Mindiful vs The Lighthouse
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mindiful
This app offers interactive exercises and tools to help children develop emotional intelligence and practice mindfulness. It includes guided breathing, mood tracking, and a digital journal designed for early learners.
- Guided breathing exercises
- Emotional intelligence activities
- Stretching and spatial awareness
- Relaxation and meditation techniques
- Digital journaling canvas
- Parental analytics and insights
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Mindiful is a progressive, enriching, and entertaining children's mental health software platform comprised of early learning mental health exercises, insightful tools - like our journaling canvas, and analytics; all set in an immersive storybook interface. Great for both at-home use with parents/guardians or for use with teachers/clinicians. Early-Stage mental health resources for a better future! – – – CLOUD EXERCISES: Practice early-stage mental health exercises. -Bird Breathing: An introduction to breathing exercises. Paced Breathing: Learn to control and slow the pace of breath by following the bird’s wings up and down as you breathe in and out. Diaphragm Breathing: Learn to breathe fuller and deeper breaths by expanding the belly (diaphragm) like a beach ball. Nasal Inhale/Oral Exhale: Learn to breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth. -Monkey Moods: An introduction to emotional intelligence. Children are given two different style prompts to share their feelings. The first, a present and reflective prompt on how they currently feel. The second, to learn about different emotions and associate times when they have felt them. Emotion Learning Photobooth: Visually practice emotions with fun animal masks and face prompts. -Sloth Stretches: An introduction to stretching & spatial awareness. Children view simple short visual clip demonstrations of a sloth stretching. Our stretches act as an easy and fun introduction to the mind-body connection and exploring how one moves/takes up space. -Reptile Relaxation: An introduction to relaxation & meditation. Sleepy Snake Snooze: Uses tension-relaxation techniques to encourage restful sleep/naps. The Grateful Gecko: Encourages relaxation through guided thoughts of gratitude. Frog’s Favorite Things: Uses positive memory recall techniques to relax and calm. MY FIRST JOURNAL: A pre-literacy age solution to early-stage journaling with our journaling canvas. Suggested to be used for learning early-stage introspection and as an alternative to ‘time out.’ Children are encouraged to submit daily journal entries in 'My First Journal.' This is a safe, calm space for kids to freely communicate how they feel. EARLY JOURNALING EASY AS 1-2-3! 1. Drawing 2. Audio Recording 3. Selection of Emotion (e.g., happy, sad, etc.). -Selection of Journal Prompts: "Today I feel..." "I am grateful for..." "I got upset because..." "I like myself because..." "My dream is to..." "I showed kindness when..." INSIGHT & ANALYTICS: The analytic insights provided by Mindiful™ are a great tool to see how a child may be feeling, even if those feelings have not been directly expressed. Our 'Parent Portal' analytics are accessible from the 'Home' screen and highlight key points of information to help monitor and improve aspects of a child's mental health. Reports show exercise usage/areas to focus on or that may be overlooked. Our calendar and mood trend logs make it easy to see over time what is the most common mood and patterns in mood trends. Available Reports: -Overview -Moods -Exercise Usage -Journal The Reports/Journals are available for download. KEY BOOK: Earn & collect the keys to positivity! A simple incentivization model to encourage kids to keep up their progress by practicing exercises. We encourage the attachment of 'real-life' impactful goals to unlocking our 'Keys to Positivity." – – – We at Mindiful™ believe proactive children's mental health resources should be universally accessible and become a natural part of early education. Learn more about upcoming features, have access to helpful user guides, give feedback/requests and join our community at mindiful.io! Why try to learn mental health retroactively as an adult? Mindiful™ is the foundational proactive solution. Good habits start young. LICENSED APPLICATION END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
The Lighthouse
This app helps children understand and manage their emotions through simple explanations, mini-games, and mindfulness exercises. It encourages self-awareness and emotional intelligence with creative activities like avatar creation and storytelling.
- Discover main emotions
- Create custom avatar
- Practice mindfulness
- Tell your own story
- Express through art and voice
- Paint relaxing mandalas
- Free play mode
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Sometimes it is hard to know what you are feeling and what is happening to you. Emotions overwhelm you and you don't know how to name what is happening to you. Don't worry. We'll help you understand what is happening to you, to learn about your emotions and to get to know yourself. It is very important to exercise emotional intelligence from a very early age, to acquire the skills that help us to know ourselves and to manage emotions and complicated situations. That is why we've created this app. A self-knowledge app; but, above all, an app to become aware of emotions and learn to identify and manage them. With simple explanations, mini-games and activities. An app that helps children manage and express their emotions, and that provides tools and activities to help us relax when certain emotions take over. All of this thanks to mindfulness: exercises and techniques to relax and calm down, to be well with oneself and prevent certain situations from overtaking us. An app that allows you to create your own avatar, become the protagonist and explain your own story. FEATURES: • Discover the main emotions. • Create your avatar. • Practice mindfulness and feel calm. • Tell your own story. • Express yourself through drawings, photos, voice... • Paint mandalas while you relax. • Free play, with no rules or stress. • No ads. ABOUT LEARNY LAND At Learny Land, we love to play, and we believe that games must form part of the educational and growth stage of all children; because to play is to discover, explore, learn and have fun. Our educational games help children learn about the world around them and are designed with love. They are easy to use, beautiful and safe. Because boys and girls have always played to have fun and learn, the games we make - like the toys that last a lifetime - can be seen, played and heard. At Learny Land we take advantage of the most innovative technologies and the most modern devices to take the experience of learning and playing a step further. We create toys that could not have existed when we were young. Read more about us at www.learnyland.com. Privacy Policy We take Privacy very seriously. We do not collect or share personal information about your children or allow any type of third party ads. To learn more, please read our privacy policy at www.learnyland.com. Contact us We'd love to know your opinion and your suggestions. Please, write to support@learnyland.com. Terms of Use: http://learnyland.com/terms-of-service/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Mindiful at 5.0 against The Lighthouse's 4.4. Mindiful also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. Mindiful sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month and The Lighthouse sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Mindiful holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 31 and 28 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Mindiful ships an update every 2 months, The Lighthouse every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mindiful | The Lighthouse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (31 ratings) — better | 4.4 (28 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | 28 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 322 MB | 371 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Whengen, LLC | Learny Land |
Customer experience
Mindiful
The Lighthouse
In-app purchases
Mindiful
- Portal$4.991 Month
The Lighthouse
- Learny Land Pass - Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
- Learny Land Pass - Monthly7 Days trial$8.991 Month
- Learny Land Pass - Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
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- Learny Land Pass - Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year







