Comparison

Mind Guide vs Veterans Wellness Path

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Guided mindfulness training plan
  • Tailored to alcohol use reduction
  • Answers to mindfulness questions
  • Daily goal tracking
  • Progress tracking over time
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • Wellness activities and readings
  • PTSD understanding tools
  • Digital journaling
  • Community and self-support resources
  • Organization finder
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Mind Guide4 screens
Veterans Wellness Path4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Mind Guide versus Veterans Wellness Path: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMind GuideVeterans Wellness Path
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (6 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings6 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size208 MB62 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperPalo Alto Veterans Institute for ResearchUS Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)

Customer experience

Mind Guide

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Veterans Wellness Path

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Mind Guide

No in-app purchases

None

Veterans Wellness Path

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mind Guide free?
Mind Guide is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Veterans Wellness Path free?
Veterans Wellness Path is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mind Guide or Veterans Wellness Path?
Veterans Wellness Path is rated higher. Mind Guide averages 4.8 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Veterans Wellness Path averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Mind Guide or Veterans Wellness Path have ads?
Neither Mind Guide nor Veterans Wellness Path shows ads.

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