Moja Ohana vs Instead
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Moja Ohana
This app offers an intelligent space for reflection to understand your thought patterns, emotional responses, and relationship dynamics. It provides personalized analyses of your history, family system, and interpersonal connections, alongside guided meditations and journaling tools to foster lasting change.
- Personalized pattern analysis
- Family system exploration
- Relationship dynamics insights
- Guided meditations
- Reflection journaling
- Thematic practices
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Improve your relationships and learn how to function better in everyday life. Moja Ohana is a psychoeducational coaching app. It helps you better understand your reactions to stress, tension, and relationship challenges, while discovering your strengths. You’ll find techniques, stories, courses, soothing sounds, guided video practices, and daily inspiration to help you feel better every day. HOW DOES MY AUTOPILOT WORK? The Autopilot Map helps you recognize how you behave under pressure and what may cause the same patterns to keep returning. You’ll also learn about your strengths and inner resources—because the way you react is not the whole story of who you are. Based on your answers, you’ll receive three personalized techniques to help you get started. You can also explore a library of practices, meditations, and exercises and choose what best fits your needs at any given moment. WHAT WILL YOU FIND IN MOJA OHANA? AUTOPILOT AND STRENGTHS MAP: Discover what most often triggers your stress, how you automatically respond, and which personal strengths and resources you can rely on. RELATIONSHIP COMPASS: A shared map of your reactions and strengths. It will help you communicate more effectively in stressful situations and better understand each other’s responses. PSYCHOLOGICAL FIRST-AID KIT FOR DIFFICULT MOMENTS: Quick techniques for insomnia, stress, tension, anxiety, anger, overwhelm, difficult conversations, or racing thoughts at night. You don’t have to wonder where to begin. TECHNIQUES AND MEDITATIONS: Beginner-friendly meditations, breathing techniques, tension-regulation exercises, short video practices, soothing sounds, and stories. SOOTHING SOUNDS AND STORIES: Listen to the sounds of the ocean and rain, as well as comforting psychological stories. REFLECTION JOURNAL: Record situations, emotions, reactions, and insights. Return to your entries to recognize recurring patterns and notice what you are beginning to do differently. COURSES: An additional premium feature for anyone looking for inspiring, practical knowledge about resolving conflicts and improving relationships with loved ones—all in one place. CHANGING BELIEFS: Examine the thoughts that automatically appear in your mind. Consider whether they still serve you and use the app to develop more supportive ways of thinking. VIDEO PRACTICES: Short exercises guided step by step. INSPIRATION AND RESOURCE CHEST: Positive content available on your phone whenever you need inspiration and encouragement. HOW DOES MOJA OHANA WORK? Choose and use techniques, first-aid resources, meditations, stories, and video practices whenever you wish. If you would like techniques tailored specifically to you, answer a series of questions to receive a map of your strengths and your Reaction Autopilot in difficult situations. Receive three techniques selected based on your answers, which you can return to whenever you need them. Invite another person to the app. The Relationship Compass will show you how to communicate more effectively and better understand each other’s reactions. MOJA OHANA MAY BE HELPFUL IF YOU: • want to respond more consciously and discover your strengths, • want to communicate more effectively with another person, • want to stop falling back into the same reactions despite your good intentions, • are tired of stress, insomnia, and overthinking, • want to use in-app courses to improve your relationships, • want to keep breathing and coaching techniques close at hand, • want to replace limiting beliefs about yourself with more supportive ones. Moja Ohana is a psychoeducational and personal-development tool. It does not provide diagnoses or therapy and is not a substitute for support from a psychologist, psychotherapist, doctor, or other qualified professional. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://mojaohana.com/mojaohana-pp-en
Instead
This app offers a curated menu of real-life activities to help you break the habit of excessive scrolling. It suggests small, engaging tasks based on your available time and mood, promoting mindfulness and intentional downtime.
- Personalized activity suggestions
- Time-based activity filtering
- Mood-based activity filtering
- Customizable activity menu
- Streak tracking
- Weekly statistics
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Instead is a menu of things you'd rather do than scroll. You never decide to lose an hour to your phone — it just happens. Instead fixes the moment right before that. When the urge to scroll hits, it hands you one small, real-life thing to do instead, sized to the time and energy you actually have. Think of it like a restaurant menu for your free minutes: • Starters (1–5 min) — easy wins: step outside, splash cold water, three slow breaths • Mains (10–30 min) — the good stuff: a real walk, ten pages of a book, make the call • Desserts — quick joy, not junk: one loud song, pet an animal, watch the sky Instead requires a paid subscription to unlock its content. New users get a 3-day free trial, after which the subscription auto-renews unless cancelled. WHY IT WORKS When the urge to scroll hits, you don't make good decisions. So you decide now, while you're calm. You build your own menu in about two minutes, and Instead serves it back to you exactly when you need it — no willpower required. HOW IT WORKS • Tell Instead your mood and how much time you have - it filters the menu to what fits this exact moment • Tap "Surprise me" and let it choose for you • Finish it, build a streak, and watch your screen-free habit grow • Add, edit, and personalize your own activities anytime • See your weekly stats and history INSTEAD IS FOR YOU IF YOU WANT TO • Cut your screen time and stop doomscrolling • Break a phone or social-media habit - without an app blocker nagging you • Try a gentler digital detox or dopamine detox • Be more present, mindful, and intentional with your downtime • Find quick things to do instead of reaching for your phone Instead isn't another screen-time blocker or app limit that just tells you "no." It gives you a better "yes" - a personal, curated list of analog, offline, real-life things that leave you feeling better than a feed ever could. Instead offers an auto-renewable subscription: monthly and yearly Includes a 3-day free trial for new subscribers. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription auto-renews unless cancelled before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Moja Ohana at 100% against Instead's 0%. Moja Ohana also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and monetization model (freemium vs subscription). On price, ratings volume, 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. Moja Ohana sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month and Instead sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Moja Ohana holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Moja Ohana's written reviews are positive against 0% of Instead's.
Moja Ohana ships an update fortnightly, Instead every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Moja Ohana | Instead |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 3 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MOJA OHANA MNICH SPOLKA JAWNA | Sarthak Jain |
Customer experience
Moja Ohana
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In-app purchases
Moja Ohana
- Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$8.991 Month
- Annual Subscription7 Days trial$79.991 Year
- Course access renewal2 variants$39.99
- Annual access renewal$39.99
- Annual course access3 variants$89.99
Instead
- Instead Premium Monthly7 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Instead Premium Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
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