Thought Detox vs Mindful Drinking
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Thought Detox
This app provides a private digital space to write down and discard negative thoughts, promoting mental peace. It offers mindfulness tracking through Apple Health integration and home screen widgets. The app also syncs with Wind Down on iPhone for pre-sleep reflection.
- Private thought journaling
- Discard negative thoughts
- Apple Health integration
- Mindfulness trends tracking
- Home screen widgets
- Wind Down integration
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Writing down your negative thoughts and then discarding them can help you find peace. Thought Detox is a private space to work through what's on your mind, with complete peace of mind—nothing you write is saved or sent anywhere. Explore your most private thoughts, on your most personal device. Want to see how your mindfulness affects your week? Connect the app to Apple Health to track the time you spend working through negative thoughts. See mindfulness trends over the past seven days in the app, or add them to your home screen as a widget. Thought Detox even integrates with Wind Down on iPhone, to let you quickly clear your head before bed.
Mindful Drinking
Monitor your alcohol consumption and its impact on your mood. Accurately log drink sizes and alcohol content to understand your habits, manage calories and expenses, and compare your intake with low-risk guidelines.
- Track drinks and mood
- Accurate alcohol content and serving size logging
- Monitor daily calories and expenses
- Compare consumption with low-risk guidelines
- Plan sober days
- Daily reminders
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Track your drinks and mood with Mindful Drinking! With Mindful Drinking, you can monitor, comprehend, and positively impact your drinking habits and their effect on your mood. We convert various types of beverages, which come in different serving sizes, into units of alcohol, also known as standard drinks. This way, you can stay within the moderate (low-risk) alcohol limits, get motivated, spend less, lose weight, or even quit drinking entirely. Unlike most apps, Mindful Drinking allows you to accurately record the size and alcohol content of your drinks, so you don't have to worry about inaccurate consumption measures. Using Mindful Drinking, you will quickly understand how not all beers and wines are created equally. You can improve your tipsy decision-making skills and enhance your nights out with friends without regretting it the next day. Features: - Easily track your drinks for the current week - Accurately record alcohol content and serving size up to 2 decimal places with ABV helper - Track your mood to see how your alcohol use might be affecting it - Monitor your daily alcohol calories and expenses - Compare your alcohol consumption with the moderate (low-risk) drinking guidelines of different countries - Plan and complete sober days - Observe an annual sober days vs. drinking days chart and important numbers - Receive daily reminders to help you keep consistent records Premium features: - Get Last Call and Hydration reminders to minimize hangovers - Set up future messages from your sober self to your tipsy self - Quickly record drinks and mood logs from Profile tab charts - Record your drinks and daily mood logs for previous time periods without limitations - All-access to previous years for grid chart and numbers Terms of Service and Privacy Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dosEKZx-QnJUMKiMPHSgW_P1QF0T8cI4AwRXzpQ907M/edit?usp=sharing
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Thought Detox at none against Mindful Drinking's 3. Thought Detox also leads on review sentiment (83% vs 60%) and rating (4.9 vs 4.7). Mindful Drinking's advantage is ratings volume (55 vs 12). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Mindful Drinking sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Thought Detox asks for nothing beyond the download.
Thought Detox holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 55 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Thought Detox's written reviews are positive against 60% of Mindful Drinking's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Thought Detox | Mindful Drinking |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (12 ratings) — better | 4.7 (55 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 55 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.3 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Dropped Bits, Inc. | Mihaly Setalo |
Customer experience
Thought Detox
Mindful Drinking
In-app purchases
Thought Detox
No in-app purchases
Mindful Drinking
- Premium Access$9.991 Month
- Premium Access3 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Premium Lifetime AccessFree
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