aMind vs Thrive
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
aMind
This app offers a guided reflection space to help you understand and process difficult thoughts and emotions. It provides simple questions to foster self-awareness, track your feelings over time, and build positive habits. Your reflections remain private on your device.
- Guided thought processing
- Emotional self-understanding
- Feeling tracking over time
- Action plan and habit setting
- Private and secure reflections
- Progress history review
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Some moments your mind won't slow down — worrying about things you can't control, overthinking situations, or feeling things you can't quite name. You deserve to feel better. It starts with understanding yourself. aMind is a quiet space to work through those moments. It gently walks you through your thoughts, one step at a time, helping you understand what you're really feeling and why. No jargon. No pressure. Just simple, guided questions that help you think more clearly and feel more at peace. Every reflection is a small act of courage. Every moment you pause and check in with yourself is a step toward a calmer, more grounded you. Over time, you'll start noticing patterns — the situations that trigger you, the thoughts that hold you back, and the small shifts that make a big difference. Growth doesn't happen all at once, but it does happen — one reflection at a time. With aMind you can: - Work through difficult thoughts and emotions at your own pace. - Understand yourself better with each reflection. - Track how you feel over time and notice what's changing. - Set action plans and habits with gentle reminders to keep you on track. - Look back through your history and see how far you've come. Your privacy matters: Your reflections never leave your device. We don't see them, store them, or share them. This space is truly yours. aMind is a personal reflection tool and is not a replacement for professional mental health support. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://amindapp.com/privacy
Thrive
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The most important subject you'll ever study is yourself. Thrive is a private self-discovery practice designed to surface what you've been carrying without quite putting into words. Ten questions per session. One at a time. A personalized synthesis at the end. No advice, no fixes, and no one else listening. Just the kind of deep conversation you don't usually get to have, in a space quiet enough to answer them honestly. Most apps tell you what to do. Thrive asks you what you actually think. — THREE TERRAINS — • Past — Trace the patterns, bonds, and stories that shaped how you move through the world today. • Present — Sit with what's alive in you right now: thoughts, feelings, values, what you're resisting. • Future — Name who you're becoming, what you actually want, and what it will ask of you. — 38 LENSES ON YOUR INTERIOR — Thrive is organized into 38 distinct "modes" — each a different lens for looking at yourself, rooted in a real psychological or philosophical tradition. Open the one that fits today; the others are waiting. PAST — what shaped you • Your Hidden Self (Jungian shadow work) • Your Core Beliefs (schema therapy) • Your Relational Self (attachment theory) • Your Younger Self (IFS / inner child) • Your Honored Losses (grief work) • Your Forged Self (kintsugi / wabi-sabi) • Your Family Patterns, Your Story, Your Resilience, and more. PRESENT — what's alive in you now • Your Emotional World (DBT / affect labeling) • Your Thought Loops (CBT) • Your Thought Distance (ACT defusion) • Your Inner Parts (IFS) • Your Kinder Voice (self-compassion) • Your Values (Stoic philosophy) • Your Observing Self (Advaita Vedanta) • Your Natural Flow (Taoist wu wei) • Your Flourishing (Aristotelian eudaimonia), and more. FUTURE — what you're moving toward • Your Real Why (motivational interviewing) • Your Future Self (future-self research) • Your Purpose (ikigai) • Your Legacy (existential therapy) • Your Worst Case (Stoic premeditatio) • Your New Identity (identity-based change) • Your Commitments, Your Energy, Your Circle, and more. — PRIVATE BY DESIGN — What you're willing to say changes completely when you know no one else is listening. Thrive is built around that fact. • Conversations are never stored on our servers. • Sessions clear from your device automatically. • No sign-up required to begin — anonymous account by default. • Optional Face ID / fingerprint lock on the app itself. • Voice input is processed by your phone's built-in speech recognition; we never receive the audio. Bring the version of yourself no one else gets to meet. That's the one worth getting to know. — BUILT ON 2,500 YEARS OF KNOWING YOURSELF — Thrive draws from the traditions that have actually helped humans live well — Stoicism, Taoism, Buddhism, Advaita Vedanta, Jungian depth psychology, IFS, CBT, ACT, DBT, schema therapy, narrative therapy, logotherapy, and more. The frameworks are real; the questions come from them. Thrive simply makes the practice easy to return to. — FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE DONE WITH SHALLOW — Thrive is for you if you've outgrown affirmations and surface-level mood trackers. If you journal but want better questions. If you're between therapy sessions and want somewhere to take a thought. If you're curious about shadow work, parts work, Stoic reflection, or the examined life — and want a structured place to actually do it. A single session is a conversation. A thousand sessions are a transformation. — WHAT'S INCLUDED — • A free trial, then monthly or annual subscription. • 30 guided sessions every month, across all 38 modes. • Goals that quietly carry forward between sessions. • A reading library of short essays, beautifully typeset for slow attention. • Optional gentle notification reminders. — WHEN TO OPEN THRIVE — • When a thought won't leave you alone. • When trying to get clarity on your life. • On the days you'd usually scroll instead.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Thrive at every 3 days against aMind's every 10 days. 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
Both are free to download. aMind sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Thrive sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
aMind ships an update every 10 days, Thrive every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | aMind | Thrive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Noel Franceschi | Trends Technology LLC |
In-app purchases
aMind
- aMind Premium Monthly$6.991 Month
- aMind Premium Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
Thrive
- Thrive Pro Monthly3 Days trial$14.991 Month
- Thrive Pro Annual3 Days trial$79.991 Year
- 10 Session Pack$4.99
- 25 Session Pack$9.99
- 50 Session Pack$17.99









