Comparison

movemindfully vs Pen to Published

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

Head to head
About

movemindfully

This app offers guided mind-body practices to help reduce stress, improve focus, and enhance mental well-being. It provides age-appropriate strategies for managing anxiety and depression, suitable for children, educators, and parents.

Highlights
  • Guided mind-body practices
  • Stress reduction techniques
  • Focus and attention improvement
  • Anxiety and depression management
  • Social-emotional learning tools
  • Over 100 moves and 32 sequences
Features
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Accessible mind-body practices to reduce stress, increase focus, and improve mental health. Easy guide for social-emotional learning in school, therapy, or at home. movemindfully provides guided practices that create a safe and peaceful environment for learning. You will find simple, age-appropriate strategies for managing anxiety, depression, and improving focus and attention. movemindfully is for kids, teachers, therapists, parents, and anyone seeking ways to find calm in their day. Our guided practices are designed to support physical, emotional, and mental well-being. You choose moves or routines based on how you (or your kids) are feeling. Includes over 100 moves and 32 Breathe Move Rest sequences, you can use daily, always finding something new. Based on 30 years of experience in educational, therapeutic, and home environments, movemindfully brings science into practice with accessible, trauma-responsive, mind-body strategies. The moves and sequences are proven to reduce stress, increase focus, lessen anxiety, and support self-regulation and co-regulation so children and youth can feel safe and ready to learn.

About

Pen to Published

Features
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Pen to Published offers all the tools, strategies and resources you need to write and publish your book/books. Then start speaking about your books online and on live stages. Speak with confidence about your passion, your expertise, your story. Use your book/books to teach from, speak from and to coach from. Pen to Published offers comprehensive training in writing, publishing and public speaking. Self-publishing has never been easier and can be totally FREE! The shortest book you can publish on Amazon (with a spine) is 36 pages. Write and publish the short book first and use it as the outline for your longer book. Pen to Published offers accessible info and resources from A to Z for getting your book/books published ASAP.

Screenshots

movemindfully4 screens
Pen to Published4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Pen to Published at Free against movemindfully's $4.99. movemindfully's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 months vs every 12 months). On in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Pen to Published is free to download; movemindfully costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

movemindfully ships an update every 4 months, Pen to Published every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on August 23, 2026 and May 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
movemindfully versus Pen to Published: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametermovemindfullyPen to Published
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.4 (7 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 months — betterEvery 12 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.2
Further details — not scored
Size292 MB16 MB
Age rating4+17+
Developer1000 Petals LLCMila Johansen

In-app purchases

None

movemindfully

No in-app purchases

None

Pen to Published

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is movemindfully free?
movemindfully costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pen to Published free?
Pen to Published is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do movemindfully or Pen to Published have ads?
Pen to Published shows ads; movemindfully does not.
Which is updated more often, movemindfully or Pen to Published?
movemindfully ships an update every 4 months, and Pen to Published every 12 months. Most recently, movemindfully was updated on August 23, 2026 and Pen to Published on May 19, 2026.

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