Comparison

Mindful vs ESRT StrongMind

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

ESRT StrongMind

Features
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ESRT StrongMind is the digital companion for Enhanced Stress Resilience Training (ESRT), a programme co-created by Dr Carter Lebares at the UCSF Center for Mindfulness in Surgery. The app supports participants attending in-person ESRT courses with: • Digital access to ESRT course materials • Practice guidance and resources • Supporting content between sessions ESRT StrongMind is available to participants enrolled in ESRT courses through established institutional partnerships. Contact your ESRT programme coordinator for enrolment information. Institutions interested in running ESRT should visit carterlebares.org or mindfulsurgeon.ucsf.edu. Built by BeWell IT on the BeWell Catalyst platform. ESRT StrongMind is used by the UCSF Center for Mindfulness in Surgery and other institutions to deliver their ESRT programmes. For enquiries about using the platform for your own wellbeing programme, visit bewellit.com. Disclaimer: ESRT StrongMind supports wellbeing education and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult your healthcare provider before starting any new wellness or stress management programme. If you are in crisis, please contact your local emergency services or a crisis helpline.

Screenshots

Mindful4 screens
ESRT StrongMind4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ESRT StrongMind at none against Mindful's 2. ESRT StrongMind also leads on device support (4 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Mindful sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. ESRT StrongMind asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mindful ships an update every 3 weeks, ESRT StrongMind every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Mindful versus ESRT StrongMind: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMindfulESRT StrongMind
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (12 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings12 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size81 MB93 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperGarret VinsonBeWell IT

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Mindful

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

ESRT StrongMind

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mindful free?
Mindful is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ESRT StrongMind free?
ESRT StrongMind is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Mindful or ESRT StrongMind have ads?
Neither Mindful nor ESRT StrongMind shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mindful or ESRT StrongMind?
Mindful ships an update every 3 weeks, and ESRT StrongMind every 2 weeks. Most recently, Mindful was updated on November 3, 2026 and ESRT StrongMind on October 30, 2026.

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