PRISM Resilience vs Resolve
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PRISM Resilience
This app helps teens and young adults manage stress related to illness. It teaches four key skills: stress management and mindfulness, goal setting, positive reframing of challenges, and finding meaning. It's designed to promote resilience during difficult times.
- Stress management techniques
- Mindfulness exercises
- Goal setting guidance
- Problem-solving strategies
- Positive reappraisal of stressors
- Meaning-making exercises
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PRISM is for teens and young adults dealing with the stresses of illness. It stands for Promoting Resilience in stress management and it teaches four skills that other teens have found important. It targets four distinct areas: stress management and mindfulness, goal setting and problem solving, positive re-appraisals of stressors, and meaning-making and benefit-finding.
Resolve
This app offers a method to address issues like stress, trauma, pain, and cravings by stimulating brain plasticity. It aims to reset over-sensitized brain circuits that maintain persistent sensations.
- Stimulates brain plasticity
- Addresses chronic stress
- Helps with trauma recovery
- Manages pain sensations
- Supports addiction cravings relief
- Resets over-sensitized brain circuits
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RESOLVE-It! is a proven, tested method to solve problems by gently and safely stimulating brain plasticity. Research has shown that enduring problems produced by chronic stress, trauma, pain, and addictive cravings alter brain function - creating over sensitized brain circuits. These delicate circuits fire at higher volume keeping the experienced sensation such as anxiety or pain strong and activated until they reset back to their original state.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Resolve at 5.0 against PRISM Resilience's 4.3. PRISM Resilience's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 7 months) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Resolve holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PRISM Resilience has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
PRISM Resilience ships an update monthly, Resolve every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PRISM Resilience | Resolve |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Seattle Children's Hospital | Rich Bruursema |
Customer experience
PRISM Resilience
Resolve
In-app purchases
PRISM Resilience
No in-app purchases
Resolve
No in-app purchases
