Comparison

Distraxt vs stop overthinking

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

Head to head
About

Distraxt

This app offers quick, interactive activities to help break cycles of overthinking and calm racing thoughts. It provides instant mental relief through playful, science-inspired tools designed to redirect attention and reset your mind.

Highlights
  • Tap to distract activities
  • Motion-based focus games
  • Quick relief for stress
  • Minimal input required
  • Designed for anxiety and mental reset
Features
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Feeling stuck in a loop of overthinking? Distraxt is your quick fix to break free. With fast, interactive activities designed to shift your focus, Distraxt helps calm racing thoughts and reset your mind—anytime, anywhere. Why Distraxt Works When your thoughts won’t stop, even a few seconds of distraction can make a difference. Distraxt gives you instant mental relief through playful, science-inspired tools that redirect attention and interrupt overthinking patterns. Inside Distraxt: - Tap to Distract: Pop bubbles, clear shapes, burst stress. - Tilt and Focus: Use motion-based mini-games to shift your attention. - Quick Relief: Activities built for short, high-stress moments. - Minimal Input: No logins, no pressure—just open and play. - Feel the Change: Designed for anxiety, stress, or simple mental reset. Distraxt is your pocket tool for mental clarity. No fluff. Just fast, effective distraction when you need it most. Download now and stop overthinking—one tap at a time. Terms of Use: https://shiningmuffin.com/terms-and-conditions/

About

stop overthinking

This app offers immediate relief for racing thoughts and anxiety. It provides guided sessions, journaling prompts, and breathing exercises to help you unhook from looping thoughts and find calm. Track your mental patterns without pressure or gamification.

Highlights
  • Guided grounding sessions
  • Thought unhooking and parking
  • Worry tracking and analysis
  • 21 guided meditation sessions
  • Journaling with prompts
  • Visual breathing exercises
  • Short educational reads
  • Daily mental check-ins
Features
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stop overthinking is for the moments when your mind will not stop. When you are stuck in thought loops, worrying about the future, or replaying a conversation at 3am, this app is what you open. It is not a general meditation app. It is built for one problem: anxiety that runs on words. WHEN IT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW Tap "I'm overthinking right now" for a guided three-minute grounding session. No setup, no long introduction. Just somewhere to put your attention while the spiral loses speed. UNHOOK A THOUGHT THAT KEEPS LOOPING Write the thought down in one sentence. Seeing it as something you are having, rather than something you are, loosens its grip. Then decide: turn it into one small next step, or park it. PARK THE WORRY, THEN SEE WHAT HAPPENED A postponed worry loses its charge. When a parked thought comes back around, you record whether it turned out to be a problem. In a 2020 study, nine in ten worries never came true. The app keeps your own count. 21 GUIDED SESSIONS, TWO TO TEN MINUTES - Overthinking Relief: step back from a spiral - Thought Observation: watch thoughts without being carried off by them - Mental Declutter: clear the noise - Physiological Sigh: the fastest known way to downshift - Body Scan, Box Breathing, and quick resets for when you only have two minutes JOURNALING THAT ACTUALLY HELPS 60 prompts across six categories: Unload, Soften, Ground, Reframe, Release and Settle. Unload is a plain brain dump for when your head is too full and you need somewhere to vent. The prompts rotate daily. Speak instead of typing when writing feels like too much. BREATHING YOU FOLLOW WITH YOUR EYES An animated guide for four in, six out, and other patterns. No audio, so it works in a meeting or on a train. SHORT READS ON WHY THE MIND LOOPS 14 two-minute ideas drawn from "Don't Believe Everything You Think" and the clinical work that agrees with it: metacognitive therapy, worry postponement, cognitive defusion. CHECK IN, AND SEE THE PATTERN Ten seconds to name how your mind feels and what is behind it. Over a week you start to see when the overthinking arrives, and what tends to set it off. NO PRESSURE. NO STREAKS. This is your space. Use it when you need it, however feels right. No guilt, no gamification, no forced daily habits. Whether you are lying awake at 3am, tense and stressed before a meeting, or just foggy, this gives you something to do about it. Your entries and your mental health notes stay on your device. You are doing better than you think.

Screenshots

Distraxt4 screens
stop overthinking4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: stop overthinking at freemium against Distraxt's subscription. stop overthinking also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). Distraxt's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ads, 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. Distraxt sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and stop overthinking sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Distraxt holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Distraxt ships an update every 2 weeks, stop overthinking every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Distraxt versus stop overthinking: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDistraxtstop overthinking
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.7 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size109 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShining Muffin LLCBrink Studio

Customer experience

Distraxt

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

stop overthinking

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Distraxt

Subscriptions2
  • Unlock Your Best Self$9.991 Month
  • Try Your Best Self7 Days trial$9.991 Month
2 purchases

stop overthinking

Subscriptions2
  • stop overthinking Premium - Weekly$6.997 Days
  • stop overthinking Premium - Annual3 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Distraxt free?
Distraxt is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is stop overthinking free?
stop overthinking is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Distraxt or stop overthinking?
Distraxt is rated higher. Distraxt averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while stop overthinking averages 4.7 from 3 ratings.
Do Distraxt or stop overthinking have ads?
Neither Distraxt nor stop overthinking shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Distraxt or stop overthinking?
Distraxt ships an update every 2 weeks, and stop overthinking every 4 months. Most recently, Distraxt was updated on September 12, 2026 and stop overthinking on September 14, 2026.

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