Trouble Tree vs Cycles
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
Cycles
Create and follow timed segments for focused activities like workouts, breathing exercises, study sessions, and routines. This app helps structure your time with clear sequences, offering a modern approach to intentional living without distractions.
- Create custom timed segments
- Guided workouts and breathing sessions
- Study and routine blocks
- Sound-aware cues and rhythm
- Community-shared cycles
- Flexible for various activities
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Cycles helps you create and follow focused moments — from workouts and breathing sessions to routines, study blocks, and guided resets. Each cycle is a clear sequence of timed segments designed to keep you present, intentional, and moving forward. No clutter. No noise. Just rhythm. Cycles is a modern way to structure your time — not by cramming more in, but by creating moments that actually work. Whether you’re: • Warming up for a workout • Refocusing in the middle of the day • Breathing through stress • Building a routine • Learning something new Cycles guides you through intentional sequences of focused segments — each with clear timing, color, and rhythm. Why Cycles works • Designed for focus — one cycle at a time • Flexible — workouts, meditation, routines, study, and more • Human pacing — short, finishable sessions • Sound-aware — subtle cues, pulse, or silence • Community cycles — discover and reuse what works Cycles isn’t about watching the clock. It’s about moving through moments — with purpose. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Cycles at freemium against Trouble Tree's subscription. Cycles also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). Trouble Tree's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Trouble Tree sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Cycles sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Trouble Tree against 5.0 for Cycles. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.
Trouble Tree ships an update fortnightly, Cycles every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Trouble Tree | Cycles |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeremy Downs | A Space |
Customer experience
Trouble Tree
Cycles
In-app purchases
Trouble Tree
- Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Annual Subscription7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Annual Subscription7 Days trial$19.991 Year
Cycles
- Cycles Plus$4.991 Month
- Cycles Pro$29.991 Year









