Comparison

Animi vs AptRedLight

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

Head to head
About

Animi

This app helps users understand and manage their emotions, particularly for those with alexithymia. It offers tools to identify, log, and learn about feelings, along with techniques for emotional regulation and communication. Optional premium features provide in-depth courses and AI-enhanced support.

Highlights
  • Alexithymia test and score
  • Detailed emotion identification and logging
  • Emotion encyclopedia with causes and symptoms
  • Breathing techniques for emotional regulation
  • Journaling with reflective prompts
  • Daily check-in notifications and streaks
Features
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Are you struggling with emotions? Do you find it difficult to connect with others? You're not alone. Every 1 in 10 people has alexithymia - difficulty, or inability to identify, understand, and express emotions. And it’s even more prevalent among neurodivergent people (autism, ADHD,...). Animi is a free app (currently only in English) with some optional premium extra features that helps you learn about your emotions, understand their causes, manage them effectively, and over time figure out your patterns. Like an evidence-based emotion coach utilizing the latest research on alexithymia and emotion regulation, Animi is designed to improve alexithymia, emotional awareness, and emotional intelligence, and over time help you build emotional vocabulary and understand the nuances of hundreds of feelings and emotions. - Take an alexithymia test and learn your alexithymia score, indicating how severely you are disconnected from your emotions - Identify & log your emotions with the help of one of our emotion wheel like tools (on a much more detailed and granular level than other emotion trackers) - Understand the meaning, causes, and symptoms of emotions with the help of our emotion encyclopedia - Experience quick breathing techniques to regulate emotions (like cyclic physiological sighing, bhastrika, or resonance breathing) - Learn how to communicate emotions in a productive way - Journal about your emotions with the help of introspective, reflective prompts - Get daily notifications to check in with yourself and build a streak With our optional Premium subscription, you'll also get access to: - 100-lesson, 3-month daily evidence-based Emotions 101 course designed specifically to address alexithymia by teaching a productive mindset about emotions, interoception, and emotion schemas - Optional AI-enhanced features including guided identification & processing chat workflows, knowledge base search & LLM-generated journal insights - Cross-device user accounts and data backups to sync data on phone & browser - Advanced analytics, including the ability to filter logged journals with multiple filters and extract useful insights from unique charts And over the longer period of using the app: - Reduce your alexithymia score - Improve your relationships - Enhance your mental health and even physical health Download Animi now and start your self-care journey today! Sample of user reviews: - The app is in my opinion much better than emotion wheels as there is so much more details/information. - This was far more informative than talking with a therapist for an hour to figure out what I'm feeling, so I would recommend it. - Very helpful! Feel like the tool has allowed me to regulate even when having very distressing emotions through understanding. Disclaimer: Animi is incorporated as a public benefit corporation with a mission to build a solution that improves alexithymia, and that's also why we collect the anonymized alexithymia test data, so we know whether the app succeeds at it. Your sensitive journal data stays on the device by default. It can be stored on our server for cross-device sync only with your opt-in explicit permission after enabling that feature. By default we are only collecting metadata necessary to evaluate the effectiveness and improve the app, though you can opt-in to share more detailed data for research and creation of future helpful content. We don't share the data with any third-parties nor sell it or use it for any kind of advertisement.

About

AptRedLight

Features
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Aptredlight深度适配iPhone/iPad屏幕特性,自动同步日出日落节律,智能调节色温与亮度,护眼同时还原画面本真色彩,久用不疲劳。支持3大自定义场景模式:办公模式提升专注力、阅读模式柔化光线、游戏模式还原画质,后台低功耗运行不占用内存。无需手动反复调节,一键解锁专属光影方案,已获10万+iOS用户五星认证即刻下载,让每一次点亮都适配你的用眼需求!

Screenshots

Animi4 screens
AptRedLight4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: AptRedLight at none against Animi's 2. AptRedLight also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.4). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Animi sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. AptRedLight asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Animi versus AptRedLight: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnimiAptRedLight
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (56 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews96.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings56 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.412.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size83 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAnimi PBC业阳 殷

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Animi

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly$39.991 Year
None

AptRedLight

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Animi free?
Animi is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is AptRedLight free?
AptRedLight is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Animi or AptRedLight have ads?
Neither Animi nor AptRedLight shows ads.

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