Mind Jar vs ActiveMind
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mind Jar
This app helps you manage stress and anxiety through mood tracking, journaling, and guided wellness practices. Its AI companion offers personalized insights and helps you understand your emotions better. Build healthy habits and improve your overall wellbeing with tailored daily plans.
- AI mood tracking with context
- AI chat for emotional exploration
- Smart journaling with guided prompts
- Guided breathing and meditation exercises
- Visual progress tracking with achievements
- Personalized daily wellness plans
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Your AI companion for mindfulness and emotional wellbeing. Mind Jar combines mood tracking, journaling, and wellness practices in one simple app. GREAT FOR: • Managing stress and anxiety • Building steady habits and focus • Improving sleep and daily wellbeing • Growing emotional awareness WHY MIND JAR: • An alternative to passive meditation and tracking apps — you discover and act. • An empathetic AI designed to help you understand yourself better. • Offline access. Use your practices anytime, anywhere. EASY TO START: 1. Check in on your mood and context (people, places, events). 2. Go deeper with an AI chat session. 3. Get takeaways — personalized tips, insights, and affirmations 4. Follow your tailored daily plan. --- AI CHECK-INS --- No more passive logging. Share how you feel and get personalized insights with an adaptive daily plan. --- REFLECTIONS CHAT --- Need to talk? Start a conversation with your AI companion anytime to explore your thoughts and understand your emotions better. --- SMART JOURNALING --- Write freely or choose guided prompts and templates. AI-powered summaries highlight patterns you might otherwise miss. --- BREATHING & MEDITATION --- Quick stress relief when you need it. Guided breathing exercises and short meditations help you reset in moments of anxiety or overwhelm. --- VISUAL PROGRESS --- Fill your jar with colorful orbs as you complete practices and watch your progress grow. Track streaks and unlock achievements. ○ Free: Basic mood tracking, breathing, meditations, journaling, and self-discovery tests. ● Premium: Unlock AI reflections and personalized insights for all features. Mind Jar offers monthly and annual premium subscriptions. Pricing varies by region; charges are billed to your Apple ID upon confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends in your Apple Account settings. If you subscribe before your free trial ends, the remaining trial will be forfeited upon purchase. Important: Mind Jar is not a medical service and does not provide medical advice. Privacy Policy: https://mind-jar.com/privacy-policy/ Terms & Conditions: https://mind-jar.com/terms-conditions/
ActiveMind
This app combines mental health support with physical activity suggestions based on your current mood. It offers guided sessions, mood tracking, and integrates with health data to help you stay present and active.
- Mood-based activity suggestions
- Guided mental health sessions
- Health data integration (Apple Health)
- Mood and activity tracking
- Journaling and self-assessments
- Therapy preparation tools
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ActiveMind is not a step counter and it is not a meditation app. It answers a smaller question: what should I do right now? And now a second one: who do I do it with? Tell it how you feel, or let it read your day from Apple Health, and it suggests something that fits. A short walk when you are flat. Something quiet when your body is carrying more than usual. A day out when the weather is good and you have an afternoon. TOGETHER, NEW IN 3.0 Bring a circle of up to five friends. Each of you has a card you make your own: a colour, a pattern, a title, your badges. Points for steps, sleep, movement, activities, trip stops and kindness, capped each day so one huge day cannot win the week. Count head to head, or against your own usual, so different bodies can compete fairly. Crowns go out every Sunday night, seasons run four weeks, and there is a hall of fame. Challenges: step duels, flash hours, sleep showdowns, bedtime races, team-ups, and a trip to the moon with everyone's steps added together. Open one by link to up to ten people. Day trips together: pick a day that suits everyone, vote on the stops, and watch each other move along the same route. A stop ticked side by side counts for more. A feed for your circle, with only what you choose to post. React, comment, and send emoji that fly onto a friend's screen. And ways to look out for each other: pacts for two, a promise a week, a push from your circle when you ask for one, and a quiet mode for a rough week. You decide what leaves your phone, one switch at a time: a daily step total, one sleep score a night, active minutes. Never your heart, sleep stages, moods, journal or places. Mute, report or block anyone, any time. A MIRROR, NOT A LECTURE Mind reads your own weeks back to you: what your best days have in common, when your feelings tend to show up, and a line from past you. It counts and describes; it never claims one thing caused another. What helps you lists only the findings you can act on, each with how sure it is. The Lab tests something properly. For two weeks it flips a coin each morning: on some days it leads with the thing being tested, on others it stays quiet. At the end you get a straight answer, and because the days were picked at random, the answer means something. It will tell you when something did nothing, too. DAYS OUT, NOT JUST MINUTES 206 day trips built from the places actually around you, each a short itinerary with real stops and times. Pick a day and the best one for that day's weather and your energy comes first. Plan my week puts a trip on the best-weather day and spreads three activities around it. YOUR BODY, READABLE Readiness each morning from your sleep, heart and effort. A sleep score worked out the way Apple scores it, with naps counted. Stress through the day, heart rate, HRV, breathing and wrist temperature, each against your own usual. A Watch, a phone and a ring never count the same walk twice. EVERYTHING ELSE Over 400 things to do, picked for how much energy you have Places near you that are open and worth the walk A forecast you can scrub through, and what the weather does to you Breathing, sleep sounds and timers Widgets, Siri shortcuts and picture share cards A letter every Sunday, written from your own week PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Every analysis runs on your phone. An account is optional, and only for friends and trip links. Your moods, journal and health data are not uploaded, not sold and not shared, apart from the few numbers you switch on for your circle. ActiveMind is not a medical device and nothing in it is a diagnosis. For anything that worries you about your health, talk to a clinician. move, think, thrive
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ActiveMind at none against Mind Jar's 4. Mind Jar's advantage is ratings volume (20 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Mind Jar sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. ActiveMind asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Mind Jar against 5.0 for ActiveMind. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mind Jar has 20 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Mind Jar ships an update weekly, ActiveMind every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Mind Jar | ActiveMind |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (20 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 184 MB | 74 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Oleksandr Nesterchuk | JESUS J DOMINGUEZ ROMERO |
Customer experience
Mind Jar
ActiveMind
In-app purchases
Mind Jar
- Mind Jar Premium3 Days trial$7.991 Month
- Mind Jar Premium7 Days trial$7.991 Month
- Mind Jar Premium7 Days trial$59.991 Year
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- Mind Jar Premium3 Days trial$59.991 Year
ActiveMind
No in-app purchases









