Comparison

GratiPet vs Skip Lab

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

GratiPet

This app offers a unique way to practice gratitude with a virtual pet that reacts to your entries. Log moments of appreciation or complaints, build streaks, and enjoy playful animations and sounds. It's a simple journaling tool designed to boost your mood and encourage consistency.

Highlights
  • Gratitude and complaint logging
  • Reactive virtual pet with mood animations
  • Streak tracking for consistency
  • Inspiring quotes for motivation
  • Playful sound effects and animations
  • Journal history with edit/delete options
Features
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GratiPet: a gratitude jar with a cute blob mood pet. Add a gratitude (or vent a complaint), and watch your pet react with sunny, rainbow, or thunderstorm. Build a gratitude streak, one small moment at a time! How it works: • Tap to add a gratitude or complaint. • See playful animations & sounds (confetti, rain, thunder). • Tap the pet to trigger pet "I love you" reaction with sound and sparkling animation. • Read an inspiring quote when you need a boost. • Track history and keep your streak growing. Why you’ll like it? • Bite-sized journaling that’s easy to keep up with. • A virtual pet that mirrors your mood with weather. • Streaks that reward consistency (no guilt trips). • Easily manage history with edit & delete. • Designed for boosting your mood with more gratitudes. Privacy: Your entries are stored on your device. Note: GratiPet is a wellness tool, not medical advice.

About

Skip Lab

Features
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Prop your phone against a wall, start a session, and skip. Skip Lab watches through the camera and counts every skip — set by set, on its own. Nothing to wear, nothing to tap, nothing to count in your head. WHAT IT DOES • Counts from the camera. No wearable, no rope sensor, no beaded handle. Put the phone across the room and jump. Every skip is counted on the phone itself, as you do it. • Finds your sets for you. Stop to catch your breath and the set closes on its own; start again and the next one opens. You never tell the app you are starting or stopping — you just skip. • Measures the set, not just the count. Every set carries its duration, pace in skips per minute, how even your rhythm was, how high you bounced, and how it ended — including when the rope caught you. • Films every set. Each set is saved as its own trimmed clip, so a forty-minute session becomes the eleven pieces you actually did instead of forty minutes of footage. Save them to Photos or share them. • Intervals. Work, rest and rounds on one screen. Spoken and audible cues at every change, plus a flashlight pulse for the last three seconds, so you can run the whole thing from across the room without looking at the phone. • Battle. Two people, one phone, one target. Both are counted live, side by side, and the first to the number wins — then the race becomes a shareable highlight reel. • Apple Watch. The count, your pace and your heart rate on your wrist while the phone films from across the room — which is the one screen you can actually read mid-set. End the session from the watch. The workout is saved to Apple Health, so your rings close. • Records that ratchet. Most consecutive skips, longest unbroken run, best session, lifetime total — plus a trend line for every session you have done. ON YOUR PHONE, NOT IN THE CLOUD Every frame is analysed on your iPhone. Your footage and your counts never leave the device. There is no account, no sign-up, and no internet connection required to use any part of the app. Skip Lab sends a small number of anonymous product events so we can see which parts get used — counts and durations only, never your footage and never anything you typed. WHO IT IS FOR Anyone who skips and wants to know the number: boxers and martial artists, CrossFit and HIIT athletes, runners warming up, and anyone using a rope as their conditioning. If you have ever lost count at ninety and started again, this is the app. WHAT YOU NEED An iPhone you can prop up, a rope, and about two metres of room. Portrait, front or back camera, indoors or out. Good light helps; a plain wall behind you helps more.

Screenshots

GratiPet3 screens
Skip Lab4 screens

Verdict

The call

GratiPet and Skip Lab are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
GratiPet versus Skip Lab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGratiPetSkip Lab
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB39 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperYang PopperMichael Mac Donald

In-app purchases

None

GratiPet

No in-app purchases

None

Skip Lab

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GratiPet free?
GratiPet is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Skip Lab free?
Skip Lab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do GratiPet or Skip Lab have ads?
Neither GratiPet nor Skip Lab shows ads.

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