Comparison

Mindvalley vs Read With Me

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

Head to head
About

Mindvalley

Access transformational learning programs and guided meditations from world-renowned experts. This platform offers personalized learning paths and a global community to help you achieve personal growth across all areas of life.

Highlights
  • Expert-led transformation programs (Quests™)
  • Guided meditations and healing sessions
  • AI-powered personalized learning companion (Eve AI)
  • Live events and global community access
  • Growth across mind, body, and soul
  • Mindset, health, relationships, and wealth building
Features
Read full description

Step into your greatness with Mindvalley, the world's most powerful transformational learning platform. Most people spend their entire lives wondering what they're truly capable of. Mindvalley exists for the ones who decide to find out. Mindvalley is built for people who refuse to settle for ordinary. Whether you want to rewire your mindset, heal your body, deepen your relationships, build wealth, or simply wake up feeling alive again - Mindvalley brings the world's greatest teachers directly to you. Learn from Vishen Lakhiani, Lisa Nichols, Jim Kwik, Marisa Peer, Paul McKenna, Sadhguru, Keith Ferrazzi, Tony Robbins, and more. These are not motivational speakers. These are the people who have dedicated their lives to unlocking human potential - and they are here, in your pocket, every single day. This is not a meditation app. This is not a course platform. Mindvalley is a complete system for becoming the person you've always known you could be. What's inside: Quests™ - Mindvalley's flagship transformation programs. Multi-week, expert-led journeys designed to create permanent change across every dimension of your life: mindset, health, relationships, career, spirituality, and purpose. Not content to consume. Experiences that transform. Meditation & Healing - Hundreds of guided meditations, hypnotherapy sessions, Paul McKenna's mind-reprogramming techniques, Marisa Peer's Rapid Transformational Therapy, chakra balancing, sound healing, breathwork, and Reveri experiences. Fall asleep faster, quiet anxious thoughts, and lower daily stress — tools for real relief, available any time you need them. Eve AI - Your personal transformation companion, powered by machine learning. Eve learns who you are, where you're stuck, and what you're reaching for — then builds a completely personalised learning path around your goals. Not generic. Not one-size-fits-all. Yours. Live Events & Global Community - Mindvalley is not just an app. It's a movement. Join live workshops, global masterclasses, and in-person events with a worldwide community of growth-oriented people who will challenge, inspire, and genuinely change you. Growth Across Every Area of Life - Mind. Body. Soul. Manifesting. Entrepreneur & AI. Speaking & Authorship. Longevity. Mindvalley covers the full spectrum of what it means to live an extraordinary life. The people who change their lives are not the ones who waited for the right moment. They are the ones who started. Great change starts here. --- Subscription plans in the app are strictly processed via your App Store account and will automatically renew under Apple's terms and conditions. All in-app purchases on your Mindvalley account will adhere to the App Store’s payment, subscription, and refund policies. You can manage your subscription plans in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://www.mindvalley.com/privacy-policy Terms & Conditions: https://www.mindvalley.com/terms-and-conditions

About

Read With Me

This app offers an engaging way to explore classic literature with guided discussions and curated reading experiences. It aims to make challenging books accessible and enjoyable for busy individuals, fostering a deeper appreciation for great works.

Highlights
  • Guided reading of classic literature
  • Curated book selections
  • Accessible learning approach
  • Engaging discussion format
  • Focus on enjoyment and appreciation
Features
Read full description

My name is Lisa VanDamme and I am the founder of VanDamme Academy, a small private school in Southern California with big ambitions to provide students with an exceptional education and a joyful learning experience. The single, animating element of my career – the one that provides me with an endlessly replenishing daily dose of endorphins – is teaching literature. I am not a literary scholar. I cannot classify works by “school” or “movement,” I cannot describe how they reflect the historical period in which they were written, I don’t know how to inventory their various literary devices. And I don’t care to. If I have a unique talent as a teacher of literature, it boils down to this: I am passionate about great books. Hugo wrenches my heart and makes me weep tears of anguish and of wonderment. Rostand stirs me to noble ambition in work and love and life. Tolstoy challenges me to think – and to feel – on planes higher than I had ever known. Ibsen, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Jane Austen, Maupassant, Rattigan, Sinclair Lewis – all have helped me to see, in the words of English professor Mark Edmundson, “that life is bigger, sweeter, more tragic and intense—more alive with meaning than I had thought.” I derive profound personal joy from literature, and I have a knack for helping others do the same. That is why I started Read With Me. I know so many people – thoughtful, intelligent, motivated people – who avoid reading the classics. And for understandable reasons: they’re busy, they don’t know what to read, they’ve never been taught how to enjoy it, they have unpleasant memories of tedious discussions in high school English… If you are intimidated, uninitiated, jaded, disillusioned or just plain busy – read with me. Let me show you what reading can be. We use Apple's standard terms of use: http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula

Screenshots

Mindvalley4 screens
Read With Me3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Read With Me at free with in-app purchases against Mindvalley's subscription. Read With Me also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). Mindvalley's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (7.1K vs 51). On price, rating, in-app purchases 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. Mindvalley sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per 7 days and Read With Me sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Mindvalley against 4.7 for Read With Me. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mindvalley has 7.1K ratings behind it against 51, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 73% of Mindvalley's written reviews are positive against 56% of Read With Me's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mindvalley ships an update weekly, Read With Me every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Mindvalley versus Read With Me: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMindvalleyRead With Me
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (7.1K ratings) — better4.7 (51 ratings)
Positive reviews72.8% of reviews — better55.6% of reviews
Number of ratings7.1K — better51
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#70 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size926 MB108 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperMindvalley IncJoseph Tabenkin

Customer experience

Mindvalley

All ratings7,136 ratings
Positive94.3%
Neutral1.3%
Negative4.4%
Written reviews1,199 reviews
Positive72.8%
Neutral4.8%
Negative22.4%

Read With Me

All ratings51 ratings
Positive92.2%
Neutral2.0%
Negative5.9%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive55.6%
Neutral11.1%
Negative33.3%

Bugs and requests

Mindvalley

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Frequent app crashes and freezes
  • Inability to access purchased content
  • Syncing issues between devices
  • Broken login and onboarding flows

Requested features

3 requests
  • Better search functionality
  • Offline access to content
  • Improved navigation and bookmarking

Read With Me

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Mindvalley

Subscriptions10
  • Mindvalley Membership7 Days trial$19.997 Days
  • Mindvalley Membership7 Days trial$49.001 Month
  • Mindvalley Membership$49.991 Month
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  • Mindvalley Membership7 Days trial$49.991 Month
  • Mindvalley Membership$59.991 Month
  • Mindvalley Membership7 Days trial$99.991 Month
  • Mindvalley Mentoring Yearly7 Days trial$99.991 Year
  • Mindvalley Membership$99.991 Month
  • Mindvalley Membership7 Days trial$299.991 Year
  • Mindvalley Membership$399.001 Year
10 purchases

Read With Me

Subscriptions1
  • Read With Me Salon Pass$6.991 Month
One-time9
  • Condemned Man$5.99
  • Anne of Green Gables$12.99
  • Les Misérables$12.99
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  • Frankenstein$12.99
  • Pride & Prejudice$12.99
  • Ninety-Three$12.99
  • Crime and Punishment$12.99
  • Jane Eyre$15.99
  • Ninety-Three$16.99

Questions

Is Mindvalley free?
Mindvalley is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Read With Me free?
Read With Me is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Mindvalley or Read With Me?
Mindvalley is rated higher. Mindvalley averages 4.8 out of 5 from 7.1K ratings, while Read With Me averages 4.7 from 51 ratings.
Do Mindvalley or Read With Me have ads?
Read With Me shows ads; Mindvalley does not.
Which is updated more often, Mindvalley or Read With Me?
Mindvalley ships an update weekly, and Read With Me every 3 weeks. Most recently, Mindvalley was updated on November 9, 2026 and Read With Me on November 6, 2026.

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