Safety Plan vs Making Therapy Better
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Safety Plan
This app guides users through creating a personalized safety plan to manage suicidal thoughts and self-harm urges. It offers tools for crisis moments, mood tracking, and access to support resources for individuals and their loved ones.
- Step-by-step safety plan creation
- Shareable safety plans
- Crisis intervention tools
- Mood tracking
- Access to crisis support
- Informational resources
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Safety Plan is here to help you make a plan for dealing with thoughts of suicide and self-harm. The app will walk you through filling out the 6 steps of a safety plan, share your safety plan with your loved ones, and use your safety plan in a moment of crisis. The app also includes audio and interactive tools to help you calm down, information for you and your loved ones about safety plans and suicide, mood tracking, and ready access to crisis support. Safety Plan is a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs app, developed by the National Center for PTSD Dissemination and Training Division and the Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention.
Making Therapy Better
This secure application facilitates communication of therapy progress through concise weekly assessments. It is designed for ease of use and to streamline the feedback process between individuals and their therapists.
- Secure communication
- Weekly assessments
- Therapy progress tracking
- User-friendly interface
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This secure app makes it easy to communicate therapy progress with short weekly assessments.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Making Therapy Better at every 3 weeks against Safety Plan's every 22 months. Safety Plan's advantage is ratings volume (19 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). 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 — 4.9 for Safety Plan against 5.0 for Making Therapy Better. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Safety Plan has 19 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Safety Plan ships an update every 22 months, Making Therapy Better every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Safety Plan | Making Therapy Better |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (19 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 22 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 90 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) | CarePaths |
Customer experience
Safety Plan
Making Therapy Better
In-app purchases
Safety Plan
No in-app purchases
Making Therapy Better
No in-app purchases
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