Comparison

Mindful vs Pacing Quest

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

Screenshots

Mindful4 screens
Pacing Quest4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Mindful versus Pacing Quest: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMindfulPacing Quest
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (12 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size81 MB4 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperGarret VinsonAnthony Da Cruz

Customer experience

Mindful

All ratings12 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Pacing Quest

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Mindful

Subscriptions2
  • Mindful Pro - Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Mindful Pro - Annual$39.991 Year
None

Pacing Quest

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mindful free?
Mindful is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pacing Quest free?
Pacing Quest is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mindful or Pacing Quest?
Mindful and Pacing Quest are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 12 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Mindful or Pacing Quest have ads?
Neither Mindful nor Pacing Quest shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mindful or Pacing Quest?
Mindful ships an update every 3 weeks, and Pacing Quest every 5 months. Most recently, Mindful was updated on November 3, 2026 and Pacing Quest on October 30, 2026.

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