DEF Reset vs Struggle Well Community
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
Struggle Well Community
This app fosters a supportive community for individuals on a journey of personal growth after experiencing trauma. It offers tools and connections to practice daily habits, revisit training materials, and find encouragement from peers and guides.
- Connect with community and graduates
- Practice daily wellness habits
- Access training ideas and tools
- Hear real stories of growth
- Receive support from Guides
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The Struggle Well (SW) app is where you keep walking the path from struggle to strength and growth — alongside the people who understand the journey. Built on Posttraumatic Growth (PTG), Struggle Well rests on a simple truth: struggle, faced with the right tools and the right people, can become the foundation for a stronger, more meaningful life. This app is where you continue your work by staying connected, practicing, and growing in community Inside the app: • Connect with your class and the wider community of graduates who've walked the same road • Practice the daily habits that build wellness across mind, body, and spirit • Revisit the ideas, tools, and stories from your training — organized so you can find what you need, when you need it • Hear from fellow graduates: real voices, real growth • Stay supported by Guides and a community that has your back Posttraumatic Growth isn't a destination — it's a practice. The Struggle Well app is built to walk with you for the long haul: through the hard days and the good ones, as you write the next chapter and turn your hardest experiences into purpose and service. You've done the work. Now keep going. Be Well. Do Well. Struggle Well. Brought to you by Boulder Crest Foundation, the home of Posttraumatic Growth.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Struggle Well Community at 80% against DEF Reset's 29%. Struggle Well Community also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.8). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Struggle Well Community holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 179 and 165 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of DEF Reset's written reviews are positive against 80% of Struggle Well Community's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DEF Reset | Struggle Well Community |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (179 ratings) | 4.7 (165 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 29.0% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 179 — better | 165 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 91 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Jocko Publishing | Boulder Crest Foundation |
Customer experience
DEF Reset
Struggle Well Community
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
Struggle Well Community
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
DEF Reset
No in-app purchases
Struggle Well Community
No in-app purchases
Questions
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