Comparison

ACIM Remind vs Kubo Journal

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

Head to head
About

ACIM Remind

This app provides daily lessons and reminders for "A Course in Miracles" students. It includes customizable alerts, a journal for thoughts, meditation music, and a random lesson selector for spiritual guidance.

Highlights
  • Access to "Workbook for Students"
  • Customizable reminder alerts
  • Daily lesson journaling
  • Meditation music
  • Random lesson selector
  • Daily reminder text editing
Features
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The FOUNDATION FOR INNER PEACE, original publisher of "A Course in Miracles," has joined with CDE Solutions to bring you this app. Features include: - Access to the Course's full "Workbook for Students," - BUILT-IN REMINDER ALERTS: The alerts fully customizable and have also been conveniently preset with the specific text to be remembered for the day and the alert intervals suggested by the Course. - Journaling: The app will allow you to record your thoughts for each lesson in a journal. These journal entries will be saved to your device so that you can reflect on them throughout the year. - Music: You have your choice of very beautiful high-frequency meditation music to play from within the app. This feature has been added to help you meditate and focus upon the lessons. - Daily Reminder Text updates: You have the ability to edit the reminder text for the day. This is especially useful for lessons that ask you to fill in certain portions of the reminder text with your personal thoughts. - Random Button: Let’s say you are in a situation where you are needing some spiritual guidance. You can click the Random button and read the text for the lesson the gets randomly chosen as a way to get insight and guidance from the Holy Spirit. - #/365 button: If you with your lessons to correspond exactly to the day of the year, simply click this button and that lesson will be selected. - Reminder Setup Alerts: You have the option of having an additional alert go off ten minutes prior to your lesson start time that will remind you to select and setup your lesson for the day. This way you never miss a lesson. You purchase the app ONLY ONCE. About "A Course in Miracles": The Course’s teachings are based on the practice of forgiveness as the key to inner peace and the remembrance of God. The "Workbook for Students", contained in this app, includes 365 lessons & reviews which are designed to train your mind in a systematic way to a different perception of everyone and everything in the world. This perception leads to inner tranquility and peace. As stated in the Introduction to the Workbook: “The exercises are very simple. They do not require a great deal of time, and it does not matter where you do them. They need no preparation.” You are asked only not to undertake to do more than one exercise a day. You might however choose to remain with a particularly appealing lesson for more than one day.

About

Kubo Journal

This app offers a unique journaling experience focused on gratitude, reflection, and releasing worries. It helps users change their lives by directing attention, letting go of what they can't control, and rehearsing the person they are becoming. Features include guided reflections and a 'release box' for sealed notes.

Highlights
  • Gratitude entries
  • Guided reflection tools
  • Sealed release box for worries
  • Future self writing
  • Scene revision
  • PDF export of journal
Features
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Most journals ask you to record your life. Kubo helps you rewrite it. Kubo is a new kind of journaling practice built on an old understanding — one carried by the great teachers of imagination and manifestation, twelve-step rooms, and now echoed by the science of neuroplasticity: you don't change your life by thinking harder about what's wrong. You change it by choosing where your attention lives, releasing what you can't control, and rehearsing the person you're becoming. What you repeat, you rewire. Kubo gives that repetition a home. THE RITUAL Write what's weighing on you. Seal it into your box. Let it go. Sealed notes can't be reread or edited — that's the point. Recovery rooms have passed this practice down for generations: put it in the box, turn it over, stop carrying what was never yours to carry. A month later, Kubo quietly asks how heavy it feels now — without opening a word. Most things get lighter. Not magic; just what happens when a mind finally stops rehearsing a worry. A COMPLETE DAILY PRACTICE • GRATITUDE — appreciation is the fastest way to change the way you feel, and the way you feel shapes what you notice, choose, and attract into your days. Quick entries for what's good now and what you're looking forward to. • REFLECT — free writing plus guided tools like Reframe, built on a simple truth: your thoughts are not facts. Catch the story you're telling yourself and trade it for a truer, kinder one. • RELEASE — the box. Seal a worry away and choose when it opens: thirty days, a year, or a date that matters to you. Kubo holds it, unreadable, until then — and when the seal breaks, see with your own eyes how far you've come. TOOLS FOR BECOMING (Premium) • FUTURE SELF — write from the life you're creating, as the person already living it. • REVISION — revisit a scene and rewrite it the way it should have gone. Imagination teachers have sworn by this practice for a century; your brain rehearses what you vividly imagine. • ENVISION — dwell in the end result until it feels like home. • Plus expanded prompt packs, up to 10 photos per entry, Insights — including proof of how much lighter your released worries actually got — and a beautiful PDF book of your year. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No servers. No analytics. Your journal lives on your device and in your own iCloud, and sealed notes are encrypted so no one — including us — can read them. Optional Face ID lock. FREE FOREVER Unlimited gratitude, reflections, sealing and release with timed opens, streaks, and a photo per entry. Some people call theirs a worry box. Some call it a God box, a serenity box, a manifestation practice, or simply letting go. Whatever you call it, this much is true: the life you want starts with what you put down — and what you pick up instead. Kubo is a journaling tool, not medical or mental-health care. Privacy Policy: https://deanhuff.com/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

ACIM Remind4 screens
Kubo Journal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: ACIM Remind at 3.2K against Kubo Journal's 1. Kubo Journal's advantage is monetization model (freemium vs paid) and review sentiment (100% vs 90%). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. ACIM Remind sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Kubo Journal sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for ACIM Remind against 5.0 for Kubo Journal. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ACIM Remind has 3.2K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 90% of ACIM Remind's written reviews are positive against 100% of Kubo Journal's.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
ACIM Remind versus Kubo Journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterACIM RemindKubo Journal
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (3.2K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews89.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3.2K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size90 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCDE Solutions Inc.Dean Huff

Customer experience

ACIM Remind

All ratings3,168 ratings
Positive97.0%
Neutral1.5%
Negative1.5%
Written reviews239 reviews
Positive89.5%
Neutral3.3%
Negative7.1%

Kubo Journal

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

ACIM Remind

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Reminders not working for some users
  • Crashes or black screen issues

Requested features

5 requests
  • Automatic daily lesson updates
  • Apple Watch integration
  • Journal feature
  • Lesson audio playback
  • More customization options

Kubo Journal

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ACIM Remind

One-time1
  • Lifetime Unlock$5.99
3 purchases

Kubo Journal

Subscriptions2
  • Kubo Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Kubo Premium Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Kubo Premium Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is ACIM Remind free?
ACIM Remind is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Kubo Journal free?
Kubo Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ACIM Remind or Kubo Journal?
Kubo Journal is rated higher. ACIM Remind averages 4.9 out of 5 from 3.2K ratings, while Kubo Journal averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do ACIM Remind or Kubo Journal have ads?
Neither ACIM Remind nor Kubo Journal shows ads.

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