aSim vs Dear Minds
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
aSim
Create and share your own mini-applications with friends. Simply describe your app idea, and within a minute, you can experience it. This platform allows for collaborative app building and sharing.
- Build mini-applications
- Share with friends
- Describe app ideas
- Experience creations in 60 seconds
- Collaborative app building
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aSim lets you create and share mini-apps with friends! Describe your app idea, wait 60 seconds, then experience it! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Dear Minds
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Step into Dear Minds, where your emotions come to life as friendly companions. Joy, Loomy, Rage, and Worry – each with their own personality – are here to listen, talk, and grow with you. Terms of Use: https://dearminds.today/en/terms
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Verdict
aSim and Dear Minds are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. aSim sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month and Dear Minds sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
aSim ships an update every 4 days, Dear Minds weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | aSim | Dear Minds |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (71 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 58.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 71 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 201 MB | 80 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Li | Melancholy Labs Inc. |
In-app purchases
aSim
- 1 User Sub Token$2.491 Month
- 2 User Sub Tokens$4.991 Month
- 3 User Sub Tokens$7.491 Month
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- 4 User Sub Tokens$9.991 Month
- aSim Plus Weekly$9.997 Days
- 5 User Sub Tokens$12.491 Month
- aSim Plus Monthly$19.991 Month
- aSim Pro Weekly$49.997 Days
- aSim Pro Monthly$149.991 Month
- aSim Plus Yearly$209.991 Year
Dear Minds
- Plus Monthly$6.991 Month
