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 or 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. 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 and strict sessions to choose from. FAST WITH INTENTION Choose a fasting goal and 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 Choose Monk, Stoa, Zen, Vesper, Rose or the artwork-free Simple appearance. Explore light and dark looks, choose day or night artwork, and select your app icon. Arrange Today around what matters to you, 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. To see whether our Facebook and Instagram ads work, Monk uses Meta's SDK outside the EU/EEA, the UK and Switzerland: Meta learns when Monk is installed and opened and for how long, with a random install ID and basic device and network details (which can show your approximate area). Meta never gets your advertising ID or anything you record. You can turn this off in Settings. TRY IT FREE FOR 7 DAYS Monk is free to download. Start the free 7-day trial and everything works. After that, starting or logging anything new needs Unlock Monk, a single in-app purchase. What you have recorded stays yours to see and export. If you bought Monk before, everything stays unlocked. Monk is a tool for self-mastery and reflection, not medical advice or treatment.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Glow at 15.0 against Monk's 17.0. 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Glow ships an update every 4 days, Monk every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| 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 | Every 4 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 131 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | MindGo Care, Inc. | Stoic AS |
In-app purchases
Glow
No in-app purchases
Monk
No in-app purchases









