Leaf vs Mind The Sip
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Leaf
This app helps you monitor your alcohol consumption and gain better control over your drinking habits. It provides discreet feedback and personalized challenges to encourage a healthier relationship with alcohol.
- Track drinks discreetly
- Set personal drinking targets
- Receive timely, helpful hints
- Suggests monthly challenges
- Promotes healthier alcohol habits
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Are you worried about how much you are drinking? Want to have more control over what you drink on a night out? Leaf, created by Action for Change, lets you simply track your drinks and subtly makes you aware if you go over your personal target. Timely and helpful hints let you control what you drink on a night out. Leaf will give you discreet tips and advice so that you can decide whether you want to make a change. By tracking your drinking and suggesting monthly challenges, Leaf will help you begin making positive steps towards a healthier relationship with alcohol.
Mind The Sip
This app helps users reduce alcohol consumption through daily accountability, tracking of alcohol-free days, and insights into drinks, calories, and money saved. It offers resources, a private community, and personalized support to foster mindful drinking habits.
- Daily accountability messaging
- Alcohol-free day streak tracking
- Home screen metrics (drinks, calories, money saved)
- Comprehensive calendar with drink calculator
- Personalized accountability for events
- Curated resources for alcohol reduction
- Private community forum
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Mind The Sip is the go-to alcohol reduction app for those who want to reduce their alcohol consumption but aren't sure where to start. Created by a Certified Recovery Coach to help users cement a lifestyle free from hangovers, regrets, and excess expense. Our mission for all members is to drink mindfully and within the health guidelines, with it being your ultimate choice whether you wish to go all the way to zero. Mind The Sip is an inclusive app open to all ages and genders. We provide a safe and private space to help users take control of their drinking. Mind The Sip’s recommendations are aligned with the national health guidelines. Embrace a safe and healthy approach to reduction and learn how to keep it that way. Unique Features • Daily accountability – stay accountable with our daily messaging service. Designed to track alcohol-free days. • Alcohol-free day streak – build up consecutive alcohol-free days. Streak resets if you have a drink. • Home Screen metrics - overview of your weekly, monthly, and yearly metrics. Effortlessly track drinks consumed, along with the dollars and calories saved. • Comprehensive calendar – allocate your drinks for the week ahead with our custom-built standard drinks’ calculator. Keep an accurate account of your progress by updating your actual drinks consumed, along with spend and calories. Conveniently repeat events and journal your moods to take note of your triggers and celebrate your wins. • Keep Me Accountable – for events requiring extra support elect for MTS to keep you accountable. We will send you a message to see how you’re tracking, offer strategies if you feel yourself wavering and follow up with you the next day to see how you pulled up. • Sophisticated Tracking – our comprehensive tracking tool allows you to drill down on weekly, monthly, and yearly data for your alcohol-free days, drinks, spend and calories consumed. • Quick-add – allocate drinks and journal entries in real time. • Go-to resources – from podcasts to books and meditations, all resources have been specifically curated with the most practical and relevant content for alcohol reduction. • Exclusive discounts – take advantage of exclusive discounts on a wide range of alcohol-free products. • Private community – thrive in our safe and inclusive online community. Subscription fees & payment The Mind The Sip App provides the following subscription options: • "Free access" - $0 Inclusions: I. Basic calendar functionality. II. Access to a collection of resources to provide education and motivation. III. Quick add - allocate drinks and journal entries in real time IV. Alcohol-free day streak – track consecutive alcohol-free days. Streak resets if you have a drink. V. Home screen snapshot - quick overview of your weekly metrics. Drinks consumed, along with the dollars and calories saved. VI. Access to monthly and yearly home screen metrics for 21 days. VII. Access to tracking for 21 days. VIII. Access to daily accountability messaging for 21 days. • “Premium access” - $9.99 per month / $19.99 per quarter / $59.99 per year Inclusions: I. Full calendar functionality, including the 'Keep me accountable' feature. II. Access to a collection of resources to provide distraction and motivation. III. Quick add - allocate drinks and journal entries in real time IV. Alcohol-free day streak – track consecutive alcohol-free days. Streak resets if you have a drink. V. Home screen snapshot - quick overview of your weekly, monthly and yearly metrics. Drinks consumed, along with the dollars and calories saved. VI. Tracking - alcohol-free days, drinks, calories & spend. VII. Daily accountability – daily messaging service. VIII. The Mind The Sip private Facebook group. Your subscription will automatically renew monthly, quarterly, or annually as per your selected subscription and payment unless you cancel before the renewal date. Terms of Use : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Mind The Sip at 100% against Leaf's 34%. Mind The Sip also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.8). Leaf's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (16 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Mind The Sip sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Leaf asks for nothing beyond the download.
Mind The Sip holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Leaf has 16 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 34% of Leaf's written reviews are positive against 100% of Mind The Sip's.
Leaf ships an update every 2 months, Mind The Sip every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on July 5, 2026 and August 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Leaf | Mind The Sip |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (16 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 34.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.1 — better | 15 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 84 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Ocasta Studios Ltd | Mind The Sip PTY LTD |
Customer experience
Leaf
Mind The Sip
In-app purchases
Leaf
No in-app purchases
Mind The Sip
- Monthly Subscription$9.991 Month
- Quarterly Subscription$19.993 Months
- Annually Subscription$59.991 Year









