ACT iCoach vs Grounding Now
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Video lessons and animations
- Mood and emotion tracking
- Journaling and ACT measures
- Progress summaries and analytics
- Therapist sharing
- Over 100 exercises
- 1000+ meditations
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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.
Grounding Now
This app offers immediate techniques to manage intense negative emotions like anger, stress, and anxiety. It provides silent, on-the-go grounding exercises through mental, physical, and soothing methods to help users regain control and make better choices.
- Immediate emotional regulation
- Mental, physical, and soothing grounding techniques
- Silent, on-the-go exercises
- Helps manage anger, stress, depression, anxiety
- Supports addiction and impulse control
- Differentiates from meditation and relaxation
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Grounding is an immediate, powerful way to reduce any intense negative feeling (e.g., anger, stress, depression, anxiety, addiction craving, or impulse to hurt yourself or others). It gives you control over your feelings so you can make good choices. It can be done anytime, anywhere, silently. You can ground on the bus... in the classroom… at work… while waiting on line. There are three types of grounding: mental, physical, and soothing (mind, body, heart). This app is for anyone but is especially helpful for people struggling with mental health or addiction. Learn how grounding differs from meditation or relaxation (hint: it’s more active). Grounding is from the best-selling book Seeking Safety. Our Term of Use & Privacy Policy: https://learn.appdocumentation.com/en/collections/1618556-terms-conditions-and-privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ACT iCoach at 85% against Grounding Now's 0%. ACT iCoach also leads on rating (4.6 vs 1.5) and ratings volume (187 vs 2). Grounding Now's advantage is monetization model (freemium vs subscription) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. ACT iCoach sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Grounding Now sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ACT iCoach holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 1.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ACT iCoach has 187 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of ACT iCoach's written reviews are positive against 0% of Grounding Now's.
ACT iCoach ships an update every 4 weeks, Grounding Now every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ACT iCoach | Grounding Now |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (187 ratings) — better | 1.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.6% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 187 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.1 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Resiliens Inc. | Treatment Innovations, LLC |
Customer experience
ACT iCoach
Grounding Now
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
Grounding Now
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ACT iCoach
- Monthly subscription3 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Six Month Subscription$49.996 Months
Grounding Now
- English3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Ground Now3 Days trial$9.996 Months
- Ground Now3 Days trial$12.991 Year
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