mySleepButton vs Feeling Great
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
mySleepButton
This app uses a "cognitive shuffle" technique to help users fall asleep by distracting their minds with imagery. It offers guided meditations and can be used with audio devices for a screen-free experience.
- Cognitive shuffle technique
- Guided imagery for sleep
- Affective body scan meditation
- Configurable meditation pack
- Audio playback on external devices
- Siri shortcuts
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mySleepButton® is a CogSci Apps® invention. Its purpose is to help you fall asleep with the "cognitive shuffle", as featured in the The New York Times, The Guardian, Forbes Magazine, Canadian Government’s Institute of Health Research, The BC Medical Journal online, Popular Science Magazine, Forbes Magazine ("disrupt all patterns and rest in blissful chaos"), LifeHacker ("surprisingly effective"), etc. It’s so easy: Just lie in bed, touch the “Put Me to Sleep” button, imagine the various descriptions it reads to you, and let yourself fall asleep… pleasantly. That is the Cognitive Shuffle! O, The Oprah magazine, calls mySleepButton “An easy little game to trick yourself to sleep.” The Guardian wrote: "My top recommendation remains the visualisation method known as the “cognitive shuffle”: download the MySleepButton app". Quartz says mySleepButton is “a drug-free sleep trick for your restless mind”. International Business Times of London says “mySleepButton App Hijacks Thoughts to Help Sleep”. Into mindfulness meditation? mySleepButton also contains a configurable "affective body scan" meditation pack. It taps into the brain's body maps. Still awake after the meditation? Instantly proceed to guided shuffled imagery. You can try mySleepButton for FREE! There's no subscription fee. Buy the pack(s) that you like, and shuffle your thoughts to sleep. The goal of mySleepButton is to keep your mind off your concerns while putting it in an imagery rich state conducive to sleep. mySleepButton can also be triggered with Air Pods and played on Apple's Home Pod (or other devices) if you don't want an iPhone or iPad in your bed room. It even has Siri shortcuts. So, why not enjoy a dreamy transition to sleep? “Shuffle Your Thoughts to Sleep” with mySleepButton.
Feeling Great
This app offers interactive courses and an AI chatbot to help users improve their emotional well-being. It aims to reduce negative feelings like anxiety and anger while boosting joy and self-esteem.
- AI chatbot for guidance
- Interactive courses
- Emotional well-being tools
- Anxiety reduction
- Mood enhancement
- Self-esteem boost
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Discover the power of Feeling Great, an exhilarating app inspired by the groundbreaking work of world-renowned psychiatrist, Dr. David Burns. Dive into our dynamic app, where our friendly AI-chatbot and vibrant interactive courses await to guide you on an inspiring journey toward a more fulfilling life. Embrace a suite of innovative tools with Feeling Great to enhance growth, resilience, and joy every day. Most users report dramatic reductions in feelings of unhappiness, anxiety, guilt, shame, inadequacy, loneliness, hopelessness, and anger in just one day, along with a significant boost in feelings of joy and self-esteem. Feeling Great feels wonderful. You owe it to yourself to Feel Great!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Feeling Great at fortnightly against mySleepButton's every 5 months. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. mySleepButton sells 13 one-off in-app purchases and Feeling Great sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for mySleepButton against 4.5 for Feeling Great. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 210 and 211 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 73% of mySleepButton's written reviews are positive against 79% of Feeling Great's.
mySleepButton ships an update every 5 months, Feeling Great fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | mySleepButton | Feeling Great |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (210 ratings) | 4.5 (211 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 72.9% of reviews | 79.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 210 | 211 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | CogSci Apps Corp. | Feeling Great Corporation |
Customer experience
mySleepButton
Feeling Great
User reviews
mySleepButton
From 210 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 No fuss, just works
- 👍 Effective for insomnia
- 👍 Puts me to sleep quickly
- 👍 Helps shut down racing thoughts
- 👍 Better than sleeping pills
Room to improve
- 🐛 Audio quality issues (crackling, clicking)
- 🔧 Requires in-app purchases to unlock full functionality
- 🔧 Repetitive content in free version
Feeling Great
From 211 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Effective and helpful
- 👍 Powerful and insightful
- 🤖 Impressive AI capabilities
- 📚 Useful educational content
- 🕰️ Always available support
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional crashes or bugs
- 🤖 Scripted AI responses
- 💰 Expensive subscription cost
- 🤔 Confusing or inconsistent guidance
Bugs and requests
mySleepButton
Reported bugs
2 issues- App crashes after iOS updates
- Purchased content not restoring properly
Requested features
4 requests- More diverse content and voices
- Randomized word/scene order
- Support for additional languages
- Apple Watch app
Feeling Great
Reported bugs
3 issues- Inability to type responses on iPad
- Loss of data when app crashes
- Inconsistent behavior when skipping certain steps
Requested features
6 requests- Copy-paste functionality
- Ability to edit previous responses
- Rollback feature to revisit previous stages
- Multiple session storage
- Expanded emotion vocabulary
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- More granular emotion rating system
In-app purchases
mySleepButton
- Disable iAd$0.99
- Album d'items simples$3.99
- 単語パック$3.99
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- 简单事物专辑$4.99
- Simple-Things Pack$5.99
- Drawing Pack2 variants$5.99
- Scenes Pack$5.99
- Album d'items à dessiner$5.99
- Simple-Things Pack$6.99
- Album d'items simples$6.99
- Scenes Pack$8.99
- Body Scan Pack$8.99
- Kids Pack (4+)$8.99
Feeling Great
- Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Annual Subscription Early Bird7 Days trial$99.991 Year









