Comparison

MasterEQ vs Dear Wander

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

MasterEQ

Enhance your emotional intelligence with practical exercises and gamified tools. Understand and manage emotions to improve relationships, career, and overall well-being. Features include EQ tests, personalized growth paths, mood tracking, and weekly challenges.

Highlights
  • Science-backed EQ test
  • Personalized emotional growth path
  • Daily mood tracker
  • Weekly real-life challenges
  • Progress badges
  • Topic-tied Masterclasses
Features
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Emotional intelligence training? Why? Life offers many challenges both in work- and in a private environment, emotions can run the show and overwhelm us. With MasterEQ, you’ll learn how to stay calm under pressure, handle challenges with confidence, and build deeper, more meaningful connections, by improving your emotional intelligence and understanding the emotional effects of typical everyday situations. Developed by psychologists, MasterEQ helps you in your emotional intelligence journey with simple, practical, and life-changing exercises. Why choose MasterEQ for emotional intelligence training? Because if you improve your emotional intelligence, you can improve your career, your relationships and your overall wellbeing. MasterEQ helps you thrive in five core areas — Work, Self, Family, Friends, and Community. Through gamified exercises and tools designed for both newcomers and EQ pros. It fits seamlessly into your daily schedule, MasterEQ helps you navigate emotions and enhance empathy to understand and master challenging everyday situations better. What’s inside MasterEQ, your emotional intelligence trainer app? • A science-backed free EQ test: Start with a personalized profile of your emotional strengths and growth areas to start your journey. • An emotional growth path that’s 100% you: A roadmap to improve your emotional intelligence tailored to you, built from your EQ test results for personal growth that fits your life. • Mood tracker: Track how you feel daily, spot patterns, and gain insights into your emotional habits. • Weekly challenges: Take your skills off the screen and into real life with hands-on missions that help you grow. • Progress badges: Every win matters. Celebrate your growth with badges that show how far you’ve come. • Topic-tied Masterclasses: Take a deeper dive into personal growth, resilience, and advanced emotional intelligence skills. Terms & privacy policy: https://www.mastereqapp.com/terms-and-conditions/

About

Dear Wander

Features
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Dear Wander is a screen time companion for using your phone less. Its journal helps you stick to it. You pick the apps you open too often. When you go to open one, Dear Wander shows up first, with the sentence you wrote that morning. You breathe with the orb for about a minute, then it asks how you feel now. You decide whether to open the app or put the phone down. The journal keeps track of your day In the morning you write one sentence for the day. In the afternoon the app asks how you're feeling about it, and at night how it went. If it was hard, it asks whether it was too much for one day, and the next morning you can start from a smaller step. Each pause shows up in your journal with how you felt after. When you want to write more, there's a question drawn from what you did today, or a blank page. Your week Each week you see how many times you paused and how you felt after, next to one line you wrote. For harder moments A 5-4-3-2-1 grounding exercise, to come back to your senses. Built on Apple's Screen Time You choose the apps and websites. What you write stays on your phone, and there's no account to create. Dear Wander is free with one app. Dear Wander+ is a single payment for every app you choose, with grounding and insights. No subscription. Warmly, Dear Wander Terms of Use (EULA): https://dearwander.com/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://dearwander.com/privacy/

Screenshots

MasterEQ4 screens
Dear Wander4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Dear Wander at none against MasterEQ's shown. MasterEQ's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. MasterEQ sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.00 per month and Dear Wander sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MasterEQ ships an update every 3 weeks, Dear Wander every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
MasterEQ versus Dear Wander: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMasterEQDear Wander
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size111 MB36 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperMasterEQ International Korlatolt Felelossegu TarsasagAndres Vidal

In-app purchases

4 purchases

MasterEQ

Subscriptions4
  • Monthly3 Days trial$9.001 Month
  • Monthly3 Days trial$11.991 Month
  • Monthly3 Days trial$14.991 Month
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  • Annual3 Days trial$79.901 Year
3 purchases

Dear Wander

Subscriptions2
  • Dear Wander+ Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Dear Wander+ Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Dear Wander+ Lifetime$5.99

Questions

Is MasterEQ free?
MasterEQ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dear Wander free?
Dear Wander is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do MasterEQ or Dear Wander have ads?
MasterEQ shows ads; Dear Wander does not.
Which is updated more often, MasterEQ or Dear Wander?
MasterEQ ships an update every 3 weeks, and Dear Wander every 2 weeks. Most recently, MasterEQ was updated on October 20, 2026 and Dear Wander on October 28, 2026.

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