Ben's Virtues vs Stoic Space
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ben's Virtues
This app helps you cultivate personal growth by tracking your adherence to thirteen virtues, inspired by Benjamin Franklin's original plan. Review your day nightly and mark transgressions to improve your conduct over time.
- Thirteen virtue tracking chart
- Weekly virtue focus
- Daily transgression marking
- Yearly cycle completion
- Personal conduct regulation
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Follow Benjamin Franklin's 13-week virtue system used for nearly 300 years to build discipline, honesty, moderation, industry, humility, and more. • Focus on one virtue each week • Takes one minute every evening • Free, no ads, and no account necessary • Apple Watch and widget make it even easier to track your virtues In 1726, while on an 80-day ocean voyage from London to Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin developed a plan and corresponding chart for regulating his future conduct. He based his plan on a chart of thirteen virtues. He committed to giving strict attention to one virtue each week - placing a mark on his chart each time he transgressed that week’s virtue. After thirteen weeks he moved through all thirteen virtues. He would repeat the course four times a year. Use this modern incarnation of Benjamin Franklin’s original chart to improve and regulate your daily conduct. Every evening review your day. Tap the day's date to place a mark if you transgressed the week's virtue. One virtue is highlighted every week and the whole chart should be completed four times in a year. The goal is to live your days - giving strict attention to each virtue - without having to place any marks on your chart. Thank you for checking out Ben's Virtues. If you like the app please let me know what virtue you are currently focusing on by leaving a quick review.
Stoic Space
This app provides daily Stoic wisdom and guided reflections in a minimalist interface. Explore curated quotes, save favorites, and access inspiration through home and lock screen widgets.
- Daily Stoic Quote
- Personalized Reflections
- Curated Quote Library
- Minimalist Design
- Favorite & Save Quotes
- Home & Lock Screen Widgets
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Stoic Space delivers timeless Stoic wisdom every day in a beautifully minimal interface—no clutter, no distractions. Now featuring tailored guided reflections, thoughtfully crafted to help you explore and apply Stoic principles in a way that’s unique to you. Browse a library of curated quotes, mark your favorites, and stay inspired at a glance with home-screen and lock-screen widgets. Features • Daily Stoic Quote – Receive a fresh dose of ancient wisdom every day. • Personalized Reflections – Tap the Reflect button to start a focused reflection session designed just for you. • Curated Library – Explore handpicked quotes from legendary Stoics like Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus. • Minimalist Design – Focus on what matters—each quote is presented in a clean, distraction-free format. • Favorite & Save – Easily collect quotes that resonate with you for quick access anytime. • Widgets (Home & Lock Screen) – Get instant inspiration without even opening the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Ben's Virtues at none against Stoic Space's shown. Ben's Virtues also leads on rating (4.3 vs 3.9) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Stoic Space's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 weeks). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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.
Ben's Virtues holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 37 and 20 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Ben's Virtues's written reviews are positive against 56% of Stoic Space's.
Ben's Virtues ships an update every 4 weeks, Stoic Space every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ben's Virtues | Stoic Space |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (37 ratings) — better | 3.9 (20 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better | 55.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 37 — better | 20 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 104 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Reason Interactive | Tesfa Demissie |
Customer experience
Ben's Virtues
Stoic Space
Bugs and requests
Ben's Virtues
Reported bugs
25 issues- Blank screen
- Crashes every time it's opened
- App no longer works
- Keeps resetting and losing progress
- Data doesn't get stored or saved
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- App doesn't work
- Can only choose one virtue line
- Updates remove data
- Keeps losing progress
- Dots don't appear on any other virtues except the highlighted one
- History/tracking deleted on iOS update
- Impossible to put marks on any of the virtues except the one highlighted
- Impossible to put more than one mark on a virtue per day
- Rewording of Franklin's description of Chastity
- Chart boots out after 3 or 4 weeks
- Doesn't move forward each day
- No way to manually set the calendar date
- App completely reset itself
- Randomly resetting itself and deleting prior progress
- Keeps randomly reseting itself and deleting prior progress
- Just freezes immediately on opening
- App doesn't work...at all
- Wil not run on ipad
- Didn't work on my iPad
- Not working right now
Requested features
23 requests- Allow setting custom start day
- Enable marking all virtues daily
- Allow adding custom virtues
- Improve visibility of virtue tracking
- Option to export data
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- Include samples of Ben Franklin's tracked virtues
- Allow multiple marks per day
- Support for more than one virtue focus at a time
- Add ability to cycle through thirteen weeks with marking on other virtues
- Make it able to put dots in EVERY spot per day
- Add ability to change "virtues" to add your own
- Add tab with passage from Franklin's bio
- Allow user to set start day
- Add ability to put more than one mark on a virtue per day
- Allow tracking of multiple virtues
- Add option to create custom virtues
- Set alarm/push notification for daily rating
- Include video and autobiography section
- Update app to 4.0
- Allow marking any virtues on any given day
- Include option of creating your own list of virtues
- Add higher level of personalization
- Add more discussion on each virtue
Stoic Space
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Ben's Virtues
No in-app purchases
Stoic Space
No in-app purchases
Questions
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