GuidanceNow vs Learn to Live
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GuidanceNow
Access mental health and well-being resources quickly and easily. Connect with experts, schedule appointments, or receive personalized care plans based on your needs. Explore a wide range of tools and information covering various aspects of life.
- Instant connection to experts
- Appointment scheduling
- Personalized care path assessment
- Well-being assessment and plans
- Browse informational resources
- Access program benefit information
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GuidanceNow provides fast, easy access to your ComPsych GuidanceResources program and a wide array of mental health and well-being resources. On GuidanceNow you can access the following features: • Connect Me: If you know what you want now, the Connect Me option offers our quickest path to care. With as little as two taps, you can connect instantly with an expert or schedule appointments for services. • Guide Me: The Guide Me option quickly assesses your area of need and directs you to the care options, tools, and resources most appropriate to your focus area. In just a few taps, you can navigate one of more than 1,000 path options that lead to a variety of solutions, all tailored to your needs. • Assess Me: With Assess Me, our most extensive care path, you are guided through a brief well-being assessment, which evaluates your needs across six primary care pillars. The platform then measures and benchmarks your results and provides a series of personalized, multistep Well-Being Plans tailored to your specific areas of need. • Access Program Information: Review your company’s behavioral health and well-being program benefit information at any time.
Learn to Live
This app provides confidential, online programs rooted in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) principles. It helps users identify and modify thought and behavior patterns to improve their lives. Track progress, discover needed support, and practice tools for lasting change.
- Customized online CBT programs
- Confidential and accessible anywhere
- Identify thought and behavior patterns
- Personalized progress tracking
- Goal-oriented support identification
- Practice CBT tools
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Learn to Live offers customized online programs based on the proven principles of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). These programs are confidential, accessible anywhere, and designed to help you identify the thought and behavior patterns that cause issues. With the app you can: Track your progress from your personalized dashboard. Identify the support you need to reach your goals. Practice the tools learned to truly live and maintain the life you've always wanted to live. You must have a Learn to Live account to use this app. Check to see if you have access through your employer, health plan or academic institution. Your use of this application is subject to the Subscription Agreement, Terms of Use, and Privacy Policy that apply to your use of our website, as well as the programs, modules, and coaching services you access through the website or this application.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Learn to Live at 4.7 against GuidanceNow's 2.5. Learn to Live also leads on ratings volume (267 vs 6). GuidanceNow's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Learn to Live holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Learn to Live has 267 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 11% of GuidanceNow's written reviews are positive against 15% of Learn to Live's.
GuidanceNow ships an update fortnightly, Learn to Live every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GuidanceNow | Learn to Live |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (6 ratings) | 4.7 (267 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 11.4% of reviews | 15.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 267 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 301 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | ComPsych Corporation | Learn to Live |
Customer experience
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In-app purchases
GuidanceNow
No in-app purchases
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No in-app purchases
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