Thought Detox vs Miles
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.
Miles
Track your running progress with a simple interface that displays distance, time, and maps. Set weekly goals and view your progress with live activities and widgets. Syncs with Apple Health and Apple Watch.
- Live Activities for real-time run data
- Widgets for weekly progress tracking
- Set weekly or monthly running goals
- View run history with maps
- Syncs with Apple Health
- Apple Watch integration
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Miles is the simplest but most effective way to track your running progress. Start and end runs with ease and sync seamlessly with Apple Watch. No ads or subscriptions. **Live Activities and Widgets** Miles uses Live Activities to show your current run so you don't need to unlock your phone to check your distance and time. Widgets show your weekly progress to help you stay motivated and focused. **Weekly Goals** Set a weekly or monthly goal to stay motivated on your running journey. **Simple Stats and Map** Stay on top of your progress with a weekly distance chart, and see your running routes with maps for each run. **Health Syncing** Miles can connect with Apple Health to save runs from the app and display runs from Apple Watch and other fitness apps. **Minimalist Design** Stay focused on your runs with a simple design that highlights only the data you need. **No ads or subscriptions** When you get the app, you get the full app and all future updates. There will never be ads, subscriptions, or in-app purchases..
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Thought Detox at none against Miles's 7. Thought Detox also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Miles's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (157 vs 12). 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
Both are free to download. Miles sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Thought Detox asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Thought Detox against 4.9 for Miles. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Miles has 157 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of Thought Detox's written reviews are positive against 89% of Miles's.
Thought Detox ships an update every 3 months, Miles fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Thought Detox | Miles |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (12 ratings) — better | 4.9 (157 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | 89.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 157 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dropped Bits, Inc. | Miles Vinson |
Customer experience
Thought Detox
Miles
Bugs and requests
Thought Detox
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Miles
Reported bugs
4 issues- App deleted run data while paused
- Mile counter/pace counter not working
- Entire runs not logged
- App did not work at all (swipe down issue)
Requested features
9 requests- Send to Strava feature
- Siri commands for start/stop
- Black dark theme option
- Mile ran yearly goal
- Calories burned and elevation tracking
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- Ability to change time or auto-stop
- Add notes to a run
- Direct Apple Watch support
- Companion Apple Watch app
In-app purchases
Thought Detox
No in-app purchases
Miles
- Miles Pro$1.99
- Tip 12 variants$2.99
- Tip 2$4.99
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- Tip 2$5.99
- Tip 3$8.99
- Tip 3$9.99
