Vilja vs PlayWellMinds
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Set custom workout goals
- Track over 70 workout categories
- Syncs with Apple Health
- Manual workout registration
- Home Screen Widget support
- Dark mode
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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/
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.
- 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
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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/
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
Vilja ships an update monthly, PlayWellMinds every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Vilja | PlayWellMinds |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (24 ratings) — better | 4.3 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 108 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Strong Software Sweden AB | PlayWellMinds |
Customer experience
Vilja
PlayWellMinds
In-app purchases
Vilja
- Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Yearly$19.991 Year
- Premium$4.99
- Premium + Tip$5.99
PlayWellMinds
- Full access$1.991 Month
- Full access$5.993 Months
- Full access$19.991 Year









