Comparison

Play Aware vs Solid Ground

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

Head to head
About

Play Aware

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Play Aware helps you build healthier gaming and gambling habits with practical, private tools designed for everyday use. Whether you want to reduce impulsive play, understand your triggers, or stay accountable to your goals, Play Aware gives you a clear, supportive system to stay in control. FEATURES Track Your Patterns - Log sessions, mood, spend, and context to see what drives your behavior over time. Spot Your Triggers - Identify moments, emotions, and environments linked to risky decisions so you can act earlier. Set Personal Boundaries - Create limits for time, budget, and frequency that match your goals. Reflect and Reset - Use check-ins and guided prompts to pause, reflect, and make better next-step decisions. Progress Insights - See trends, streaks, and behavior changes with simple visual summaries. Private by Design - Your data stays personal and protected, so you can focus on progress without judgment. WHO IT’S FOR - People who want to play more intentionally - Anyone building safer gambling habits - Users working toward better self-control and consistency IMPORTANT NOTE Play Aware is a self-management and habit-support tool. It does not provide medical, psychiatric, or emergency services. If you are experiencing severe distress or addiction-related harm, seek professional help from qualified local services. Take back control, one decision at a time, with Play Aware.

About

Solid Ground

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Solid Ground is a bet-free counter with a recovery coach attached. Name what you are quitting, set the moment you stopped, and the app counts your clean time to the second and totals the money you did not stake. Count the bet-free days. Watch the money add up. When an urge arrives, the tools and the coach are already there. COUNT YOUR BET-FREE TIME - A live counter, to the second, since your last bet - Milestones at 1, 3, 7, 14, 30, 60, 90, 180, 365 and 730 bet-free days - Money kept, from your own stake and how often you used to bet - Bets avoided, recovery markers and 30 achievements - Slipped? Log it in one tap with the trigger. Your history stays and your longest streak survives - Counters, milestones and history live on your device and work offline, so a lost signal never costs you a day WHEN THE URGE HITS - Craving SOS, one tap from home: a breathing guide, an optional urge timer, things to try - Your own reasons for quitting, in your own words - A personal support contact you can reach from the same screen, one tap to call - Six short reads: urge surfing, the chase trap, playing the tape forward, the first bet - The SOS tools are free and never locked BARRIERS THAT HOLD - A protection checklist of the steps that work: blocking software, self-exclusion, a bank gambling block, telling one person - Solid Ground itself blocks nothing. It walks you through the barriers that do YOUR AI RECOVERY COACH - Chat with a coach that has read your own record: counters, streaks, triggers and check-ins - Ask what to do tonight, how to restart after a slip, or why one trigger keeps winning - Weekly Insight: a written read on your week, what held and what slipped - Patterns across triggers, moods and streaks: which form you slip on, and when - Never a generic tip. Your coach needs an internet connection to reply PROGRESS AND DAILY PRACTICE - Total bet-free days, money kept, your longest streak, streak charts and the triggers behind your slips - A daily pledge, a mood check-in, an evening review and a reasons board - A guided program, bet-free missions, and a gambling check-in with a risk trend - Home-screen widgets: your day count, next milestone and progress 33 LANGUAGES The interface and the coach are localized into 33 languages, including Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Japanese and Chinese. PRIVACY-FIRST - No account, no sign-up, nothing to set up - Counters, pledges, moods and chats live in a local database on your device - The coach receives an anonymized summary of your recovery data plus the messages you type, over HTTPS, after a one-time consent, and is not used to profile you - App lock and encrypted backup included. No ads, no third-party analytics, no tracking across apps FREE AND PREMIUM Solid Ground is free to start. The free version gives you one bet-free counter with milestones, money kept, bets avoided and slip history, the full Craving SOS, the protection checklist, all 30 achievements, the Progress tab, both widgets, app lock, encrypted backup, and 5 coach messages a week. Premium adds: - Unlimited counters, one for each form you are quitting - Unlimited coach chat, plus Weekly Insight and pattern detection - The guided program, the bet-free missions and the gambling check-in - Savings goals, personal targets, the growing companion, all recovery markers, an unlimited reward wishlist, the weekly recap, 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 iOS Settings -> Apple ID -> Subscriptions. Solid Ground is a self-help tool, not medical care and not a crisis service. If you need help now, look up your local problem-gambling helpline or support service. Terms of Use: https://miladapps.pro/terms Privacy Policy: https://miladapps.pro/privacy Questions or feedback: hello@miladapps.pro

Screenshots

Play Aware4 screens
Solid Ground4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Play Aware at none against Solid Ground's 2. Solid Ground's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Solid Ground sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Play Aware asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 4 level
Play Aware versus Solid Ground: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlay AwareSolid Ground
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyβ€”Fortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo β€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod β€” better
Requires iOS17.015.0 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size15 MB66 MB
Age rating12++4
DeveloperLissiland LLCMilad Atef

In-app purchases

None

Play Aware

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Solid Ground

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Weekly$2.997 Days
  • Premium Yearly$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Play Aware free?
Play Aware is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Solid Ground free?
Solid Ground is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Play Aware or Solid Ground have ads?
Neither Play Aware nor Solid Ground shows ads.

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