WellWithin Coach vs Mind Guide
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WellWithin Coach
This app offers tools and resources for women veterans dealing with PTSD and other mental health challenges. It provides daily check-ins, interactive exercises, and information on various health topics, with immediate access to crisis hotlines.
- Daily check-ins and suggested activities
- Interactive tools for mental health
- Information on women's health topics
- Access to crisis hotlines and resources
- Tracking for mental well-being and specific health concerns
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WellWithin Coach was designed for women with PTSD. This highly customizable app includes a daily check in with suggested activities, a daily trivia question related to women veterans and women’s history, and over 60 interactive tools to help promote mental health and address challenges related to common concerns like posttraumatic stress, insomnia, depression, and anxiety. The app can also be used to track and manage overall mental health and well-being, pregnancy and postpartum health, perimenopause and menopause, sexual and reproductive health, mind-body connections, caregiving stress, and relationship health. Veterans can immediately access hotlines and resources for mental health crises or urgent needs and can learn about a wide range of topics relevant to women who have served. WellWithin Coach is free, doesn’t take or share any of your personal information, and doesn’t require add-on purchases. This app is not a replacement for treatment from a professional. Seek advice from your doctor in addition to using this app and before making any medical decisions. WellWithin Coach was created by VA’s National Center for PTSD.
Mind Guide
This app provides Veterans with a guided mindfulness training plan to help reduce alcohol consumption. It offers answers to common questions about mindfulness for sobriety and tools to track daily goals and progress.
- Guided mindfulness training plan
- Tailored to alcohol use reduction
- Answers to mindfulness questions
- Daily goal tracking
- Progress tracking over time
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This app is for Veterans working to cut back on their alcohol use. Mind Guide offers: - a guided training plan, tailored to alcohol use, to help you learn the basics of mindfulness practice - answers to many questions about how to use mindfulness to cut back on alcohol - tools for tracking your daily goals and your progress over time Mind Guide is not intended to replace face-to-face clinical care. This app is being reviewed for safety and feasibility and is designed specifically for those already enrolled in an authorized user experience study. The app REQUIRES a free invitation code to fully unlock. Please contact the developers if you are interested in learning more about Mind Guide: mobilementalhealth@va.gov
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Verdict
WellWithin Coach and Mind Guide are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and ads among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
WellWithin Coach holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 6 respectively.
| Parameter | WellWithin Coach | Mind Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better | 4.8 (6 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 208 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) | Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research |
Customer experience
WellWithin Coach
Mind Guide
In-app purchases
WellWithin Coach
No in-app purchases
Mind Guide
No in-app purchases
