Comparison

Meeting Guide vs Beneath

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

Beneath

This app helps you capture significant personal insights and achievements. It encourages you to write down moments of realization and success, organizing them into personalized categories. Reflect on your journey with gentle prompts and summaries.

Highlights
  • Capture personal truths and wins
  • Organize entries into custom Rooms
  • Receive personalized reflections
  • Generate weekly, monthly, and yearly recaps
  • Send 'Letters to You' via email
  • Offline access to all written content
Features
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Beneath is a journal for honest moments and small wins. Capture what feels true, organize it into Rooms, and revisit the patterns when you’re ready. Goals come from somewhere. Beneath is for the moment beneath the goal. WRITE IT DOWN WHILE IT'S TRUE A Truth is that moment, in your own words — what happened, and what it made you see. Not the goal; the thing underneath it. The only prompt is "What's true right now?" — a fragment counts, so write the part you have. Add Wins when something goes the way you wanted. That's the whole practice: a few honest sentences, captured while they're still warm. ROOMS, NOT SYSTEMS Group what matters into Rooms — Health, Work, Family, or whatever fits your life. There's no blueprint, no streaks, no scores, and no correct way to organize a life. Empty is normal. Reflect and Try This are there when you ask; Recaps offer periodic looks back, and email Letters are opt-in. There is no feed. THE MIRROR When you want to look back, Beneath pays attention: • Reflect — patterns it notices across what you've written, only when you ask. • Try This — one small thing to act on or think about, drawn from your own words. • Recaps — a quiet look back at each week, month, and year. • Letters — the same idea, written as if from you to you, delivered by email when you opt in. YOUR WORDS ARE YOURS Everything you write is free, forever — capture, Rooms, editing, widgets, all of it. The mirror (Reflect, Try This, Recaps, Letters) is a subscription: $4.99/month or $29.99/year. If you ever stop subscribing, every word you wrote stays readable, editable, and exportable, and reflections already written stay readable too. Nothing you made is ever held hostage. Beneath doesn't think it knows how you should live. You're the coach here. It simply remembers — so the person you're becoming doesn't lose track of the moments that started everything. Privacy Policy: https://beneath.ink/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Meeting Guide3 screens
Beneath4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Beneath at 5.0 against Meeting Guide's 4.4. Beneath also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 70%). Meeting Guide's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (1.1K vs 3). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Beneath sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Meeting Guide asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Beneath holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Meeting Guide has 1.1K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Meeting Guide's written reviews are positive against 100% of Beneath's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Meeting Guide ships an update every 2 months, Beneath every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Meeting Guide versus Beneath: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeeting GuideBeneath
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (1.1K ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.1K — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
Best chart rank#210 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB7 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAlcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.SteadyLife LLC

Customer experience

Meeting Guide

All ratings1,046 ratings
Positive84.5%
Neutral3.8%
Negative11.7%
Written reviews144 reviews
Positive70.1%
Neutral6.9%
Negative22.9%

Beneath

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Beneath

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Meeting Guide

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Beneath

Subscriptions2
  • Beneath — Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Beneath — Yearly$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Meeting Guide free?
Meeting Guide is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Beneath free?
Beneath is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Meeting Guide or Beneath?
Beneath is rated higher. Meeting Guide averages 4.4 out of 5 from 1.1K ratings, while Beneath averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Meeting Guide or Beneath have ads?
Neither Meeting Guide nor Beneath shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Meeting Guide or Beneath?
Meeting Guide ships an update every 2 months, and Beneath every 4 days. Most recently, Meeting Guide was updated on November 6, 2026 and Beneath on October 31, 2026.

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