Comparison

Thinkladder vs Within

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

Head to head
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

Within

This app provides an anonymous audio journal for emotional well-being, using evidence-based psychological techniques like cognitive behavioral therapy. It helps users process emotions, identify patterns, and connect with an anonymous community for shared perspective.

Highlights
  • Anonymous audio journaling
  • Evidence-based psychological techniques
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy sessions
  • Emotion identification and processing
  • Anonymous community sessions
  • Daily practice tracking
  • Emotional pattern learning
Features
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Within is the world’s first anonymous self-talk audio journal designed from evidence-based psychological techniques for emotional well-being. Process your emotions in real time as they come up with self-talk audio sessions rooted in cognitive behavioral therapy. Learn to name your emotions to effectively move through them. Listen to anonymous community sessions to gain perspective and grow. Develop a daily self-talk practice, track your sessions over time and learn your emotional patterns. Within was created for authentic and vulnerable self talk, in a space of communal anonymity. A small reminder that you are not alone in how you feel. This is your space to release the thoughts that arise in your mind and create enough separation so you can reflect on them rather than be driven by them. Particularly the ones that lead to behaviors and actions that do not help you live the life you want. One of the most powerful transformation tool is the human voice. It was the voice of our caregivers that shaped us before we were ever born, and the voice of our peers, media and culture that continue to influence us to this day. In some ways, helpful and others not so much. Within is about reclaiming your authentic voice. The one you were born with. It’s the finger print of the inner you. Your essence. So be bold, speak your truth, let go of whatever is weighing you down and speak words that affirm your core values as you discover them over time. We call these moments self-talk sessions.

Screenshots

Thinkladder4 screens
Within4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Within at 4.9 against Thinkladder's 4.4. Within also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and review sentiment (100% vs 70%). Thinkladder's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. Thinkladder sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Within asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Within holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 24 and 24 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Thinkladder's written reviews are positive against 100% of Within's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Thinkladder ships an update monthly, Within fortnightly. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Thinkladder versus Within: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThinkladderWithin
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (24 ratings)4.9 (24 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2424
Update frequencyMonthlyFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size268 MB43 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperThink Ladder LimitedInnerverse Inc.

Customer experience

Thinkladder

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

Within

All ratings24 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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
Show 5 more
  • 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
None

Within

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Thinkladder free?
Thinkladder is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Within free?
Within is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Thinkladder or Within?
Within is rated higher. Thinkladder averages 4.4 out of 5 from 24 ratings, while Within averages 4.9 from 24 ratings.
Do Thinkladder or Within have ads?
Neither Thinkladder nor Within shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Thinkladder or Within?
Thinkladder ships an update monthly, and Within fortnightly. Most recently, Thinkladder was updated on November 3, 2026 and Within on November 3, 2026.

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