Don’t Panic with AJ vs MindRight
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Don’t Panic with AJ
This app offers guided meditations and mindfulness sessions to help users overcome anxiety and panic attacks. It provides tools and techniques to manage stress, improve mindset, and regain control during overwhelming situations.
- Guided meditations for anxiety and panic
- Mindfulness sessions for stress relief
- Techniques to regain control of feelings
- Positive and motivational messages
- Short meditations for on-the-go use
- Breathing exercises for calmness
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Overcome anxiety and break free from panic attacks with this guide, designed to help you in challenging and overwhelming situations. During tough times it’s easy to feel stressed and anxious, which can lead to that panicked feeling where you’re not in control. Don’t Panic is here for you, with a guided meditation you can use at any time of the day to keep feeling positive and mentally strong. Listen when you feel a moment of panic, anxiety, and stress – mindful messages will keep you find calmness, be productive and manage stress. Through relaxation and positive, motivational messages, Don’t Panic will empower you to: • Recognise the early signs of anxiety or panic. • Take control of your feelings using simple, effective techniques. • Remain positive and focused. • Deal with situations more confidently. • Release yourself from this constant, underlying threat. • Regain your freedom and feel more relaxed. Destress, improve your mindset, sleep better, grow your confidence and be healthier with guided meditations, mindfulness sessions and positive messages – and much more. Mindfulness expert, coach and therapist Andrew Johnson has been helping people deal with life’s challenges with guided relaxations, meditations, self-care tools and breathing exercises for many years. His best-selling range of mindfulness apps have a variety of content to help you, whether you are looking for ways to reduce stress and anxiety, lose weight, improve your health & confidence, learn relaxation techniques, etc. Key features: • Short meditations you can do anywhere: at work, commuting, at home, walking. • Inspirational sessions to help you tackle life’s challenges, to be calm and find clarity. • Mindfulness stories and talks to help you build better, healthy habits. Meditations to help you feel inspired and find motivated to eat well, workout and stay healthy both in body and mind. Relaxation techniques and tools to help you sleep better every night, to wake feeling energised and refreshed. Breathing exercises and calming meditations for anxiety, panic attacks and stress relief. Meditation sessions to stop anxiety in its tracks and release stress. How do I get more? Start your day mindfully, keep feeling positive and be inspired throughout the day with a range of guided meditations to help during tough or stressful moments. Boost your energy with a Power Nap, stay focussed to Beat Procrastination, and then drift off using a Deep Sleep meditation for a restful night. Think of Andrew as your personal mindfulness coach, always there to help when you need him most. Search for Andrew Johnson to unlock more daily mindfulness and guided meditation sessions.
MindRight
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Meditation without the whale sounds and the guru voice. MindRight is for the ten minutes before a meeting you're dreading, the drive home after a bad day, and the 2am where your brain won't shut up. Pick how you feel. Pick who talks you through it. Press play. WHAT YOU GET Nineteen programs, each recorded by all twelve guides. That's 228 sessions. Most run five minutes. Naps and sleep sessions run thirty, because they have to. Eight ways in, named the way people actually feel: Emergency Panic Talk Down - I'm stressed - End of the day - Help me focus - 30-minute nap - Deep sleep - Help me relax - Shake off a bad start PICK A MOOD, NOT A PHILOSOPHY You don't have to know what you need. You have to know how you feel. Tap the one that sounds like today and MindRight picks the session. TWELVE GUIDES Marcus, direct and steady. Renee, calm, no-BS. Cam, was skeptical too. Walt, earned his calm. Carol, ran toward it. Andre, learned to stand down. Terrence, built to last. Camila, still showing up. Grace, learned to rest too. Rob, showing up anyway. Rosa, sits with the quiet now. Ravi, holding both ends up. Same programs, twelve different voices. Pick the one you can stand listening to. Change your mind whenever. BACKGROUND, IF YOU WANT IT Rain, ocean, white noise, brown noise, music, or nothing at all. Set it once; it remembers. TECHNIQUES, NOT VIBES Every session runs a named technique: downshift, pressure release, clench and drop, shutdown checklist, contact points, drift off. Nobody tells you to imagine a meadow. WHAT IT COSTS Every session is free. No account required. There are ads, and they're opt-in: before a session you're asked to watch a short one. Say no thanks and nothing plays, and nobody nags you about it. "Emergency Panic Talk Down" never carries an ad at all. That one's free of charge and free of interruption, because of when people reach for it. If you'd rather listen without ads, MindRight Ad-Free is $2.99 a month, with a free trial to start. It renews automatically until you cancel, and you cancel in your Apple account, any time. Nothing else changes: same sessions, same guides. WHAT THIS IS NOT MindRight is not therapy, not treatment, and not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat, cure or prevent anything. If things are heavier than a five-minute session, the app has a Get Help screen with the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline and Crisis Text Line, reachable without an account, without watching anything, from anywhere in the app. PRIVACY Your streaks, badges, saved sessions and settings stay on your phone. We don't sell your data. We don't ask for your contacts, your microphone or your health data. The guides are synthetic voices, created with AI from scripts written by people. No session is recorded by a human narrator. TERMS Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://getyourmindright.app/privacy.html Affiliate Alliance LLC
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: MindRight at Free against Don’t Panic with AJ's $2.99. MindRight also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 7 months). Don’t Panic with AJ's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (12.4 vs 15.0). On in-app purchases and device support 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
MindRight is free to download; Don’t Panic with AJ costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Don’t Panic with AJ ships an update every 7 months, MindRight every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Don’t Panic with AJ | MindRight |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (18 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 81.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Universal Relaxation Ltd | Jeremy Swiller |
Bugs and requests
Don’t Panic with AJ
Reported bugs
7 issues- App crashes on opening
- App freezes after update
- App closes immediately after starting
- Recording quality is bad
- Update makes the application crash faster
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- Pause between induction and program
- No choice for long or short induction
Requested features
5 requests- Add a start time for sessions
- Make a carsick app
- More gentle 'awaken' option
- Adjustable session length
- More technique-focused apps
MindRight
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Don’t Panic with AJ
No in-app purchases
MindRight
No in-app purchases
Questions
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