Comparison

Thinkladder vs Flowly

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

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About

Thinkladder

Explore and replace limiting beliefs that hinder your progress. This app offers tools and techniques based on CBT and ACT to enhance self-awareness, reduce anxiety, and build resilience. Engage with guided practices and journal prompts to foster positive change and improve your mental wellbeing.

Highlights
  • Explore limiting beliefs
  • Challenge negative thoughts
  • CBT and ACT-based tools
  • Journal prompts
  • Guided audio practices
  • Set reminders for insights
Features
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Discover the toxic beliefs that may be holding you back. Understand why you feel and behave the way you do. Take daily steps toward feeling calmer, more resilient and self-aware. Thinkladder is a mental wellbeing app that enables you to explore your belief system, weed out and replace limiting ideas that stop you from living your best life. Thinkladder gives you simple CBT and ACT-based tools and methods, proven to improve your mental wellbeing. It only takes a few minutes each day to understand yourself better and move towards the change you want. With Thinkladder you can: - Explore themes like Perfectionism, Self Worth, Social Distancing, Anxiety, Body Image, and Anger, and discover underlying limiting beliefs. - Challenge limiting beliefs with insights collated by mental health professionals. - Set time and location reminders for your selected insights. - Use journal prompts written by therapists. - Listen to audio practices that guide you through therapeutic visualisation and breathing techniques. Some recent reviews: "...thank you for developing such an invaluable app. As a self-help app, I really appreciate how it provides a plethora of helpful, positive self-affirmations to select, in order to try and replace the negative ones with. Other self-help apps ask the user to provide their own alternative affirmations, which I find that can be an impossible task - if one is so steeped in limiting, negative thoughts, feelings and perspectives about one's self. Everyone - no matter who they are - have doubts and insecurities about themselves selves and therefore, I feel this app is beneficial for all...." "I love love love this app! I just discovered it, but I've been looking a long time for an app to help me cope with social anxiety/perfectionism/low self esteem... It really helps me understand my feelings and try to confront them head on!" Terms of Use: https://www.thinkladder.com/terms-of-use/

About

Flowly

This app offers a 12-week virtual reality program designed to help individuals manage chronic pain and anxiety. It combines biofeedback, VR training, and expert coaching to guide users from pain to a state of flow.

Highlights
  • 12-week curated program
  • VR nervous system training
  • HR sensor integration
  • Flowly Coaching sessions
  • Virtual support groups (Bubbles)
  • Expert-led workshops
  • 2D breathwork guides
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Chronic pain sucks. Our team felt this firsthand, and enlisted a world class team of pain experts to design a 12-week curated program designed to take you from pain state, to flow state “Flowly helps manage not only the physical aspects of living with pain and anxiety, but also offers invaluable support to overcome the mental challenges that come along with it.” -Dr. Aman Mahajan, Chair of Perioperative Medicine at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center “Flowly’s virtual worlds help users reclaim a sense of calm and safety at the emotional and physical level, thus allowing them to reduce activation in their nervous system and pain in their body.” -Pierre Etienne-Vannier, Mind-Body Practitioner *How Does It Work?* Flowly’s Healing from Pain Program is a curated 12-week program with new lessons, daily trainings, and access to a coach included Weeks 1-4: Building the Foundation In your first week, you will receive a Kit that includes a VR headset and a HR sensor so you can engage in your daily VR nervous system training. You will also schedule your first of three Flowly Coaching sessions to set your goals for the program, design your Flowly routine moving forward, and answer any questions you might have Weeks 5-8: Cultivating Intrinsic Brain-Body Regulation Engage in trainings that utilize your nervous system to take control of various psychological and emotional aspects of your chronic pain experience. All while discovering new environments and tools to create physical safety. Meet with your Flowly coach for your second session to check in on progress and goals Weeks 9-12: Establishing Enduring Practice Reinforcing all the training you have accomplished so far, we will put together all the tools and learnings into a daily ritual that best fits your life now, but most importantly, your life and dreams moving forward. You will also meet with your coach for your last session to wrap up your program and establish your steps moving forward All throughout the program, you will have access to: * Bubbles: virtual small support groups where heroes can connect with one another and engage in activities to do with improving their health * Workshops: with health experts and specialists on specific educational health topics * Tools: 2D breathwork guides, educational articles, and more in the Resources tab in-app * Forum: a community forum where heroes can share their experiences and questions After 3 months you will have the opportunity to go into “Maintenance Mode” with continued access to the program content, new VR worlds and experiences, and other in-app resources. *Can This Actually Work?* Flowly marries two powerful approaches: biofeedback for relaxation training and Virtual Reality. There are 1,000+ studies dedicated to both therapies for pain. Flowly itself is partnered with UPMC and USC for studies with a grant awarded by the National Institute of Health. Dr. Robert Tien, the former Chair of Neuroradiology at Duke, says this, “Flowly’s experiences help enhance a user’s Vagus Nerve function, which plays a crucial role in preventing inflammation, increasing heart resilience, and treating symptoms of chronic pain and anxiety. Flowly is fun and accessible, but ultimately, can seriously improve overall life quality with consistent use” *Subscription Pricing and Terms* Healing from Pain Program - Program Fee - $474.99 - Maintenance Fee - $4.99/month Standard Flowly Subscription - Change My Life Membership - $44.99/month or $239.99/year - Community Membership - $4.99/month or $59.99/year Your subscription will automatically renew unless turned off in your iTunes Account Settings at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Subscriptions will be charged to your iTunes account. For more information, see our terms at https://www.flowly.world/terms-of-service and privacy policy at https://www.flowly.world/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Thinkladder4 screens
Flowly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Flowly at 407 against Thinkladder's 24. Flowly also leads on review sentiment (85% vs 70%). Thinkladder's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Thinkladder sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Flowly sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Flowly holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flowly has 407 ratings behind it against 24, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Thinkladder's written reviews are positive against 85% of Flowly's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Thinkladder versus Flowly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThinkladderFlowly
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (24 ratings)4.6 (407 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.3% of reviews85.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings24407 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size268 MB432 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperThink Ladder LimitedTamade LLC

Customer experience

Thinkladder

All ratings24 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews37 reviews
Positive70.3%
Neutral10.8%
Negative18.9%

Flowly

All ratings401 ratings
Positive89.0%
Neutral2.5%
Negative8.5%
Written reviews82 reviews
Positive85.4%
Neutral3.7%
Negative11.0%

Bugs and requests

Thinkladder

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Flowly

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • App crashes when entering billing information
  • Incompatibility issues with certain phone models and VR headsets

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to walk around in VR worlds instead of just sitting
  • Integration with Apple Health and other fitness trackers
  • More diverse range of VR environments and experiences
  • Offline mode for VR sessions
  • Customizable breathing patterns and pacing

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Thinkladder

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription - Themes3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription - Themes3 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time8
  • Loss of Job ThemeFree
  • Comparing Myself to Others$2.99
  • Anxiety Theme$2.99
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  • Loss of Plans and Dreams$2.99
  • Mother Guilt Theme$2.99
  • Workplace Change Theme$2.99
  • Public Speaking Theme$2.99
  • All Themes$199.99
11 purchases

Flowly

Subscriptions10
  • Community Membership Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Flowly Journey Maintenance3 Months trial$4.991 Month
  • Flowly Basic Monthly$9.991 Month
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  • Flowly Basic Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Community Membership Yearly$39.991 Year
  • Flowly Pro Monthly$44.991 Month
  • Flowly Pro Monthly1 Month trial$44.991 Month
  • Flowly Basic Yearly$59.991 Year
  • Flowly Pro Yearly$239.991 Year
  • Flowly Family Plan$349.991 Year
One-time1
  • Healing from Pain Program$1000.00

Questions

Is Thinkladder free?
Thinkladder is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Flowly free?
Flowly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Thinkladder or Flowly?
Flowly is rated higher. Thinkladder averages 4.4 out of 5 from 24 ratings, while Flowly averages 4.6 from 407 ratings.
Do Thinkladder or Flowly have ads?
Neither Thinkladder nor Flowly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Thinkladder or Flowly?
Thinkladder ships an update monthly, and Flowly monthly. Most recently, Thinkladder was updated on October 24, 2026 and Flowly on October 24, 2026.

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