Meeting Guide vs Beneath
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Find A.A. meetings
- Over 150,000 meetings listed
- Updated twice daily
- Search by current location
- Search by entered location
- Privacy-focused design
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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
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.
- 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
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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/
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Meeting Guide | Beneath |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (1.1K ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.1K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Best chart rank | #210 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. | SteadyLife LLC |
Customer experience
Meeting Guide
Beneath
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
Meeting Guide
No in-app purchases
Beneath
- Beneath — Monthly$4.991 Month
- Beneath — Yearly$29.991 Year
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