ACT Coach vs Feeling Great
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ACT Coach
This app helps users practice Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to manage difficult thoughts and feelings. It provides exercises, tools, and tracking logs to support living a value-driven life. Developed in consultation with therapists, it's designed for individuals undergoing ACT.
- ACT exercises
- Tools for managing thoughts
- Commitment to values
- Tracking logs
- Information on ACT
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) aims to help you live with unpleasant thoughts, feelings, and impulses without avoiding them or being controlled by them. In ACT, you are encouraged to commit to actions so that you can live your life by your values, even in the face of these unpleasant experiences. This app was developed for Veterans, Service members, and other people who are in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in consultation with a therapist. It offers exercises, tools, information, and tracking logs so you can practice what you’re learning in your daily life. ACT Coach was created by VA’s National Center for PTSD.
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 in-app purchases: ACT Coach at none against Feeling Great's 2. ACT Coach also leads on ads (none vs shown). Feeling Great's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 14 months) and review sentiment (78% vs 63%). On price, rating, device support and iOS requirement 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. Feeling Great sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. ACT Coach asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for ACT Coach against 4.6 for Feeling Great. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Feeling Great has 191 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 63% of ACT Coach's written reviews are positive against 78% of Feeling Great's.
ACT Coach ships an update every 14 months, Feeling Great fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 6, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ACT Coach | Feeling Great |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (14 ratings) — better | 4.6 (191 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews | 78.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 191 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 14 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) | Feeling Great Corporation |
Customer experience
ACT Coach
Feeling Great
Bugs and requests
ACT Coach
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
ACT Coach
No in-app purchases
Feeling Great
- Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Annual Subscription Early Bird7 Days trial$99.991 Year
