Comparison

Skillwise vs Marram

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

Head to head
About

Skillwise

Features
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Skillwise is a calm, private DBT diary card and skills notebook — the daily tool you fill in and bring to your therapy session. Built with dignity for people practising Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. No judgement, no streaks, no pressure. A colour never labels an emotion, and crisis help is always one tap away. YOUR DAILY TOOLS • Daily diary card — emotions with intensity, urges, skills used and notes, in under a minute • The four DBT skill modules — mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness — short, practical cards, available offline • Help Now — crisis lines for your country and a personal safety plan • Full history, gentle reminders, biometric app lock, encrypted iCloud sync and CSV export SKILLWISE PRO (optional) • Therapist PDF report — your week's diary card, formatted to bring to your session • Guided chain analysis — trigger, vulnerabilities, links, behaviour, consequences • Trends — your emotions, urges and most-helpful skills over time, described, never diagnosed • Extended skill guides PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your entries stay on your device and your own encrypted iCloud. No account required, no analytics, no ads, no data sold. Delete everything in one tap. Skillwise complements therapy — it never replaces it, diagnoses, or gives clinical advice. SUBSCRIPTION Skillwise Pro is available as a monthly or annual auto-renewable subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. The annual plan includes a 7-day free trial. Price is shown in the app in your local currency. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://develak.com/privacy-policy/

About

Marram

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Marram is a calm, private diary card for Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Track emotions, urges and DBT skills between sessions in about 30 seconds, and bring a clear weekly card to your therapist. Marram is named after the dune grass planted to hold shifting sand steady: skills that hold you through the storm. LOG IN SECONDS • Tap how you feel and set the intensity from 0 to 10. That's enough. • Add urges, the skills you used and a note only when you want to. • Track your own target behaviors under private labels only you understand. • Dictate a note instead of typing. SEE YOUR PATTERNS • Your month in color: each day tinted by the emotion that led it. • Urges ridden out, skills used and which DBT modules you lean on. • Emotion trends over a week, a month, three months or a custom range. • Mark whether a skill helped, and see what actually works for you. BRING IT TO THERAPY • A weekly diary card as a PDF, laid out like the paper card, ready to share with your therapist. • A short chain-analysis walkthrough when you acted on an urge. ANCHOR: HELP IN ONE TAP • Breathe with a slow, steady circle. • Step-by-step distress tolerance for riding out an urge. • Crisis lines: find a helpline in your country, plus 988 and Crisis Text Line in the US. Anchor is never behind a paywall. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-up, no cloud. Your diary lives only on your phone. • No analytics and no ads. We never see your data. • Optional Face ID lock. • Export everything as JSON or CSV, or erase it all, any time. GENTLE, NEVER JUDGING No streaks to break, no scores for your mental health. A missed day is just a missed day. Available in English, Ukrainian (beta) and Russian (beta). Marram supports your therapy. It does not replace it, and it is not a medical device. If you are in immediate danger, call your local emergency number.

Screenshots

Skillwise4 screens
Marram4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Marram at none against Skillwise's 3. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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

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

Both are free to download. Skillwise sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Marram asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
Skillwise versus Marram: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSkillwiseMarram
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB46 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperDevelakValentyn Drozdov

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Skillwise

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Pro Annual7 Days trial$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$59.99
None

Marram

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Skillwise free?
Skillwise is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Marram free?
Marram is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Skillwise or Marram have ads?
Neither Skillwise nor Marram shows ads.

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