RetroAchievementsUI vs Mindful Slot Machine
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RetroAchievementsUI
Browse and discover games with achievements. Track your progress and find new challenges to master. This open-source application is built with SwiftUI.
- Browse games with achievements
- Discover new games
- Track game progress
- Open-source
- SwiftUI built
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RetroAchievementsUI is open-source and written entirely in SwiftUI. View games you've played, or find new ones to master! All app features are free and not locked behind a paywall, ads or data collection. In-App purchases are optional to help support future development efforts! Note: This app is not official or endorsed by RetroAchievements.
Mindful Slot Machine
This app offers a home screen widget that functions as a slot machine. It provides a calming ritual for moments of downtime, with customizable themes and daily coins for unlocking content. Go Pro for immediate access to all features.
- Home screen widget
- Customizable themes
- Daily coin rewards
- Unlockable content
- Widget-first design
- Multiple widget sizes
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Welcome to Mindful Spins! the daily ritual you didn't know you needed. Some people journal. Some people meditate. Some people light a candle and stare at it for twenty minutes. You spin. And that's okay. That's more than okay. That's growth. Ever find yourself just mindlessly scrolling left and right without doing anything on your Home Screen? Mindful Spins is a slot machine for your home screen. A beautiful, satisfying, deeply unnecessary slot machine that lives right where you'll actually use it, on your home screen, your home screen, in the quiet moments between everything else. One tap, three reels, and a little burst of something that feels suspiciously like peace. You deserve this. — THE WIDGET — This is the whole point. Mindful Spins was built widget-first, and it shows. Drop the square widget on your home screen for a compact spin-whenever-you-need-it experience, or go with the wide widget for a little more presence, a little more intention. Both animate beautifully. Both update in real time. Both will make people ask what app that is when they see your phone. The widgets adapt to whichever theme you're running, so your home screen always feels like yours. Your wallpaper. Your vibe. Your ritual. — THE THEMES — Corpo Wellness. The default. Soft creams, dusty rose, sage green. Looks exactly like a mindfulness app. Rounded fonts, gentle colors, a spin button that says you deserve this. Because you do. You really do. Classic. Clean lines, bold symbols, timeless. For when you want to honor the tradition. The sevens, the cherries, the feeling of a Vegas floor but make it tasteful. A little nostalgia never hurt anyone. Minimal. Almost nothing. Just the reels, just the result, just the tap. White space as a personality. Quiet confidence. The theme for people who have nothing to prove. Custom Emoji. Your reels, your rules. Pick any emoji and watch them spin. Your lucky symbols. Your pet. Three avocados. The logo of the company you work for. Whatever makes you feel something. This one is genuinely hard to put down. Fair warning. — THE COINS — Every day, 100 coins arrive. No alarm. No streak pressure. No guilt trip if you miss a day. They are just there, waiting, like a small gift from the universe that also happens to be an app. Spend coins to unlock themes in the shop. Spin as many times as you want — coins only leave when you choose to use them on something you actually want. Winning feels good. Even small wins. Especially small wins. The universe is listening. — PRO — Go Pro and everything opens up immediately. All 7 themes, and all the community themes on demand, both widgets, no waiting, no grinding. One purchase, yours forever. For the person who already knows this is exactly their kind of thing and just wants all of it right now. — THE EXPERIENCE — Mindful Spins is a fidget toy for your phone. It is the thing you open when you are waiting for the elevator, sitting in the car, lying on the couch at 11pm not ready to sleep yet. It doesn't ask anything from you. It doesn't have a story mode or a tutorial or seven onboarding screens. You tap. Things spin. Something happens. You feel briefly and inexplicably satisfied. The outcome messages are there too — a little line of text after every spin that responds to how it went. The universe provides when it provides. When it doesn't, that is also part of the process. Every result is a lesson. Is Mindful Spins technically a slot machine? Technically. Is it also a beautiful home screen widget, a gentle daily ritual, and the most calming three seconds of your afternoon? We think so. We feel good about it. Download it. Put the widget on your home screen. Spin once. See how you feel. 100 free coins every day Two animated home screen widgets 7 themes — Corpo Wellness, Classic, Minimal, Custom Emoji, Liquid Glass, Custom Photos, and Custom Everything! Win messages for every outcome Pro unlocks everything, forever No ads. Ever. This is self care now.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Mindful Slot Machine at 100% against RetroAchievementsUI's 56%. Mindful Slot Machine also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0). RetroAchievementsUI's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). 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.
Mindful Slot Machine holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 56% of RetroAchievementsUI's written reviews are positive against 100% of Mindful Slot Machine's.
RetroAchievementsUI ships an update every 2 weeks, Mindful Slot Machine weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RetroAchievementsUI | Mindful Slot Machine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Michael Rosenberg | MATHEW PONON |
Customer experience
RetroAchievementsUI
Mindful Slot Machine
In-app purchases
RetroAchievementsUI
No in-app purchases
Mindful Slot Machine
No in-app purchases
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