Comparison

Brainbuddy vs Quitvana

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

Head to head
About

Brainbuddy

This app helps users break free from digital habits and addictive behaviors through a neuroscience-based approach. It offers educational programs, progress tracking, and community support to rewire the brain and improve self-control.

Highlights
  • Neuroscience-based habit rewiring program
  • 100-day evidence-based education
  • Progress tracking and daily checkups
  • Supportive community and accountability challenges
  • Content blocker and web filter
  • Personalized 'Life Tree' growth visualization
Features
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Brainbuddy is the #1 dopamine detox and habit rewiring app, built to help you crave less and live more. Whether your goal is to cut back or quit unwanted digital habits entirely, Brainbuddy’s neuroscience approach can help you change your relationship with screen time, intimacy, and dopamine. With a 100-day evidence-based education program, progress tracking, supportive community, and science-based recovery tools, Brainbuddy helps you rewire your brain and regain self-control. Reboot your life. (Note: All features require a paid Brainbuddy Premium subscription after onboarding). WHY MILLIONS CHOOSE BRAINBUDDY PREMIUM REWIRE YOUR BRAIN Based on 12 years of research, our state-of-the-art rewiring program teaches you how to conquer your impulses, one step at a time. Turn your brain into an ally. MAKE EVERY DAY A GOOD DAY Our fun, daily exercises are specifically designed to replace temptation with motivation and a positive outlook. Stop craving, start living. PROGRESS YOU CAN SEE Your daily checkup tracks in real-time the positive changes you are making to your relationships, mental clarity, and health. Don’t just feel the change, track it. GROW YOUR LIFE TREE Your own personal “Life Tree” grows with you. With every positive choice you make, your tree becomes a little more beautiful. Watch as it grows each day because of you. THE BEST COMMUNITY Brainbuddy has one of the most vibrant and friendly self-improvement communities. Stay motivated with stories from others, and work with your team to win healthy accountability challenges. EXPERIENCE PERSONAL SATISFACTION From one day to one year, build up your self-control and willpower one challenge at a time. You’ll be amazed at what you are capable of. TOOLS TO LIVE BETTER The most powerful content blocker and web filter on the planet. Master impulse control with machine learning. Brainbuddy has everything you need to live a focused, distraction-free life. LEVEL UP YOUR LIFE Rebooting your habits has immense psychological and physical benefits. Start now, change forever. REVIEWS FROM THE BRAINBUDDY COMMUNITY "Now I am controlled, stable, focused, and feel super confident. When you save your energy up, you get that unconquerable will where what would have been a huge wall for your old self becomes a little knee-high fence you can step over." "I feel a different person. I'm much more talkative and aware in social settings. At work I'm on top of everything instead of forgetting things and asking people to repeat themselves. It's been over a decade since I started struggling with these habits and this now feels who I truly am." "The clarity for me was extremely noticeable and you will likely feel like a different person. It gave me hope that there is nothing totally wrong with me. Just having that experience of clarity and happiness can be a powerful thing." "Confidence. When I walk down the street I don't feel uncomfortable anymore. I can speak to anyone without feeling shy. It's not that I have become arrogant, I just regard myself on equal footing with others where before I always felt inferior. My social anxiety has completely flown out the window." SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION Brainbuddy requires a PREMIUM subscription to access all features. Payment is charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription will automatically renew unless turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends.You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renew. Your Apple Account will be charged when the purchase is confirmed. Brainbuddy optionally saves your meditation sessions to the Apple Health app. Terms of Use - https://www.brainbuddyapp.com/terms Privacy Policy - https://www.brainbuddyapp.com/privacy-policy We love your feedback. Contact support@brainbuddyapp.com

About

Quitvana

This app helps users overcome various addictions, including smoking, drinking, and substance abuse. It offers tools to track progress, prevent relapse, and build healthier habits through a neuroscience-based approach and motivational support.

Highlights
  • Track self-harm behavior
  • Prevent relapse
  • Quit smoking, vaping, drugs, alcohol
  • Stop porn and fap addiction
  • Daily motivation and habit formation
  • Neuroscience-based recovery plan
  • Achievements and badges
Features
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Quitvana is an addiction recovery app that helps you track self-harm behavior, stay sober, prevent relapse, quit smoking, drugs, vaping, stop drinking alcohol, fap, porn, and any other addictions so you can form better habits and live an addiction free life forever. Our quit addiction recovery plan is based on new discoveries in neuroscience done by addiction specialists at Stanford University. Along with tracking your sober days, it helps you rewire your brain and provide you with daily motivation to stay sober, stop addiction and bad habits like smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, vaping, watching porn, drug, caffeine, video games, impulsive sex, shopping, lying, sugar, social media, eating unhealthy food, and more in order to live a healthier lifestyle. PREVENT RELAPSE: QUIT ANY ADDICTION Quitvana is a proven bad habit tracker and quit addiction counter with proven techniques that have helped thousands of people stop harmful bad habits or addictive behavior and live transformed lives. Track your addiction recovery daily, stay sober from drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, porn, drugs, vaping, fap and eating junk food and get sober. Our sobriety counter helps you count the days clean and keep the motivation up. Start your addiction recovery journey today with the this quit addiction tracker. QUIT TRACKER: STOP SMOKING NOW, BE SMOKE FREE Are you trying to quit smoking, vaping and want to boost your motivation? Today is the day to launch your smoke free life with Quitvana. Have you quit cigarette smoking before? Do you want to stop smoking for the first time? Trying to quit smoking by yourself or are part of a quitting group? Quitting with this Smoke Free app is simple and effective with proven stop smoking techniques that work. STAY SOBER: QUIT DRINKING ALCOHOL Quitvana is a quit drinking alcohol free app and alcohol tracker that helps you track the time you spend without drinking, count your sober days, see how long you have been sober as well as monitoring your sobriety journey overtime. Count your clean days from alcohol drinking with tracker and celebrate recovering from addiction or bad habit. NO FAP TRACKER: QUIT PORN ADDICTION Tired of relapsing for porn addiction and faping repeatedly, NO FAP app is for you. Quit fap addiction with this porn-recovery app, built to help you crave no porn addiction and live more. If your goal is to quit pornography entirely, our neuroscience approach can help you reboot your brain and change your relationship with porn, sex and dopamine. QUIT ADDICTION TRACKER FEATURES: - Achievements & Badges - Supportive Community - Panic Relapse Prevention Button - Articles to quit addiction faster - Quit Tracker and counter - Personalized Stats - Daily Journal - Milestone Tracker - Sobriety Counter for All Addictions - Breathing Meditation - Remember your reasons for quitting - Daily Pledge Tracker - Bucket List Subscriptions; a) 6 Months • Length of subscription: 6 months • Price of subscription: USD 11.94 b) Yearly • Length of subscription: 1 year • Price of subscription: USD 19.92 c) Lifetime • Length of subscription: Indefinite (Lifetime) • Price of subscription: USD 39.99 One time payment • Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase • Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal • Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase • Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable Privacy policy & terms of use: https://verselingoapps.com/quitvana-terms.php

Screenshots

Brainbuddy4 screens
Quitvana4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Brainbuddy at every 3 weeks against Quitvana's every 5 months. Brainbuddy also leads on ratings volume (26K vs 2). Quitvana's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Brainbuddy sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Quitvana sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $11.95 per 6 months. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Quitvana holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Brainbuddy has 26K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Brainbuddy ships an update every 3 weeks, Quitvana every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Brainbuddy versus Quitvana: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrainbuddyQuitvana
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (26K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews41.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings26K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details — not scored
Size112 MB94 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperAppStudio Australia Pty LtdVERSELINGO COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED

Customer experience

Brainbuddy

All ratings25,868 ratings
Positive92.8%
Neutral2.0%
Negative5.2%
Written reviews804 reviews
Positive41.2%
Neutral10.2%
Negative48.6%

Quitvana

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

Bugs and requests

Brainbuddy

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Inconsistent check-in tracking and streak resets
  • Inability to delete or manage community posts
  • Unreliable content blocker functionality

Requested features

4 requests
  • More meditation and relaxation content
  • Improved social features and community interaction
  • Customizable progress tracking and goal-setting
  • Better integration with other devices (e.g., iPad, Mac)

Quitvana

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Brainbuddy

Subscriptions7
  • Brainbuddy Full Access7 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • Brainbuddy Full Access7 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • Brainbuddy Full Access3 Days trial$12.991 Month
Show 4 more
  • Brainbuddy Full Access$12.991 Month
  • Brainbuddy Full Access$37.993 Months
  • Brainbuddy Full Access$59.996 Months
  • Brainbuddy Full Access7 Days trial$99.991 Year
One-time3
  • Course anxiety$7.99
  • Course selfcontrol$7.99
  • Course confidence$7.99
3 purchases

Quitvana

Subscriptions2
  • 6 Months$11.956 Months
  • Yearly$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is Brainbuddy free?
Brainbuddy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Quitvana free?
Quitvana is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Brainbuddy or Quitvana?
Quitvana is rated higher. Brainbuddy averages 4.7 out of 5 from 26K ratings, while Quitvana averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Brainbuddy or Quitvana have ads?
Neither Brainbuddy nor Quitvana shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Brainbuddy or Quitvana?
Brainbuddy ships an update every 3 weeks, and Quitvana every 5 months. Most recently, Brainbuddy was updated on November 8, 2026 and Quitvana on October 30, 2026.

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