Contain Your Brain vs ActiveMind
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Contain Your Brain
Manage worries effectively with science-backed techniques. This app helps you set aside time to address concerns, sort them into categories, and apply solutions for a calmer mind and more relaxed life.
- Set worry times and locations
- Add worries via voice or text
- Sort worries into solvable/unsolvable
- Solve worries with psychological strategies
- Schedule worry time notifications
- Export worries for sharing
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Free your mind from worry so you can focus on what matters most! With Contain Your Brain in your pocket, you can achieve more, relax more, sleep more, enjoy your life more and… Worry less so you can LIVE more! Struggling with anxiety, stress, or insomnia? Worry lies at the heart of these challenges— fueling restless minds and restless nights. Contain Your Brain helps you manage your worries effectively and begin the journey to a calmer mind and a more relaxed you. What sets Contain Your Brain apart? • Unparalleled Privacy: Unlike most mental health apps, Contain Your Brain does not collect ANY of your personal information. All your data is stored securely and locally on your device. One less thing to worry about! • Evidence-Based Techniques: Co-developed by a clinical psychologist with over 25 years of experience, Contain Your Brain utilizes science-backed psychological strategies to target worry from CBT, DBT, ACT, and Positive Psychology. Our app is grounded in research, including Borkovec’s seminal studies on “Stimulus Control” (a.k.a. Worry Time). Other supporting studies show that worry time reduces anxiety, stress, and even insomnia in many populations, including adolescents and adults. See www.containyourbrain/the-science for more info. • Practical & User-Friendly: Co-developed by a digital designer with lived experience, Contain Your Brain puts users first delivering a simple, intuitive & engaging interface that helps you manage your worries with ease. How does it work? It’s as simple as Set, Sort & Solve! • SET your worry time & place • Add spontaneous worries via Voice or Text. • In your Worry Time SORT your worries into categories: Solvable, Unsolvable or Solved • SOLVE your worries with science-backed solutions that match your worry category. (Want a demo? Visit www.containyourbrain.com/how-it-works) Cool Features • Schedule your ‘worry times’ flexibly and set up notifications if you need a little reminder. • Jot down or record (voice-to-text) worries on the spot—add as much or as little detail as you need. • Prioritize & highlight your worries so you address the ones that impact you the most. • Solve your worries effectively by matching the type of worry you have with the most relevant psychological strategies. • Export your worries if you want to share them with your therapist or significant others. • 5-Star Rating by the Educational App Store recommending it for parents, teachers and students. Contain You Brain can help if: • Worries are keeping you up at night. • Worries are distracting you from important things in your life. • You want to de-clutter your mind and reduce your mental load. • You’ve tried to ‘stop’ your thoughts & worries but it hasn’t work. • You can’t focus because you are thinking about past problems or potential problems. • You are in a challenging period of your life (parent, stressful job, student). • You are a self-described overthinker, overanalyzer, ruminator, worrier. • You want a simple and effective way to manage your worries. • You are a mental health professional and you’re looking for a simple and secure app to help your clients with Generalised Anxiety Disorder and other psychological conditions in which worry is a main feature. If you are a business or educational institution who would like to distribute Contain Your Brain to support the well-being and productivity of your staff or students,, please contact us: hello@containyourbrain.com Don’t let your worries hold you back any longer! Download Contain Your Brain and discover a simpler, more secure way to manage your mind—and your life. Worry Less. Live More. Disclaimer Contain Your Brain is not a substitute for professional health or mental health care and advice. If your worries are causing you or someone you know significant distress, please seek professional assistance in your local area. For mental health helplines worldwide, visit: https://findahelpline.com
ActiveMind
This app combines mental health support with physical activity suggestions based on your current mood. It offers guided sessions, mood tracking, and integrates with health data to help you stay present and active.
- Mood-based activity suggestions
- Guided mental health sessions
- Health data integration (Apple Health)
- Mood and activity tracking
- Journaling and self-assessments
- Therapy preparation tools
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ActiveMind is not a step counter and it is not a meditation app. It answers a smaller question: what should I do right now? And now a second one: who do I do it with? Tell it how you feel, or let it read your day from Apple Health, and it suggests something that fits. A short walk when you are flat. Something quiet when your body is carrying more than usual. A day out when the weather is good and you have an afternoon. TOGETHER, NEW IN 3.0 Bring a circle of up to five friends. Each of you has a card you make your own: a colour, a pattern, a title, your badges. Points for steps, sleep, movement, activities, trip stops and kindness, capped each day so one huge day cannot win the week. Count head to head, or against your own usual, so different bodies can compete fairly. Crowns go out every Sunday night, seasons run four weeks, and there is a hall of fame. Challenges: step duels, flash hours, sleep showdowns, bedtime races, team-ups, and a trip to the moon with everyone's steps added together. Open one by link to up to ten people. Day trips together: pick a day that suits everyone, vote on the stops, and watch each other move along the same route. A stop ticked side by side counts for more. A feed for your circle, with only what you choose to post. React, comment, and send emoji that fly onto a friend's screen. And ways to look out for each other: pacts for two, a promise a week, a push from your circle when you ask for one, and a quiet mode for a rough week. You decide what leaves your phone, one switch at a time: a daily step total, one sleep score a night, active minutes. Never your heart, sleep stages, moods, journal or places. Mute, report or block anyone, any time. A MIRROR, NOT A LECTURE Mind reads your own weeks back to you: what your best days have in common, when your feelings tend to show up, and a line from past you. It counts and describes; it never claims one thing caused another. What helps you lists only the findings you can act on, each with how sure it is. The Lab tests something properly. For two weeks it flips a coin each morning: on some days it leads with the thing being tested, on others it stays quiet. At the end you get a straight answer, and because the days were picked at random, the answer means something. It will tell you when something did nothing, too. DAYS OUT, NOT JUST MINUTES 206 day trips built from the places actually around you, each a short itinerary with real stops and times. Pick a day and the best one for that day's weather and your energy comes first. Plan my week puts a trip on the best-weather day and spreads three activities around it. YOUR BODY, READABLE Readiness each morning from your sleep, heart and effort. A sleep score worked out the way Apple scores it, with naps counted. Stress through the day, heart rate, HRV, breathing and wrist temperature, each against your own usual. A Watch, a phone and a ring never count the same walk twice. EVERYTHING ELSE Over 400 things to do, picked for how much energy you have Places near you that are open and worth the walk A forecast you can scrub through, and what the weather does to you Breathing, sleep sounds and timers Widgets, Siri shortcuts and picture share cards A letter every Sunday, written from your own week PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Every analysis runs on your phone. An account is optional, and only for friends and trip links. Your moods, journal and health data are not uploaded, not sold and not shared, apart from the few numbers you switch on for your circle. ActiveMind is not a medical device and nothing in it is a diagnosis. For anything that worries you about your health, talk to a clinician. move, think, thrive
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ActiveMind at every 9 days against Contain Your Brain's every 9 months. Contain Your Brain's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Contain Your Brain against 5.0 for ActiveMind. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Contain Your Brain has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Contain Your Brain ships an update every 9 months, ActiveMind every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Contain Your Brain | ActiveMind |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 74 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Struthio Pty Ltd | JESUS J DOMINGUEZ ROMERO |
Customer experience
Contain Your Brain
ActiveMind
In-app purchases
Contain Your Brain
No in-app purchases
ActiveMind
No in-app purchases
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