Comparison

Carbon Step vs DBT Skills Guide

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

Head to head
About

Carbon Step

Features
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Carbon Step helps you estimate emissions from daily activities (walking, cycling, transit, driving), home energy (electricity/natural gas), food and shopping. Optionally integrates with HealthKit for steps/distance. Set personal goals, receive reminders and tips, and track your progress over time. Highlights: • Simple logging, some automatic capture • Goals, notifications, reduction tips • Local database + optional cloud sync • Turkish and English support • Privacy-first design Make your footprint visible and build sustainable habits.

About

DBT Skills Guide

Access DBT skills for distress tolerance and mindfulness offline, anytime. Features quick access buttons, widgets, searchable skills, and explanatory sessions. Includes private worksheets and daily reminders.

Highlights
  • Offline DBT skills access
  • Quick access button and widget
  • Searchable skill index
  • Mindfulness and distress tolerance modules
  • Private, fillable worksheets
  • Explanations of skill efficacy
  • Optional daily reminders
Features
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The moment you need a DBT skill is rarely the moment you can go looking for one. DBT Skills Guide puts them where you can reach them: on your phone, fully offline, no account, nothing to set up. A Right Now button on the first screen, and a widget for your home or lock screen, go straight to the skills for a hard moment without any navigating. WHAT IS INSIDE An index of every skill, searchable by name or by what is inside it, for when you remember the skill but not which session taught it. Twelve sessions covering the mindfulness and distress tolerance modules of Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Mindfulness: Wise Mind, the What skills (Observe, Describe, Participate) and the How skills (Non-judgmentally, One-mindfully, Effectively), plus a deeper set of Observe practices you can do anywhere. Distress tolerance: STOP, for the moment before you act on an urge. TIP, for when your body needs to come down fast. ACCEPTS and IMPROVE, for getting through without making things worse. Self-soothing through the five senses. Radical Acceptance and Half-Smiling, for pain you cannot change. Three worksheets you can fill in and keep. WHY EACH SKILL WORKS Every skill carries a short explanation you can tap open: what it is doing, and how strongly the evidence actually supports it. TIP rests on well-established physiology. Wise Mind is a teaching model rather than something anyone can measure. We say which is which, because knowing why a skill works makes you more likely to reach for it. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything stays on your device. No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no network requests of any kind. Practice reminders are scheduled locally and nothing leaves your phone. A DAILY REMINDER, IF YOU WANT ONE Off until you turn it on. Pick a time and the app nudges you once a day. A NOTE This is a practice aid, not therapy, and not a substitute for care from a professional. If you are in crisis, please contact your local emergency services or a crisis line.

Screenshots

Carbon Step4 screens
DBT Skills Guide4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: DBT Skills Guide at none against Carbon Step's shown. DBT Skills Guide also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Carbon Step ships an update every 9 days, DBT Skills Guide every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Carbon Step versus DBT Skills Guide: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCarbon StepDBT Skills Guide
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB20 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMert Huseyin Ciloglupouya zarpak

In-app purchases

None

Carbon Step

No in-app purchases

None

DBT Skills Guide

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Carbon Step free?
Carbon Step is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DBT Skills Guide free?
DBT Skills Guide is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Carbon Step or DBT Skills Guide have ads?
Carbon Step shows ads; DBT Skills Guide does not.
Which is updated more often, Carbon Step or DBT Skills Guide?
Carbon Step ships an update every 9 days, and DBT Skills Guide every 2 weeks. Most recently, Carbon Step was updated on October 25, 2026 and DBT Skills Guide on October 31, 2026.

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