AltoThought vs GratefulMe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
GratefulMe
This app offers a private space for daily journaling, habit tracking, and mental wellness exercises based on CBT principles. It helps users build positive routines, process emotions, and manifest goals through guided prompts and mood logging.
- CBT-guided journaling
- Habit tracking with streaks
- Mood logging and pattern analysis
- Goal manifestation tools
- Offline-first privacy
- Daily gratitude prompts
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Grateful Me is a private gratitude journal with prompts and guided 14-step paths. Every word stays on your phone: no account, no cloud, no AI. TWO WAYS TO WRITE • Your own way: open the app when something good happens and write it down. No plan, no deadlines. Short of an idea? The app offers a prompt from the areas of life you care about, and "Change prompt" gives you another. • Guided: choose a path, a named series of 14 questions the app walks you through one step at a time. Each answer is an ordinary journal entry. After steps 7 and 14 the path pauses for a reflection: you read your own answers and see what keeps coming back. SIX THEMES More calm, Appreciate the everyday, Closer to people, Kindness toward yourself, Work without burning out, and Seasons. Each theme has seven cycles of 14 steps. Every new cycle asks about the same thing in new words, and its reflection sets each answer beside the one from the cycle before. NO PRESSURE A path is not a challenge. There is no end date, nothing resets, and a break spoils nothing. You set your reminders, and they sound like an invitation, not a reproach. The text of an entry never appears in a notification. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no cloud, no AI reading your entries. Lock the journal with Face ID. FREE TO WRITE, FOREVER Free: unlimited entries, your whole history to read, edit and search, life areas, the prompt pool, monthly stats, one reminder and Face ID. The first 7 steps of the first cycle of every theme are free too. Premium adds the reflections: after steps 7 and 14 of a path, the full monthly summary and your Year of gratitude. It also unlocks steps 8–14 of every cycle and every cycle from the second on. Premium is an auto-renewable subscription: yearly with a 7-day free trial, or monthly. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://gratefulme.byarcadia.app/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://gratefulme.byarcadia.app/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: GratefulMe at 100% against AltoThought's 33%. GratefulMe also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). AltoThought's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. AltoThought sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and GratefulMe sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
AltoThought ships an update every 6 weeks, GratefulMe weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AltoThought | GratefulMe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Frank Solleveld | Dominik Wozniak |
Customer experience
AltoThought
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In-app purchases
AltoThought
- Small Tip$0.99
- Coffee XL$2.99
- Donation$3.99
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- Donation XL$8.99
GratefulMe
- Pro Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- GratefulMe Premium · Monthly$4.991 Month
- GratefulMe Premium · Special Offer$19.991 Year
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- GratefulMe Premium · Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Pro Annual7 Days trial$34.991 Year









