Comparison

Art Therapy vs TickGuard

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

Head to head
About

Art Therapy

Explore your emotions and gain mental health insights through guided drawing and journaling activities. Designed for all skill levels, this app offers self-guided exercises to help you reflect and connect with your feelings.

Highlights
  • Self-guided art therapy activities
  • Drawing and journaling prompts
  • Focus on anxiety, confidence, focus, gratitude, happiness
  • Instructional guidance for all skill levels
  • Emotional exploration and reflection
  • Mental health insights
Features
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Scribble Journey offers self-guided activities inspired by art therapy, helping you explore your emotions through drawing and journaling. The process is simple. Choose an activity based on your intention, then let Scribble Journey guide you through a drawing and journaling activity. Each activity is designed to help your brain discover shiny, new insights that can smooth the path of your mental health journey. Activities focus on: * Anxiety * Confidence * Focus * Gratitude * Happiness Haven’t picked up a crayon since you were a kid? No worries, Scribble Journey’s instructional prompts provide simple steps to ease you into your creation. The activities are simple enough for someone who finds drawing daunting and broad enough that a professional creative can add their own complexity if desired. The end goal isn’t to create a masterpiece, but to dive deeper into your emotions and get more in tune with your mental health. While Scribble Journey is inspired by art therapy, it is not a substitute for professional therapy or mental health treatment. If you have any questions, suggestions or any other feedback, please email support@scribblejourney.com.

About

TickGuard

Features
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TickGuard opens on your own region. It shows when ticks are active near you month by month, which species you are likely to meet, and which diseases matter where you live. Most of it works with no connection at all. YOUR TICK YEAR A twelve month strip marks the current month and shows how busy ticks usually are. Underneath sit the local notes: common species, the diseases worth knowing about, and the precautions that make a difference in your area. A German phone gets Germany, Austria and Switzerland with the FSME risk areas called out. A Japanese phone gets Japan and Korea. Twelve languages, each written for that region rather than translated from one country's advice. WHAT THE DISEASES LOOK LIKE Lyme borreliosis, tick-borne encephalitis, anaplasmosis, babesiosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tick-borne relapsing fever. For each one: where it occurs, how long symptoms usually take to appear, what the early signs look like, what happens if it goes untreated, and the point at which you should stop reading and call a doctor. Written from ECDC, CDC, WHO and national health authority guidance. COMMUNITY MAP Look at where people have run into ticks lately. Reading the map asks nothing of you: no account, no permission, no report of your own. If you want to add one, it sends an area of roughly a square kilometre and the date, plus the species if you recognise it. Nothing else. No account, no device identifier, no photo, no free text, which also means a report cannot be traced back to you. AFTER A BITE Log it with a photo and where on the body it was, then work through the 30 day symptom watch. Reminders are scheduled on your own phone, never on a server. The removal guide covers the steps in order, including the folk remedies that make things worse. IDENTIFY A TICK Point the camera at one and a model I trained myself on 3,258 labelled photographs names the likely genus with a confidence score. It runs entirely on the phone. A Smart Invert view helps when a dark tick is sitting in dark fur. HEALTH AUTHORITY LINKS Straight to your own country's health service, matched to your region and language. PRIVACY Everything except the community map works with no connection. There is no account, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking of any kind. Camera frames are processed in memory and thrown away. Your bite log stays on your phone. Location is only used if you choose to report a sighting, or if you switch the Guide tab's region to Automatic. NOT A MEDICAL DEVICE This is a reference tool, not a diagnostic one. Identification suggests a likely genus and can be wrong. If you suspect a tick bite, or symptoms appear, contact a healthcare professional. For pets, ask your vet. PRICING TickGuard Premium unlocks the whole app: the regional guide, the disease reference, the community map, the bite log and the identify camera. New subscribers get one week free. After the trial, TickGuard Premium Monthly is 1.99 USD a month, billed to your Apple Account and cancellable anytime in Apple Account Settings. If you would rather not subscribe, TickGuard Lifetime is a 19.99 USD one-time purchase for the same access, for good. Family Sharing is on for both, so one purchase covers your family group. Payment is charged at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tickguard.pawels-apps.workers.dev/privacy

Screenshots

Art Therapy4 screens
TickGuard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TickGuard at none against Art Therapy's 2. TickGuard also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Art Therapy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. TickGuard asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Art Therapy ships an update every 2 months, TickGuard weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Art Therapy versus TickGuard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterArt TherapyTickGuard
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (42 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews90.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings42 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGregory HubbardPawel Szydlowski

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Art Therapy

Subscriptions2
  • Premium$2.991 Month
  • Premium1 Month trial$23.991 Year
None

TickGuard

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Art Therapy free?
Art Therapy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TickGuard free?
TickGuard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Art Therapy or TickGuard have ads?
Neither Art Therapy nor TickGuard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Art Therapy or TickGuard?
Art Therapy ships an update every 2 months, and TickGuard weekly. Most recently, Art Therapy was updated on November 3, 2026 and TickGuard on November 5, 2026.

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