Comparison

Primal vs mindspace

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

Head to head
About

Primal

Experience a next-generation social media platform built on Nostr and Bitcoin. Enjoy rich media feeds, long-form articles, and integrated Bitcoin wallet functionality. Discover content easily and authorize other Nostr apps with remote login.

Highlights
  • Rich media feeds with playback
  • Built-in Bitcoin wallet
  • Long form articles
  • Extensive content discovery
  • Advanced search
  • Remote Login for Nostr apps
  • Configurable ambient sounds
Features
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Next generation social media powered by Nostr and Bitcoin. Primal features rich feeds with media playback, built-in wallet, long form articles, extensive content discovery, advanced search. Primal can also be used to authorize activity in compatible Nostr apps using Remote Login. During an active remote session, Primal can play user-configurable ambient sounds that continue while the app is in the background. Our terms of use are available at: http://primal.net/terms

About

mindspace

This app offers a unified space for private journaling and social sharing of thoughts and experiences. It helps users maximize self-expression, improve emotional awareness through integrated feelings tracking, and socialize with friends through shared 'circles'. Organize your thoughts and experiences with customizable 'spaces' for different topics.

Highlights
  • Unified private and social journaling
  • Integrated feelings and emotion tracking
  • Organize thoughts with customizable 'spaces'
  • Share entries with friend 'circles'
  • Improve emotional intelligence and self-awareness
  • Track experiences and productivity
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Where mindspaces meet. Whether it's a mundane coffee-shop experience, a subpar movie, stress at work, or holding yourself accountable. This is your mindspace. A place for you to express yourself, to share, and to socialize. A place owned by you ~ meaning you own your data on mindspace. MISSION The most important thing for you to do, is to experience life. There are 3 functions mindspace performs to help you do just that: - maximize expression - improve emotional awareness - socialize & reflect with friends Expression is the most important tool to understand where you are at now, and the direction you need to go. In order to configure your experiences to the highest emotions, you need to critically think what experiences & baggage keeps you where you are now. Journaling. mindspace is a 'social journal', which provides double-benefit because not only can you keep a private journal, you may share entries to friend circles, without separation of focus. ~ A unified place for private and social thought creation. Overall, **all** your thoughts, emotions, experiences are extremely valuable. We hope that mindspace is the place you decide to journal & share on. Below are further descriptions explaining a couple of our features & benefits. EXPRESS WITH SPREN Feelings are integrated into the post-creation process. By pointing out and understanding your feelings, you increase your emotional awareness. This could be any adjective, feeling, or rating associated with a thought. As you describe emotions, your skill of emotional awareness increases, and therefore your emotional intelligence. With a higher emotional intelligence as well as analytics, we hope that you tune to experiences which make you feel higher emotions, as well as strengthen your mind to be happy regardless of the environment. ORGANIZE WITH SPACES Spaces are the topics you want to track & post in. They can be social or private. Below are examples why someone would want to use spaces. For example, - 'recipes' tracking space - track your favorites with ratings, ie 8/10;7/10, expand your culinary vocabulary with new adjectives, ie 'tender', 'meaty' - 'family' experience tracking - Use 'fun', 'excited', 'angry' to understand how you feel from relationships, and work through solutions. - 'study' - Track productivity: log study sessions with 'focused', or let yourself fail and watch movies all day with 'disappointed', 'relaxed', 'fun' Simply, let yourself experience feelings! Good or bad, all is ok to experience. As you allow yourself to express, you will naturally steer toward the experiences which give the best feelings before, during, and after. And become more accepting / resilient toward the conflicts that arise. SOCIALIZE WITH CIRCLES The intent of circles are to encourage you to express and to listen. Each may have its own spaces configuration. Glimpse into others' lives and align yourself with friends who experience life by your side. Circles could be a: - studygroup - family chat - reading group - group therapy circle Join, Discover, or Lead a circle yourself! CLOSING mindspace's original mission was to 'raise the emotions of its users'. Whether through social, private journaling, or the cute spren: We hope that it accomplishes that mission. The future is bright. Please feel free to reach out with any feedbacks on how this platform can better help you. support@mindspace.xyz Thank you ~mindspace team Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Primal4 screens
mindspace3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: mindspace at free against Primal's free with in-app purchases. mindspace also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 87%) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). Primal's advantage is ratings volume (935 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Primal sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and mindspace sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Primal against 5.0 for mindspace. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Primal has 935 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 87% of Primal's written reviews are positive against 100% of mindspace's.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Primal versus mindspace: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPrimalmindspace
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (935 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews87.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings935 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size140 MB41 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperPrimal Systems Incorporated.mindspace, Inc.

Customer experience

Primal

All ratings935 ratings
Positive97.5%
Neutral0.6%
Negative1.8%
Written reviews135 reviews
Positive87.4%
Neutral3.0%
Negative9.6%

mindspace

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Primal

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Losing relay connections when switching to desktop
  • Issues with account creation and sign-in process
  • Inconsistent display of reactions from other Nostr apps

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add support for more Nostr reaction types
  • Implement robust community/subreddit features
  • Improve cache management and clearing options
  • Provide better account management and sign-out options

mindspace

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Primal

Subscriptions4
  • Primal Premium Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Primal Pro Monthly$69.991 Month
  • Primal Premium Yearly$69.991 Year
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  • Primal Pro Yearly Subscription$749.991 Year
One-time1
  • Prepaid Nostr Zaps$4.99
1 purchases

mindspace

Subscriptions1
  • premium_monthly$6.991 Month

Questions

Is Primal free?
Primal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is mindspace free?
mindspace is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Primal or mindspace?
mindspace is rated higher. Primal averages 4.9 out of 5 from 935 ratings, while mindspace averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Primal or mindspace have ads?
Neither Primal nor mindspace shows ads.

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