Comparison

Trouble Tree vs MindAware

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

Head to head
About

Trouble Tree

This app helps you process life's challenges and foster emotional growth. Log troubles, reframe thoughts, and practice gratitude to cultivate a visual representation of your journey. Access past reflections and gain insights into your progress.

Highlights
  • Log daily troubles
  • Reframe thoughts and take action
  • Practice gratitude
  • Visualize emotional growth
  • Access past reflections
  • Optional therapist export
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Grow through what you go through. Plant your experiences. Release your troubles. Nurture gratitude. Trouble Tree™ helps you turn life’s challenges into emotional growth—one branch, one root, one moment at a time. 7 days free! How it works: - Log your daily troubles and express what’s on your mind - Reframe your thoughts and take meaningful action - Practice gratitude to strengthen your emotional roots - Reflect, release, and renew - Watch your tree evolve over time as a visual reflection of your journey - Access past trees to revisit progress and gain insight - Optional therapist export for deeper support Why Trouble Tree™? Because emotional growth should be seen, felt, and celebrated. Let your challenges become the soil for something stronger. Subscription Details To unlock the full experience, a subscription is required: - $4.99/month - $39.99/year - Founding Members: $29.99/year — for first year of subscription All options include a 7 days free trial. Early adopters benefit from reduced pricing in the first month of release. By subscribing, you'll gain full access to exclusive features, personal growth tools, and continual updates designed to support your well-being. - Terms of Service: https://www.troubletree.com/_files/ugd/9822f1_136d3cdacf9249f5a35c7bdba62f9e3c.pdf Let Trouble Tree™ help you become more resilient, mindful, and rooted.

About

MindAware

Explore your inner world with personalized audio analyses and a trauma test to uncover core wounds. Track your mood daily and journal to understand your emotional triggers. This app is designed for deep self-understanding and personal transformation.

Highlights
  • Personalized audio analyses
  • Trauma test for childhood wounds
  • Daily mood tracking
  • Journaling for emotional understanding
  • Guided self-discovery tools
Features
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We believe that being aware of your emotions is the key to understanding yourself. MindAware helps you build that awareness as a daily practice — through mood tracking, journaling, and AI reflections that notice what you might not, surfacing patterns over time and helping you see what's showing up in your own words. A daily practice — a few minutes to check in and notice what's there. Done consistently, awareness becomes a habit. What you'll find inside: Basic: — Mood check-ins that guide you from broad feelings into more specific emotional states — Space to write freely through journaling — A personal history of your moods and emotional experiences over time Premium: — AI-generated reflections after every mood log and journal entry — Weekly and monthly reflections that reveal recurring emotional patterns — Deeper insight into emotional themes and shifts that may otherwise go unnoticed Basic is where the journey begins. It’s designed to help you explore the app, begin logging in your moods and building a journaling habit. Premium is where meaningful growth happens. As your journal grows, each entry adds context, helping you develop greater self-awareness, emotional clarity, and understanding. The more consistently you engage, the more personal and valuable your insights become. Premium subscription required for full feature access. Privacy Policy: https://www.mindawaregroup.com/privacy-policy Terms: https://www.mindawaregroup.com/terms-of-use

Screenshots

Trouble Tree4 screens
MindAware4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Trouble Tree at 100% against MindAware's 75%. Trouble Tree also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). MindAware's advantage is ratings volume (92 vs 4). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Trouble Tree sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and MindAware sells 13 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

Trouble Tree holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MindAware has 92 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Trouble Tree's written reviews are positive against 75% of MindAware's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Trouble Tree ships an update fortnightly, MindAware weekly. The most recent releases landed on June 7, 2026 and August 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Trouble Tree versus MindAware: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrouble TreeMindAware
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better4.7 (92 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings492 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB80 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperJeremy DownsMindAware Group LLC

Customer experience

Trouble Tree

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

MindAware

All ratings92 ratings
Positive90.2%
Neutral6.5%
Negative3.3%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Trouble Tree

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription7 Days trial$9.991 Year
  • Annual Subscription7 Days trial$19.991 Year
13 purchases

MindAware

Subscriptions10
  • Mindcast Weekly Premium$6.997 Days
  • Mindcast Weekly Premium$9.997 Days
  • Mindcast Weekly Premium$12.997 Days
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  • Mindcast Monthly Premium14 Days trial$14.991 Month
  • Mindcast Weekly Premium$14.997 Days
  • Mindcast Yearly Premium$29.991 Year
  • Mindcast Yearly Premium$49.991 Year
  • Mindcast Yearly Premium$59.991 Year
  • Mindcast Yearly Premium14 Days trial$89.991 Year
  • Mindcast Yearly Premium$89.991 Year
One-time3
  • Mindcast Lifetime Premium$59.99
  • Mindcast Lifetime Premium$69.99
  • Mindcast Lifetime Premium$99.99

Questions

Is Trouble Tree free?
Trouble Tree is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MindAware free?
MindAware is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Trouble Tree or MindAware?
Trouble Tree is rated higher. Trouble Tree averages 5.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while MindAware averages 4.7 from 92 ratings.
Do Trouble Tree or MindAware have ads?
Neither Trouble Tree nor MindAware shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Trouble Tree or MindAware?
Trouble Tree ships an update fortnightly, and MindAware weekly. Most recently, Trouble Tree was updated on June 7, 2026 and MindAware on August 28, 2026.

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