Comparison

Positive Discipline vs Leaply

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

Head to head
About

Positive Discipline

Offers parenting tools that teach children valuable life skills like self-discipline and responsibility without punishment or rewards. Focuses on fostering intrinsic motivation for children to become self-reliant and successful.

Highlights
  • Alternatives to punishment
  • Teaches social and life skills
  • Fosters self-discipline and responsibility
  • Promotes intrinsic motivation
  • Meets Five Criteria for Positive Discipline
  • Develops self-reliance and capability
Features
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These Positive Discipline Parenting Tools provide many alternatives to punishment that also teach children valuable social and life skills such as self-discipline, responsibility, cooperation, and problem-solving skills. These skills help children develop a sense of self-reliance and capability that will serve them throughout their lives. You’ll notice that none of these tools include any kind of punishment, rewards, or praise (all extrinsic motivators that research keeps showing over and over again do not work). These are tools that provide intrinsic motivation to develop self-reliant children that become happy, successful, contributing members of society. Every tool meets all of the Five Criteria for Positive Discipline: 1. Helps children feel a sense of connection? (Belonging and Significance) 2. Is kind and firm at the same time (Respectful and Encouraging) 3. Is effective long-term, (See the following two criteria) 4. Teaches valuable social and life skills for good character? (Respect, concern for others, problem-solving, cooperation) 5. Invites children to discover how capable they are? (Encourages the constructive use of personal power and autonomy) For more information or customer service, please go to our contact information at www.positivediscipline.com where you will also find other Positive Discipline products.

About

Leaply

This app offers step-by-step guidance to build practical daily habits in areas like nutrition, sleep, exercise, and mindfulness. It focuses on actionable steps and research-informed content to promote holistic living and lasting well-being.

Highlights
  • Daily step-by-step guidance
  • Actionable practice-first approach
  • Research-informed content
  • Nutrition guidance
  • Sleep routines
  • Movement exercises
  • Mindfulness practices
Features
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Holistic living sounds great… until it feels overwhelming. Leaply guides you step by step, turning nutrition, sleep, exercise, mindfulness and more into practical daily habits for lasting longevity. DAILY GUIDANCE Follow easy daily steps that encourage awareness, balance, and healthy routines over time. PRACTICE-FIRST APPROACH Focus on actionable steps, not just theory. RESEARCH-INFORMED CONTENT All techniques are informed by expert knowledge and designed to be simple, safe, and approachable. HOLISTIC LIVING Nutrition guidance, sleep routines, movement exercises, breathing practices, and mindful habits in one app. BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO: • Feel more grounded and focused • Build routines that bring calm, structure and vitality • Support better rest, energy and productivity TRUSTED BY 140K+ PEOPLE WORLDWIDE “Slowing and focusing on just my breathing for 5 minutes helped slow everything including my thoughts, feelings and movements.” Debbie Sesula “Leaply introduces you to different ways of connecting with yourself in a healthy way to improve your wellbeing, which is essential if you’re feeling stressed, out of balance or if you feel there’s something wrong and you can’t put your finger on it. It involves acupressure points, movement, ways to breathe, and it’s really good to learn something different each day and put it into practice. Give it a try and find out for yourself!” Siobhan “It was a very simple, yet constructive way to remind yourself, that you can simply take control over your own body, whenever you would like to.” M.Jeppi --- Leaply is free to download. Begin with our web quiz to uncover your lifestyle patterns and needs: https://learn.theleaply.com/home, and unlock full access to daily practices and additional materials. Cancel anytime. Support: support@theleaply.com Privacy Policy: https://theleaply.com/en/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://theleaply.com/en/terms-of-use-and-service/

Screenshots

Positive Discipline3 screens
Leaply4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Leaply at Free against Positive Discipline's $2.99. Leaply also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 9 months) and ratings volume (3.7K vs 9). Positive Discipline's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.0). On rating, review sentiment, 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

Leaply is free to download; Positive Discipline costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Positive Discipline against 4.7 for Leaply. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Leaply has 3.7K ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of Positive Discipline's written reviews are positive against 86% of Leaply's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Positive Discipline ships an update every 9 months, Leaply every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Positive Discipline versus Leaply: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPositive DisciplineLeaply
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (9 ratings)4.7 (3.7K ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews86.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings93.7K — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS9.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB74 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperPositive DisciplineMOMENTUMIX LIMITED

Customer experience

Positive Discipline

All ratings9 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative15.0%

Leaply

All ratings3,690 ratings
Positive93.9%
Neutral2.9%
Negative3.2%
Written reviews1,094 reviews
Positive86.4%
Neutral4.1%
Negative9.5%

In-app purchases

None

Positive Discipline

No in-app purchases

None

Leaply

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Positive Discipline free?
Positive Discipline costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Leaply free?
Leaply is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Positive Discipline or Leaply?
Leaply is rated higher. Positive Discipline averages 4.7 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while Leaply averages 4.7 from 3.7K ratings.
Do Positive Discipline or Leaply have ads?
Neither Positive Discipline nor Leaply shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Positive Discipline or Leaply?
Positive Discipline ships an update every 9 months, and Leaply every 3 days. Most recently, Positive Discipline was updated on October 23, 2026 and Leaply on October 24, 2026.

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