Action for Happiness vs RandomKindness
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Action for Happiness
This app provides daily action ideas to boost your mental health and wellbeing. It encourages you to spread happiness to others and join a supportive community focused on positivity and self-care. Monthly themes are based on scientific research to help you cultivate happiness year-round.
- Daily action ideas for happiness
- Monthly themed action calendars
- Community for sharing ideas
- Focus on mental health and wellbeing
- Science-based happiness strategies
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Boost your happiness and create a kinder world while doing it with the Action for Happiness app. You’ll receive simple, daily action ideas designed to help you support your own mental health and wellbeing and spread more happiness to others around you too. Join a community of positivity and self care that encourages you to create more happiness for yourself and others. Each month’s actions follow a specific theme, all based on the latest scientific research about happiness. Here’s why you’ll love to use Action for Happiness: • Daily nudges to help you feel good - get simple action ideas and inspiration to support your happiness each day. • Discover an exciting calendar every month - Friendly February, Mindful March, Active April, Joyful June, Self-Care September, Optimistic October and much more. So you can keep the happiness going all year long • Our community of kindness - Share your own actions and ideas with others directly in the community and become part of something bigger and even more wonderful. • Easy to use - Simply log in and start your happiness journey today. Find out more and join hundreds of thousands of others in the Action for Happiness movement at: www.actionforhappiness.org Want more happiness in your life? Download the Action for Happiness app today. Together we can create a happier and kinder world :) --- Read our terms and conditions here: www.actionforhappiness.org/app-terms Read our privacy policy here: www.actionforhappiness.org/privacy
RandomKindness
This app encourages daily acts of kindness through inspirational messages, positive news, and practical tips. Users can connect with others, share experiences, find local volunteer opportunities, and participate in kindness challenges with rewards.
- Daily inspiration messages with photos
- Positive news feed
- Tips for practicing kindness
- User posts and photo sharing
- Chat with other users
- Local volunteering resources
- Kindness challenges with rewards
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The RandomKindness App is meant to inspire, challenge, connect and provide a resource to help our audience practice kindness daily. It will have daily messages of inspiration with a photo, positive news, provide tips on how to practice kindness, users will be able to post, share photos of the Kindness Krew, chat with other users, provide a resource for local volunteering, offer a kindness challenge with congrats/rewards for achieving milestones for individuals or friends along with the ability to donate money or provide resources.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Action for Happiness at 469 against RandomKindness's 2. RandomKindness's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Action for Happiness against 5.0 for RandomKindness. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Action for Happiness has 469 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Action for Happiness | RandomKindness |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (469 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 99.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 469 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | — |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Action for Happiness | Gloria Heck |
Customer experience
Action for Happiness
RandomKindness
Bugs and requests
Action for Happiness
Reported bugs
2 issues- Login/submission issues for some users
- Occasional app crashes or freezes
Requested features
2 requests- Improved navigation between content
- Ability to customize notifications and reminders
RandomKindness
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Action for Happiness
No in-app purchases
RandomKindness
No in-app purchases







