Mindful vs Pacing Quest
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mindful
This app helps you analyze and improve your mental and physical health by tracking mood, exercise, sleep, and more. It offers journaling, pre-built and custom charts to visualize your data, and discover relationships between your habits and well-being.
- Track mood, exercise, sleep, stress, hydration, anxiety
- Gratitude journal entries
- Diary feature for introspection
- Hundreds of pre-built charts
- Create custom charts
- Historic, comparison, and scatter charts
- Pie charts for frequency analysis
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Mindful: Explore You is a powerful health and wellness tracker built to help you analyze and improve both your mental and physical health, optimize your routine, build good and kick bad habits. - Track anything important to your well-being including mood, exercise, stress, sleep, mental sharpness, hydration, and anxiety. - Foster a positive mindset by recording gratitude journal entries. - Practice introspection with Mindful’s diary feature. - Explore how your lifestyle and habits impacts your well-being by reviewing hundreds of pre-built charts. - Create custom charts to visualize your responses and discover relationships between them. - Build historic charts to explore how your metrics have changed over time or to keep an eye on your responses. - Create comparison and scatter charts to explore the relationships between your metrics, such as how your sleep affects your mood and stress levels. - Build pie charts to see how frequently you record certain responses, such as how often you go to bed between 9:00 pm and 10:00 pm versus after 10:00 pm. Discover how writing in your gratitude journal improves your mood and reduces stress and anxiety, how your workout intensity affects your sleep quality, or something as simple as how often you go out to eat. The possibilities for tracking, reflecting, and improving are endless with Mindful. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Pacing Quest
This tool helps individuals managing Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME) or Long COVID track daily symptoms, activities, and mood. It provides a clear dashboard to identify patterns and understand how lifestyle choices affect well-being, promoting a sustainable recovery pace.
- Daily symptom and activity tracking
- Boolean logging for crashes and sleep
- Mood tracking with simple icons
- Personal journal entries
- CSV file import
- Clear data dashboard
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Pacing Quest is a simple, calming tool designed to support people living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME) or Long COVID in their recovery journey. Each day, you can track your fatigue levels, physical, mental, and emotional activities, digestive symptoms, pain, cognitive symptoms, and more. You can also log your sleep quality, emotional crashes, and daily mood through a weather-style indicator — plus write personal notes in a journal. All your data is presented in a clear, accessible dashboard that helps you notice patterns, understand how activities impact your symptoms, and find a pace that supports healing. Key features: - Daily symptom and activity tracking. - Boolean logging for crashes and sleep quality. - Mood tracking through simple icons. - Personal journal entries. - CSV file import support. Clean, accessible design — made with gentle colors and easy-to-read typography for fatigued users. Pacing has been life-changing for many with CFS and Long COVID. Pacing Quest is here to support you, one step at a time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pacing Quest at none against Mindful's 2. Mindful's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (12 vs 1). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Mindful sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Pacing Quest asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Mindful against 5.0 for Pacing Quest. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mindful has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Mindful ships an update every 3 weeks, Pacing Quest every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mindful | Pacing Quest |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (12 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Garret Vinson | Anthony Da Cruz |
Customer experience
Mindful
Pacing Quest
In-app purchases
Mindful
- Mindful Pro - Monthly$3.991 Month
- Mindful Pro - Annual$39.991 Year
Pacing Quest
No in-app purchases









