Comparison

Thinkladder vs Y

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

Y

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Y-MIND is an app designed to provide lessons on life skills and mental health self-management for adolescents. The lessons are based on evidence-based interventions developed and tested in Canada and several other countries. The Y-MIND app and its lessons have been developed and adapted in collaboration with the Vietnamese Youth Advisory Council (V-YAC) to ensure the content is relevant and appropriate for young people in Vietnam.

Screenshots

Thinkladder4 screens
Y4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Y at none against Thinkladder's 10. Y also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs monthly). Thinkladder's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, 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. Y asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Thinkladder ships an update monthly, Y every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Thinkladder versus Y: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThinkladderY
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (24 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews70.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings24 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size268 MB64 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperThink Ladder LimitedInstitute of Population, Health and Development

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
None

Y

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Thinkladder free?
Thinkladder is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Y free?
Y is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Thinkladder or Y have ads?
Neither Thinkladder nor Y shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Thinkladder or Y?
Thinkladder ships an update monthly, and Y every 8 days. Most recently, Thinkladder was updated on October 24, 2026 and Y on October 25, 2026.

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