Wholeheartedly Spend Ethically vs Conscious
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Wholeheartedly Spend Ethically
Discover businesses that align with your values, scoring them on sustainability, racial justice, and human rights. Track your spending to see your impact and find local, ethical alternatives.
- Discover ethical businesses
- Score businesses on values
- Find local and small businesses
- Scan product barcodes
- Track spending impact
- Link bank/credit cards
- Merchant score alerts
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FEEL GOOD ABOUT WHERE YOU SHOP Explore and discover ‣ Learn how businesses score on sustainability, racial justice, Palestinian human rights, and more. ‣ Discover small businesses leading the way to a more sustainable and equitable future. ‣ Find local, small businesses — from LGBTQ-owned bookstores to Black-owned restaurants to Palestinian-owned food brands ‣ Scan product barcodes for insights on brands as you shop. Track your spend ‣ Link your bank or credit card to track your spending and see how the businesses you shop at score. ‣ See what percentage of your spending was at low-scoring businesses or large corporations. ‣ Get merchant score alerts anytime you swipe your card at a scored business. How does it work? Advocacy groups publish data quantifying how businesses perform on various environmental and social justice issues annually. Wholeheartedly makes this information accessible and easy to understand. By avoiding low-scoring companies, we send a powerful message that sustainability and equality are important for the bottom line. Terms of Use: apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Conscious
Research company ethics and environmental impact before you shop. Get detailed scores, green and red flags, and news on brands. Join organized campaigns to support causes you care about and track your ethical spending.
- Company ethics ratings
- Environmental and human impact scores
- Green and red flags
- Parent company ownership
- Organized boycott campaigns
- Community reactions and sharing
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Conscious Spend helps you understand the real-world impact of companies. Search any brand to see an overall grade along with detailed breakdowns across Environmental Impact, Human Impact, and Transparency. Each profile includes green flags and red flags, parent company ownership, company certifications, and recent news so you can stay informed on what's happening right now. You can also explore the sources behind every score, giving you full transparency into how each grade is determined. Conscious Spend also helps you turn your values into action with Boycotts. Explore organized campaigns around causes like Palestine, Sudan, ICE divestment, and corporate ethics, and see every company involved in one place. Each listing is attributed to the advocacy organization that named it, along with its stated reason and cited sources, so you always know where the information comes from. Discover the everyday brands tied to parent companies on a list, join the boycotts that matter to you, and keep track of them all in My Boycotts. You can also react alongside the community to see how others feel about a brand, and share campaigns to spread the word. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
Wholeheartedly Spend Ethically and Conscious both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 86% of Wholeheartedly Spend Ethically's written reviews are positive against 45% of Conscious's. Wholeheartedly Spend Ethically also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Conscious's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (783 vs 23). On price, rating, 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. Wholeheartedly Spend Ethically sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month and Conscious sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Wholeheartedly Spend Ethically holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Conscious has 783 ratings behind it against 23, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Wholeheartedly Spend Ethically's written reviews are positive against 45% of Conscious's.
Wholeheartedly Spend Ethically ships an update every 3 months, Conscious weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wholeheartedly Spend Ethically | Conscious |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (23 ratings) — better | 4.8 (783 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better | 45.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 23 | 783 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #19 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | +4 |
| Developer | Ashay Sheth | Farran Ventures LLC |
Customer experience
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In-app purchases
Wholeheartedly Spend Ethically
- Spend Wholeheartedly1 Month trial$4.991 Month
Conscious
- Member Monthly3 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Member Yearly$5.001 Year
- Member Monthly$9.991 Month
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- Member Monthly$10.001 Month
- Member Monthly$12.991 Month
- Member Monthly$14.991 Month
- Member Monthly$19.991 Month
- Member Yearly3 Days trial$34.991 Year
- Member Yearly$39.991 Year
- Member Yearly$44.991 Year
Questions
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