Stress Therapy vs SameHere Scale
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stress Therapy
This app offers a scientifically-backed 5-step process to help users overcome stress, anxiety, and toxic thinking. It guides you to identify and eliminate negative thought patterns, rebuilding healthier ones over a 63-day program.
- Scientifically-researched 5-step process
- Eliminate toxic thinking habits
- Rebuild healthy thought patterns
- Over 30 mini Neurocycle guides
- Daily practice for 63 days
- Identify root causes of mental health issues
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Eliminate stress, anxiety, depression and toxic thinking with the first ever scientifically-tested brain detox app! NeuroCycle uses Dr. Leaf's scientifically researched and revolutionary 5 Step Process to help you take back control over your thoughts and your life. • Just 5 simple steps • 15-45 minutes each day for 63 days • Over 30 mini Neurocycle guides for toxic thinking habits like people-pleasing, overthinking, guilt and more! This program is designed to teach you to overcome anxiety, stress, and toxic thinking by helping you: • Find the root of the toxic thought and habit that is causing mental health issues • Eliminate the root • Rebuild a healthy new thought pattern and habit “This app is a life changer! I discovered and used this program while I was a police officer. I walked off the job, burnt out, depressed, and totally broken. This program was a staple in my healing and getting myself back to the job. I’ve recommended it to many of my fellow officers.”- Aaron Smith “I'm so amazed at how much this is helping me. I wish they had this program in schools. It would teach young people how to think good thoughts. I still have a lot of work to do on myself but that's ok. I'm learning so much.”-Janet “I just want to let Dr. Leaf know how much her Neurocycle program has helped me. I am on the 19th day of my 2nd cycle and there has been such a tremendous change in my thinking. To be honest I was not sure it would work but this has been truly life-changing. I just want to say Thank You for the work you are doing.I have struggled all my life with anxiety and now to be able to walk in freedom after 58 years is truly a miracle.”-Kim Dr. Leaf recommends that you progress one cycle day for each calendar day in order to get the most out of your Neurocycle program. SUBSCRIPTION PRICING AND TERMS Neurocycle offers three auto-renewing subscription options after your 3 day free trial ends: -$14.99 Monthly -$29.99 3 Months -$99.99 Full Year These prices are for United States customers. Pricing in other countries may vary and actual charges may be converted to your local currency depending on the country if residence. The subscription will automatically renew unless turned off in your iTunes Account Settings at least 24 hours before the current period ends. You can go to you iTunes Account settings to manage your subscription and turn off auto-renew. Your iTunes Account will be charged when the purchase is confirmed. If you subscribe before your free trial ends, the rest of your free trial period will be forfeited as as soon as your purchase is confirmed. Read the terms and conditions here: https://www.neurocycle.app/terms-conditions Read the privacy policy here: https://www.neurocycle.app/privacy-policy Questions? Email help@neurocycle.app If you experience any unexpected behavior, please contact us directly at help@neurocycle.app or leave a comment in the app beta Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/neurocyclebeta/ before writing a review, and we will address the issues as soon as possible to improve the quality of your experience. Your direct feedback is greatly appreciated.
SameHere Scale
This app provides a structured way to communicate about well-being with connections, using a shared scale and private chats. It helps track personal trends and fosters open conversations about mental health.
- Shared well-being scale
- Private secure chats
- Personal trend tracking
- Journaling of responses
- Invite connections easily
- Mark and track personal responses
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Connect with anyone who is on your phone: friends, children, parents, extended family members, doctors, patients, teachers, students, coworkers, managers, and more, using this #SameHere Scale App. You are easily able to both request and share how you are doing with anyone you choose, using the same language on this “Scale” - daily, weekly, monthly, and engage in private, secured chats related to those responses. You can even choose to record and comment or journal about your own scale responses, so that you may notice your own trends over time. As you discover what actions/behaviours/exercises/therapies move you further to the left, towards "Thriving" more consistently on the Scale, you can stick with those routines, and help others you are connected with, do the same! We give individuals all over the world the opportunity to break down the barriers of communication by providing a simple but effective tool and communication platform, that fosters important discussions. Without these tools, when we ask each other, how we are doing, between two people in any relationship, we get answers like: “OK” or “Fine.” This gets us nowhere. The #SameHere Scale and the app are designed to help you open up (to yourself and/or others) to foster communication, and track response trends, over time. Never before have we had a tool to track the changes in our states of mind and tie them back to our experiences, the sensations we feel in our brains/bodies, and our mental health routines, right from the palm of our hands. #SameHere is a Global Mental Health Movement that works with everyone from schools to offices to military and professional sports teams, to normalize the conversation around mental health and social and emotional learning, and make them part of our everyday conversations. With the #SameHere Scale, we have worked with behavioral health professionals, graphic designers, and world-renowned psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, and social workers to create an easy to understand (mental health continuum, or) “Scale” that puts everyone you interact with on the same page with respect to a common language that can be used to express how you are doing, and how those answers may change over time. [Key Features] * Through the app you are able to invite anyone in your phone, through any of the ways you are connected with them(text message, email, WhatsApp, messenger, etc.), to begin to share their answers to their Scale with you, and vice versa as frequently as you each would like * Your privacy is very important to us; all responses and communication that takes place on the app are securely protected * Users have the ability to respond to requests from their connection with just their Scale responses or with commentary related to those responses. * Users may also choose to mark and track their own Scale responses - where you can mark how you are doing, even before you are comfortable sharing this information with others * A Chat feature in the app allows you and your contacts to have individual back-and-forths about any response or commentary shared * You can track your response trends over time, and those of your contacts in both linear and graphic formats over days, weeks, months, and even years - through the app * Tracking these trends allows you to keep tabs on what activities, behaviors, therapies, and other modalities you may be trying, to move you to or keep you on the left, on the Scale, closest to Thriving. EULA: https://sameheredevstorage.blob.core.windows.net/assets/SameHereScalePrivacyPolicy.pdf
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Stress Therapy at 1.8K against SameHere Scale's 15. SameHere Scale's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 77%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Stress Therapy sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month and SameHere Scale sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
SameHere Scale holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stress Therapy has 1.8K ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of Stress Therapy's written reviews are positive against 100% of SameHere Scale's.
Stress Therapy ships an update fortnightly, SameHere Scale every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stress Therapy | SameHere Scale |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.8K ratings) | 5.0 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.8K — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Switch On Your Brain International LLC | 5-IN-5 INC. |
Customer experience
Stress Therapy
SameHere Scale
Bugs and requests
Stress Therapy
Reported bugs
4 issues- Login and registration errors
- Inability to access content after initial free period
- Notifications and reminders not working
- Crashes and freezes when navigating the app
Requested features
4 requests- Back button functionality
- Ability to adjust audio playback speed
- Improved progress tracking and history
- More comprehensive resources and support
SameHere Scale
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Stress Therapy
- One Month3 Days trial$14.991 Month
- 3 Month Promo For NYE$19.993 Months
- 3 month3 Days trial$29.993 Months
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- Best Value 12 Month3 Days trial$99.991 Year
SameHere Scale
- Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Monthly$2.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$9.991 Year
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- Yearly$29.951 Year
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