Comparison

CellAtlas vs Mindio

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

Head to head
About

CellAtlas

Explore blood cell morphology with expert-written lectures and a vast image database. Test your knowledge with an engaging quiz game designed for efficient learning.

Highlights
  • Blood cell morphology guide
  • Expert-written mini lectures
  • Extensive cell image database
  • CellQuiz game
  • Knowledge testing
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Welcome to the CellAtlas Application - your guide to blood cell morphology. CellAtlas contains mini lectures written by hematology experts complemented by an extensive cell image database. The App also includes a game, CellQuiz. A fun and efficient way to test your knowledge in cell morphology. CellAtlas is a product from the medical technology company CellaVision.

About

Mindio

Features
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Mindio is a daily learning companion for the curious. Five minutes a day with a primary text, a painting, a body practice, or a virtue worth thinking about — read, reflect, and slowly build a small library of figures and traditions that stay with you. Most learning apps treat your mind like a leaderboard. Mindio treats it like a garden. — THE FOUR PIECES — Every day you'll spend a little time across four small modules. The mix is gentle, the order is yours. INTELLECT — A short passage from a primary source. Plato, Confucius, Marcus Aurelius, the Mahabharata, Gilgamesh, the Analects, Ibn Tufayl, Murasaki Shikibu, the Tao Te Ching. One excerpt at a time. One question to chew on. AESTHETIC — A single artwork, presented slowly. Hokusai, Vermeer, Cassatt, Klimt, Song landscape, Mughal miniature, Egyptian relief. You'll look closely, read a paragraph of context, and write down what you noticed. BODY — A few minutes of movement, paired with the day's HealthKit data. No streak shaming, no calorie tracking. Just a quiet nudge to move. CHARACTER — Franklin's thirteen virtues, rotated week by week. A short reflection prompt and a way to mark how today went. — HOW IT WORKS — A passage. A question. Your real answer, in your own words. A short conversation back — never grading, never "correct" or "wrong," just a thoughtful follow-up that helps you read more carefully. Then a collectible — a small figure from the tradition you just spent time with — joins your collection. Over the months your cast grows: Socrates and Confucius, Lao Tzu and Marcus, Murasaki and Hafez, Vermeer and Hokusai. A library you built one short reading at a time. — WHY PRIMARY SOURCES — Every passage and every artwork in Mindio is from the public domain or a freely licensed translation. No paywalled summaries, no AI book reports. You'll read what Plato actually wrote, look at the painting Vermeer actually made. We built the reading list from what the world's great universities and the big literary anthologies keep coming back to — and then added the traditions those lists tend to overlook. It ranges across Greek philosophy, Confucian and Daoist classics, Persian poetry, Japanese diaries, the great Indian epics, and the canon of pre-modern art. — WHAT IT'S NOT — No syllabus, no final exam. Wander off for a week and come back whenever — nothing's waiting to scold you. No feed, no follower counts, no leaderboard breathing down your neck. Just you and the ideas, and your progress is nobody's business but yours. No endless scroll. The day's piece is short on purpose: when you're done, you're done, and the app is glad you came. — PRIVACY — Your reflections are private. Your HealthKit data stays on your device unless you choose to record it. We don't sell anything to anyone — Mindio is built to be a quiet daily room you visit, not a feed that visits you. — WHO IT'S FOR — If you've been meaning to read more classics and never quite get there. If you find yourself reaching for your phone and wishing you were reaching for something else. If you'd like to know one more thing about a painting next time you walk past it. If five minutes a day sounds like the right amount. Start with whatever sounds good today.

Screenshots

CellAtlas3 screens
Mindio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Mindio at every 2 days against CellAtlas's every 2 months. CellAtlas's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CellAtlas ships an update every 2 months, Mindio every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
CellAtlas versus Mindio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCellAtlasMindio
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.2 (21 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews88.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings21 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size106 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCellaVision ABCamus Technologies Ltd

Bugs and requests

CellAtlas

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Timer is too short
  • Quiz moves too slowly after correct answer
  • Duplicate images that only one counts
  • App not opening on some devices
  • Missing WBCs
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  • Layout issues on older iPhones

Requested features

22 requests
  • Remove timer option
  • Untimed mode
  • More time for quizzes
  • Quizzes for specific cells/sections
  • More images/examples
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  • Larger database of cells
  • More examples of atypical/abnormal cells
  • Ability to practice specific cell types
  • Option to quiz on specific cell types
  • More options for tests (e.g., malignancies)
  • Ability to practice maturation stages
  • Zoomable slides
  • Labels for cell structures
  • Side-by-side cell comparison
  • Save quiz results
  • Add body fluid images
  • Add coag cascade
  • Add disease states/inclusions
  • Link to LIS system
  • More photos
  • Updates for more cell pictures
  • Support for older iPhone screens

Mindio

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

CellAtlas

No in-app purchases

None

Mindio

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CellAtlas free?
CellAtlas is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mindio free?
Mindio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do CellAtlas or Mindio have ads?
Neither CellAtlas nor Mindio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CellAtlas or Mindio?
CellAtlas ships an update every 2 months, and Mindio every 2 days. Most recently, CellAtlas was updated on September 27, 2026 and Mindio on September 24, 2026.

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