AlchemistOne vs Trouble Tree
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AlchemistOne
This app offers a mindful approach to overcoming habits and addictions. It provides meditations, podcasts, journaling tools, and ambient music to help users find peace and reconnect with themselves. Designed for a stigma-free recovery journey, it focuses on understanding cravings and building resilience.
- Guided meditations
- Podcasts and video content
- Journaling and self-reflection tools
- Physical activity tracking
- Ambient music for grounding
- Stigma-free recovery support
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An immersive space to move beyond habits, addictions, and mental noise. If constant distraction or escape feels exhausting and no longer works, there's a different way to relate to your experience. The AlchemistOne app is grounded in mindfulness, non-duality, and a reframed understanding of the external world. Our mission is to create a space where you can rediscover life beyond gambling, drinking, doomscrolling, or anything else that's been holding you back. We're here to help you quiet the mind, find peace, and reconnect with the truth of who you are—while examining life's most meaningful questions. THE SPACE Inside AlchemistOne, you'll find meditations, podcasts, and video content from creators around the world, all exploring the human experience through mindfulness and non-duality. You'll also have access to tools for journaling, self-reflection, physical-activity tracking, and ambient music—designed to help you stay grounded, inspired, and in tune with your path. Our team and community of creators are growing every day, and we're committed to continually improving AlchemistOne to support and enrich your journey. ADDICTION RECOVERY Whether you're in early recovery or rediscovering balance years later, AlchemistOne offers a calm, stigma-free space to explore healing. Our guided audio journeys and reflections are designed to help you understand why cravings arise, how habits form, and how awareness itself becomes the path out. From mindfulness practices that reduce anxiety and emotional triggers to journaling tools that help track patterns and progress, AlchemistOne brings together everything you need to support your mental health, sobriety, and long-term recovery — all in one place. REFRAME YOUR MIND Your thoughts go with you everywhere. At AlchemistOne, our goal is to help you live with balance, confidence, and peace in a way that lasts. By showing up to this space, you'll discover a new way of living where you can remain calm, clear, and resilient. Even when life gets loud. PRIVACY MATTERS We care deeply about your privacy. AlchemistOne is built on Privacy by Design principles, ensuring all your sensitive recovery data remains encrypted and stored locally on your device. Your journey is yours alone. Always. Terms of Service: https://www.alchemistone.io/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://www.alchemistone.io/privacy/ YouTube API Terms of Services: https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms/api-services-terms-of-service
Trouble Tree
This app helps you process life's challenges and foster emotional growth. Log troubles, reframe thoughts, and practice gratitude to cultivate a visual representation of your journey. Access past reflections and gain insights into your progress.
- Log daily troubles
- Reframe thoughts and take action
- Practice gratitude
- Visualize emotional growth
- Access past reflections
- Optional therapist export
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Grow through what you go through. Plant your experiences. Release your troubles. Nurture gratitude. Trouble Tree™ helps you turn life’s challenges into emotional growth—one branch, one root, one moment at a time. 7 days free! How it works: - Log your daily troubles and express what’s on your mind - Reframe your thoughts and take meaningful action - Practice gratitude to strengthen your emotional roots - Reflect, release, and renew - Watch your tree evolve over time as a visual reflection of your journey - Access past trees to revisit progress and gain insight - Optional therapist export for deeper support Why Trouble Tree™? Because emotional growth should be seen, felt, and celebrated. Let your challenges become the soil for something stronger. Subscription Details To unlock the full experience, a subscription is required: - $4.99/month - $39.99/year - Founding Members: $29.99/year — for first year of subscription All options include a 7 days free trial. Early adopters benefit from reduced pricing in the first month of release. By subscribing, you'll gain full access to exclusive features, personal growth tools, and continual updates designed to support your well-being. - Terms of Service: https://www.troubletree.com/_files/ugd/9822f1_136d3cdacf9249f5a35c7bdba62f9e3c.pdf Let Trouble Tree™ help you become more resilient, mindful, and rooted.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: AlchemistOne at freemium against Trouble Tree's subscription. AlchemistOne also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly) and ratings volume (12 vs 4). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. AlchemistOne sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month and Trouble Tree sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Trouble Tree holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
AlchemistOne ships an update every 5 days, Trouble Tree fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and June 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AlchemistOne | Trouble Tree |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (12 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 77 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | AlchemistOne Inc. | Jeremy Downs |
Customer experience
AlchemistOne
Trouble Tree
In-app purchases
AlchemistOne
- Monthly Subscription3 Days trial$8.991 Month
- Annual Subscription7 Days trial$79.991 Year
Trouble Tree
- Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Annual Subscription7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Annual Subscription7 Days trial$19.991 Year









