MindFlipOut vs Haven
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MindFlipOut
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MindFlipOut is a Mental Step tool for thoughts that keep replaying. It is part of Mental Background OS. Capture the thought. Flip it once. Choose what happens next. Keep it. Send it to Mental Steps. Schedule it for later. Move it into a quiet Zone. Send it to Thought Space. Or simply let it go. A DIFFERENT WAY TO LOOK AT A REPLAYING THOUGHT A comment. A mistake. An awkward moment. A future worry. A “Why did I say that?” loop. Sometimes a thought keeps coming back even when you don't want to keep thinking about it. MindFlipOut gives you a simple place to do something with it: 1. Capture the Heavy thought as it is. 2. Flip it and write a Light response. 3. Decide what you want to do with it next. The goal isn't to prove the Heavy thought wrong. A Flip can simply give you another way to look at it. WHAT YOU CAN DO NEXT Sometimes writing a Light response is enough. When it isn't, MindFlipOut can hand the thought somewhere else in MINDBEBOP. • Keep the Heavy and Light versions together • Schedule the thought for later • Send it to Mental Steps in MindEntry • Move it into a quiet Zone in MindZoneOut • Send it to Thought Space in MindBackyard • Or let it go You can also search and sort your saved thoughts when you want to find one again. WHAT IT CAN HELP WITH • Thoughts that keep replaying • Overthinking • Regret and awkward moments • Self-critical thoughts • Future worries • “Don't forget this” thoughts • Thoughts that may need another action later • Looking at the same thought from another angle PART OF MINDBEBOP MINDBEBOP is a modular system designed to reduce Thought Noise, support Mental Navigation, and anchor successful mental states. MindFlipOut is one Mental Step tool within that system. A thought can stay in MindFlipOut, move into Mental Steps, become something to return to later, or move into another MINDBEBOP space. DESIGNED TO STAY LIGHTWEIGHT • 100% free • No subscriptions • No account required • No tracking • No cloud storage • Everything stays on your device • Optional tips are available if you'd like to support a solo developer MindFlipOut doesn't require every thought to become a task or something to solve. Sometimes you just want to change your relationship with a thought enough to decide what happens next. Flip it. Keep it. Move it somewhere else. Or let it go. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Haven
Build real-life habits in a cozy, hand-drawn world. Earn coins, decorate your cottage, and befriend visiting animals. Enjoy gentle habit tracking without streak shame or ads.
- Gamified habit tracking
- Cottage decoration
- Collectible cozy animals
- Gentle grace days
- No streak shame
- Privacy-focused, local data
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Haven is the coziest gamified habit tracker out right now! Build real-life habits. Earn coins. Decorate a cute cottage. Wake up to find new animal friends have visited—a capybara on your floor cushion, a quokka by the fireplace, or a snail asleep on your hedgehog’s head. No streak lost from one bad day. No ads. No energy timers. Just a quiet, cozy place that grows alongside you. WHAT’S INSIDE • Full habit tracking with gentle grace days • A hand-drawn cottage you can scroll through, fill, and rearrange • 18 cozy animals to meet: cats, capybaras, snails, bunnies, red pandas, hedgehogs, raccoons, and more • Silver and Gold Shops filled with furniture, plants, lamps, food, and toys • Per-pet journals with bond levels and personality blurbs • Cottage Codes for visiting cottages shared by friends • Private iCloud backup and restore • A gentle streak counter • Daily login coins, hand-drawn weather, and a soft day-and-night cycle HAVEN PREMIUM (OPTIONAL) • Unlimited tasks and custom task categories • Share your cottage with friends using a simple code • 7 bonus Cozy Critters animals • 2× gold coins from streak milestones • Home Screen widgets • A focus timer that rewards deep work • Memory Book with automatically saved cottage snapshots and per-pet photo albums • Daily journal with mood tracking The core game is fully free, forever. Visiting shared cottages and iCloud backup are free for everyone. Premium is for productivity power users and players who want to share their own cottage. PRIVACY FIRST Most of your data stays on your device. Haven has no advertising, tracking, or Haven-operated accounts or servers. If you enable iCloud Backup, your progress is stored privately in your own iCloud account. Cottage Sharing is optional and only publishes a snapshot when you choose to share. Anyone with your code can view your shared display name, streak, and cottage layout. Your habits, journal entries, photos, pet nicknames, and progress are never included in a public cottage. Designed for anyone who finds streak shame stressful, wants a low-stakes habit tracker, or simply needs a cozy corner of their phone to return to each morning. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://havenhabits.app/#privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: MindFlipOut at every 4 days against Haven's every 2 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. MindFlipOut sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Haven sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
MindFlipOut ships an update every 4 days, Haven every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MindFlipOut | Haven |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 151 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kentaro Yamauchi | SAUL PLASCENCIA VALENCIA |
In-app purchases
MindFlipOut
- Tip (optional)$4.99
- Tip (optional)$19.99
- Tip (optional)$99.99
Haven
- Haven Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
- Haven Premium$29.991 Year
- Cozy Critters Pack$4.99
- Haven Premium Lifetime$59.99









