Grounded vs SoftHabits
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Grounded
This app offers daily affirmations and uplifting quotes to promote calm and positive thinking. Users can save their favorites, create personal reminders, and customize the app's appearance. It aims to help users reset, refocus, and move forward with intention.
- Daily affirmations and quotes
- Save favorite affirmations
- Create personal affirmations
- iCloud sync across devices
- Customizable themes and fonts
- Widget support
- Shareable affirmation cards
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Grounded is your daily space for calm, clarity, and positive thinking. Browse uplifting affirmations and quotes, save the ones that resonate, and create your own personal reminders to return to throughout the day. Grounded is designed to help you reset, refocus, and move forward with intention. Whether you need encouragement, peace, or a moment to breathe, Grounded helps you reconnect with what matters most. Features: • Fresh affirmations and uplifting quotes for your daily routine • Save favorites and keep a personal library of encouragement • Add your own affirmations in your own words • Sync favorites, personal affirmations, and appearance settings across your devices with iCloud • Customize the app with themes and fonts • Widget support to keep affirmations visible throughout your day • Share beautiful affirmation cards with others • Optional Apple Intelligence support when generating a new affirmation Ground yourself. Refocus. Move forward with intention.
SoftHabits
This app offers a gentle approach to habit tracking, focusing on learning from missed days rather than punishing users. It allows you to track behaviors in your own words and identify personal patterns without the pressure of maintaining streaks. Build a kinder relationship with your habits and achieve lasting change.
- Track behaviors in your own words
- Gentle daily check-ins with simple swipes
- Identify personal patterns without streaks
- Reflect on mood and routines
- Build a kinder relationship with habits
- Supports users with ADHD, anxiety, or perfectionism
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One swipe per habit, once a day. SoftHabits turns those tiny check-ins into patterns you can actually use. See which days throw you off, which habits tend to happen together, and how long it takes you to get back on track after a break. No streaks. No scores. No guilt for missing a day. Because a missed day is still data. SEE YOUR PATTERNS • Correlations — discover which habits and behaviors tend to happen together • Day patterns — see which days consistently work for you and which don't • Restart time — learn how long it actually takes you to return after a break The longer you check in, the clearer your patterns become. You might discover that Sundays are consistently harder, that reading tends to happen on the same nights you put your phone away, or that you usually return to a habit within two days after a break. Most of this is difficult to notice from the inside. That's the reason to track it. TRACKING TAKES SECONDS Pick your habits and swipe once a day. Swipe right if you did it. Swipe left if you didn't. Rest is a real answer too — not a gap in your data. No complicated setup. No journaling required. Just a quick daily check-in that helps you understand your behavior over time. BUILT DIFFERENTLY • No streaks — they simply don't exist here • No completion percentages, scores, or grades • Missing a day is data, not failure • Track habits you want to build or behaviors you want to reduce • Rest counts as a real check-in • No account required • Works offline A DIFFERENT WAY TO BUILD HABITS SoftHabits isn't about being perfect every day. It's about understanding what actually helps you stay consistent. Instead of asking, "How long is my streak?" SoftHabits helps you ask better questions: Which days work best for me? What behaviors tend to happen together? What keeps throwing me off? How quickly do I come back after a break? What does consistency actually look like for me? The goal isn't a perfect score. It's learning your patterns well enough to build habits around your real life. TRY SOFTHABITS FREE FOR 7 DAYS Start an annual subscription with a 7-day free trial and get 5 habits, full pattern insights, day-of-week analysis, and every feature from day one. Prefer monthly? Subscribe monthly with no trial and cancel whenever you want. Missed days are data, not failure. Welcome to a softer way of tracking habits. Annual subscriptions include a 7-day free trial that converts to a paid subscription unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the trial ends. Monthly subscriptions begin immediately with no trial. Subscriptions automatically renew unless cancelled. Manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://softhabits.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://softhabits.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Grounded at free against SoftHabits's free with in-app purchases. SoftHabits's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Grounded sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and SoftHabits sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Grounded against 5.0 for SoftHabits. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Grounded | SoftHabits |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bethany Michelle Curtis | Studio Rehoboth LLC |
Customer experience
Grounded
SoftHabits
In-app purchases
Grounded
- Support the Developer$0.99
- Buy the Developer a Coffee$4.99
SoftHabits
- Monthly$5.991 Month
- Yearly7 Days trial$35.991 Year









