Something from Your Mind vs Lerf
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Something from Your Mind
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Something from Your Mind is a beautifully simple mood tracker. Capture your thoughts and feelings instantly, then look back to understand your patterns better. Over time, you'll start to see connections you might have missed. PURE SIMPLICITY: Record thoughts in seconds. Choose from five mood states. Add optional tags. Search through your entries by keywords, tags, or dates. Select from multiple beautiful themes. COMPLETE PRIVACY: No cloud storage, no accounts, no data sharing. Everything stays on your device. Your thoughts remain yours. Perfect for building mood awareness and understanding yourself better.
Lerf
This app helps you regain control of your screen time by blocking distracting applications during specific periods. It offers flexible blocking modes and ambient sounds to support relaxation, study, or sleep. The focus is on protecting your time and peace without intrusive tracking.
- Block distracting apps
- Set custom session timers
- Easy and Strict blocking modes
- Ambient soundscapes
- Designed for minimal interaction
- Protect personal time
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10 minutes on your phone turned into 2 hours. Again. Do Not Disturb stops notifications. Lerf turns your phone back into a tool that supports your goals. HOW IT WORKS Choose apps, set a schedule (optional) or tap start and distracting apps lock down. No streaks. No account. Nothing to check. Flexible Mode lets you end blocking early. Strict Mode keeps your apps blocked until the timer (or schedule) ends. FOR Focus: work or study without negotiating with your phone. Sleep: less scrolling before bed. Family time: set boundaries around distracting apps so family time means actually being together. PRICING Lerf is free to download. Full access is $12.99 a month or $39.99 a year after a 7-day free trial. Cancel anytime in Settings. WHY LERF Our smartphones are our greatest tools and our worst distractions. Lerf's mission is to turn smartphones back into tools, helping people take back control of their time, attention, and technology. PRIVACY Lerf uses Apple's Screen Time framework. Your app choices and usage stay on your phone. Lerf never sees them, and there's no account to create. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://lerfapp.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Something from Your Mind at none against Lerf's 5. On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Lerf sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Something from Your Mind asks for nothing beyond the download.
Something from Your Mind ships an update every 4 days, Lerf every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Something from Your Mind | Lerf |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mikhail Mikulin | Grant Hergenroeder |
In-app purchases
Something from Your Mind
No in-app purchases
Lerf
- Lerf Weekly$3.997 Days
- Lerf Monthly$12.991 Month
- Lerf Monthly7 Days trial$14.991 Month
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- Lerf Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Lerf Yearly14 Days trial$79.991 Year





