Comparison

Conviction vs New Leaf

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

Head to head
About

Conviction

This app provides a private, encrypted journal for processing difficult emotions and identifying patterns. It offers guided prompts, mood analytics, and self-guided tools to help users navigate overwhelming feelings and gain insight into their emotional cycles.

Highlights
  • Encrypted private journal
  • Voice transcription for entries
  • Guided shadow work prompts
  • Emotional pattern analytics
  • CBT thought reframe tool
  • Somatic grounding exercises
  • Trigger mapping and analysis
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When feelings flood everything, the rest of the day goes with them. A tightness in the chest becomes the whole room. You already know this cycle. You have language for it. You may already be in therapy, mapping overwhelm back to older material. What you still need is a place that holds what the world around you is not ready to hear. Conviction is a shadow work journal and encrypted diary for that moment. It does not replace professional care. It sits beside the work you are already doing. It holds the thought you cannot say out loud, then shows the pattern so the feeling is not the whole story. You decide how deep you go. WHEN FEELINGS TAKE OVER Talk or type. Voice transcription runs on your iPhone. Name the mood while it is happening, not hours later when the story has already hardened. Sit with the mood instead of getting swept by it. Grief, anger, sadness, the loop you cannot shut off. The journal holds them without asking you to perform okay. Your entries live in an encrypted diary on the device. Private. Yours. THE OLDER FEELING UNDERNEATH A blank page is a trap when you are flooded. Guided shadow work prompts give you a place to start. Questions that meet today's trigger on the surface and the older feeling underneath. You open them when you want them. Nobody pushes you further than you chose. This is not a counter you have to protect. This is a room you can enter and leave. SEE THE CYCLE Journal mood analytics, word clouds, and charts show emotional patterns over time. Recurring loops stop looking like who you are and start looking like a cycle you can step out of. Magic Mirror can surface patterns you miss when you are inside the wave. Detected shadow patterns can become goals you actually track. Ruminating becomes something you can see, not something that runs the day. TOOLS FOR THE WAVE When writing is not enough, self-guided tools are one tap away: - The Mirror: CBT thought reframe and cognitive defusion - Safe Harbor: somatic grounding, breathing, body scans - Pattern Lab: trigger mapping and chain analysis - The Council: assertiveness and validation practice These are tools, not treatment. Use them the way you use a notebook between sessions. Momentum cools when you step away. It never snaps to zero. Miss a week. Come back. Nothing resets. A PRIVATE SPACE AES-256 encryption on your iPhone. Unlock with Face ID. On supported iPhones, Apple Intelligence can surface patterns from your entries on the device. Optional encrypted iCloud backup is a Pro feature and uses a key only you hold. We cannot read your journal. A private space for what the world will not hold. WHO THIS IS FOR People who overthink until living shrinks to rumination. People who need backing when emotion takes over the whole day. People who want a journal that holds space, then helps them sit with what showed up. Not a therapist. Not a crisis line. A private journal with tools, on your iPhone. Start free. Unlimited entries, voice, check-ins, and the core tools are included. Mood detection, Magic Mirror, and insight cards have free limits. Unlock Conviction Pro once if you want those limits removed, plus Shadow Work analysis, Cosmic Rhythms, Apple Health correlation, and optional encrypted iCloud backup. Pro is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. No account required to begin. Export anytime. Delete anytime.

About

New Leaf

Features
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New Leaf counts your clean time to the second, adds up the money you have not spent, and gives you something to do in the ten minutes when the urge is loudest. It is built for quitting drinking first. Set the moment you stopped, and the counter runs from there. COUNT YOUR CLEAN TIME - A live counter ticking to the second from the day and time you set - Milestones at 1, 3, 7, 14, 30, 60, 90, 180, 365 and 730 days - Money saved, drinks and calories avoided, from your own numbers and currency - A recovery timeline in ten stages of how people commonly feel - 31 achievements and a shareable card WHEN THE CRAVING HITS Craving SOS is one tap from the home screen and from every counter, and it is not paywalled. - A breathing guide to slow the first minute down - An urge timer you can start and simply sit out - Your own reasons board, in the words and photos you saved when you began - Someone to call: a contact you enter yourself, stored only on your device - Tag what set the urge off, so your triggers show up in your own history - A sober toolkit of six short reads for the hard moments - Counting, milestones, money math, Craving SOS and the widgets keep working with no internet connection A COACH THAT HAS READ YOUR RECOVERY - An AI coach scoped to staying sober, not a general chatbot with a sober skin - It gets a summary of your counters and progress before it answers, so it names your real clean days, your money saved and your next milestone - Start from the real moments: I want to drink right now, I am at a party, I had a hard day - It replies in your language, and needs an internet connection SEE WHERE YOU STAND - Total clean days, longest streak, relapse count and your full history - A one tap I slipped that restarts the counter and keeps your history and longest streak - Streak charts per counter, and a breakdown naming where your slips cluster - A daily pledge, a mood check-in, pledge reminders, Friday evening encouragement, and a milestone nudge - Home screen widgets for your day count and next milestone ANYTHING ELSE YOU ARE QUITTING Name your own counters and they count cigarettes, nicotine, vaping or whatever else you stopped, with the same timer, milestones and money math. The coach, the program, the toolkit and the check-in are written for drinking. 33 LANGUAGES The interface and the coach are localized into 33 languages, including Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Hindi and Chinese. PRIVACY FIRST - No account, no sign up - Counters, pledges, moods, reasons and chats live in a local database on your device - The coach receives an anonymized summary of your recovery data plus what you type, over HTTPS. It is not used to train AI models, and you can delete the chat - No ads, no third party analytics, no tracking across apps FREE AND PREMIUM New Leaf starts free with one counter and 5 coach messages a week, plus the live timer, every milestone, money and drinks avoided, the recovery timeline, all 31 achievements, Craving SOS, the sober toolkit, the pledge, the slip log and the widgets. Premium adds: - Unlimited counters, and unlimited coach chat - Weekly Insight and Patterns Detected - A guided 14 day program, and sober missions for nine real situations - A private drinking check-in you can retake to watch your own trend - Grow a New Leaf, a companion that grows with your clean time - A savings goal jar and an unlimited rewards wishlist - Personal targets, a weekly recap, and CSV export Premium is an auto-renewing subscription. It renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings -> Apple ID -> Subscriptions. New Leaf is a self-help tool, not treatment, not medical advice and not a crisis service. If you are stopping after heavy or daily drinking, talk to a doctor first. Terms of Use: https://miladapps.pro/terms Privacy Policy: https://miladapps.pro/privacy Questions or feedback: hello@miladapps.pro

Screenshots

Conviction4 screens
New Leaf4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: New Leaf at 3 against Conviction's 1. New Leaf also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Conviction sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and New Leaf sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Conviction versus New Leaf: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterConvictionNew Leaf
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size330 MB66 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperPhillip PaulMilad Atef

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Conviction

One-time1
  • Conviction Pro$3.99
3 purchases

New Leaf

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Weekly$4.997 Days
  • Premium Yearly$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is Conviction free?
Conviction is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is New Leaf free?
New Leaf is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Conviction or New Leaf have ads?
Neither Conviction nor New Leaf shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Conviction or New Leaf?
Conviction ships an update every 2 weeks, and New Leaf every 2 weeks. Most recently, Conviction was updated on October 31, 2026 and New Leaf on October 31, 2026.

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