Relax, Reframe & Flow vs Thrive
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Relax, Reframe & Flow
This app helps you shift your emotional and mental state through guided exercises. It assists in identifying and transforming negative emotions, limiting beliefs, and unhelpful thought patterns to align with your goals.
- Somatic self-regulation exercises
- Cognitive reframing techniques
- Identify dominant emotions
- Guided breathing exercises
- Reflect on limiting beliefs
- Track personal growth
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Shifta empowers you to shift your emotional and mental state through somatic self-regulation and cognitive reframing exercises that transform your emotions, limiting beliefs, and mindset, aligning you with your goals and aspirations. Do you often find yourself: *Battling feelings of worthlessness *Dwelling on negative experiences *Overwhelmed by life's challenges *Procrastinating on personal development *Struggling with anger management, anxiety, and stress? Shifta is here to help you identify the underlying emotions, thoughts, and beliefs that hold you back, allowing you to shift to make positive changes when you need them most. This app guides you through three simple action-related steps: IDENTIFY: Select your dominant emotion and gauge its physical and mental intensity, then choose the closest goal for your desired outcome. ACT: Engage in recommended exercises tailored to shift how you feel. ANALYZE: Track and view your progress to discover your personal growth. The ACT step features four powerful and complementary exercises: TAP: Utilize tapping techniques as a stress, anger, anxiety, and pain reliever, effectively managing deep-seated distressing emotions. BREATHE: Practice various breathing techniques to regulate your nervous system, promoting relaxation, calmness, alertness, and focused attention. REFLECT: Engage in reflecting exercises that unveil your self-limiting beliefs and negative thought patterns and provide balance and understanding of your triggers, facilitating growth-oriented responses. ASSESS: Uncover behavioral patterns to establish helpful habits and strategies on your journey of self-discovery and self-improvement. As you follow this method of regulating emotions, overcoming limiting beliefs, and reframing unhelpful thoughts, subjective evidence and fleeting perceptions become enduring insights and factual behavioral patterns, where you see yourself clearly and can take action to change your life for good. With consistent practice, much like adopting a new exercise or learning a skill, you will start to experience the following benefits: *Improved sleep, mindfulness, and meditation *Decreased anxiety, stress, anger, and suffering *Enhanced emotional intelligence and emotional safety *Boosted productivity and readiness for daily challenges *Increased mental resilience, confidence, and motivation Unlock your true potential with Shifta, your go-to app for a more self-aware, confident, productive, and resilient you. Why Shifta? Have you ever found yourself in overwhelming or complex situations? Like you, I've experienced challenging circumstances in my life, leading me to search for ways to: *Relax *Regulate emotions *Achieve a flow state *Enhance self-awareness *Cultivate self-compassion *Overcome self-limiting beliefs *Practice unconditional gratitude *Create a self-empowering narrative Throughout this journey, I’ve discovered modalities (set of tools) that help me regain an optimal inner state and unlock my true potential. Shifta aims to share this digital toolbox with you through a multisensory experience, with carefully orchestrated sacred geometry visuals, binaural beats, and customized exercises that engage your mind and body, providing you the resources to prioritize self-care and achieve your goals. It offers a free version for your self-development and self-help, and premium subscriptions are available to provide you with the best possible experience, covering ongoing development, updates, and maintenance. Download it now, start your premium free trial, and experience the full range of exercises for 21 days. After the initial free trial period, you can continue using the free version or subscribe to unlock the full potential of Shifta and yourself. Embark on your journey today and regain your optimal inner state with Shifta! More info at: https://shifta.app If Shifta helps you in any way, please leave a review on the App Store and/or get in touch anytime at hello@shifta.app
Thrive
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The most important subject you'll ever study is yourself. Thrive is a private self-discovery practice designed to surface what you've been carrying without quite putting into words. Ten questions per session. One at a time. A personalized synthesis at the end. No advice, no fixes, and no one else listening. Just the kind of deep conversation you don't usually get to have, in a space quiet enough to answer them honestly. Most apps tell you what to do. Thrive asks you what you actually think. — THREE TERRAINS — • Past — Trace the patterns, bonds, and stories that shaped how you move through the world today. • Present — Sit with what's alive in you right now: thoughts, feelings, values, what you're resisting. • Future — Name who you're becoming, what you actually want, and what it will ask of you. — 38 LENSES ON YOUR INTERIOR — Thrive is organized into 38 distinct "modes" — each a different lens for looking at yourself, rooted in a real psychological or philosophical tradition. Open the one that fits today; the others are waiting. PAST — what shaped you • Your Hidden Self (Jungian shadow work) • Your Core Beliefs (schema therapy) • Your Relational Self (attachment theory) • Your Younger Self (IFS / inner child) • Your Honored Losses (grief work) • Your Forged Self (kintsugi / wabi-sabi) • Your Family Patterns, Your Story, Your Resilience, and more. PRESENT — what's alive in you now • Your Emotional World (DBT / affect labeling) • Your Thought Loops (CBT) • Your Thought Distance (ACT defusion) • Your Inner Parts (IFS) • Your Kinder Voice (self-compassion) • Your Values (Stoic philosophy) • Your Observing Self (Advaita Vedanta) • Your Natural Flow (Taoist wu wei) • Your Flourishing (Aristotelian eudaimonia), and more. FUTURE — what you're moving toward • Your Real Why (motivational interviewing) • Your Future Self (future-self research) • Your Purpose (ikigai) • Your Legacy (existential therapy) • Your Worst Case (Stoic premeditatio) • Your New Identity (identity-based change) • Your Commitments, Your Energy, Your Circle, and more. — PRIVATE BY DESIGN — What you're willing to say changes completely when you know no one else is listening. Thrive is built around that fact. • Conversations are never stored on our servers. • Sessions clear from your device automatically. • No sign-up required to begin — anonymous account by default. • Optional Face ID / fingerprint lock on the app itself. • Voice input is processed by your phone's built-in speech recognition; we never receive the audio. Bring the version of yourself no one else gets to meet. That's the one worth getting to know. — BUILT ON 2,500 YEARS OF KNOWING YOURSELF — Thrive draws from the traditions that have actually helped humans live well — Stoicism, Taoism, Buddhism, Advaita Vedanta, Jungian depth psychology, IFS, CBT, ACT, DBT, schema therapy, narrative therapy, logotherapy, and more. The frameworks are real; the questions come from them. Thrive simply makes the practice easy to return to. — FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE DONE WITH SHALLOW — Thrive is for you if you've outgrown affirmations and surface-level mood trackers. If you journal but want better questions. If you're between therapy sessions and want somewhere to take a thought. If you're curious about shadow work, parts work, Stoic reflection, or the examined life — and want a structured place to actually do it. A single session is a conversation. A thousand sessions are a transformation. — WHAT'S INCLUDED — • A free trial, then monthly or annual subscription. • 30 guided sessions every month, across all 38 modes. • Goals that quietly carry forward between sessions. • A reading library of short essays, beautifully typeset for slow attention. • Optional gentle notification reminders. — WHEN TO OPEN THRIVE — • When a thought won't leave you alone. • When trying to get clarity on your life. • On the days you'd usually scroll instead.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Thrive at every 3 days against Relax, Reframe & Flow's every 3 weeks. Relax, Reframe & Flow's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Relax, Reframe & Flow sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month and Thrive sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Relax, Reframe & Flow ships an update every 3 weeks, Thrive every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Relax, Reframe & Flow | Thrive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 690 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Javier Gietz | Trends Technology LLC |
In-app purchases
Relax, Reframe & Flow
- Shifta Full Access Monthly$12.991 Month
- Shifta Full Access Yearly$89.991 Year
Thrive
- Thrive Pro Monthly3 Days trial$14.991 Month
- Thrive Pro Annual3 Days trial$79.991 Year
- 10 Session Pack$4.99
- 25 Session Pack$9.99
- 50 Session Pack$17.99
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