Comparison

MENtality vs ActiveMind

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

Head to head
About

MENtality

This app helps users regain control over compulsive digital habits like doomscrolling and excessive app usage. It blocks distracting apps and sites at the system level, tracks progress, and offers an AI mentor for support. Designed for men seeking to break free from digital addiction and reclaim their time.

Highlights
  • Blocks distracting apps and sites
  • Customizable blocking schedules
  • Tracks clean streak and milestones
  • Calculates 'Life Back' screen time
  • AI Mentor for urge support
  • Privacy-focused data handling
Features
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You already know what the problem is. It's the apps you open without deciding to, the sites you end up on at 1am, and the hours that disappear before you notice. Willpower was never going to beat software built to keep you there. Check-ins and streak calendars don't stop a hand reaching for the phone at 1am. MENtality does. It blocks those apps and sites at the system level, locks your phone down at night, and keeps an honest count of every clean day. Built for men who are done making excuses, whether you're escaping the doomscroll trap or breaking a compulsive habit. Zero judgment, just tools that hold. MENtality requires a subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. Full terms are at the bottom of this page. BLOCK THE TRIGGERS Set a daily budget for distracting apps. When it runs out, MENtality blocks supported apps through iOS Screen Time. Choose a preset or create a blocking schedule for work, evenings or weekends. Block adult sites across supported browsers, so you make the decision before an urge hits. BUILD YOUR CONTROL Track your clean streak from your last relapse. Move through phases and unlock milestones as you build consistency. Your Control Score combines screen time with automatically measured progress, weighted equally. If you relapse, log it honestly and start again. Every new day is a chance to rebuild. WIN YOUR TIME BACK See your screen time alongside Life Back: the time you've reclaimed through measured reductions in screen use. Make your progress visible as fewer hours go to scrolling and more go to the life you want. YOUR PERSONAL AI MENTOR Track your urges and recognize the moments that pull you back. When you need support, talk to your AI Mentor. Work through an urge, discuss your triggers or find your next step after a setback. Get practical support built around what you share, without judgment. PRIVACY FIRST Your struggles are yours. Screen Time data stays on your device and the list of apps you picked never leaves it. There is no community feed and no public profile. We never sell your data and never share it with advertisers. WHO THIS IS FOR Men breaking free from a compulsive habit Anyone trapped in doomscrolling and endless feeds Men who have tried quitting on willpower and watched it fail by Thursday Men who've done the check-ins and the milestone calendars and still relapsed Men who want the block to be real, not a notification This isn't another meditation app with wind chimes and sunset backgrounds. MENtality takes the phone out of the equation for the hours that matter, counts the days, and puts a coach in your pocket for the moments in between. SUBSCRIBE TO MENTALITY PREMIUM All features require an active MENtality Premium subscription or a one-time MENtality Lifetime purchase. Subscription Plans: "MENtality Premium (Yearly Auto-Renewal)" Subscription Type: Auto-renewable subscription Subscription Length: 1 year, renews automatically every year until cancelled Subscription Price: Shown in the app in your local currency before you confirm the purchase One-Time Purchase: "MENtality Lifetime", paid once, does not renew. The price is shown in the app before you confirm the purchase Payment is charged to your Apple Account at purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Cancel Subscription: To cancel, go to iPhone Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions and select MENtality Premium. You must cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends to avoid being charged for the next period. MENtality is a self-help and habit-tracking tool, not a medical or mental-health service. It does not diagnose or treat any condition. If you're in crisis, please contact a qualified professional or your local emergency services. Terms of Service (including subscription policies): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://men-tality.app/legal/privacy-policy

About

ActiveMind

This app combines mental health support with physical activity suggestions based on your current mood. It offers guided sessions, mood tracking, and integrates with health data to help you stay present and active.

Highlights
  • Mood-based activity suggestions
  • Guided mental health sessions
  • Health data integration (Apple Health)
  • Mood and activity tracking
  • Journaling and self-assessments
  • Therapy preparation tools
Features
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ActiveMind is not a step counter and it is not a meditation app. It answers a smaller question: what should I do right now? And now a second one: who do I do it with? Tell it how you feel, or let it read your day from Apple Health, and it suggests something that fits. A short walk when you are flat. Something quiet when your body is carrying more than usual. A day out when the weather is good and you have an afternoon. TOGETHER, NEW IN 3.0 Bring a circle of up to five friends. Each of you has a card you make your own: a colour, a pattern, a title, your badges. Points for steps, sleep, movement, activities, trip stops and kindness, capped each day so one huge day cannot win the week. Count head to head, or against your own usual, so different bodies can compete fairly. Crowns go out every Sunday night, seasons run four weeks, and there is a hall of fame. Challenges: step duels, flash hours, sleep showdowns, bedtime races, team-ups, and a trip to the moon with everyone's steps added together. Open one by link to up to ten people. Day trips together: pick a day that suits everyone, vote on the stops, and watch each other move along the same route. A stop ticked side by side counts for more. A feed for your circle, with only what you choose to post. React, comment, and send emoji that fly onto a friend's screen. And ways to look out for each other: pacts for two, a promise a week, a push from your circle when you ask for one, and a quiet mode for a rough week. You decide what leaves your phone, one switch at a time: a daily step total, one sleep score a night, active minutes. Never your heart, sleep stages, moods, journal or places. Mute, report or block anyone, any time. A MIRROR, NOT A LECTURE Mind reads your own weeks back to you: what your best days have in common, when your feelings tend to show up, and a line from past you. It counts and describes; it never claims one thing caused another. What helps you lists only the findings you can act on, each with how sure it is. The Lab tests something properly. For two weeks it flips a coin each morning: on some days it leads with the thing being tested, on others it stays quiet. At the end you get a straight answer, and because the days were picked at random, the answer means something. It will tell you when something did nothing, too. DAYS OUT, NOT JUST MINUTES 206 day trips built from the places actually around you, each a short itinerary with real stops and times. Pick a day and the best one for that day's weather and your energy comes first. Plan my week puts a trip on the best-weather day and spreads three activities around it. YOUR BODY, READABLE Readiness each morning from your sleep, heart and effort. A sleep score worked out the way Apple scores it, with naps counted. Stress through the day, heart rate, HRV, breathing and wrist temperature, each against your own usual. A Watch, a phone and a ring never count the same walk twice. EVERYTHING ELSE Over 400 things to do, picked for how much energy you have Places near you that are open and worth the walk A forecast you can scrub through, and what the weather does to you Breathing, sleep sounds and timers Widgets, Siri shortcuts and picture share cards A letter every Sunday, written from your own week PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Every analysis runs on your phone. An account is optional, and only for friends and trip links. Your moods, journal and health data are not uploaded, not sold and not shared, apart from the few numbers you switch on for your circle. ActiveMind is not a medical device and nothing in it is a diagnosis. For anything that worries you about your health, talk to a clinician. move, think, thrive

Screenshots

MENtality4 screens
ActiveMind4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: ActiveMind at 5.0 against MENtality's 4.4. ActiveMind also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 6) and ads (none vs shown). MENtality's advantage is ratings volume (33 vs 1). On price, update cadence 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. MENtality sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. ActiveMind asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ActiveMind holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MENtality has 33 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MENtality ships an update every 11 days, ActiveMind every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
MENtality versus ActiveMind: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMENtalityActiveMind
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (33 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews42.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings33 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 9 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB74 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperOutlinedJESUS J DOMINGUEZ ROMERO

Customer experience

MENtality

All ratings30 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral6.7%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive42.9%
Neutral14.3%
Negative42.9%

ActiveMind

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

6 purchases

MENtality

Subscriptions5
  • Mentality Premium Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Mentality Premium Weekly$7.997 Days
  • Mentality 90 Days$17.993 Months
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  • Mentality Premium Yearly$19.991 Year
  • Mentality Premium - Yearly$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Mentality Lifetime$49.99
None

ActiveMind

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MENtality free?
MENtality is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ActiveMind free?
ActiveMind is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, MENtality or ActiveMind?
ActiveMind is rated higher. MENtality averages 4.4 out of 5 from 33 ratings, while ActiveMind averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do MENtality or ActiveMind have ads?
MENtality shows ads; ActiveMind does not.
Which is updated more often, MENtality or ActiveMind?
MENtality ships an update every 11 days, and ActiveMind every 9 days. Most recently, MENtality was updated on November 9, 2026 and ActiveMind on October 31, 2026.

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