Thought Temple vs Mindful
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Thought Temple
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We all have days and moments where we feel “unworthy”, “not enough” and “unloved”. When negative thoughts circle your mind and continually play the same negative story over and over, learn to disrupt and reframe your thoughts and story through the art of attention - meditation. Use the techniques of mindfulness, imagery, relaxation, affirmations, and drawing to communicate positive messages to your unconscious mind. What’s Included: Meditations start from 5 minutes to 20 minutes. Choose your Meditation: Relaxation - Breathe and allow you mind and body to enter into a state of relaxation. Effective when you want to interrupt a habitual thought pattern. Affirmations - Powerful words to change your inner dialogue and reframe your story. Imagery - Use your imagination to build pictures in your mind and focus your attention. Drawing - Allow your hand to reveal your soul and self express your unconscious beliefs. Mindshaping Artist Book 1 - Meditation to accompany colouring artist book “Say Goodbye to the story of “Im not Good Enough”. Video Meditations - meditate through motion pictures. Music Compositions - to relax, to create, to unwind, for confidence and for possibilities. Learn the Art of Feeling Good. In-App Purchases: -Monthly Plan: --We have monthly auto-renewable subscription available. --Price for monthly plan is AUD 5.99 per month for individuals and AUD 329.99 per month for organizations --Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and will automatically renew (at the duration/price selected) unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hrs before the end of the current period. --Current subscription may not be cancelled during the active subscription period; however, you can manage your subscription and/or turn off auto-renewal by visiting your iTunes Account Settings after purchase. --Any unused portion of the free one month initial period will be forfeited when you purchases a subscription Terms & Conditions: https://thoughttemple.com/terms-conditions/
Mindful
This app helps you analyze and improve your mental and physical health by tracking mood, exercise, sleep, and more. It offers journaling, pre-built and custom charts to visualize your data, and discover relationships between your habits and well-being.
- Track mood, exercise, sleep, stress, hydration, anxiety
- Gratitude journal entries
- Diary feature for introspection
- Hundreds of pre-built charts
- Create custom charts
- Historic, comparison, and scatter charts
- Pie charts for frequency analysis
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Mindful: Explore You is a powerful health and wellness tracker built to help you analyze and improve both your mental and physical health, optimize your routine, build good and kick bad habits. - Track anything important to your well-being including mood, exercise, stress, sleep, mental sharpness, hydration, and anxiety. - Foster a positive mindset by recording gratitude journal entries. - Practice introspection with Mindful’s diary feature. - Explore how your lifestyle and habits impacts your well-being by reviewing hundreds of pre-built charts. - Create custom charts to visualize your responses and discover relationships between them. - Build historic charts to explore how your metrics have changed over time or to keep an eye on your responses. - Create comparison and scatter charts to explore the relationships between your metrics, such as how your sleep affects your mood and stress levels. - Build pie charts to see how frequently you record certain responses, such as how often you go to bed between 9:00 pm and 10:00 pm versus after 10:00 pm. Discover how writing in your gratitude journal improves your mood and reduces stress and anxiety, how your workout intensity affects your sleep quality, or something as simple as how often you go out to eat. The possibilities for tracking, reflecting, and improving are endless with Mindful. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
Thought Temple and Mindful are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Thought Temple sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Mindful sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Thought Temple ships an update every 2 weeks, Mindful every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Thought Temple | Mindful |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (12 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 81 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Thought Temple | Garret Vinson |
In-app purchases
Thought Temple
- Monthly subscription3 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Monthly Plan$3.991 Month
- Annual access3 Days trial$19.991 Year
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- Organization Monthly Plan$209.991 Month
Mindful
- Mindful Pro - Monthly$3.991 Month
- Mindful Pro - Annual$39.991 Year









