Mind Guide vs Veterans Wellness Path
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Veterans Wellness Path
This app supports Native American Veterans in achieving a healthy balance by connecting with their environment, community, family, and self. It offers activities, readings, and resources, including tools for understanding PTSD, a digital journal, and a directory of support organizations.
- Wellness activities and readings
- PTSD understanding tools
- Digital journaling
- Community and self-support resources
- Organization finder
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Veterans Wellness Path is a mobile app designed for Native American Veterans and their loved ones to support a healthful balance and connection to environment, community, family, and self. Created with Native Veterans, the app offers a rich set of activities, readings, and resources, including tools to deepen understanding of PTSD. Along your journey, you can get feedback by answering wellness questions, use the digital journal to express thoughts and collect relevant information, and handily find organizations and contact information to support others or yourself.
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Verdict
Mind Guide and Veterans Wellness Path 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.
Veterans Wellness Path holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 4 respectively.
| Parameter | Mind Guide | Veterans Wellness Path |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 4 |
| 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 | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 208 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research | US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) |
Customer experience
Mind Guide
Veterans Wellness Path
In-app purchases
Mind Guide
No in-app purchases
Veterans Wellness Path
No in-app purchases
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