Comparison

Smiling Mind vs StandApp

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

Head to head
About

Smiling Mind

This app offers a comprehensive mental fitness toolkit designed by experts to help users build resilience and manage daily challenges. It provides personalized content, tools, and resources for all ages, focusing on mindfulness, meditation, and developing core well-being skills.

Highlights
  • 700+ lessons, practices, and meditations
  • 50+ curated collections
  • Programs for kids, families, and adults
  • Offline content download
  • Personalized routines and habit building
  • Mood tracking and progress monitoring
  • Meditations in Indigenous Australian languages
Features
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Smiling Mind gives you a head-start to managing the ups and downs of everyday life. Welcome to your versatile and practical mental fitness toolkit. The Smiling Mind App helps you learn the skills that underpin wellbeing and create the habits to thrive. Develop your own, unique approach to building your mental fitness, navigating challenges and meeting your goals. It’s your daily workout for life, in your pocket. Our app is underpinned by the Smiling Mind Mental Fitness Model, designed by psychologists and mental health experts to help you develop the foundation for your mind to thrive. Smiling Mind supports you to practise mental fitness through five core skill sets, empowering you to: live mindfully, embrace flexible thinking, grow connections, act purposefully and recharge your body. The Smiling Mind App provides you with personalised content, tools and resources to support your specific wellbeing needs and goals. There’s a range of content for minds of all ages and stages, with children’s collections suitable for ages 5 to 12, and adult collections that take you from beginner practice to everyday habits! The Smiling Mind App has: * 700+ lessons, practices and meditations * 50+ curated collections With a range of special features, the app helps you build mental fitness and resilience; support good sleep, study and sports training; reduce stress; improve relationships; and promote the development of new social and emotional skills. SMILING MIND FEATURES MEDITATION & MINDFULNESS * Beginner meditations through to programs for experienced practitioners * Meditations in Indigenous Australian languages (Kriol, Ngaanyatjarra & Pitjantjatjara) * Content and programs covering sleep, calm, relationships, stress, mindful eating, and much more * Programs for kids and families including sleep, emotional skills development, back to school, and much more MENTAL FITNESS Develop mental fitness skills to: * Increase your sense of calm * Manage your technology use * Enhance the important relationships in your life * Reduce stress and anxiety * Improve mental health and wellbeing OTHER FEATURES * Download content to use offline * Build a mental fitness habits with personalised routines * Track your mood with wellbeing check-ins * See your skill development progress with the mental fitness tracker * Dark mode to help you relax before sleep We have a history of creating positive impact, and a vision to create generational change, empowering everyone with the tools for lifelong mental fitness. Smiling Mind has been at the forefront of mental health innovation for over 12 years, helping minds thrive with evidence-based tools and resources. We’re proud to have impacted the lives of millions of people globally. Over the last decade we have followed a vision to help every mind thrive, and are proud to have impacted so many lives in that time. Now, amidst a mental health crisis, we’re looking to the future at how Smiling Mind can create long-term change in mental health and wellbeing that will ripple into future generations. Smiling Mind’s new mission, Lifelong Mental Fitness, is built on the evidence that shows positive mental wellbeing can be proactively developed. And it’s our intention to empower everyone with the skills they need to do this. “The best thing about Smiling Mind is that it relaxes you and helps you think straight.” - Luke, 10 “We listen to it most nights for my son and I’m not sure what I would do without it truthfully. Thank you for helping our children and family feel better inside and out.” - Year 3 and 5 Parent

About

StandApp

This app encourages regular standing to improve mental and physical well-being, especially for individuals with neuromuscular conditions. It offers reminders and prompts for reflection on the benefits and feelings associated with standing.

Highlights
  • Reminders to stand
  • Reflections on standing benefits
  • Tracking feelings while standing
  • Supports mental health
  • Supports physical health
Features
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An app to help you practise standing, to support your mental and physical health when you live with a neuromuscular condition. Features of the app include: - Reminders to stand - Reflections on why you stood - Reflections on how you feel standing

Screenshots

Smiling Mind4 screens
StandApp3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Smiling Mind at 71% against StandApp's 0%. StandApp's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Smiling Mind versus StandApp: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmiling MindStandApp
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews71.3% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.412.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSmiling MindThe Kids Research Institute Australia

Customer experience

Smiling Mind

All ratings4,950 ratings
Positive94.9%
Neutral2.6%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews642 reviews
Positive71.3%
Neutral8.1%
Negative20.6%

StandApp

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Smiling Mind

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashing on launch
  • Login and account issues
  • Meditations not loading or stopping mid-session
  • Incorrect tracking of meditation streaks and progress

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more long-form meditations
  • Integrate with health/fitness tracking apps
  • Provide more customization options
  • Improve offline functionality
  • Add a dark mode

StandApp

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Smiling Mind

No in-app purchases

None

StandApp

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Smiling Mind free?
Smiling Mind is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is StandApp free?
StandApp is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Smiling Mind or StandApp have ads?
Neither Smiling Mind nor StandApp shows ads.

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