Comparison

Never Relapse Again vs Ryu Journal

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

Head to head
About

Never Relapse Again

This app offers a comprehensive 28-day program to help you quit smoking. It combines psychology, sports, and meditation techniques with daily progress tracking, craving management, and community support to guide you towards a smoke-free life.

Highlights
  • 28-day quitting program
  • Daily progress tracking graph
  • Pattern analysis for smoking triggers
  • Craving management techniques
  • Community support forum
  • Milestone challenges
  • 800+ minutes of psychology, sports, and meditation content
Features
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Quit smoking in 28 days! What is your experience with smoking? Have you: ● tried every quitting app on the market, ● read the famous Allen Carr book, ● took all the advice in the world, and everything you have done still has not helped you into liberation from addiction? Is it possible then to stop smoking even when we understand we are deeply attached to it? Is there a method that brings all the evidence-based scientific procedures together: ● psychology (CBT, ACT, MBCT) ● sports ● meditation The good news is that such a method exists! It has been in development for 3 long years, and now with great regard it is available to you. What you get in this application: Daily progress: You get a beautiful graph that shows you the count of smoked and and handled cigarettes. You use it to motivate you mind. Daily analysis: You explore the patters: when do you smoke, and why. This will help you a lot in finding the problem areas in your life and fix them. No problem = no reason to smoke. Handle craving: You get methods of handling the craving which you will use over and over, delaying more and more the smoking craving, until it eventually disappears. Community: People like you take the same adventure as you do, and you stick together, helping each other with information and active listening. Challenges: After you stop smoking, you get to complete milestones so that your brain get dopamine kicks with every progress you make. This will keep your mind happy and will motivate you not to touch the cigarette again. 800+ minutes of psychology, sports and meditation: You get a huge amount of media content which teaches you: ● mindful and WINDful smoking - how to smoke better (yes, there is such a thing) ● who are your friends and enemies in your adventure ● what are your triggers and how to handle them ● language and mindset change, so that you stop criticizing yourself and start trusting yourself ● how to stay away from the cigarette during the most difficult days and the best part: All content is free: You can get access to all the videos and features without paying a single cent! You have probably tried to quit smoking for 10 or 20 years and you know this is extremely difficult, and it's perhaps the longest lasting self destructive behavior in your life. No more! Welcome to the adventure of your lifetime, where you start a smoker and are reborn as a hero! Thank you for choosing Never Relapse Again, enjoy your journey towards freedom! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Ryu Journal

Features
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Ryu means "flow" in Japanese. That's the whole idea. Ryu Journal is a quiet place to put a thought down and let it go. No accounts, no social feed, no pressure — just you and the page. Open it, write what's on your mind, and get back to your day. WRITE, THEN LET GO A clean, distraction-free editor. Tap the plus, write, save. Tap any entry to keep writing. Your week gathers softly into one simple timeline. INSIGHTS, WITHOUT THE JUDGMENT Pull the journal down to reveal Insights: your writing streak, word count, and a word cloud of what's been on your mind, set against ambient colors that drift with the mood of your writing. ZEN QUOTES ON YOUR HOME SCREEN A widget with gentle rotating quotes — small reminders to pause, breathe, and be a little kinder to yourself throughout the day. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything stays on your device. No accounts, no tracking, no data collection. Your words belong to you. Ryu Journal is for anyone who wants to worry less and notice more. Write it down. Let it flow. Let it go.

Screenshots

Never Relapse Again4 screens
Ryu Journal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Never Relapse Again at 15.0 against Ryu Journal's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Never Relapse Again versus Ryu Journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNever Relapse AgainRyu Journal
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB22 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperWIND METHOD S.R.L.Jay Runquist

In-app purchases

None

Never Relapse Again

No in-app purchases

None

Ryu Journal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Never Relapse Again free?
Never Relapse Again is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ryu Journal free?
Ryu Journal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Never Relapse Again or Ryu Journal have ads?
Neither Never Relapse Again nor Ryu Journal shows ads.

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