Ember · A Soft Place vs MeBeMe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ember · A Soft Place
This app offers gentle, immediate coping mechanisms for intense emotions. It provides simple, safe, and grounding activities to help manage difficult feelings in the moment. Suggestions are quiet, physical, and breath-based, designed to be completed in under five minutes.
- Immediate coping suggestions
- Gentle and safe activities
- Grounding and breath-based exercises
- DBT and ACT inspired techniques
- No logging or account required
- Offline use
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Ember is a soft place for hard feelings. When the feeling is hot, open the app. Ember offers one gentle, safe, small thing you can do right now. Tap for another. Swipe for another. Keep the one that fits and save it as a reminder. Close the app. No streaks. No logging. No hooks. Every suggestion inside Ember is safe. None of them ask you to hurt anything or anyone, including yourself. None of them ask you to yell or be loud. They are quiet, grounded, physical, breath based, and kind. Some are DBT inspired. Some are ACT inspired. All of them are things a real person can actually do in five minutes. Ember is for the moment when the feeling is big and you do not want to take it out on the people you love. It is for hypervigilance, irritability, the old hurt that is suddenly loud again, the wave that came in out of nowhere. You are not broken for having it. You are a person with a nervous system, and nervous systems need somewhere to put the heat. Ember is free. There is no tip jar. There is no paywall. There is no account. Nothing is collected about you. You do not need to sign in. You do not need to come back tomorrow. Ember is here when you need it. Ember is not therapy and it is not a crisis line. If you need either, the Settings screen has real numbers for real humans who pick up. From SillyDroose. Small tools for gentle moments.
MeBeMe
This app helps you become the person you aspire to be by offering small, actionable missions tied to chosen identities. It encourages deliberate living through quick, daily tasks without pressure or guilt.
- Identity-based mission cards
- Hundreds of curated missions
- Randomized mission draws
- Tiny, immediate actions
- Optional notifications
- Offline functionality
- No account required
- Private by default
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MeBeMe interrupts your scrolling with one small opportunity to be the person you want to be. Choose the identities that matter to you—Reader, Athlete, Founder, Better Friend, Homekeeper, Lifelong Learner, and more. Draw a tiny mission card and do one small thing that expresses that identity. Every completed mission is one small vote for the person you're becoming. This app reminds you to be who you are. It also helps you step toward who you want to become. No streaks. No guilt. Just one small thing. Designed to be 100% free, forever. No subscriptions. No Pro plan. No pressure. No upsells. No memberships. No paywall. No credit card. Just one small thing that helps you become more like the person you want to be. BREAK YOUR SCROLL Most apps interrupt your day to pull you back in. MeBeMe does the opposite. Choose the apps you reach for out of habit, and MeBeMe holds them back until you've done one small thing: read two pages, do four push-ups, send one thoughtful message. Then they open for as long as you choose, from an hour to the rest of the day. "Open anyway" is always there, so nothing locks you out. It's off until you turn it on. (iPhone only.) MeBeMe can also send optional notifications. Instead of another ping asking you to check your phone, you get a tiny invitation to do something actually worth doing. HOW IT WORKS 1. Choose your identities. 2. Swipe between them. 3. Draw a random mission card. Most missions take between 10 seconds and 2 minutes, making them easy to do right now instead of "someday." * Complete one small action. * Repeat whenever it feels right. EXAMPLE MISSIONS * Read at least 2 pages. * Do at least 4 push-ups. * Put away at least 7 things. * Walk outside for at least 60 seconds. * Learn one new word. * Send a thoughtful message. * Stretch for 30 seconds. * Save one memorable quote. WHY IT'S DIFFERENT This app isn't trying to make you more productive. It's trying to help you live more deliberately. No streaks. No badges. This isn't a game. It helps you cast small daily votes for the person you want to become. One card. One action. Then get on with your day. FEATURES * Identity-based mission cards * Hundreds of curated missions * Randomized draws for variety * Tiny actions you can do immediately * Break Your Scroll: hold back the apps you choose until you've done one small thing * Optional notifications * Works offline * No account required * Private by default * No ads * No subscriptions * Free forever PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your information stays on your device. No account is required. No advertising. Designed to respect your privacy from the start. OUR PHILOSOPHY Goals eventually end. Identity lasts. Don't focus on reading ten books. Become a reader. Don't focus on losing twenty pounds. Become someone who takes care of their body. Small actions, repeated over time, shape who we become. Draw a card. Do one small thing.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: MeBeMe at 7 against Ember · A Soft Place's 2. On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Ember · A Soft Place against 4.9 for MeBeMe. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 7 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Ember · A Soft Place ships an update monthly, MeBeMe every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Ember · A Soft Place | MeBeMe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.9 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Drew Douglass | Eric Wolfram |
Customer experience
Ember · A Soft Place
MeBeMe
In-app purchases
Ember · A Soft Place
No in-app purchases
MeBeMe
No in-app purchases









