Reset vs Meet Future Self
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Reset
This app helps you regain control of your digital life by earning screen time through healthy behaviors. It acts as a behavioral operating system, rewarding effort with access to your device and providing insights into your reward system.
- Earn screen time through effort
- Track daily dopamine balance
- Measure behavior's impact on reward system
- Dopamine Age comparison
- Recovery-based performance insights
- Real-time feedback on dopamine and unlocked minutes
- Pattern insights for focus drops
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Modern apps are engineered to hijack your dopamine. Reset helps you take it back. Reset is a subscription service. The features described below require an active Reset Premium subscription. Track your daily dopamine balance, earn your screen time through effort, and measure how your behavior shapes your reward system over time. Core Mechanic Start every day at zero. Healthy behaviors build dopamine. Dopamine unlocks intentional screen time. No restrictions. No guilt. Just a system. What Makes Reset Different Reset isn't a habit tracker. It's a behavioral operating system. You don't quit your phone. You earn it. Key Features (Reset Premium) Earn Your Screen Time Turn effort into access. Exercise, deep work, and recovery unlock intentional screen time. Dopamine Age See how balanced your reward system is compared to your actual age. Updated weekly based on real behavior. Recovery-Based Performance Sleep, consistency, and late-night usage affect how efficiently you earn. Real-Time Feedback Track your dopamine score and unlocked minutes throughout the day. Pattern Insights Understand when your focus drops and why. Who It's For Built for people who want to: • Improve focus • Reduce reactive scrolling • Build discipline without burnout • Operate at a higher level Closing Your brain adapts to what you reward. Reset it. — — — Subscription Details Reset Premium is an auto-renewing subscription. Pricing and available plans are shown in-app before purchase and may vary by region. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your App Store account settings after purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Meet Future Self
This app helps you build lasting habits by focusing on consistency rather than perfection. It uses a unique approach starting with a letter from your future self to motivate your daily progress over a 90-day period.
- Letter from future self
- Habit building based on consistency
- Focus on small, actionable habits
- Tracks consistency, not streaks
- Mood comparison with habit adherence
- 90-day goal cycles
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Most habit apps are built for the version of you that never slips. This one is built for the other days Future Self starts with a letter. Not a tip, not a checklist: a letter from the you who already made it, written from the far side of your horizon as if the change already happened, in your circumstances and your words. Every goal you set, quoted back as done. Then it builds the practice that gets you there. HEAR IT, DON'T JUST READ IT Every letter can be read aloud to you in a natural voice. Put it on while the kettle boils, on the walk, before the day starts. HOW IT WORKS Say what you want to be different. Two or three things, not thirty. The rest will still be there when you get back. Say it in your own words, however rough. Tap Improve and your future self sharpens it into something you could check. Each goal becomes a handful of small practices, every one carrying the reason you chose it, for the mornings you'd rather skip. Cut the ones that don't fit. Write your own in twenty seconds. Then it's just the next small thing, every day. Kept ones move to Completed, out of your way. WHAT YOU WON'T FIND HERE No streak to protect. A streak tells you how long you've been perfect, so the day it breaks it reports a failure and keeps reporting it. This tracks consistency instead: a missed day costs a point, not the whole thing. No wall of red. No badge spam. No notification at nine in the evening asking why you didn't. One gentle nudge a day, and a letter when it matters. THE PROOF Five weeks of your actual days, laid out plainly. The share of what you scheduled that you actually kept. Your longest run without missing twice in a row, because slipping once and returning the next day is the skill that matters, not never slipping. Then each goal on its own, against an 80% mark: steady enough to build on, with room for the odd missed day. You see at a glance which goal is holding and which one needs you. And one comparison a generic tracker can't make: your average mood on the days you showed up, against the days you didn't. It's an association, not a cause, and the app says so on the screen. YOUR HORIZON Ninety days, six months or a year. Long enough to change something. Short enough to see the end of it. Life gets in the way sometimes. If you've been away, start again from today in Settings, without starting over. And when you reach the end, you meet the person the letters came from. Then you choose where you're headed next. SUBSCRIPTION Future Self is a subscription: [plan names, lengths and prices]. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use: https://www.meetfutureself.ai/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.meetfutureself.ai/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Meet Future Self at 100% against Reset's 42%. Meet Future Self also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). Reset's advantage is ratings volume (163 vs 1). 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
Both are free to download. Reset sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Meet Future Self sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Meet Future Self holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Reset has 163 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 42% of Reset's written reviews are positive against 100% of Meet Future Self's.
Reset ships an update every 3 days, Meet Future Self every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Reset | Meet Future Self |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (163 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 41.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 163 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 215 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Life Development LLC | Flowriz LLC |
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Reset
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In-app purchases
Reset
- Premium Access$4.997 Days
- Monthly$9.991 Month
- Premium Access7 Days trial$12.991 Month
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- Premium Access2 variants$19.991 Year
- Premium Access3 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Yearly$29.991 Year
- Premium Access$49.991 Year
- Premium Access$59.991 Year
- Premium Access$69.991 Year
- Premium Access7 Days trial$79.991 Year
- Premium Access3 Days trial$99.991 Year
- Premium Access$99.991 Year
Meet Future Self
- Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$59.991 Year









