PTSD Family Coach vs Mind Guide
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PTSD Family Coach
This app offers support and resources for family members of individuals with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). It provides information on managing stress, caring for relationships, and accessing treatment, with specific tools for military families.
- Information about PTSD
- Self-care guidance
- Relationship support tools
- Treatment assistance
- Stress management exercises
- Social network rebuilding
- Progress tracking
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PTSD Family Coach is for family members of those living with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The app provides extensive information about PTSD, how to take care of yourself, how to take care of your relationship with your loved one or with children, and how to help your loved one get the treatment they deserve. The app also provides a great deal of information that is specific to Veterans and active duty members of the military. Living with a family member who has PTSD can be incredibly stressful, and PTSD Family Coach includes 24 unique tools to help you manage this stress, including mindfulness exercises, tools to help you re-build your social networks, and tools to help with difficult thoughts and emotions you may be experiencing. The app also provides a way for you to track your stress level over time, using scientifically valid measures, and can provide specific feedback about your progress. Finally, PTSD Family Coach offers a number of ways for you, and your loved one, to connect with support. PTSD Family Coach was created by VA’s National Center for PTSD and DoD’s National Center for Telehealth & Technology.
Mind Guide
This app provides Veterans with a guided mindfulness training plan to help reduce alcohol consumption. It offers answers to common questions about mindfulness for sobriety and tools to track daily goals and progress.
- Guided mindfulness training plan
- Tailored to alcohol use reduction
- Answers to mindfulness questions
- Daily goal tracking
- Progress tracking over time
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This app is for Veterans working to cut back on their alcohol use. Mind Guide offers: - a guided training plan, tailored to alcohol use, to help you learn the basics of mindfulness practice - answers to many questions about how to use mindfulness to cut back on alcohol - tools for tracking your daily goals and your progress over time Mind Guide is not intended to replace face-to-face clinical care. This app is being reviewed for safety and feasibility and is designed specifically for those already enrolled in an authorized user experience study. The app REQUIRES a free invitation code to fully unlock. Please contact the developers if you are interested in learning more about Mind Guide: mobilementalhealth@va.gov
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Mind Guide at every 4 months against PTSD Family Coach's every 20 months. Mind Guide also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). PTSD Family Coach's advantage is ratings volume (20 vs 6). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for PTSD Family Coach against 4.8 for Mind Guide. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 6 respectively.
PTSD Family Coach ships an update every 20 months, Mind Guide every 4 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | PTSD Family Coach | Mind Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (20 ratings) | 4.8 (6 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 20 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 113 MB | 208 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) | Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research |
Customer experience
PTSD Family Coach
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In-app purchases
PTSD Family Coach
No in-app purchases
Mind Guide
No in-app purchases
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