Mandalive® vs ScrollKeep
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mandalive®
Explore emotions and behaviors through art therapy with over 150 mandala templates. This app facilitates self-awareness, healing, and personal growth by integrating positive and negative aspects of oneself. Color digitally or print for a tactile experience.
- 150+ mandala templates representing emotions
- Adjustable color palette and stroke options
- Random color selection tool
- Option to print and color on paper
- Integration of positive and negative emotions
- Digital coloring with various tools
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MANDALA ART THERAPY FOR WORKING WITH EMOTIONS & BEHAVIORS Mandalive® art therapy is designed to increase self-awareness and facilitate healing and growth through exploring emotions, qualities and behaviors. It consists of 150+ mandala templates that represent emotions, qualities, and behaviors, both positive and negative. They are arranged in pairs; e.g. anger/peacefulness, sadness/happiness, success/failure. This innovative approach to inner work, self-exploration, and healing helps you gain balance, energy, clarity, and confidence to live a more authentic and fulfilled life. FEATURES: - adjustable color palette and stroke options to set size, sharpness, and saturation - eyedropper to select the same color that you previously used - dice for random selection of color - "border-sense" option to stay within the lines o - possibility to “dissolve” the mandalas inspired by the practice of Buddhist monks - eraser if you need to make small adjustments - AirPrint to color with pencils or to display your work HOW TO USE MANDALIVE CHANCE OR CHOICE Choose an emotion or quality you want to color, or leave it up to the universe see what comes up for you! INTENTION Read the given intention or write your own to increase the overall effect of the therapeutic activity. COLOR IN APP OR ON PAPER Color directly within the app, or print it out and color with pencils. WHY DO WE INCLUDE NEGATIVE EMOTIONS & QUALITIES? We’re told all the time to let go of the negative and think positively. This causes us to repress the emotions and qualities we don’t like or fear will be judged as unacceptable. The problem is that when we deny these negative emotions or qualities without giving them expression or – at the very least – attention, we don’t really let go of them. Instead, they end up hidden in the unconscious, turning into our shadow selves, ready to enter our lives out of nowhere as annoying, unpleasant, or damaging behaviors and situations. Living only in the positive throws us out of balance. We’re much more dimensional than that! True balance involves an integration of all of the polarities (both sides) in our personalities. We’re meant to live the full spectrum of our emotions and traits. This gives us access to all of the unlimited possibilities the universe has to offer. If we continue to repress the negative, we become less authentic and less dimensional. However negative we believe our shadow selves to be, they actually contain a lot of positive mental energy and creativity, if we learn to use them with conscious intent. And Mandalive® is a great way to learn how to do that! IF YOU ENJOY THE FREE MANDALAS AND WANT TO COLOR MORE, YOU CAN SUBSCRIBE TO PREMIUM ACCESS WITH NEW DESIGNS BEING ADDED! WHAT IS MANDALIVE® PREMIUM ACCESS? Mandalive® Premium Access is a paid subscription with unlimited access to all the 150+ designs in the ever-growing Mandalive® Library! To choose from our subscription options, just click on the preferred option within the app. Premium Access subscriptions come in two auto-renew options: € 4.99/month € 24.99/year Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication. TERMS OF SERVICE By using the Mandalive® app, you agree to our terms of service. Before downloading, read it carefully on http://mandalive.com/terms-and-conditions-en/
ScrollKeep
This app acts as a digital 'Do Not Disturb' sign for your phone, allowing you to block distracting apps and feeds until a set time. It provides a brief pause before opening blocked apps and offers curated content to engage with instead of endless scrolling.
- Block chosen apps and feeds
- Set 'shut down' times
- Pause before opening blocked apps
- Track abandoned opens
- Curated evening content
- Mindful breathing exercises
- Track sleep-disrupting habits
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Stop doomscrolling. ScrollKeep shuts the apps you choose, TikTok, Instagram, Reels, Shorts, any feed, from morning until tonight with Apple's Screen Time shield, and counts every reach you don't open. No account. No ads. The sign, the door, the count and the cards are free; Plus is $19.99 a year, $4.99 a month, or $49.99 once. It is the Do Not Disturb sign you hang on your own door. Hang it in the morning and the apps you name, the feed, the shorts, bed scrolling, are shut until tonight. Reach for one and the sign is there: not now, or open it anyway for a few minutes. Every reach you don't open is a pencil mark on the sign. Take it down at night to close the day. THE SIGN A card on a brass knob. Drag it up to hang it; the door goes dark and a clock counts the hours. Drag it down at night. Under a locked pledge it stays up until tonight. THE DOOR ScrollKeep shields your chosen apps with Apple's Screen Time. Inside a shut app you see the same sign with your own reason on it and two choices: Not now, or Open anyway for five minutes. That pause is the best-evidenced thing in this whole category. In a 2023 study in PNAS of a pause like this one, 36% of attempted opens were abandoned and attempts fell 37% over six weeks (Grüning, Riedel and Lorenz-Spreen). THE COUNT The only number in the app is honest: reaches you didn't open, counted from what you did, not from a usage total. Hours shut today. A month at a glance. The hour the pull is strongest, and the hour you open most, so you know when to plan for. TONIGHT'S CARDS The thing to open instead. A finite deck of things worth knowing, printed on card stock, one per screen, dealt once a night from behind the sign. Twenty cards, then it ends, on purpose. Five of last night's come back as questions. Keep the ones you want. SIT A MOMENT When the pull is strong: a breath, a two-tap answer to what you were reaching for, and two minutes for your hands. THE CLOSE Take the sign down at night. Say whether the phone sleeps outside the bedroom, the hour that costs the most sleep. Tomorrow's pledge is the hang. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No cloud. No analytics. Apple never tells ScrollKeep which apps you picked, and ScrollKeep never reads your usage history. Everything lives on your iPhone. SCROLLKEEP PLUS The sign, the door, the count, the cards and the SOS are free. Plus hangs the sign for you each morning, locks it until tonight, takes every vice, and keeps every month. Yearly with a free week, monthly, or once for life. ScrollKeep is a personal companion, not a medical device. If your phone use is hurting your sleep, work, or relationships and you can't change it alone, a doctor or therapist can help.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ScrollKeep at every 2 days against Mandalive®'s every 6 weeks. Mandalive®'s advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Mandalive® sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.49 per month and ScrollKeep sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Mandalive® ships an update every 6 weeks, ScrollKeep every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mandalive® | ScrollKeep |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 239 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KOMUNIKACIA s.r.o. | NICHOLAS DANIEL MINIERI |
Customer experience
Mandalive®
ScrollKeep
In-app purchases
Mandalive®
- 1 month$4.491 Month
- 1 year$23.491 Year
ScrollKeep
- Plus Monthly$4.991 Month
- Plus Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- ScrollKeep Plus Lifetime$49.99
Questions
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