Comparison

MLA vs Essential Therapies

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

Head to head
About

MLA

This app offers a proactive approach to mental well-being through science-based education and weekly exercises. It provides tools for mindfulness, emotional intelligence, resilience, and more, aiming to improve daily life and emotional health.

Highlights
  • Weekly mental health exercises
  • Science-based education
  • Mindfulness and meditation
  • Yoga and fitness tips
  • Progress tracking
  • Offline sync
Features
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Take a proactive approach to your mental health. My mission is to help you practice strategies to navigate any challenges you might face here and there or even on a daily basis on your journey to better well-being. That’s what this is, it’s a practice. It’s a lifestyle of taking a proactive approach to your mental health. If we practice consistently over time, the results will take care of themselves. Each week, different exercises are offered that you can practice in your everyday life as you go about your day. Lots of science based education about mindfulness, life balance, emotional intelligence, living a meaningful life, building resiliency and self acceptance, maximizing your strengths, building positive relationships, goals and the motivation to achieve them, meditations, yoga classes, fitness/weight training tips, the weekly practices and the strategies to implement those into your daily life, and lots of books, resources and other fun stuff. We have cool t-shirts available too that we are donating proceeds from to Autism Awareness. We're not here to diagnose anyone. We all experience a little or a lot of everything now and then so we might as well develop the strategies to navigate it. Practice these strategies as you go about your daily life, and your emotional health will very likely will improve. Practice these strategies as you go about your daily life, and you very likely will experience better well-being. Practice these strategies, as you go about your daily life, and the emotional challenges you face just might seem less challenging. We focus on the here and now. The way we navigate our personal and professional lives today, has everything to do with the way we draw for our past experiences When we work towards improving our emotional and physical health today, yesterday seems less challenging. Number one rule of mental health, in my opinion, don’t live in the past, so let’s practice today, improve our here and now for better well-being. INFORMATION ABOUT THE APP AND PURCHASE OPTIONS By signing up, you will get access to subscription(s) that include features such as progress tracking, and offline sync. The download of MLA-App is free of charge. Should you use MLA-App app to access in-app content via available one-time purchase(s), a payment will be charged to your credit card once. Read our full Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy: https://passion.io/terms-of-service https://passion.io/privacy-policy

About

Essential Therapies

This app provides guided myofascial self-treatment and stress relief techniques to enhance mobility and reduce pain from home. It offers features like progress tracking and offline access through subscription plans.

Highlights
  • Guided myofascial self-treatment
  • Stress relief tools
  • Improved mobility techniques
  • Pain-free function guidance
  • Progress tracking
  • Offline sync
Features
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The Essential Therapies app helps you take your healing to the next level with guided myofascial self-treatment, stress relief tools, and techniques to improve awareness, mobility, and pain-free function—right from your own home. INFORMATION ABOUT THE APP AND PURCHASE OPTIONS By signing up, you will get access to subscription(s) that include features such as progress tracking, and offline sync. The download of Essential Therapies is free of charge. Should you use Essential Therapies app to access in-app content, we offer one of the following options: Free plan(s) - available to subscribe free of charge. Subscription based plan(s) - a recurring payment will be charged to your credit card after the trial period ends and when a subscription renews. A subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours prior to the end of the subscription period. There is no increase in price when renewing. Subscription(s) can be managed and auto-renewal turned off in Account Settings in the App Store after purchase. One-time purchase based plan(s) - a payment will be charged to your credit card only once. Read our full Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy: https://passion.io/terms-of-service https://passion.io/privacy-policy

Screenshots

MLA3 screens
Essential Therapies3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Essential Therapies at none against MLA's 10. MLA's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and monetization model 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. MLA sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $15.99 per month. Essential Therapies 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 MLA against 5.0 for Essential Therapies. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MLA ships an update monthly, Essential Therapies every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
MLA versus Essential Therapies: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMLAEssential Therapies
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size92 MB91 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperChris CondrinCynthia Hodgson

In-app purchases

10 purchases

MLA

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$15.991 Month
  • Yearly Practice$99.001 Year
One-time8
  • T-shirt - Large$34.95
  • T-shirt - Small$34.95
  • T-shirt - XLarge$34.95
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  • T-shirt - Medium$34.95
  • T-shirt - XXXLarge$36.95
  • One on One Video Call$50.00
  • All Access$95.00
  • Yearly$99.99
None

Essential Therapies

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MLA free?
MLA is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Essential Therapies free?
Essential Therapies is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, MLA or Essential Therapies?
MLA and Essential Therapies are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do MLA or Essential Therapies have ads?
Both MLA and Essential Therapies show ads.
Which is updated more often, MLA or Essential Therapies?
MLA ships an update monthly, and Essential Therapies every 3 months. Most recently, MLA was updated on November 7, 2026 and Essential Therapies on October 30, 2026.

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