Comparison

αble EQ vs MindBackyard

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

Head to head
About

αble EQ

Enhance your hearing experience with this app that transforms commercial earphones into sound collectors. It offers audibility testing, personalized sound adjustments, and scene-specific presets to improve listening in various environments. For users of the dedicated hearing aid, advanced focus and microphone diagnostic features are also available.

Highlights
  • Audibility testing
  • Personalized sound tuning (bass, treble, voice)
  • Scene-based presets
  • Audibility history tracking
  • Focus adjustment (with able aid)
  • Microphone troubleshooting (with able aid)
Features
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App. that can transform commercial earphones to a “sound collector” This is a recommended app for "people who want to improve ear troubles casually". ——————— 《Functions applicable to Commercial earphones(wired / wireless)》 ■Sound Collection You can experience “the best hearing condition” by 1. testing your audibility with the app. In addition, you can fine-tune the bass and treble, adjust the left and right separately, and increase and decrease the male and female voices. ■Preset able to adjust your hearing by registering 6 different scenes such as (e.g. restaurant, train, pub, concert, theatre, cafe, etc...) ■Audibility Manager able to visually check your audibility. The app. will save the audibility test results for three years for you to keep track of your audibility status. ——————— 《Functions on able aid(sold separately)》 ■Focus Adjustment able to adjust the level of focus function on on able devices. You can concentrate on the voice of the person you want to listen to in a noisy place. ■Microphone Check able to detect technical troubles with microphone and suggest you to fix or to replace. ——————— 《Price list》 able series users (e.g. able aid / able plus / able glass) can use all functions for [free]. Commercial earphone users can perform a simple hearing test for [free]. The function to reflect the test result to the earphone is [paid]. ——————— 《Other》 Click here for details:https://able-hear.com/pages/en Terms of service:https://able-hear.com/pages/terms-en Privacy policy:https://able-hear.com/pages/privacy-policy-en Developing company: https://freecle.co.jp/ ———————

About

MindBackyard

Features
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MindBackyard is a space to move through and move thoughts around. Wander. Explore. Give thoughts places. Move them around. Change your perspective. Or spend some time somewhere with less asking for your attention. No task to finish. No score to improve. No particular outcome required. THOUGHT SPACE Sometimes a thought doesn't need to become a task, note, or something to solve. It may simply need a place. Thought Space lets you bring thoughts into a spatial environment as Thought Blocks. Move them closer. Move them farther away. Put one somewhere that feels right. Move it again when it doesn't. Thought Space doesn't decide what a thought means or where it belongs. You decide how you want to place it. THOUGHT BLOCKS Thoughts in Thought Space become Thought Blocks that you can move around. A Thought Block can have a position, distance, and orientation within the space. It can also have Mental Steps connected to it, keeping possible paths available with a thought without requiring you to follow them. You can arrange thoughts without organizing them into a list, priority system, or productivity structure. The arrangement can change whenever you want it to. CHANGE YOUR PERSPECTIVE Thought Space can be viewed from different perspectives. The thoughts don't have to change. Sometimes you can simply change where you're looking from. INFINITE HALLWAY MindBackyard also gives your attention somewhere to wander. Walk through an infinite hallway. Open low-stakes doors. Visit rooms and chambers. Return to places you've visited before. Or just keep walking. There is nowhere you need to be. MindBackyard is not about progress. It is simply a place where attention can move. ROOMS AND CHAMBERS Behind the doors, you may discover spaces such as: • Tactile Noise • Pebble Garden • Rain Window • Floating Orbs • Quiet Library • Solitary Light • Firefly Glade • Perspective Room • MindAnchor Chamber THOUGHT FADE MindBackyard can receive thoughts from other MINDBEBOP tools. A thought can appear briefly and then fade from view. No analysis required. No action required. No need to turn it into a task. MENTAL STEPS Thought Blocks in Thought Space can be connected to saved Mental Steps in MindEntry. A thought can have one path or several. They can stay connected until you want to use one. Choose one and MindEntry opens the Mental Steps so you can begin navigating from there. MindBackyard can also be used as a Mental Step within Mental Steps in MindEntry. Mental Steps can open MindBackyard, give your attention room to move, and return you to the same active Mental Step when you're ready to continue. NOT A PRODUCTIVITY SPACE MindBackyard is not a task manager, knowledge graph, or productivity canvas. Thoughts don't have to become tasks. Thought Blocks don't have to form a system. Connected Mental Steps don't have to be started. Wandering doesn't have to lead anywhere. You can organize something if you want to. Or simply move things around. PART OF MINDBEBOP MINDBEBOP is a modular system designed to reduce Thought Noise, support Mental Navigation, and anchor successful mental states. MindBackyard provides space within that system — for thoughts to have places and for attention to move without requiring a destination. DESIGNED TO STAY LIGHTWEIGHT • 100% free • No subscriptions • No accounts • No tracking • No analytics • No cloud storage • Everything stays on your device • Optional tips are available if you'd like to support a solo developer Sometimes you want to do something with a thought. Sometimes you don't. MindBackyard gives both somewhere to happen. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

αble EQ4 screens
MindBackyard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: MindBackyard at every 8 days against αble EQ's every 3 weeks. αble EQ's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. αble EQ sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.49 per month and MindBackyard sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

αble EQ ships an update every 3 weeks, MindBackyard every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
αble EQ versus MindBackyard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterαble EQMindBackyard
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews81.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerfreecle Inc.Kentaro Yamauchi

In-app purchases

3 purchases

αble EQ

Subscriptions3
  • 1 month plan7 Days trial$7.491 Month
  • 3 months plan7 Days trial$21.493 Months
  • 1 year plan7 Days trial$80.991 Year
6 purchases

MindBackyard

Subscriptions2
  • MINDBEBOP Access Monthly$7.991 Month
  • MINDBEBOP Access Yearly$49.991 Year
One-time4
  • Tip (optional)$4.99
  • Tip (optional)$19.99
  • Tip (optional)$99.99
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  • MINDBEBOP Access Lifetime$99.99

Questions

Is αble EQ free?
αble EQ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MindBackyard free?
MindBackyard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do αble EQ or MindBackyard have ads?
Neither αble EQ nor MindBackyard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, αble EQ or MindBackyard?
αble EQ ships an update every 3 weeks, and MindBackyard every 8 days. Most recently, αble EQ was updated on October 15, 2026 and MindBackyard on October 10, 2026.

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