Comparison

MPATH vs m

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

Head to head
About

MPATH

This app visualizes your emotional journey by mapping geo-located data from your wearable devices. Discover personal stress hotspots and comfort zones to enhance your mental well-being and contribute to designing more empathetic spaces.

Highlights
  • Visualize emotional journey with wearable data
  • Identify stress hotspots and comfort zones
  • Personalized stress map
  • Contribute to aggregated stress model
  • Integrates with HealthKit workout and heart rate data
  • Anonymous geolocated studies
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Introducing MPATH: Empathic Insights by Gresham Smith - this patented approach is now a groundbreaking app that transforms your wearable's geo-located data into a visual map of your emotional journey! Discover your stress hotspots and comfort zones as you navigate your daily life, from busy intersections to bustling airports and hectic hospitals. Get ready to revolutionize your mental well-being by gaining access to your own personalized stress map, anytime and anywhere you have location information. But that's not all! MPATH also empowers you to contribute to a larger, aggregated stress model, which will guide the design of future spaces that prioritize your mental health. Join the MPATH movement today, and let's create a world that's more in tune with our emotional needs! Download now and start exploring your unique emotional landscape. Background: MPATH was conceived by engineer, Mike Sewell, while on a bike trip across the Netherlands. As an avid bicycle commuter, he quickly realized that the infrastructure, parks, and placemaking he encountered across that country was in stark contrast with what he typically encountered in the US. It seemed like every place was built to be intuitive, enjoyable, and well connected - effectively making travel there a joy. Up to this point, most planners, architects, and engineers tried to estimate the impact of a place or facility, but there was not a quantifiable model based on a user’s actual, emotional response. He sought out to quantify that experience using a data driven approach. After an early mathematical algorithm was developed based on biometric data that could be obtained from most modern wearables, a platform was created to allow tests across several focused partners. These partnerships helped to hone the platform and approach to a point where now everyone can take advantage of an empathic approach: Understanding how someone else feels and mapping those emotions to place, and then using what we are learning to design better places. Additional Info: More specifically, this Empathic Insights app will ask to authenticate your HealthKit workout activity and heart rate data, along with each workout's location route data, and upload to the Empathic service for processing of stress scores for that given workout. The resulting stress score datasets will then appear in the mobile app 3d map view, and will anonymously auto-opt into geolocated studies depending on what is available in your area. Please view the app's Privacy Policy at the url below: https://www.greshamsmith.com/privacy-policy/

About

m

This application collects data through questionnaires and device sensors to provide a comprehensive view of user responses and context. It allows administrators to set up data collection schedules and protocols for participants.

Highlights
  • Questionnaire-based data collection
  • Sensor data integration (location, movement, steps)
  • Scheduled data collection protocols
  • Administrator-defined settings
  • Detailed user data profiling
Features
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m-Path Sense is a tool to monitor individuals, using a vast array of questionnaires and sensors. An administrator can set up protocols to collect data through questionnaires and sensors, which you will then be invited to answer according to a set schedule. Sensor data (including location, movement and step count) can be collected to provide context to these responses, to create a full and detailed image of the data you provide.

Screenshots

MPATH4 screens
m4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: MPATH at 5.0 against m's 4.3. MPATH also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (12.4 vs 15.5). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

MPATH holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 6 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MPATH ships an update every 3 weeks, m every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
MPATH versus m: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMPATHm
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings) — better4.3 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings8 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.4 — better15.5
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB110 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperGresham Smith (U.S.)m-Path Software

Customer experience

MPATH

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

m

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

MPATH

No in-app purchases

None

m

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MPATH free?
MPATH is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is m free?
m is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, MPATH or m?
MPATH is rated higher. MPATH averages 5.0 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while m averages 4.3 from 6 ratings.
Do MPATH or m have ads?
Neither MPATH nor m shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MPATH or m?
MPATH ships an update every 3 weeks, and m every 2 months. Most recently, MPATH was updated on September 16, 2026 and m on September 13, 2026.

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