Comparison

Mini Zendo vs Strive Journal

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

Head to head
About

Mini Zendo

Create custom meditation sessions with customizable start and end bells. Offers inspiring quotes from Zen teachers to encourage a consistent practice. Designed to help users build an easy meditation discipline.

Highlights
  • Customizable meditation sessions
  • Start and end bells
  • Inspiring Zen quotes
  • Build meditation discipline
  • Supports multiple religions
Features
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Mini Zendo allows you to create up to 6 different meditation sessions, depending on time availability, and thus helps create an easy meditation discipline. The session starts with a bell, and ends with a bell. The quotes are from Zen teachers, but the shinto torii reminds us to accept all religions. As your session ends, you can read an inspiring quote by Suzuki Roshi and Thich Nhat Hahn... Following a steady practice, is difficult...Mini Zendo is here to help!!

About

Strive Journal

This app helps you achieve your long-term goals through structured planning, journaling, and supportive exercises. Track your progress, share your journey with others, and reflect on your achievements.

Highlights
  • Goal setting and planning
  • Progress journaling
  • Shareable goals
  • Daily Gratitude exercises
  • Affirmations
  • Dear Future Self letters
  • Wheel of Life assessment
Features
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Increase your chance of achieving your long term goals and/or help others achieve theirs. Goal setting & Journaling Set goals, make a plan, visualize and stay focused. These are the key ingredients to achieving long-term goals. Write about your progress and look back on your life with appreciation on what you have achieved. Share your goals with friends and family, or keep them private for yourself. Add extra incentive to achieve your goals or the goals of others by adding supports. Once the objective has been finished, you choose to give it or not. Strive Journal comes with several exercises to increase your chance of succeeding: - Daily Gratitude - Affirmations - Dear Future Self - Wheel of Life Daily Gratitude A daily practice to focus on the positive instead of the negative Affirmations Set affirmations for yourself to embed beliefs and activate the law of attraction Dear Future Self Write letters to your future self. Predict what your future will look like and by visualizing and writing about it, increase your chance of actually getting there. Wheel of Life Discover which area in your life needs extra attention and set goals for this. Track your progress over the long term

Screenshots

Mini Zendo4 screens
Strive Journal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Strive Journal at fortnightly against Mini Zendo's every 7 months. Strive Journal also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.6). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Mini Zendo against 5.0 for Strive Journal. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mini Zendo ships an update every 7 months, Strive Journal fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Mini Zendo versus Strive Journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMini ZendoStrive Journal
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.616.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB53 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMartine HabibRemco Simonides

Customer experience

Mini Zendo

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Strive Journal

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Mini Zendo

No in-app purchases

None

Strive Journal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mini Zendo free?
Mini Zendo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Strive Journal free?
Strive Journal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mini Zendo or Strive Journal?
Mini Zendo and Strive Journal are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Mini Zendo or Strive Journal have ads?
Neither Mini Zendo nor Strive Journal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mini Zendo or Strive Journal?
Mini Zendo ships an update every 7 months, and Strive Journal fortnightly. Most recently, Mini Zendo was updated on October 24, 2026 and Strive Journal on October 24, 2026.

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