Mindfulness Coach vs Making Therapy Better
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mindfulness Coach
Learn and practice mindfulness with a guided training program. Access audio exercises, informational resources, and progress tracking tools to reduce stress and improve emotional balance. This app is free and respects your privacy.
- Self-guided mindfulness training
- Audio-guided mindfulness exercises
- Information library on mindfulness
- Goal setting and progress tracking
- Mindfulness mastery assessment
- Customizable reminders
- Access to support resources
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Mindfulness means noticing and paying attention to what is going on in the present moment, without passing judgment on it. Mindfulness has been shown to be effective for reducing stress, improving emotional balance, increasing self-awareness, helping with anxiety and depression, and coping more effectively with chronic pain. Mindfulness Coach 2.0 was developed to help Veterans, Service members, and others learn how to practice mindfulness. The app provides a gradual, self-guided training program designed to help you understand and adopt a simple mindfulness practice. Mindfulness Coach also offers a library of information about mindfulness (for example “What is Mindfulness?”, “How to Anchor Your Attention”), 12 audio-guided mindfulness exercises and a growing catalog of additional exercises available for free download, goal-setting and tracking, a mindfulness mastery assessment to help you track your progress over time, customizable reminders, and access to other support and crisis resources. Mindfulness Coach is free, doesn’t take or share any of your personal information, and doesn’t require add-on purchases. Mindfulness Coach was created by VA’s National Center for PTSD.
Making Therapy Better
This secure application facilitates communication of therapy progress through concise weekly assessments. It is designed for ease of use and to streamline the feedback process between individuals and their therapists.
- Secure communication
- Weekly assessments
- Therapy progress tracking
- User-friendly interface
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This secure app makes it easy to communicate therapy progress with short weekly assessments.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Making Therapy Better at every 3 weeks against Mindfulness Coach's every 9 months. Making Therapy Better also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Mindfulness Coach's advantage is ratings volume (11K vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Making Therapy Better holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mindfulness Coach has 11K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Mindfulness Coach ships an update every 9 months, Making Therapy Better every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mindfulness Coach | Making Therapy Better |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (11K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 131 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) | CarePaths |
Customer experience
Mindfulness Coach
Making Therapy Better
Bugs and requests
Mindfulness Coach
Reported bugs
3 issues- Timer not working properly
- Tracking/progress not saving consistently
- App crashing or freezing
Requested features
4 requests- Dark mode option
- Better organization and filtering of content
- More variety in session durations
- Ability to import custom music/sounds
Making Therapy Better
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Mindfulness Coach
No in-app purchases
Making Therapy Better
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Mindfulness Coach free?
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