grug vs Gentle Ground
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
grug
Receive a daily dose of simple, profound wisdom to help you navigate life's challenges. This app offers straightforward truths and accompanying artwork to inspire personal growth and contentment. It focuses on mindfulness and taking small steps each day.
- Daily wisdom sharing
- Accompanying artwork
- Home screen widget
- Customizable themes
- Light and dark modes
- No login or tracking
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grug know: big scary just many small rock wearing fur coat. every sunrise grug share one wisdom. help you break today rock into small piece. no fancy word. no complicated. just simple truth that work. **what grug do:** - share daily wisdom when sun rise - draw grug dream on wisdom - share with other grug - widget show wisdom on cave - grug work in light and dark cave or give grug shiny color grug not guru. grug just know: small step every day make mountain move. perfect never come. better start with broken stick today than wait for perfect stick tomorrow. wisdom come from real life. fear work love pain growth. grug speak simple but truth hit deep. like "fear just smoke. real but not solid.” and "wanting make poor. grateful make rich." each day different wisdom. truth waiting. grug help see: you already enough. just need pick up one small rock today. app simple like grug brain. open. read wisdom. maybe draw feeling. that all. no login. no cloud. no follow. just you and today truth. remember. tomorrow not here. only today real. grug help make today count. Terms of Service: https://ocho.so/terms Privacy Policy: https://ocho.so/privacy
Gentle Ground
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Gentle Ground is a daily planner and support app built specifically for parents and caregivers of neurodivergent children. Most apps are built for the child. This one is built for you — the parent who woke up exhausted, has three appointments this week, an IEP meeting coming up, and still has to show up for your kid today. Start every day with a check-in. Tell us how you're feeling — Overstimulated, Low Energy, Bad Day, Okay, or Good — and Gentle Ground shapes your entire day around your answer. You get a personalized plan that meets you where you actually are. Quick Tools for real situations. When something is happening right now — a meltdown, a school issue, a doctor visit you forgot to prep for — Quick Tools gets you to exactly what you need in one tap. No hunting. No overwhelm. Bad Day Reset — a 5-step protocol to get through the hard ones Meltdown Protocol — clear steps for when your child is in crisis IEP & 504 Prep — goals, questions, documents, all in one place School Issue Log — document what happened, protect your child's rights Therapy & Doctor Prep — walk into every appointment ready Sensory Toolkit — for overstimulated moments Appointment tracking that actually helps. Add any appointment — doctor, therapy, school, or other — with questions to ask, what to bring, and notes. Tap any appointment to open a full prep form pre-filled with the details. Link your prep notes back to the appointment so everything lives together. Your wins matter. Every time you get through something hard, you earn a sticker. Showed up anyway. Advocated for your child. Survived a hard day. Paused instead of reacting. Your wins are saved so you can look back and remember how much you've actually done. Track your streak. Gentle Ground notices when you show up every day and celebrates it — because consistency is hard when you're this tired, and it deserves to be acknowledged. Everything in one place. Weekly overview with your full appointment calendar. School issue logs with document and photo storage. IEP prep history. Wins collection. A daily planner that adjusts to how you feel. Gentle Ground was built for the parent who needed something like this and couldn't find it anywhere. You're doing something incredibly hard. This app is on your side. Terms & Conditions: https://www.gentleground.org/terms-of-use/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: grug at none against Gentle Ground's 2. grug also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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. Gentle Ground sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. grug asks for nothing beyond the download.
grug ships an update weekly, Gentle Ground every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | grug | Gentle Ground |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (3.5K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 96.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3.5K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Ocho | Midori Harvey |
In-app purchases
grug
No in-app purchases
Gentle Ground
- Gentle Ground Premium Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Gentle Ground Plus Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year









