Comparison

EFTappy vs Expand

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

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About

EFTappy

Features
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Meet Tappy - your calming companion. Tappy is a soft, expressive character who mirrors your mood and guides you through short somatic tapping sessions to help you calm down, reset, and feel grounded again. Whether you're feeling anxious, stressed, angry, sad, tense, unfocused, or numb, Tappy helps you regulate your nervous system through gentle tapping, breathing cues, soothing visuals, sound, and subtle haptic rhythm. You calm Tappy — and in doing so, you calm yourself. Tappy is based on somatic tapping (also known as EFT), a simple and science-informed method that helps your body release tension and shift out of stress. Just tap on your own body while following Tappy's visual and rhythmic guidance. FREE FEATURES: • Download and explore the app • Track your daily calm streak TAPPY PREMIUM (subscription required): Unlock the full calming experience with Tappy Premium: • Unlimited guided tapping sessions for all emotions (anxious, stressed, angry, sad, tense, unfocused, numb) • Each session includes mood-specific visuals, sounds, animation, haptic cues, and short affirmations • Progress tracking with detailed insights and analytics • Weekly session breakdown and time-of-day patterns • Streak history and emotion analytics • Priority support Each premium session lasts 60–120 seconds. Tappy starts by reflecting what you feel, then slowly transitions to a calmer state as you tap. As Tappy relaxes, so do you. After each session, you'll see Tappy's transformation from dysregulated to calm: brighter colors, softer breathing, and a peaceful expression. It's a gentle mirror of your own shift toward calm. SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS: Tappy Premium is available as a weekly, monthly, or yearly subscription. Prices may vary by region. Subscriptions automatically renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage subscriptions in your Account Settings after purchase. Tap before you snap. Calm your nervous system in just a couple of minutes with Tappy, your calming companion who's always here to settle with you, one tap at a time. Terms of Use: https://appmachina.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://appmachina.com/privacy

About

Expand

This app guides you through a process of identifying and challenging limiting beliefs. It uses behavioral experiments based on cognitive behavioral therapy to help you test and overcome these beliefs in real life.

Highlights
  • Discover limiting beliefs through guided conversation
  • Audit and analyze evidence for old beliefs
  • Formulate and test rival beliefs
  • Conduct real-life behavioral experiments
  • Reflect on experiment outcomes
  • Track belief progress and unlock advanced experiments
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You have a belief about yourself that's costing you. You probably know the one. Expand helps you find it, write it down, and test it in real life until it breaks. Most self-help asks you to repeat a nicer sentence until it sticks. That isn't how minds change. Minds change when something you were sure would happen doesn't. Expand is built around that moment. THE METHOD The behavioral experiment is the core tool of cognitive behavioral therapy and one of the most studied techniques in psychology. Name what the old belief predicts. Do the thing. Watch reality disagree. Expand turns that into a loop you can run every day, with a planning step borrowed from research on implementation intentions, shown across nearly a hundred studies to boost follow-through. HOW IT WORKS 1. Discover. A real conversation, not a questionnaire. Bring whatever's bothering you and leave with one sentence you've probably never said out loud. "If I show unfinished work, people will lose respect for me." 2. Audit. List everything that feels like proof. Then take it apart, piece by piece. Fact or interpretation? How old? Whose voice was that, originally? The case against you is usually thinner than it looks. 3. Flip. Write the rival belief. Not an affirmation. Something you could almost believe today. Expand pushes back on moonshots, because a belief that shatters on one lukewarm reply was never worth testing. 4. Remember. Dig up the evidence the old belief made you skip over. It doesn't prove the new belief. It earns it a test. 5. Experiment. Three experiments built around your life, each testing the belief from a different angle. Each is one concrete action you can do within 24 hours. Before you start, you name the safety move you'd normally hide behind and agree to drop it. You write down exactly what the old belief predicts and rate how likely that feels. You pick the moment you'll act. Then you run it, with a few check-ins along the way. 6. Reflect. When the window closes, one question comes first: did the prediction come true? Rate it again. Guided prompts help you make sense of what happened. If the old belief was wrong but a "yes, but" is still nagging at you, that doubt becomes the next experiment. If the run was unclear, you retry. If it went badly, you look at what's underneath. 7. Climb. Every experiment a belief survives moves it up its tracker. Week-long experiments unlock. The skills each one trained, like courage, curiosity, and asking for what you need, level up with them. Once you've worked a few beliefs, Expand checks whether one deeper core belief sits under all of them. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT The experiment decides. Not you, not the app. You're never sent out to collect evidence that you're great. It gets to know you. Everything it learns is listed in Settings, where you can edit or delete any of it. The bad day gets as much care as the good one. An experiment that goes wrong is information about the experiment, not a verdict on you. Try it before you sign up. Tap "Continue without an account" and run the whole thing. Add an email later if you want your progress to follow you. YOUR WORDS STAY YOURS Everything you write is encrypted and locked to your account. It goes to our AI partner only to write your next reply. Never to train models, never to anyone else. No ads, no third-party analytics, no selling data. Export it all as a PDF, or delete every trace, anytime. A NOTE Expand is a tool for examining your own beliefs. It isn't therapy and doesn't treat, diagnose, or heal anything. If you're carrying something heavy, bring a human into it. Expand will always point you to support resources.

Screenshots

EFTappy4 screens
Expand4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Expand at none against EFTappy's 4. Expand also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 9 days). EFTappy's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price 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. EFTappy sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days. Expand asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

EFTappy ships an update every 9 days, Expand every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
EFTappy versus Expand: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEFTappyExpand
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—4 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size134 MB19 MB
Age rating+412+
DeveloperApp Machina LLCRobert Ketterer

In-app purchases

4 purchases

EFTappy

Subscriptions4
  • Tappy Weekly3 Days trial$9.997 Days
  • Tappy Monthly3 Days trial$24.991 Month
  • Tappy Annual3 Days trial$79.991 Year
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  • App Bundle$79.991 Month
None

Expand

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is EFTappy free?
EFTappy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Expand free?
Expand is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do EFTappy or Expand have ads?
EFTappy shows ads; Expand does not.
Which is updated more often, EFTappy or Expand?
EFTappy ships an update every 9 days, and Expand every 4 days. Most recently, EFTappy was updated on September 26, 2026 and Expand on October 22, 2026.

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