Comparison

Marbles CBT vs Tendermind

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

Head to head
About

Marbles CBT

This app helps users learn and practice Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to manage habits, thinking patterns, and emotions. It offers tools for thought challenging, fear exposure, and various diaries for tracking mood, gratitude, and self-monitoring. Additional features include relaxation exercises and educational lessons on CBT.

Highlights
  • Thought challenging exercises
  • Fear exposure practice
  • Self-monitoring diary
  • Slow breathing relaxation
  • Muscle relaxation techniques
  • Mood and gratitude diaries
  • CBT learning lessons
Features
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Marbles CBT is an easy-to-use app for learning and practicing tools from CBT therapy. Whether you have tried it or not, you can use it to change your habits and thinking patterns and feel better. Marbles features several tools, including: Thought challenging - negative feelings often arise from our thoughts about situations and events in life. Cognitive behavioural therapy teaches us to identify such thought patterns that are not logical, called "cognitive distortions." In Marbles, the process of challenging thoughts is structured: recording the thought, identifying distortions, challenging the thought, and creating an alternative thought. The tool and various distortions are also covered in short lessons. Overcoming fears (using exposures) - CBT is highly effective for dealing with specific fears such as: fear of heights, claustrophobia, fear of animals, social anxiety, etc. As part of the treatment, exposure exercises are used to gradually deal with the scary subject. The Marbles app enables you to create a central practice table and to keep track of every practice you do. Self-monitoring diary - one of the main CBT tools, it is a diary that allows you to examine the relationship between your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in different situations. Through it, you learn how your thoughts and behaviors affect your emotions. Slow breathing - The practice of slow breathing is an easy and highly effective method for relaxing the body. For beginners and experienced practitioners alike. Muscle relaxation - a simple relaxation technique that relieves physical and mental stress, anxiety, and even pain. Marbles contains illustrated instructions for practicing relaxation at all levels. Mood diary - for recording changes in mood over time. In addition, you can choose accompanying emotions and add comments. In the insights screen, you can see the changes in mood over time. Gratitude diary - allows you to record things you're thankful for. Regularly noting your blessings, big and small, can improve your outlook, reduce stress, and help you appreciate life more fully. Additional features include: • Insights screen with mood graph, your most common emotions, and activity data. • Follow up on thoughts relating to future events (did what you expect really happen?). • A learning section with short lessons on CBT, app features, and usage tips. • Share all your content easily - you can attach your diaries and exercises in an email (convenient for therapists). Subscription All the main features of the app are completely free to use. We offer a premium subscription to keep the core tools of the app free. These include: additional diaries, insights, and relaxations. The premium subscription also allows us to spend more time and budget upgrading Marbles and adding new features. A subscription may differ in price by country. Payment will be deducted from a user's Apple App Store account at the time of purchase. Subscriptions will automatically renew 24 hours before they expire unless cancelled in advance. Disclaimer It is important to remember that Marbles CBT is not meant to replace professional mental health help, therapy, or counselling. If you have concerns about any aspect of your mental health, or someone else's mental health, it is always advisable to seek professional help.

About

Tendermind

This app provides a visual planner and digital assistant to help individuals with cognitive challenges manage daily routines, tasks, and schedules. It aims to increase independence and wellbeing through intuitive interfaces for both users and their carers.

Highlights
  • Timeline comprehension
  • Schedule management
  • Task management
  • Activity transitions
  • Unplanned change alerts
  • Dual admin/user interfaces
  • Customizable settings
Features
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Tendermind is a digital personal assistant and visual planner designed to help people with neurological differences and cognitive challenges manage their daily routines, increasing their independence and wellbeing, and leaving them more time to do meaningful and fun stuff. The app assists with timeline comprehension, schedule management, task management, transitions between activities or events, and unplanned schedule changes. We have designed it with people with various neurological and cognitive challenges and disabilities in mind, especially autism and intellectual developmental disability, as well as dyslexia, dyspraxia, and ADHD. Through its innovative design it can also be used by people who cannot read or write and those who are non-verbal. The app has two interfaces. One is an admin interface for the parent, guardian, or other carer. The other is an end-user interface for the child or adult under your care. To get started the parent / guardian / carer should download the app to their phone and open it. You will be prompted to create an account and once complete, to set up an end-user profile. It's possible to set up more than one end-user profile for additional end-users. The admin can then immediately start creating the end-user's schedule, tasks, and alerts. In the settings section (accessed by pressing on the gears icon on the bottom of the screen) the admin can ensure the end-user has the best and most suitable experience for their needs by adjusting default settings. The app should also be installed on the end-user's device and then choose the option (at the top of the screen) to set it up as an end-user app. Follow the instructions and you are ready to go. Terms of Use: https://www.tendermind.ai/terms-of-use Please visit our website www.tendermind.ai for more information.

Screenshots

Marbles CBT4 screens
Tendermind4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Marbles CBT at 5.0 against Tendermind's 1.0. Marbles CBT also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Marbles CBT sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and Tendermind 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

Marbles CBT holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Marbles CBT versus Tendermind: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMarbles CBTTendermind
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB60 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperOmri SadehTendermind LTD

Customer experience

Marbles CBT

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Tendermind

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Marbles CBT

Subscriptions2
  • English14 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • English$79.991 Year
2 purchases

Tendermind

Subscriptions2
  • Standard Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Premium Monthly$9.991 Month

Questions

Is Marbles CBT free?
Marbles CBT is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tendermind free?
Tendermind is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Marbles CBT or Tendermind?
Marbles CBT is rated higher. Marbles CBT averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Tendermind averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Marbles CBT or Tendermind have ads?
Tendermind shows ads; Marbles CBT does not.
Which is updated more often, Marbles CBT or Tendermind?
Marbles CBT ships an update every 2 months, and Tendermind every 2 months. Most recently, Marbles CBT was updated on October 4, 2026 and Tendermind on October 10, 2026.

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