Ethos vs Mindful Drinking
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ethos
This app helps you explore your relationship with alcohol to foster lifestyle changes for enhanced well-being. It provides tools to track consumption, gain personalized insights, and connect with a supportive community for mindful living.
- Mindful consumption tracking
- Personalized insights and goal setting
- Community support network
- Interactive guidance via chat
- Lifestyle transformation tools
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Ethos is your lifestyle companion dedicated to enhancing your well-being through mindful consumption. We help you explore your relationship with alcohol to develop changes that support overall lifestyle transformations. Whether you’re looking to moderate alcohol intake, improve dietary habits, or simply live more consciously, Ethos equips you with the knowledge and tools for success. What Sets Ethos Apart? Mindful Consumption Tracking: Log drinks to understand your behaviors, identify patterns, and make changes that align with your wellness goals. Personalized Insights: Gain deeper understanding into your consumption habits. Set personal goals, track your progress, and receive customized advice to help you maintain balance. Access to Support Network: Connect with a community that shares your commitment to alcohol-related habit change. Share your journey, exchange tips, and celebrate successes with friends old and new. Interactive Guidance: Our Ethos chat offers real-time, personalized suggestions and support, helping you navigate choices about consumption at your pace. Join Our Community: Download Ethos and join a growing community dedicated to wellness, balance, and mindful living. Ready to make your Change? Start your journey towards a more mindful, balanced lifestyle today. Download Ethos Now and Embrace Mindful Consumption.
Mindful Drinking
Monitor your alcohol consumption and its impact on your mood. Accurately log drink sizes and alcohol content to understand your habits, manage calories and expenses, and compare your intake with low-risk guidelines.
- Track drinks and mood
- Accurate alcohol content and serving size logging
- Monitor daily calories and expenses
- Compare consumption with low-risk guidelines
- Plan sober days
- Daily reminders
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Track your drinks and mood with Mindful Drinking! With Mindful Drinking, you can monitor, comprehend, and positively impact your drinking habits and their effect on your mood. We convert various types of beverages, which come in different serving sizes, into units of alcohol, also known as standard drinks. This way, you can stay within the moderate (low-risk) alcohol limits, get motivated, spend less, lose weight, or even quit drinking entirely. Unlike most apps, Mindful Drinking allows you to accurately record the size and alcohol content of your drinks, so you don't have to worry about inaccurate consumption measures. Using Mindful Drinking, you will quickly understand how not all beers and wines are created equally. You can improve your tipsy decision-making skills and enhance your nights out with friends without regretting it the next day. Features: - Easily track your drinks for the current week - Accurately record alcohol content and serving size up to 2 decimal places with ABV helper - Track your mood to see how your alcohol use might be affecting it - Monitor your daily alcohol calories and expenses - Compare your alcohol consumption with the moderate (low-risk) drinking guidelines of different countries - Plan and complete sober days - Observe an annual sober days vs. drinking days chart and important numbers - Receive daily reminders to help you keep consistent records Premium features: - Get Last Call and Hydration reminders to minimize hangovers - Set up future messages from your sober self to your tipsy self - Quickly record drinks and mood logs from Profile tab charts - Record your drinks and daily mood logs for previous time periods without limitations - All-access to previous years for grid chart and numbers Terms of Service and Privacy Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dosEKZx-QnJUMKiMPHSgW_P1QF0T8cI4AwRXzpQ907M/edit?usp=sharing
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Mindful Drinking at 4.7 against Ethos's 4.2. Mindful Drinking also leads on ads (none vs shown). Ethos's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and review sentiment (93% vs 60%). On price, ratings volume, 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. Mindful Drinking sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Ethos asks for nothing beyond the download.
Mindful Drinking holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 24 and 55 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 93% of Ethos's written reviews are positive against 60% of Mindful Drinking's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Ethos ships an update every 5 weeks, Mindful Drinking every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ethos | Mindful Drinking |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (24 ratings) | 4.7 (55 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.9% of reviews — better | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 24 | 55 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.3 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Bacpoint, Inc. | Mihaly Setalo |
Customer experience
Ethos
Mindful Drinking
In-app purchases
Ethos
No in-app purchases
Mindful Drinking
- Premium Access$9.991 Month
- Premium Access3 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Premium Lifetime AccessFree









