grug vs Whim
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
Whim
This app provides a daily spontaneous activity to encourage real-world engagement and personal growth. Users commit to a hidden task, scratch to reveal it, and then complete the action, logging it in a personal journal. It aims to be a fun, encouraging companion for breaking routine.
- Daily spontaneous activity
- Hidden tasks revealed by scratching
- Personal journal to track completed actions
- User-submitted act suggestions
- Human review of user-submitted acts
- One-time purchases for extra packs and themes
- Option to re-roll daily whim
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every day, whim deals you one sealed card. no peeking. scratch it off, and whatever's under there is today's side quest: a small, real, spontaneous act. do it, or pass. no judgment. one a day, that's the whole bit. it's the crazy friend who is proud of you. dry, warm, a little unhinged. the one who texts "go talk to the stranger" and means it kindly. WHAT HAPPENS - one whim a day, hidden until you scratch it - scratch to reveal, then go live a little - mark it done. honor system. we're not checking, and you'd never lie about a thing this small and this glorious - your journal keeps everything you've actually done. proof you were here on purpose PITCH AN ACT got something unhinged? send it to the council. every user-pitched act is reviewed by a human before it ever reaches anyone. there's a report control on everything, zero tolerance for cruel or objectionable content, and acts that get repeatedly reported come down automatically. THE HONEST PART (pricing) your first whim is free. scratch it, do it, feel the thing. after that, the daily whim lives behind Whim+: $39.99 a year with a 7-day free trial, or $4.99 a month. Whim+ includes the daily whim, your journal, and the 5 core packs. - extra act packs and color themes are one-time purchases, on top - $0.99 re-roll if today's whim isn't the one (fair-use daily cap) restore purchases is supported. subscriptions auto-renew until cancelled. standard Apple subscription and refund terms apply. terms of use: https://elsewhereindex.com/whim/terms privacy policy: https://elsewhereindex.com/whim/privacy YOUR DATA local-first, with an anonymous account so nothing's tied to your name. you can export everything and delete all of it, right in the app. we don't sell your personal data. payments are handled by Apple or Google. A FRIENDLY WORD ON SAFETY whims happen in the real world. use common sense. nothing illegal, unsafe, or cruel, ever. you choose what you do, and you're responsible for it. Whim isn't liable for your choices. be kind, stay legal, don't be weird about it (be weird about everything else). flirty but mild. i have free will. one day, everyone will.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: grug at none against Whim's 10. grug also leads on ratings volume (3.4K vs 1). Whim's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Whim sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $39.99 per year. grug asks for nothing beyond the download.
Whim holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: grug has 3.4K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 96% of grug's written reviews are positive against 100% of Whim's.
grug ships an update weekly, Whim every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | grug | Whim |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (3.4K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 96.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.4K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Ocho | Elsewhere Index LLC |
Customer experience
grug
Whim
In-app purchases
grug
No in-app purchases
Whim
- Whim+ Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- if you have a dog$1.99
- if you actually cook$1.99
- if you have coworkers$1.99
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- Petty Chaos$2.99
- Touch Grass$2.99
- Say Hi First$2.99
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