Stability vs Willow Wellness
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stability
This app uses facial recognition to analyze your mood and provides timely, non-invasive notifications to help you improve your mental well-being. It acts as a digital assistant to help you understand and manage your emotions.
- Facial mood recognition
- Personalized mood improvement tips
- Timely notifications
- Mental health actualization
- Non-invasive well-being support
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Stability aims to simplify the mood health process for everybody. Simplistically, as people get more intertwined with their phones, there needs to be a middle-man keeping people in check, because our devices can drastically alter who we are as people. Stability is that middle-man. By taking a simple photo and getting a mood recognition, Stability sends timely notifications on ways to improve your mood, giving you the "wake-up" call non-invasively. It aims to streamline this mental-health actualization process, and is an alternative to ensuring that people understand their moods better.
Willow Wellness
This app uses a growing willow tree to visualize your daily wellness practices. Engage in breathwork, voice journaling, and send messages to your future self. A couples mode allows shared growth in a virtual garden.
- Generative willow tree visualization
- Immersive breathwork with spatial audio
- Voice journaling
- Time-capsule letters
- Couples mode for shared gardens
- Customizable garden scenes
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Willow is a daily wellness app built around a willow tree that grows as you practice. Each session adds to your tree. Skip a day and it reflects that too. The tree is generative SVG — no two look alike over time. Core features: - Immersive breathwork with spatial audio (no headphones required, though they help) - Voice journaling and haptic message sending - Time-capsule letters you write to your future self - Couples mode: two accounts, one shared garden, braided trees that grow together - 12 garden scenes and a full cosmetic system to personalize your space Premium unlocks Couples mode, additional scenes, and time-capsule letters. You can try a free subscription in TestFlight — the purchase sheet will say you will not be charged. No noise, no streaks, no guilt. Just a tree that shows up when you do. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Stability at none against Willow Wellness's 2. Stability also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). Willow Wellness's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating and iOS requirement 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. Willow Wellness sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Stability asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Stability against 5.0 for Willow Wellness. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stability has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Stability ships an update every 2 months, Willow Wellness every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stability | Willow Wellness |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.1 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 115 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Anu Mandala | Rayan Ani |
Customer experience
Stability
Willow Wellness
In-app purchases
Stability
No in-app purchases
Willow Wellness
- Monthly $8.99/month$8.991 Month
- Yearly $49.99/year7 Days trial$49.991 Year
