Glow vs Monk
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Glow
This app offers personalized, short immersive experiences designed to enhance emotional wellbeing and self-love. It guides users through a unique practice called 'glowfulness' to foster personal growth and a brighter outlook on life.
- Personalized immersive experiences
- Guided by companion Luna
- Daily tailored content
- Focus on self-kindness
- Builds path over time
- Enhances energy and joy
- Promotes calm and reduces stress
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Glow provides short, immersive experiences that feel great to use, built around who you are, and aimed at one thing: helping you glow from the inside. It is not meditation. It's not therapy. It's something new. WHAT IS GLOW Glow creates a space that grows with you. It delivers short, immersive experiences designed to support your wellbeing. Every experience is part of a path of real change that becomes yours over time. Deeply personalized, designed around who you are, and built so every moment counts. GLOWFULNESS At the heart of Glow is a practice we call glowfulness. A new language for living a meaningful life. It starts from the inside, how you treat yourself and your own mind, and extends outward to how you show up in your relationships and the world around you. In Glow, that means the right experience at the right moment: small acts that add up, without wasted effort. Do the experiences, and the glow follows. It's not surface-level. It's deep, personal, and it changes how good things find their way into your life. MEET LUNA Luna is your companion in Glow. She gets to know you from the first moment, asks the right questions, and builds your path with you. Each day, she has something new waiting, made for where you are right now. HOW IT WORKS • Answer a few questions so Glow understands who you are • Receive one short experience, created just for you • Each experience builds on the one before, and your path deepens over time YOUR GOAL. YOUR PATH. Glow shapes itself around what you're here for: • Being kinder to yourself, when your inner voice turns harsh • More energy and joy, when your mood runs low • More calm, when stress and anxious feelings take over • Or simply more glow, when you want life to feel brighter WHO IS BEHIND GLOW Glow was built by a team that believes wellbeing products should feel this good to use, and developed with Prof. Amit Baumel, a leading international researcher in digital mental health. SAY HI • Email: support@mindgocare.ai • Website: mindgocare.ai • Privacy Policy: https://www.mindgocare.ai/privacy-policy • Terms of Use: https://www.mindgocare.ai/terms-of-use
Monk
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One calm place for your daily practice. Build the habits you want to keep. Make space from the patterns you want to leave behind. Monk brings habits, meditation, fasting, phone-free time and reflection together, so you can see your days more clearly. A PRACTICE THAT FITS YOUR LIFE Track reading, movement, meditation, breathwork and your own habits. Set a daily goal, choose specific weekdays or work toward a weekly rhythm. Keep private commitments alongside the habits you are building. SEE YOUR DAYS CLEARLY Use the calendar to review your record and correct past days. See your practice time, fasting history and progress by week and by month in one place. Return to your routine without turning it into a competition. KEEP YOUR HABITS CLOSE Bring your calendar and progress to your Home Screen with widgets. Use Lock Screen widgets for a quick view, and follow fasts, phone fasts and practice timers with Live Activities (widgets and the fasting Live Activity are part of Monk Pro). Private commitments stay off widgets and shared cards. MAKE ROOM FOR PHONE-FREE TIME Set a phone fast with a clear beginning and end. Optional Screen Time controls help you block distractions, with ordinary sessions for everyone and strict sessions in Monk Pro. FAST WITH INTENTION Start free with five fast lengths: 13, 16, 18, 20 or 23 hours. Set your own goal and eating window with Monk Pro. Follow elapsed and remaining time with a clear timer. Keep a record of completed sessions and see your fasting history at a glance. MAKE MONK FEEL LIKE YOU The default look is free. More looks, including Stoa, Zen, Vesper and Rose, are part of Monk Pro. Explore light and dark looks, choose day or night artwork, and select your app icon. Arrange Today around what matters to you (Monk Pro), with separate controls for fasting and phone-free time. PAUSE AND REFLECT Make room for a daily thought, a short reflection or a quiet practice. Optional Apple Health access reads and writes Mindful Minutes only, with your permission. YOUR PRACTICE STAYS PRIVATE Use Monk offline without an account. Your practice stays on your iPhone unless you choose cloud sync and Sign in with Apple. Export your record when you want a copy. No ads in the app, and no tracking across other companies' apps and websites. Monk does not include Meta's software and does not ask for your advertising ID. Two choices are off unless you turn them on: Usage analytics sends usage statistics to PostHog in the EU, and Ad measurement lets Apple tell Meta and us, in delayed and grouped reports that do not identify you, whether one of our ads brought you to Monk. Neither includes anything you record. You can change both in Settings. FREE, WITH MONK PRO IF YOU WANT MORE Monk is free to use: 3 habits, two quits, a choice of five fast lengths, ordinary phone fasts, to-dos, week and month progress, your whole calendar and record, and export. Monk Pro adds unlimited habits and quits, limits instead of a full stop, Monk Mode, custom fasts and the fasting Live Activity, Strict Phone fast, all looks, arranging Today and the calendar, more breathing patterns, widgets and to-do reminders. Choose a monthly or yearly subscription (the yearly plan starts with 7 free days for new subscribers) or buy Lifetime once. Subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel; cancel any time in the Settings app: tap your name, then Subscriptions. Lifetime is a one-time in-app purchase and does not renew. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. If you bought Monk before, you keep everything, for good. Terms of Use (Apple standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Monk terms: https://monkhabits.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://monkhabits.app/privacy Monk is a tool for self-mastery and reflection, not medical advice or treatment.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Glow at none against Monk's 5. Glow also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Monk's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). On price, ads 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. Monk sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Glow asks for nothing beyond the download.
Glow ships an update weekly, Monk every 3 days. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.
| Parameter | Glow | Monk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 308 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | MindGo Care, Inc. | Stoic AS |
In-app purchases
Glow
No in-app purchases
Monk
- Monk Pro · Monthly$4.991 Month
- Monk Pro · Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- 7-day TrialFree
- Unlock Monk$7.99
- Monk Pro · Lifetime$69.99









