Telos vs BrainMail
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Telos
Discover your purpose and design a more intentional life. This AI-powered companion offers personalized insights, accountability, and tools based on positive psychology to help you grow and live fully. Connect with your aspirations and build momentum with actionable challenges.
- AI-powered life coaching
- Personalized purpose profile
- Actionable insights and challenges
- Positive psychology-based guidance
- Confidential and secure data
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Telos, your home for self-discovery and life on purpose. School teaches you everything except the most important subject: yourself. Telos is where you build a real relationship with who you are, so you can get off autopilot and live on purpose. Your Profile In minutes, a picture of who you aspire to be starts to emerge. Begin with your core virtues, the qualities you want to live by, then grow your profile into your vision, goals, and habits. This becomes your compass: the thing you check when life feels busy and you need to remember what actually matters to you. Your Ritual Design a moment to come back to yourself, on your schedule and on the days you choose. Your ritual recenters you on your virtues, your vision, your goals, and your habits, then gives you space to reflect in your own way. A few minutes for yourself. This is how purpose becomes a lifestyle. Your Coach Your Telos AI is available whenever you need it, over text, voice, or photo. It asks good questions instead of handing you answers, because the point is to trust your own wisdom, not outsource it. Think of it as a wise friend that won't answer for you, trained in positive psychology and ancient wisdom. Your Rings Every ring is a moment of insight. A gold Daily Ring gives you one small practice for one of your virtues. A green Growth Ring celebrates growth and reveals a pattern in your own life you might not have seen yourself. Share one with a friend, or take it into your coach and go deeper. Your Tools A growing library of self-guided exercises to build the inner skills nobody taught you. Work through them in the app or alongside your journal. Each one helps you wake up, grow up, and show up across all areas of your life. Why Telos Self-discovery, not self-improvement that stays surface-level. You cannot outperform your self-awareness. Telos starts from the belief that you have incredible potential already within you, and helps you build an honest, secure relationship with yourself that impacts the rest of your life. The whole human. Mind, body, heart, and soul, developed together. Not a mood tracker, not a meditation timer, not therapy. Conscious human development. AI that gives you back your agency. Most technology is built to keep you on it. Telos is built to send you back to your life. The highest goal of a coach is to become redundant. Yours alone. Built with industry-leading safety and privacy standards. Your reflections stay confidential, secure, and de-identified. Join the movement Telos is the technology layer of World On Purpose, a movement of people choosing to live intentionally. Workshops, circles, a pocket journal, and campus chapters. This is where it starts. Create your Telos and begin becoming who you're meant to be. Terms of Use and Privacy Policy: worldonpurpose.com/terms and worldonpurpose.com/privacy Questions or problems? Email connect@worldonpurpose.com and we'll jump right on it.
BrainMail
Capture your thoughts, affirmations, and inspirational quotes. This app sends them back to you via text message at random future times, serving as a personal reminder of your insights and moments of clarity.
- Save affirmations and quotes
- Receive messages at random future times
- Personalized reminders
- Capture moments of clarity
- Support for future self
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BrainMail is a tool to reinforce your best thoughts. I always liked the idea of journaling, but it was too hard and temporary. All that work just to forget it the next day. So I made this. Jot down thoughts that move or inspire you, and they'll get texted back to you at random times to nudge you back into that headspace. It's an easier way to commemorate good moments and show our future selves some love. Terms of Use: https://re-mind-app.github.io/remind-site/terms.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: BrainMail at 100% against Telos's 62%. BrainMail also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Telos's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (42 vs 5). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Telos sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and BrainMail sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
BrainMail holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Telos has 42 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of Telos's written reviews are positive against 100% of BrainMail's.
Telos ships an update every 6 days, BrainMail every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.
| Parameter | Telos | BrainMail |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (42 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 42 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 103 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Telos Labs, Inc. | William Coburn |
Customer experience
Telos
BrainMail
In-app purchases
Telos
- Membership14 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Membership$19.991 Month
BrainMail
- Re[Mind] Monthly Subscription$0.991 Month
- Re[Mind] Annual Subscription$9.991 Year









