watch the patterns across your nights come into focus. No account, no tracking. Your dreams stay private on your device and in your own iCloud, and sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. FAST MORNING CAPTURE A capture screen built for 6 AM: a big title, a roomy space for the dream, one tap for your mood on waking, and lucid or recurring flags. Everything past the first line is optional, so you can write it down and go back to sleep. THEMES, SYMBOLS, AND CHARACTERS Tag each dream with the themes, characters, symbols, and places in it. Tags are shared across dreams, so the flight you keep taking or the staircase that keeps appearing is counted every time. The symbol index gathers them into a constellation of what your nights keep returning to. PATTERNS ACROSS YOUR NIGHTS DriftJournal counts your recurring themes and surfaces the ones that repeat most, tracks your mood on waking as a trend line, and charts how many dreams you recall each week. A recall streak counts your run of consecutive mornings, and your longest streak is kept as a record. MOOD ON WAKING Set the mood you woke with in one tap while you log the dream, or leave a quick morning check-in on a day you remember nothing. Both feed the mood trend, so the shape of how you wake up becomes visible over time. ON THIS NIGHT The home screen surfaces the dreams you had on this same night in earlier years, so your journal quietly hands back the anniversaries you would have forgotten. SEARCH EVERYTHING Search every dream by word, tag, or symbol, and filter to just your lucid or recurring dreams. YOUR DREAM BOOK Export a printable PDF keepsake of every dream grouped by month, with the full pattern report of your recurring themes and symbols, or a clean CSV for your own records. FREE VS PRO Free includes your first 20 dreams with every tool: fast capture, themes and symbols, lucid and recurring flags, mood on waking, the insight charts, on this night, and search. Pro unlocks unlimited dreams, the Dream Book PDF and CSV export, and the full pattern report. Monthly $3.99 USD, yearly $24.99 USD, or a one time lifetime unlock at $59.99 USD. DriftJournal is a personal journal for your own records. Capture the dream, tag it, and let the patterns build. Pro subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Cancel anytime in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions; cancellation applies at the end of the current period. Terms: Apple Standard EULA https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Meeting Guide3 screens
DriftJournal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Meeting Guide at none against DriftJournal's 3. Meeting Guide also leads on chart position (#202 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. DriftJournal sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Meeting Guide asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Meeting Guide versus DriftJournal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeeting GuideDriftJournal
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (1K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews70.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings1K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
Best chart rank#202 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB2 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAlcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.InnovaLabWorks

Bugs and requests

Meeting Guide

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • Can't locate meetings
  • Meetings info dropped//Updated
  • Not working on IOS 13
  • Current Location Will Not Work!
  • App removed LGBT options
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  • Login screen freezes
  • Incompatible with older devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • Distance filter
  • Notifications/Reminders
  • Map display of meeting locations
  • Dark mode option

DriftJournal

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Meeting Guide

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

DriftJournal

Subscriptions2
  • DriftJournal Pro1 Month trial$3.991 Month
  • DriftJournal Pro$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • DriftJournal Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is Meeting Guide free?
Meeting Guide is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DriftJournal free?
DriftJournal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Meeting Guide or DriftJournal have ads?
Neither Meeting Guide nor DriftJournal shows ads.

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