MENtality vs ActiveMind
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MENtality
This app helps men break free from compulsive habits and digital addiction. It offers an AI coach, grounding techniques, habit-building tools, and accountability circles to reclaim control and improve focus and sleep.
- AI personal coach
- Panic button for urges
- Habit and app blocking
- Structured challenges
- Accountability circles
- Progress tracking
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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 Price: $19.99 per year (yearly auto-renewal) One-Time Purchase: "MENtality Lifetime", $44.99, paid once, does not renew 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
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.
- Mood-based activity suggestions
- Guided mental health sessions
- Health data integration (Apple Health)
- Mood and activity tracking
- Journaling and self-assessments
- Therapy preparation tools
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ActiveMind is not a step counter and it is not a meditation app. It is the answer to a smaller question: what should I do right now? Tell it how you feel, or let it read your day from Apple Health, and it suggests something that actually fits. A short walk when you are flat. Something quiet when your body is carrying more than usual. Somewhere to go when the weather is good and you have an afternoon. Saying how you feel takes one slide, and a few words about why if you want to add them. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT Most apps show you correlations. "You feel better on days you go outside." That sounds useful until you notice the problem: you go outside on days you already feel good, so nobody can tell which way it runs. ActiveMind is the app that chooses what to suggest, so it can do something about that. The Lab runs a real experiment on your own days. For three weeks it flips a coin each morning. On some days it leads with the thing being tested, on others it stays quiet. You live normally either way. At the end you get a straight answer about whether it moved anything, and because the days were picked at random, that answer means something. It will also tell you when something did nothing for you. That is a real result, and it saves you months on the wrong thing. DAYS OUT, NOT JUST MINUTES 194 day trips built from the places actually around you, each one a short itinerary with real stops and times. Answer four questions about the kind of day you want and it picks one. Nearby towns are included, so a good afternoon is not limited to your own postcode. Everywhere you go gets pinned to a map of your own year. WEATHER, AND WHAT IT DOES TO YOU ActiveMind keeps a daily record of the sky next to how you felt, then tests which parts of it actually move you. Grey days, low pressure, short daylight, poor air. If a pattern turns out to be real for you, tomorrow's forecast starts taking it into account. If nothing shows up, it says so. YOUR BODY, READABLE Heart rate, resting heart rate, HRV, breathing rate and wrist temperature, each with its bands drawn so a number lands somewhere, and history you can drag through. Wrist temperature is shown against your own recent nights, because the raw number only tells you about your bedroom. EVERYTHING ELSE 665 things to do, filtered by how much energy you actually have Places near you worth walking to, open now and worth the walk A forecast you can open: UV, humidity, wind, rain, pressure and conditions, hour by hour Sleep sounds, breathing exercises, timers for the things you hold A letter every Sunday, written from your own week Mood check-ins that flow into Apple Health PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Every analysis in this app runs on your phone. Your moods, your health data and your check-ins are not uploaded, not sold, and not shared. There is no account to make. 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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ActiveMind at none against MENtality's 4. ActiveMind also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). MENtality's advantage is ratings volume (8 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
Both are free to download. MENtality sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. ActiveMind asks for nothing beyond the download.
ActiveMind holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MENtality has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
MENtality ships an update every 11 days, ActiveMind every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MENtality | ActiveMind |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Outlined | JESUS J DOMINGUEZ ROMERO |
Customer experience
MENtality
ActiveMind
In-app purchases
MENtality
- Mentality Premium Weekly3 Days trial$1.997 Days
- Mentality Premium Monthly3 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Mentality Premium - Yearly$34.991 Year
- Mentality Lifetime$44.99
ActiveMind
No in-app purchases









