Clearhead vs Take a Breath
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Clearhead
This app offers a comprehensive mental health platform with tools for self-management, professional support, and a vast resource library. It helps users understand their challenges and provides personalized guidance through AI and community connections.
- AI chatbot for mental health guidance
- Search and book therapy sessions
- Extensive database of mental health resources
- Support person alerts
- Mood tracking and journaling
- Goal setting with reminders
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About Clearhead Clearhead is your personal guide to wellbeing. It is a free, one-stop-shop mental health platform (app + website). We help you achieve mental wellbeing by understanding your challenges and providing you with personalised support and access to free resources and self-management tools. What you can do on the Clearhead app: 1. Easily search for mental health professionals either locally or online and book therapy sessions on the app. 2. Talk to our AI chatbot and let us guide you through figuring out your mental health challenges as well as suggesting helpful resources. - Once you finish chatting with the Chatbot we provide a summary you can show your doctor or therapist to help them understand what you are going through. 3. Search through our database of mental health resources based off your needs, with more than 600 resources you are bound to find something that would be helpful! - Resources include being able to listen to meditation guides on the app, watch videos, find support groups close to you and many more - Our resources are also mostly New Zealand based resources to make it even more relevant to you 4. Add support people and easily alert them when you are in distress. 5. Tools to help you self-manage: including tracking your mood, journaling and goal setting. - Get reminders to help you with keeping those goals you set on track and for your upcoming therapy appointments.
Take a Breath
This app offers a science-backed approach to understanding the connection between stress, anxiety, and breathing patterns. It provides learning modules, audio exercises, and personalized training to help users reset their breathing for improved physical and mental well-being.
- 12 learning modules with videos and quizzes
- Short audio BreathePods
- Personalized breathing training
- 60-second monitored breathing exercise
- 7-Day health improvement challenge
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Thanks for using Take a Breath. Take a Breath is a science-backed learning resource and breathe trainer. It teaches the direct and causal link between stress and anxiety, and the way humans breathe, and includes a plan to reset your breathing patterns. The features include: โข A series of 12 learning modules, including videos, quizzes, and exercises โข A series of short audio BreathePods โข Personalised breathe training โข A 60second monitored breathing exercise โข The 7-Day Take a Breath Challenge that measures health improvements The way you breathe directly impacts your physical and mental health. When you breathe well, you will be well. When you breathe poorly, your body becomes stressed, anxious and unwell. Take a Breath teaches you the science, and then provides a training mechanism that helps you reset your breathing patterns and breathe well again. The Take a Breath App has been created in conjunction with physicians and scientists from Berkeley, Stanford and Auckland universities. Take a Breath is your personal support guide that ensures you breathe well, everyday, while you work.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Clearhead at 84% against Take a Breath's 57%. Take a Breath's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Clearhead ships an update every 6 weeks, Take a Breath monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Clearhead | Take a Breath |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 84.2% of reviews โ better | 57.1% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Monthly โ better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free โ better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod โ better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 12.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Clearhead | Take A Breath Limited |
Customer experience
Clearhead
Take a Breath
In-app purchases
Clearhead
No in-app purchases
Take a Breath
No in-app purchases








