Comparison

Mindful vs Glow

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

Glow

This app offers personalized, short immersive experiences designed to enhance emotional wellbeing and self-love. It guides users through a unique practice called 'glowfulness' to foster personal growth and a brighter outlook on life.

Highlights
  • Personalized immersive experiences
  • Guided by companion Luna
  • Daily tailored content
  • Focus on self-kindness
  • Builds path over time
  • Enhances energy and joy
  • Promotes calm and reduces stress
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Glow provides short, immersive experiences that feel great to use, built around who you are, and aimed at one thing: helping you glow from the inside. It is not meditation. It's not therapy. It's something new. WHAT IS GLOW Glow creates a space that grows with you. It delivers short, immersive experiences designed to support your wellbeing. Every experience is part of a path of real change that becomes yours over time. Deeply personalized, designed around who you are, and built so every moment counts. GLOWFULNESS At the heart of Glow is a practice we call glowfulness. A new language for living a meaningful life. It starts from the inside, how you treat yourself and your own mind, and extends outward to how you show up in your relationships and the world around you. In Glow, that means the right experience at the right moment: small acts that add up, without wasted effort. Do the experiences, and the glow follows. It's not surface-level. It's deep, personal, and it changes how good things find their way into your life. MEET LUNA Luna is your companion in Glow. She gets to know you from the first moment, asks the right questions, and builds your path with you. Each day, she has something new waiting, made for where you are right now. HOW IT WORKS • Answer a few questions so Glow understands who you are • Receive one short experience, created just for you • Each experience builds on the one before, and your path deepens over time YOUR GOAL. YOUR PATH. Glow shapes itself around what you're here for: • Being kinder to yourself, when your inner voice turns harsh • More energy and joy, when your mood runs low • More calm, when stress and anxious feelings take over • Or simply more glow, when you want life to feel brighter WHO IS BEHIND GLOW Glow was built by a team that believes wellbeing products should feel this good to use, and developed with Prof. Amit Baumel, a leading international researcher in digital mental health. SAY HI • Email: support@mindgocare.ai • Website: mindgocare.ai • Privacy Policy: https://www.mindgocare.ai/privacy-policy • Terms of Use: https://www.mindgocare.ai/terms-of-use

Screenshots

Mindful4 screens
Glow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Glow at none against Mindful's 2. Glow also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). Mindful's advantage is 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. Glow 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 Glow. 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, Glow weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Mindful versus Glow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMindfulGlow
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (12 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size81 MB30 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperGarret VinsonMindGo Care, Inc.

Customer experience

Mindful

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

Glow

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

Glow

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mindful free?
Mindful is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Glow free?
Glow is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mindful or Glow?
Mindful and Glow are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 12 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Mindful or Glow have ads?
Neither Mindful nor Glow shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mindful or Glow?
Mindful ships an update every 3 weeks, and Glow weekly. Most recently, Mindful was updated on October 11, 2026 and Glow on October 24, 2026.

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