Thought Records vs AltoThought
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Thought Records
This app assists in managing stressful situations by helping users challenge automatic thoughts. It promotes healthier responses and offers guidance across multiple Apple devices.
- Cope with stressful situations
- Challenge automatic thoughts
- Develop healthier responses
- Guidance anytime, anywhere
- Available on multiple Apple devices
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The Thought Records app helps you to cope with stressful or triggering situations. Develop a milder and healthier response to these situations by challenging your automatic thoughts. With apps available for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision, the Thought Records app guides you anytime, anywhere.
AltoThought
This app helps you reframe negative thoughts and develop a healthier mindset. It guides you through identifying thoughts, exploring alternative perspectives, and tracking your emotional progress. It's a tool to enhance your cognitive processes and achieve a more balanced outlook.
- Identify and log negative thoughts
- Explore alternative perspectives
- Track emotional evolution
- Enhance cognitive processes
- Develop balanced thought patterns
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AltoThought is designed to guide you through reframing negative thoughts, enhancing your cognitive process. Originally created to support my own cognitive behavioral therapy journey, it is now available to assist you in reshaping your mindset. Here's how AltoThought works: Begin by jotting down your initial thought, whatever it may be, and note your current feelings. Next, visit the Alternative tab to explore a new perspective on that thought. This helps you add nuance and reshape any cognitive patterns that may be holding you back. Analyze your progress with insightful statistics that reveal how your feelings evolve through the practice of alternative thinking. Let AltoThought be your companion in developing a healthier and more balanced thought process.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Thought Records at 100% against AltoThought's 33%. Thought Records also leads on device support (4 vs 2). AltoThought's advantage is rating (4.3 vs 4.0) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ratings volume, ads 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
Both are free to download. Thought Records sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and AltoThought sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
AltoThought holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Thought Records's written reviews are positive against 33% of AltoThought's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Thought Records ships an update every 3 months, AltoThought every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Thought Records | AltoThought |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) | 4.3 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bas Oppenheim | Frank Solleveld |
Customer experience
Thought Records
AltoThought
In-app purchases
Thought Records
- Full version$4.99
AltoThought
- Small Tip$0.99
- Coffee XL$2.99
- Donation$3.99
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- Donation XL$8.99
