Comparison

Vilja vs PlayWellMinds

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

Head to head
About

Vilja

Set and track various fitness goals, from weekly workout frequency to distance targets. Syncs with Apple Health and allows manual entry for over 70 workout types. Features include customizable goals, dark mode, and home screen widgets.

Highlights
  • Set custom workout goals
  • Track over 70 workout categories
  • Syncs with Apple Health
  • Manual workout registration
  • Home Screen Widget support
  • Dark mode
Features
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This is a simple little app. It lets you set a variety of workout goals e.g. workout 2-3 times a week, or run 5K a week. The app syncs with Apple Health so any workouts you register with other apps or Apple Watch will appear in the app. You can also register workouts manually. * Track over 70 different workout categories * Base goals and stretch goals * Dark mode * Home Screen Widget * iCloud sync to your other devices Optional permission requests: * Health app, to sync workouts * Notifications, to remind you to check your progress Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

PlayWellMinds

Enhance your mental fortitude with daily exercises and proven techniques. This app offers practical 'life tools' to navigate challenges, improve performance, and foster well-being through regular mental training.

Highlights
  • Daily mental strength training
  • Focus and resilience exercises
  • Learn traditional mental techniques
  • Develop 'life tools' for challenges
  • Improve performance and well-being
  • Regularity and repetition focus
Features
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It is important to train one's mental strength in parallel with physical training, both within sports and in everyday life, such as school and social interactions. Life contains both wonderful and challenging events, and with knowledge and training, we can help ourselves handle these in a much better way. We can call it mental training, and just like physical training or learning something in school, it requires regularity and repetition. There are many hundreds of studies showing that mental training improves both performance and well-being. The PlayWellMinds app contains a brief description of seven steps, and you will learn exercises and traditional methods to become mentally stronger. We can call them "life tools." You will learn the tools for mental strength that make us feel better more often, perform better more often, and when we do not feel so good mentally, we have learned that it is normal and that we will soon feel better again. Terms and Service - End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Vilja3 screens
PlayWellMinds4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: PlayWellMinds at every 8 days against Vilja's monthly. PlayWellMinds also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 86%) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). Vilja's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (24 vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Vilja sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and PlayWellMinds sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Vilja holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Vilja has 24 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 86% of Vilja's written reviews are positive against 100% of PlayWellMinds's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Vilja ships an update monthly, PlayWellMinds every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Vilja versus PlayWellMinds: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterViljaPlayWellMinds
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (24 ratings) — better4.3 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings24 — better3
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB108 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStrong Software Sweden ABPlayWellMinds

Customer experience

Vilja

All ratings24 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral4.2%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative0.0%

PlayWellMinds

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Vilja

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Yearly$19.991 Year
One-time2
  • Premium$4.99
  • Premium + Tip$5.99
3 purchases

PlayWellMinds

Subscriptions3
  • Full access$1.991 Month
  • Full access$5.993 Months
  • Full access$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Vilja free?
Vilja is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PlayWellMinds free?
PlayWellMinds is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Vilja or PlayWellMinds?
Vilja is rated higher. Vilja averages 4.5 out of 5 from 24 ratings, while PlayWellMinds averages 4.3 from 3 ratings.
Do Vilja or PlayWellMinds have ads?
Neither Vilja nor PlayWellMinds shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Vilja or PlayWellMinds?
Vilja ships an update monthly, and PlayWellMinds every 8 days. Most recently, Vilja was updated on October 14, 2026 and PlayWellMinds on October 12, 2026.

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