Comparison

ACT iCoach vs Equa

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

Head to head
About

ACT iCoach

Learn and practice Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) skills through video lessons, animations, and interactive tools. Track your mood, journal your thoughts, and monitor progress with analytics. Share data with your therapist for real-time engagement and motivation.

Highlights
  • Video lessons and animations
  • Mood and emotion tracking
  • Journaling and ACT measures
  • Progress summaries and analytics
  • Therapist sharing
  • Over 100 exercises
  • 1000+ meditations
Features
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ACT iCoach is a comprehensive app that covers all aspects of Acceptance Commitment Therapy Learn and practice ACT skills using video lessons and fun animations which helps you to remember skills longer. Features over video lessons and easy to read content from some of the leading ACT Practitioners and researchers in the world. You can also take notes on these lessons for future use. User friendly tools to track your mood, emotions, journal and ACT measures. Summary screens to check your progress. Analytics to get insight into your own behavior as you learn new skills. Ability to share with therapists and care team. Track your progress on how you are doing and get motivated to obtain new skills. Get awards for tasks done towards obtaining new skills or keeping up with one you already know. Complete exercises and practice ideas that are similar to worksheets in actual ACT Therapy. There are over 100 exercises. Each of the exercise link directly to lessons. Over 1000 meditations ranging across multiple themes from some of the best teachers in the world. Favorites list to save skills and meditations you use frequently. Weekly and Daily ACT Measure tracking. Finally, the app integrates with a clinician app. If your therapist is signed up and you are set up to share your diary card and exercises then you don’t have to share via email every week. Your therapist can engage with you in real time. The app also integrates with Apple's HealthKit to record your meditation minutes to Health Kit mindfulness. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase *You have a choice of being billed monthly for $9.99/month or a discounted price of $49.99 every six months. • Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period • Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal • Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase • Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Privacy Policy:https://www.resiliens.com/privacy Terms of use: https://www.resiliens.com/terms DISCLAIMER: This is not a substitute for a Therapist or a Medical Professional. It works best when you use as a companion app along with your ACT Therapist / Counselor.

About

Equa

This app offers a personalized mindfulness training experience with interactive feedback to build attentional control, mental resilience, and overall well-being. It addresses common challenges faced by new meditators by providing guidance and support throughout the practice.

Highlights
  • Attentional control training
  • Mental resilience building
  • Personalized mindfulness coaching
  • Interactive feedback system
  • Well-being improvement
  • Guided meditation practice
Features
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You’ve meditated before. Did it work? Be honest…you don’t actually know. Equa does. Equa is a meditation app that turns your practice into something you can measure. Using only the motion sensors in your phone, Equa tracks your breathing while you meditate and turns it into feedback on what actually changed during the session. No watch, no ring, and no headband needed. Using your respiration data, you can now see how your practice went, and watch your meditation skills develop over days and weeks – so you can tell whether it’s working instead of guessing. If you are new to Equa, you can try the app for free. After the trial, choose your own price on our sliding scale, or become an Equanaut and make Equa possible for someone else! Equa needs no additional hardware. Simply rest your phone on your chest and let the sensors inside do the work. How it works: Meditation Insights Equa reads your breathing from your phone’s accelerometer during a session and shows you what changed. You get your breath rate in breaths per minute, how it shifted from the start of the session to the end, and where that sits relative to your own baseline. The respiration algorithm was developed with researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. Breath Rate Breath rate is one of the clearest physical signals that a session is doing something, and Equa tracks it every time you sit. Trends Single sessions vary. Practice shows up over weeks. Equa charts your breath rate and session history over time so you can see your progress over time. Science We didn’t just make this up. Equa’s Chief Science Officer, Dr. David Creswell, runs the Health and Human Performance Lab at Carnegie Mellon University, where he’s spent two decades studying how mindfulness training actually changes the body’s biological stress outcomes. One study found mindfulness training reliably lowered cortisol and blood pressure under stress. But participants didn’t report feeling less stressed – they just were. “How do you feel” was never going to catch that. So we built something that does. Training & Curriculum: Equa treats meditation the way a training program treats a physical capacity. Sessions ask you to stay with discomfort rather than escape it, because that is where stress resilience is built. The curriculum offers a structured path through Unified Mindfulness’s core skills: Concentration Power, Sensory Clarity, and Equanimity. Equa offers a science-backed framework for mindfulness training. What else you can do in the Equa app: Review any past session and its breathing data Set practice reminders that fit your schedule Follow guided sessions for stress, focus, and attention Track and build on your practice Equa provides products and services designed for general wellness and education purposes. Equa is not a medical device, is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease, and should not be used as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Breath rate measurement provides feedback on your meditation practice and is not a diagnostic tool.  After this, Equa offers two auto-renewing subscription options: Play what you want slider Price - Varying This subscription is for six months and auto-renews after six months. - Title of auto-renewing subscription: Pay as you go. - Length of subscription: 1 month - Price of subscription: Varying - Privacy policy can be found here https://equahealth.io/privacy-policy. - Terms of Use (EULA) can be found here https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula. Year Subscription This subscription is for 12 months and auto-renews after 12 months. - Title: Annual Membership - Length of subscription: 1 year - Privacy policy can be found here https://equahealth.io/privacy-policy. - Terms of Use (EULA) can be found here https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula.

Screenshots

ACT iCoach4 screens
Equa4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Equa at 4.9 against ACT iCoach's 4.6. Equa also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 4 weeks). ACT iCoach's advantage is review sentiment (85% vs 69%). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. ACT iCoach sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Equa sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Equa holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 186 and 240 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 85% of ACT iCoach's written reviews are positive against 69% of Equa's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ACT iCoach ships an update every 4 weeks, Equa weekly. Both last shipped on October 18, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
ACT iCoach versus Equa: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterACT iCoachEqua
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (186 ratings)4.9 (240 ratings) — better
Positive reviews84.6% of reviews — better69.0% of reviews
Number of ratings186240 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.1 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB95 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperResiliens Inc.Equa Health, Inc.

Customer experience

ACT iCoach

All ratings186 ratings
Positive89.8%
Neutral1.1%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews91 reviews
Positive84.6%
Neutral1.1%
Negative14.3%

Equa

All ratings240 ratings
Positive97.9%
Neutral0.8%
Negative1.3%
Written reviews29 reviews
Positive69.0%
Neutral10.3%
Negative20.7%

User reviews

ACT iCoach

From 186 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 User-friendly and intuitive interface
  • 📊 Excellent tracking and analytics tools
  • 🎓 Comprehensive ACT lessons and educational content
  • 🧘 Helpful guided meditations and exercises
  • 👥 Ability to share data with therapists

Room to improve

  • 💰 Expensive subscription model ($10/month or $50/6 months)
  • 🔒 Limited free functionality without premium
  • 🐛 App freezes after entries or assessments
  • 🐛 Crashes and connection failures
  • ❌ Poor onboarding and unclear instructions

Equa

From 240 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💡 Innovative real-time breath feedback
  • 👍 Great for carving out mindful time
  • 👍 Helps improve state of mind
  • 👍 Great structure for mindfulness
  • 👍 Developers listen to feedback

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Tapping feedback inaccurate
  • 🐛 Login doesn't work
  • 🐛 Lack of instructions/guidance
  • 🐛 No dashboard guidance
  • 🐛 Inconsistent session logging

Bugs and requests

ACT iCoach

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • App freezes after every entry or assessment
  • Failed to connect to store error
  • Login page resets during account creation
  • Account existence conflicts (user exists/does not exist)
  • Intermittent crashes and connection issues
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  • Premium membership status not persisting after reinstall
  • UI elements not aligned properly on older iPhones
  • Scroll functionality issues preventing access to all answer options
  • Data loss when signed out of Apple ID

Requested features

7 requests
  • Offline functionality
  • Goals section in addition to journal
  • Better onboarding tutorial ("ACT & This App 101")
  • Clearer password requirements during signup
  • Clinician subscription bundling options
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  • Free trial period before requiring payment
  • One-time purchase option instead of recurring subscription

Equa

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Login page not working
  • Tapping feedback not detecting double taps
  • Accomplishments not logging accurately
  • Cannot proceed past lesson 13 as a premium subscriber
  • App redirects to subscribe screen for premium content
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  • No way to reset user's meditation experience level

Requested features

8 requests
  • Add more content/lessons
  • Sync with Apple Health
  • Improve tapping detection accuracy
  • Provide more guidance on dashboard usage
  • Offer more than one reminder for micro-exercises
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  • Add ability to reset profile/experience level
  • Clarify course structure/outline
  • Add more lessons beyond the initial 41

In-app purchases

2 purchases

ACT iCoach

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly subscription3 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Six Month Subscription$49.996 Months
12 purchases

Equa

Subscriptions12
  • Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscriptoin7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$4.991 Month
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  • Monthly Subscriptoin7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription1 Month trial$11.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$14.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$17.991 Month
  • Resilience Starter Kit7 Days trial$29.996 Months
  • Yearly Subscription1 Year trial$39.991 Year
  • Annual Membership7 Days trial$64.991 Year
  • Yearly Equanaut7 Days trial$149.991 Year

Questions

Is ACT iCoach free?
ACT iCoach is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Equa free?
Equa is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ACT iCoach or Equa?
Equa is rated higher. ACT iCoach averages 4.6 out of 5 from 186 ratings, while Equa averages 4.9 from 240 ratings.
Do ACT iCoach or Equa have ads?
Neither ACT iCoach nor Equa shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ACT iCoach or Equa?
ACT iCoach ships an update every 4 weeks, and Equa weekly. Most recently, ACT iCoach was updated on October 18, 2026 and Equa on October 18, 2026.

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