Comparison

MindCotine vs Dayglean

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

Head to head
About

MindCotine

This app helps you quit smoking using VR experiences, personalized coaching, and mindfulness techniques. Track your progress, manage cravings, and connect with a supportive community.

Highlights
  • VR craving control experiences
  • One-to-one therapist coaching
  • Mindfulness meditation and breathwork
  • Smoke diary and craving stopper
  • Community chatroom for support
  • Money saved calculator
Features
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- Head-mounted VR Display: We send your own VR display to keep - use with just your smartphone. - VR Experiences: Immerse into real-like situations to gain control over your smoke cravings. - Personal Coach: One-to-one coaching with a therapist with several years in habit change training. - Mindfulness Meditation: Deep-rooted recovery with curated meditation and breath-work. - Smoke Diary: Track your smoke frequency patterns. - Craving Stopper: Instant relief activities to fight moments of strong craving. - Community Chatroom: Anonymously share your story, inspire, learn, and connect. - Quit Date: Pick a date you want to quit on. We can work towards that together. - Money Saved Calculator: Live calculator of money saved when you did not smoke. - Self-Help Handbook: Collection of tips and tricks from scientific research. Knowledge is power!. The FREE BASIC version gives you a fairly good feel of the app. If you want to go all in, the PREMIUM version (includes VR + Coaching) comes at a small price to quit for good!.

About

Dayglean

This app offers a quick and insightful journaling experience. It prompts you for a mood and a brief thought daily, then provides a weekly observation based on your entries. Advanced features like voice journaling and PDF export are available with a subscription.

Highlights
  • Daily mood logging
  • Voice and text journaling
  • Weekly AI-powered observations
  • Follow-up questions on insights
  • Timeline and calendar views
  • Goal tracking
  • PDF export
Features
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Every journaling app can store what you wrote. Almost none of them read it back. Dayglean's daily ask is thirty seconds: tap a mood, add a line if you feel like it, by voice or by typing. No prompt you have to answer, no blank page staring at you. Then once a week comes Pattern Drop. Dayglean reads what you actually wrote and gives you one specific observation about your own week, in plain words. A sentence you can argue with, not a chart you have to interpret, and "Ask about this" sits right under it when you want to push back. WHY IT IS NOT LIKE THE OTHERS • Insight, not analytics. Other apps graph your moods and leave the thinking to you. Dayglean names the pattern in plain words and takes your questions about it. • Most of it is free. Voice, search, the calendar, the recap, the themes, the app icons and PDF export cost nothing. Dayglean+ is the weekly read, recording video, making books and importing from other apps. • Your moments live on your phone and back up to your own iCloud, which you can switch off in Settings. Your videos never go anywhere else. Cloud analysis for Pattern Drop stays off until you switch it on, and the screen that asks says exactly what leaves the device. • Streaks that forgive. A freeze covers a missed day, so one slip does not end your run. Nothing wilts, dies, or guilt-trips you. • In English, German, French, Italian and Turkish, picked in Settings. • Written for 16 and up. Not talked down to teens, not written past adults. • Your words are always yours to take: export every moment, photos and goals included, as a PDF. WHAT IS INSIDE Moments: a mood plus optional text or voice, in seconds. Video moments: up to twenty seconds of your day, with a look, and in English your words turned into text on your phone. Share video makes a copy with the Dayglean mark. Pattern Drop: your weekly read, one specific observation, every one kept to look back on. Ask about this: follow-up questions about your own week. Hear back: write eight words or more and get a short reply in Pattern Drop's voice. Books: bind a season of moments into something to read straight through, photos included. Import moments: bring your past in from Daylio, Day One, a text file or a spreadsheet, or share words from any app. You check every row before it is saved. Keeps coming up: the people, places and things you name in your own writing, with the mood beside each one, worked out on your phone. Try it: name one thing to try for fourteen days, then see your moods on the days you did against the days you did not. Timeline and calendar: your history two ways. Recap: the week as one card. Goals that show up in the weekly read, not in a list. Search across everything you have written. Apple Health, State of Mind, both directions, with separate consent for each. Apple Watch: log a moment from your wrist, by tap or dictation. Home screen widget: tap a mood to log it without opening the app. WHAT COSTS MONEY Dayglean+ is the Pattern Drop side of the app: the weekly read, its follow-up questions, unlimited Hear back, the signal cards on Patterns, Try it and the letter about your year, plus recording video moments, making books and importing moments from other apps. The videos, books and moments you already have stay yours either way. Everything else above is free. Without it you still get one Pattern Drop every calendar month and three Hear back replies a week. Your free run of Dayglean+ starts when you save your first moment and lasts until your second Pattern Drop lands or 21 days pass, whichever comes first. After that it is $4.99 per month or $29.99 per year, and both plans start with a week free. One tier, cancel anytime. If something you write suggests you are struggling, Dayglean points you to real crisis resources. That is a caring nudge, not a diagnosis. Dayglean is a self-reflection tool, not a clinical one, and it never claims otherwise. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

MindCotine4 screens
Dayglean4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Dayglean at every 3 days against MindCotine's every 9 days. MindCotine's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. MindCotine sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Dayglean sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for MindCotine against 5.0 for Dayglean. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MindCotine ships an update every 9 days, Dayglean every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
MindCotine versus Dayglean: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMindCotineDayglean
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB18 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperMindCotineSanaullah Buriro

Customer experience

MindCotine

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Dayglean

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

MindCotine

One-time1
  • MindCotine's premium license$59.99
2 purchases

Dayglean

Subscriptions2
  • Dayglean+ Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Dayglean+ Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is MindCotine free?
MindCotine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dayglean free?
Dayglean is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, MindCotine or Dayglean?
MindCotine and Dayglean are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do MindCotine or Dayglean have ads?
Neither MindCotine nor Dayglean shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MindCotine or Dayglean?
MindCotine ships an update every 9 days, and Dayglean every 3 days. Most recently, MindCotine was updated on October 24, 2026 and Dayglean on October 29, 2026.

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