Comparison

stop overthinking vs Think Clearly Journal

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

Head to head
About

stop overthinking

This app offers immediate relief for racing thoughts and anxiety. It provides guided sessions, journaling prompts, and breathing exercises to help you unhook from looping thoughts and find calm. Track your mental patterns without pressure or gamification.

Highlights
  • Guided grounding sessions
  • Thought unhooking and parking
  • Worry tracking and analysis
  • 21 guided meditation sessions
  • Journaling with prompts
  • Visual breathing exercises
  • Short educational reads
  • Daily mental check-ins
Features
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stop overthinking is for the moments when your mind will not stop. When you are stuck in thought loops, worrying about the future, or replaying a conversation at 3am, this app is what you open. It is not a general meditation app. It is built for one problem: anxiety that runs on words. WHEN IT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW Tap "I'm overthinking right now" for a guided three-minute grounding session. No setup, no long introduction. Just somewhere to put your attention while the spiral loses speed. UNHOOK A THOUGHT THAT KEEPS LOOPING Write the thought down in one sentence. Seeing it as something you are having, rather than something you are, loosens its grip. Then decide: turn it into one small next step, or park it. PARK THE WORRY, THEN SEE WHAT HAPPENED A postponed worry loses its charge. When a parked thought comes back around, you record whether it turned out to be a problem. In a 2020 study, nine in ten worries never came true. The app keeps your own count. 21 GUIDED SESSIONS, TWO TO TEN MINUTES - Overthinking Relief: step back from a spiral - Thought Observation: watch thoughts without being carried off by them - Mental Declutter: clear the noise - Physiological Sigh: the fastest known way to downshift - Body Scan, Box Breathing, and quick resets for when you only have two minutes JOURNALING THAT ACTUALLY HELPS 60 prompts across six categories: Unload, Soften, Ground, Reframe, Release and Settle. Unload is a plain brain dump for when your head is too full and you need somewhere to vent. The prompts rotate daily. Speak instead of typing when writing feels like too much. BREATHING YOU FOLLOW WITH YOUR EYES An animated guide for four in, six out, and other patterns. No audio, so it works in a meeting or on a train. SHORT READS ON WHY THE MIND LOOPS 14 two-minute ideas drawn from "Don't Believe Everything You Think" and the clinical work that agrees with it: metacognitive therapy, worry postponement, cognitive defusion. CHECK IN, AND SEE THE PATTERN Ten seconds to name how your mind feels and what is behind it. Over a week you start to see when the overthinking arrives, and what tends to set it off. NO PRESSURE. NO STREAKS. This is your space. Use it when you need it, however feels right. No guilt, no gamification, no forced daily habits. Whether you are lying awake at 3am, tense and stressed before a meeting, or just foggy, this gives you something to do about it. Your entries and your mental health notes stay on your device. You are doing better than you think.

About

Think Clearly Journal

Features
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THINK CLEARLY. MAKE BETTER DECISIONS. Clarity Journal helps you organize your thoughts, gain perspective, and move forward. Use it when you feel stuck, need to decide something, or want to clear your mind.

Screenshots

stop overthinking4 screens
Think Clearly Journal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Think Clearly Journal at weekly against stop overthinking's every 4 months. stop overthinking's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. stop overthinking sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days and Think Clearly Journal sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

stop overthinking ships an update every 4 months, Think Clearly Journal weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
stop overthinking versus Think Clearly Journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterstop overthinkingThink Clearly Journal
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBrink StudioIris Martin

In-app purchases

2 purchases

stop overthinking

Subscriptions2
  • stop overthinking Premium - Weekly$6.997 Days
  • stop overthinking Premium - Annual3 Days trial$49.991 Year
1 purchases

Think Clearly Journal

One-time1
  • Full Access$3.99

Questions

Is stop overthinking free?
stop overthinking is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Think Clearly Journal free?
Think Clearly Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do stop overthinking or Think Clearly Journal have ads?
Neither stop overthinking nor Think Clearly Journal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, stop overthinking or Think Clearly Journal?
stop overthinking ships an update every 4 months, and Think Clearly Journal weekly. Most recently, stop overthinking was updated on October 24, 2026 and Think Clearly Journal on October 18, 2026.

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