DEF Reset vs Broken Shepherds
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DEF Reset
This app helps users build discipline and lasting habits by tracking daily essential habits. Engage with a community, compete with others, and follow fellow users on their personal improvement journeys.
- Daily habit tracking
- Community interaction
- Competitive features
- Follow other users
- Personal improvement focus
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The Discipline Equals Freedom (DEF) Reset is a personal improvement and community app designed to instill enduring habits and discipline. Each day, you'll track eight essential habits and interact, compete, and follow others on the path
Broken Shepherds
This app provides a transparent platform for non-profit organizations to share their financial information and connect with the public. Users can explore listed organizations, understand fund utilization, and find local volunteer opportunities.
- Non-profit organization listings
- Transparency ratings
- Fund utilization insights
- Volunteer opportunity browsing
- Regional humanitarian relief discovery
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Broken Shepherds strives to bring transparency to the non-profit sector by providing a platform for non-profit organizations to share their information and connect with the public. Features: - Hundreds of thousands of non-profit organizations listed from all over the US. - Light Rating indicates how transparent the non-profit is. - Get insight on how non-profits utilize their funds. - Browse nearby volunteer opportunities. - Discover regional organizations on the ground providing local humanitarian relief. Broken Shepherds platform and service offering provide tracking and monitoring of non-profit organizations to provide transparency for and facilitate assessment of donations, revenue allocations and expenses, assets and liabilities, fundraising and the provision and receipt of non-profit services by non-profit organizations, donors and volunteers.
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Verdict
DEF Reset and Broken Shepherds both sit at 3.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 56% of Broken Shepherds's written reviews are positive against 29% of DEF Reset's. Broken Shepherds also leads on device support (3 vs 1). DEF Reset's advantage is ratings volume (192 vs 20). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.8 for DEF Reset against 3.9 for Broken Shepherds. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DEF Reset has 192 ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 29% of DEF Reset's written reviews are positive against 56% of Broken Shepherds's.
DEF Reset ships an update monthly, Broken Shepherds every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DEF Reset | Broken Shepherds |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (192 ratings) | 3.9 (20 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 29.0% of reviews | 55.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 192 — better | 20 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Jocko Publishing | Broken Shepherds |
Customer experience
DEF Reset
Broken Shepherds
Bugs and requests
DEF Reset
Reported bugs
4 issues- Freezing on end-user license agreement
- Inability to update profile picture
- Inconsistent behavior across iOS versions
- Password reset issues and login failures
Requested features
3 requests- Year-round progress tracking and calendar
- Customizable workout and habit options
- Incentives or rewards for reaching milestones
Broken Shepherds
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
DEF Reset
No in-app purchases
Broken Shepherds
No in-app purchases
Questions
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