Craving Tracker vs Instead
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Craving Tracker
This app helps you understand and manage your cravings by tracking urges, identifying patterns, and offering personalized AI coaching. It provides mindfulness exercises and strategies to delay gratification, empowering you to make healthier choices and build better habits.
- Track cravings and identify triggers
- Smart countdown timer for treats
- Personalized AI coach for guidance
- Mindfulness and breathing exercises
- Strategies to delay and overcome urges
- Celebrate progress and earn badges
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CRAVINGS HAPPEN. TAKE BACK CONTROL. Track your cravings, understand your patterns, and empower yourself to make healthier choices with Craving Tracker. Whether you are working on improving your eating habits, managing cravings, or building healthier routines, this app helps you stay mindful and in control of your choices. Key Features TRACK YOUR CRAVING Easily log and monitor your cravings as they happen. Keep a detailed record to identify patterns and triggers that affect your decision making. COUNTDOWN TO YOUR NEXT TREAT Manage your treats with a smart countdown timer. Set goals and track progress toward your next indulgence, helping you build discipline and awareness. MEET YOUR AI COACH Get personalized guidance and support from your AI coach. Receive tailored advice, motivation, and strategies to help you overcome challenges and reach your goals. CALM YOUR MIND Use breathing exercises and mindfulness techniques to manage urges in the moment. Find peace and clarity when cravings strike. DELAY THE CRAVING Implement proven strategies to delay and overcome cravings. Build your willpower muscle with tools designed to help you pause and make conscious choices. CELEBRATE EVERY WIN Stay motivated by celebrating your progress and achievements. Track your streaks, earn badges, and recognize every step forward on your journey to better habits. SUBSCRIPTION INFO Access to premium features such as unlimited craving tracking, smart reminders, and AI coaching requires an active subscription. • New users may be eligible for a free trial that automatically converts to an auto-renewing subscription. • Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. • Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • You can manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings after purchase. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Instead
This app helps you manage urges and cravings by encouraging you to walk. As you walk, a "fog" on your map clears, revealing a personalized path. Track your progress and see how far you've come in reclaiming your space.
- Walk to clear fog on map
- Color-code and track different urges
- Rate urge strength before and after walks
- View walk history with routes and stats
- Visualize progress as map grows
- Create distance between urge and action
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Whether the urge is loud or quiet, Instead helps you walk through it, create space before you act, and see how much ground you’ve taken back—one street at a time. • Fog that clears when you walk Your map starts covered. Walk instead of acting on an urge, and the fog lifts behind you, leaving a trail in that urge’s color. Over time, you build a map only you could make. • Walk through what you’re fighting Lust, doomscrolling, texting your ex, anxiety, or anything you add. Every walk has a reason, so your map becomes a record of what you’ve walked through, not just where you’ve been. • Your map, your colors Give each urge a color and watch it spread across the streets you reclaim. Every trail means something because every trail started with a choice. • See the urge shift Rate how strong it feels before you walk and again when you finish. See what changed while distance, time, and steps add up. • History with a place Every walk keeps its route, stats, and location, letting you look back and see where certain urges show up and how you responded. • Progress you can see Watch your revealed map grow over time. A few blocks become streets. Streets become neighborhoods. Every walk becomes part of something bigger. Why Instead An urge is a moment. Instead gives you somewhere to go with it. Walk long enough to create some distance between the feeling and what you do next, then leave something behind you can actually see: a cleared street, a colored path, another piece of your map reclaimed. Download Instead and start revealing your map. The next urge is a walk away. OUR FOG FEATURES REQUIRE A SUBSCRIPTION. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Craving Tracker at 15.6 against Instead's 17.0. On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Craving Tracker sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Instead sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Craving Tracker against 5.0 for Instead. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | Craving Tracker | Instead |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Penguin Labs | VisionFuture |
In-app purchases
Craving Tracker
- Power Monthly$2.991 Month
- Power Weekly3 Days trial$3.997 Days
- Power Annual$19.991 Year
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- Power Yearly$34.991 Year
Instead
- Unlock Instead2 variants$9.997 Days
- Unlock Instead$14.991 Month
- Unlock Instead$29.991 Year
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- Unlock Instead3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Unlock Instead$39.991 Year
- Unlock Instead3 Days trial$39.991 Year








