Comparison

IFS Guide vs CodependFree

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

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About

IFS Guide

This app offers guided sessions based on Internal Family Systems (IFS) protocols. It features an AI practitioner named Sunny that provides step-by-step guidance through text, audio, or direct speech in any language, assisting with inner child and shadow work. It also includes guided meditations and tools for journaling and tracking your inner parts.

Highlights
  • AI-powered IFS practitioner (Sunny)
  • Step-by-step guidance
  • Text, audio, and direct speech interaction
  • Inner child and shadow work assistance
  • Guided meditations
  • Part journaling and profiling
  • Reminders for self-care
Features
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Internal Family Systems (IFS Therapy) is the fastest growing therapy model because of it’s root-cause effectiveness. And our goal is to make it affordable and accessible for all! The IFS Guide app gives you step-by-step guidance based on Internal Family Systems protocols so that you have a safe space to take care of your Parts anytime, anywhere. Our AI-powered IFS Practitioner, called Sunny, acts like a real IFS practitioner and enables you to speak directly or chat with it anytime, anywhere, and in ANY LANGUAGE. Sunny will be with you every step of the way, so you never wander off or feel lost in the process. There are text, audio, and direct speaking guides in your native language that will help you through inner child work and shadow work, so you understand your parts better and create deeper relationships with them. In addition to AI-powered guidance, the app also provides smart guided meditations in audio, for those who prefer no AI included in their guidance. The feature to chat with your parts on your own, allows you the freedom and creativity you need to connect with your different sides (parts) at your own pace. You can also log your conversations with your parts and reflect on them later. Create a profile for each Part of your Internal Family System and log its traits, behavior, and relationships with other parts. Schedule reminders to ensure your Parts get the care and attention they need from you. IFS GUIDE APP FEATURES AI-Powered Guidance: AI-powered Sunny, acting like a real IFS practitioner, helps you navigate through your sessions. The ability to text or talk to Sunny, just like a real IFS session. Ability to chat or talk in your own words and language. Step-by-step Internal Family Systems guidance designed by Certified Level-3 IFS Practitioners: Understand your Parts better and create deeper relationships with them. "On-Call" assistance will help you stay in your process and not wander off. Chat with Your Parts On Your Own: Create a safe space to stay present and communicate with your parts at your own pace. Log your conversations and reflect on them at a later time. Chat with multiple parts at the same time. Get Help to Unblend: Never Lose Track of Your Parts: Add notes about what you have learned from them and their relationships with each other. Journal your healing process. Access your previous conversations and talk with your parts quickly and easily. Create profiles for each Part. Create parts maps on your own, or Sunny will do it for you automatically after each session. Stay Focused on Your Inner World: Get through each step smoothly and confidently without getting lost in the process. Gentle and soothing audio guidance helps reduce anxiety and overwhelm. Stay focused on your parts without having to worry about the next steps. Strengthen Your Relationship with Your Parts: Set reminders to check in with your parts regularly and explore different topics. Give your parts the care and attention they need. Daily check-ins to stay connected with your parts every day. And many more features.... Download IFS Guide today and experience the future of personalized IFS therapy! Standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

CodependFree

This app helps individuals heal from codependency by building awareness, strengthening boundaries, and reconnecting with their authentic needs. It offers gentle daily reminders, progress tracking, and customizable messages to support a shift from guilt and over-giving towards clarity and healthier relationships.

Highlights
  • Guided wellness for codependency healing
  • Build awareness and strengthen boundaries
  • Reconnect with authentic needs
  • Gentle daily reminders
  • Progress tracking and reflection insights
  • Customizable messages and timing
  • Private and supportive experience
Features
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**CodependFree — Daily Practice for Healthier Relationship Patterns** CodependFree is a wellness app designed for people working to break codependent patterns, people-pleasing, over-giving, and chronic caretaking. Knowing what you want to change is one thing. Responding differently in the moment is another. CodependFree helps you practice healthier responses in everyday life through daily intentions, gentle reminders, check-ins, and progress tracking. Small moments of practice can help you build greater awareness, stronger boundaries, and healthier relationship patterns over time. **1. Set a Daily Intention** Choose one healthy behavior to practice today. Browse intentions focused on boundaries, self-care, letting go, and other common codependency patterns—or let the universe choose one for you. Your intention might be: • When someone shares a problem, I will not automatically give advice. • When someone is upset, I will not try to fix how they feel. • When someone faces the consequences of their choices, I will not step in and rescue them. Your intention becomes a simple focus you can return to throughout your day. **2. Practice New Responses** Codependent behaviors can become automatic: fixing, rescuing, over-explaining, saying yes when you want to say no, or taking responsibility for someone else's emotions. CodependFree gives you opportunities to pause and practice a different response. Research on behavior change has found that planning how we will respond in a particular situation can help turn intentions into action. **3. Or Choose Gentle Random Reminders** Prefer not to work with one intention? Use Random Reminders for supportive prompts throughout the day. Each reminder encourages you to pause, check in with yourself, and reconsider automatic people-pleasing or caretaking responses. Use CodependFree's built-in reminders or create your own. **4. Track Your Daily Wins** Check in with your daily intention and record how things are going—even when the day doesn't go perfectly. Did you practice your intention? Slip and start again? Simply not have the opportunity yet? Tracking your progress can help you recognize change that might otherwise be easy to overlook. Research has also found that monitoring and recording progress can improve goal attainment. **5. See Your Progress** Look back across days, weeks, or months to see the choices you've practiced and the patterns you're working to change. Growth isn't about responding perfectly every time. It's about noticing old patterns, practicing new responses, and beginning again when you need to. **6. Make It Your Own** Choose when reminders begin and end, how often they appear, and which messages you receive. Use the built-in messages or add your own so CodependFree supports the particular patterns you're working on without becoming intrusive. **Who Is CodependFree For?** CodependFree may be helpful for people working through patterns such as: • People-pleasing or difficulty saying no • Feeling responsible for other people's emotions • Fixing or solving other people's problems • Rescuing others from consequences • Chronic caretaking or over-giving • Difficulty recognizing or expressing your own needs • Guilt when setting boundaries • Self-neglect, resentment, or emotional exhaustion These patterns can develop in many circumstances, including families affected by addiction, instability, emotional neglect, conflict, or high expectations, as well as adult relationships in which caretaking or responsibility for others becomes overwhelming. Whether you're in therapy, participating in a recovery community, or exploring these patterns on your own, CodependFree gives you a simple way to practice healthier responses in everyday life. **Awareness is the beginning. Practice is how things start to change.** Choose one behavior. Practice it today. Notice what happens. Begin again tomorrow.

Screenshots

IFS Guide4 screens
CodependFree4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CodependFree at none against IFS Guide's 14. IFS Guide's advantage is ratings volume (807 vs 8) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. IFS Guide sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per month. CodependFree asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

IFS Guide holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: IFS Guide has 807 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 74% of IFS Guide's written reviews are positive against 80% of CodependFree's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

IFS Guide ships an update fortnightly, CodependFree every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and August 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
IFS Guide versus CodependFree: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIFS GuideCodependFree
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (807 ratings) — better4.5 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews74.1% of reviews80.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings807 — better8
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.616.6
Further details — not scored
Size94 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperInternal Family Systems - IFS GuideIntelligent Retrieval LLC

Customer experience

IFS Guide

All ratings807 ratings
Positive94.8%
Neutral0.9%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews158 reviews
Positive74.1%
Neutral3.8%
Negative22.2%

CodependFree

All ratings8 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

Bugs and requests

IFS Guide

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes on launch for some users
  • Subscription issues and inability to upgrade
  • Reminders and notifications not working properly

Requested features

4 requests
  • Bring back old audio guided sessions
  • Improve accessibility for screen readers
  • Allow more customization of parts
  • Fix issues with parts mapping and editing

CodependFree

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

12 purchases

IFS Guide

Subscriptions11
  • Basic Plan1 Month trial$11.991 Month
  • Premium Plan7 Days trial$14.991 Month
  • Monthly Platinum Plan7 Days trial$19.991 Month
Show 8 more
  • Platinum Plan Monthly7 Days trial2 variants$29.991 Month
  • Platinum Plan7 Days trial$29.991 Month
  • Basic Plan1 Month trial$95.991 Year
  • Premium Plan14 Days trial$95.991 Year
  • Platinum Annual1 Year trial$99.991 Year
  • Platinum Plan14 Days trial$99.991 Year
  • Platinum Plan Annual14 Days trial$129.991 Year
  • Platinum Plan14 Days trial2 variants$159.991 Year
One-time1
  • 50% Exclusive OFF$49.99
None

CodependFree

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is IFS Guide free?
IFS Guide is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CodependFree free?
CodependFree is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, IFS Guide or CodependFree?
IFS Guide is rated higher. IFS Guide averages 4.8 out of 5 from 807 ratings, while CodependFree averages 4.5 from 8 ratings.
Do IFS Guide or CodependFree have ads?
Neither IFS Guide nor CodependFree shows ads.
Which is updated more often, IFS Guide or CodependFree?
IFS Guide ships an update fortnightly, and CodependFree every 3 months. Most recently, IFS Guide was updated on September 28, 2026 and CodependFree on August 27, 2026.

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