Comparison

The Live Dig™ vs Mantraful

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

Head to head
About

The Live Dig™

This app helps you uncover your inner voice through guided journaling and reflection exercises. It encourages curiosity and self-discovery by exploring mental, emotional, physical, and energy aspects of yourself. Earn XP for your engagement and access tools like a flexible journal and guided meditations.

Highlights
  • Guided journaling Digs
  • Exploration of four body areas
  • Flexible journal (text, photo, audio)
  • Daily Wisdom insights
  • Mind-Expanding Experiences (meditations)
  • Community forum (Murmuration)
Features
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What if the voice you've been searching for is your own? Most of us spend our lives responding to expectations, responsibilities, habits, and routines until it becomes difficult to hear ourselves beneath the noise. The Live Dig™ begins there. It isn't about fixing yourself. It isn't about becoming someone new. It's about creating the space to hear what has become difficult to hear beneath the stories, expectations, and assumptions you've accumulated over a lifetime. The Live Dig doesn't tell you who you are. It creates the conditions for you to discover that for yourself. Rather than offering advice, the Live Dig invites you into a process of curiosity, reflection, and exploration. Every Dig helps you notice the stories, patterns, and assumptions that quietly influence how you move through the world. Why "Dig"? Archaeologists don't create history—they uncover it. Layer by layer, they brush away what has accumulated until something meaningful emerges. The Live Dig follows that same philosophy—gently uncovering what has been hidden beneath the layers. Some of what you uncover will feel familiar. Some may surprise you. The Dig doesn't tell you what you'll find. It invites you to keep uncovering, one layer at a time, until what matters most becomes easier to hear. At the heart of the app are guided Digs. Each Dig unfolds through four layers: • A thoughtful question that invites curiosity • A guided exploration through journaling • A real-world experience that carries the Dig into everyday life • A final reflection that integrates what you've discovered Digs are organized into four areas: • Mental Body • Emotional Body • Physical Body • Energy Body No right answers. No grades. No pressure to perform. As you participate, you'll earn XP—a reflection of your engagement and willingness to keep digging. Tools that deepen the experience: • A flexible journal for text, photos, and audio • Daily Wisdom with curated insights and your own meaningful quotes • Mind-Expanding Experiences, including guided meditations • Murmuration, a thoughtful community for meaningful questions and shared discoveries The Live Dig isn't a course to complete, another habit to keep, or another version of yourself to chase. It's a place to pause. To become curious. To notice what has been there all along. One question. One experience. One reflection. One layer at a time. Your excavation begins whenever you're ready. --- SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION The Live Dig™ offers: • The Dig Premium Monthly — $8.99 USD/month • The Dig Premium Annual — $53.99 USD/year • The Live Dig™ Lifetime Access — $111.99 USD (one-time) Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Auto-renewable subscriptions renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Manage or cancel subscriptions in your App Store account settings. --- USER-GENERATED CONTENT The Live Dig™ includes Murmuration, a community for sharing discoveries. We have a zero-tolerance policy for objectionable content or abusive behavior. Users must agree to our Terms of Use (EULA) before registering or logging in. The app includes content filtering, flagging of objectionable content, and blocking of abusive users. Blocking notifies us and instantly removes the content from the user's feed. We act on all reports within 24 hours by removing content and ejecting the offending user. --- Terms of Use (EULA): https://rawnak003.github.io/The-Live-Dig/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://rawnak003.github.io/The-Live-Dig/privacy.html

About

Mantraful

This app offers a daily mindfulness practice with a single, curated mantra. Choose from eight intentions or receive a daily suggestion, then engage in a guided breathing ritual. You can also create your own mantras and track your progress privately.

Highlights
  • Daily curated mantras
  • Eight intention-based mantras
  • Guided breathing exercises
  • Voice-responsive recitation
  • Custom mantra creation
  • Private practice history
  • No account required
Features
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One mantra a day, chosen for how you feel. Mantraful is a quiet daily ritual: a single line, given to you each morning or chosen from eight intentions — calm, confidence, gratitude, strength, healing, focus, love, and courage. Read it. Breathe with it. Say it aloud, or hold it silently. That's the whole practice. It's enough. A PRACTICE, NOT A FEED • A new mantra every day from 48 carefully written lines — no doomscrolling, no noise • Feeling something else? Shift your intention and the whole app retunes around it • Guided settle before each sitting: twelve seconds to let the shoulders drop SPEAK IT ALOUD (OR DON'T) • Round-by-round recitation with a breathing orb that responds to your voice • The microphone is used only for live levels — audio is never recorded, stored, or sent anywhere • Silent practice works exactly the same, mic or no mic YOUR LIBRARY, YOUR LINES • Streaks, a 14-day activity strip, and the quiet record of every sitting • Save the lines that land; search the full library in one tap • Compose your own mantras — the words only you need to hear PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account. No sign-up. No tracking. • Everything — practice history, saved lines, composed mantras — lives on your device only • Delete the app, and your data is gone. That's the policy. Mantraful is a wellness practice tool for reflection and mindfulness. It is not medical or psychological care, and is not a substitute for a qualified professional. Terms of Use: https://mantraful.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://mantraful.com/privacy

Screenshots

The Live Dig™4 screens
Mantraful4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mantraful at none against The Live Dig™'s 3. The Live Dig™'s advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. The Live Dig™ sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Mantraful asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for The Live Dig™ against 5.0 for Mantraful. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
The Live Dig™ versus Mantraful: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Live Dig™Mantraful
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperParamour Paradox LLCStephen Fink

Customer experience

The Live Dig™

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Mantraful

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

The Live Dig™

Subscriptions2
  • The Dig Premium Monthly$8.991 Month
  • The Dig Premium Annual$53.991 Year
One-time1
  • The Live Dig™$111.99
None

Mantraful

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is The Live Dig™ free?
The Live Dig™ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mantraful free?
Mantraful is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, The Live Dig™ or Mantraful?
The Live Dig™ and Mantraful are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do The Live Dig™ or Mantraful have ads?
Neither The Live Dig™ nor Mantraful shows ads.

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