Mindfulness Coach vs Face and Path Wizard
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.
Face and Path Wizard
Visualize how your club face and swing path influence every golf shot. This tool uses physics-based D-plane geometry to help you understand and diagnose ball flight issues, offering instant feedback through 3D and chart views.
- D-plane ball-flight model visualization
- 3D, top-down, and side views
- Adjustable face angle, path, loft, and ball speed
- Realistic physics simulation
- Shot classification and diagnosis
- Left-handed mode
- Save and share shot results
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Visualize exactly how your club face and swing path shape every shot. Face and Path Wizard turns the modern D-plane ball-flight model into a hands-on coaching tool. Dial in face angle, swing path, loft, attack angle, ball speed, and spin — and instantly see the result in top-down, side, and full 3D views. Watch a slice straighten as the face squares. See why an out-to-in path with a closed face still pulls left. Build the mental model that lets you diagnose and fix your own ball flight. BUILT ON REAL PHYSICS • Modern D-plane geometry — the same framework PGA coaches use to explain ball flight • Drag and Magnus integrator delivers realistic carry, apex, side-spin, and descent • Plain-English shot classification on every change (push-draw, pull-fade, pull-hook, and more) THREE VIEWS OF EVERY SHOT • Top-down chart shows curvature and dispersion • Side chart shows apex height, descent angle, and carry • Interactive 3D driving range with yardage markers TUNED TO YOUR BAG • Presets for driver, fairway woods, irons, and wedges with realistic loft and ball-speed defaults • ±10° face and path with 0.5° precision via slider or draggable diagram • Left-handed mode mirrors the impact view so it reads naturally COACHING TOOLS • "Ghost" trajectory overlays your previous shot for side-by-side comparison • Save any shot to history and revisit it later • Share any result as a clean image for lessons or texts No hardware. No sign-in. Pure visualization and instant feedback — every shot, every time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Mindfulness Coach at Free against Face and Path Wizard's $1.99. Mindfulness Coach also leads on ratings volume (11K vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). Face and Path Wizard's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 9 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Mindfulness Coach is free to download; Face and Path Wizard costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Face and Path Wizard 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 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Mindfulness Coach ships an update every 9 months, Face and Path Wizard daily. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mindfulness Coach | Face and Path Wizard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (11K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #197 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 131 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) | David Jones |
Customer experience
Mindfulness Coach
Face and Path Wizard
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
Face and Path Wizard
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Mindfulness Coach
No in-app purchases
Face and Path Wizard
No in-app purchases
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