Comparison

Countee vs Virtual MotivAider

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Countee

This app offers a flexible method for real-time data collection, allowing users to create custom templates for tracking events and responses. It supports both frequency and duration measurements, with options for detailed qualifiers and clear session summaries. Data can be exported in common formats and kept private with an optional biometric lock.

Highlights
  • Customizable templates
  • Real-time frequency tracking
  • Real-time duration tracking
  • Detailed qualifiers
  • Session summaries and statistics
  • Data export (Excel/CSV)
  • Optional biometric lock
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Countee – Event & Time Tracking Countee is a simple and flexible way to collect data in real time. Create custom templates and track events and responses using frequency or duration. Whether you're observing behavior, running sessions, or collecting structured data, Countee helps you stay focused and organized. Key features: - Custom templates with flexible response keys - Real-time tracking with frequency and duration - Qualifiers for detailed data collection - Clear session summaries and statistics - Export data as Excel or CSV - Optional Face ID / biometric lock for added privacy All data stays on your device. Made in cooperation with Dr. Varsovia Hernández Eslava.

About

Virtual MotivAider

This tool helps users achieve desired behavioral changes by sending personalized prompts. It replicates the functionality of a dedicated device, reminding you to act on your goals with custom messages and adjustable notification intervals.

Highlights
  • Personalized message triggers
  • Customizable prompt types (vibration, sound, text)
  • Adjustable prompt frequency and intervals
  • Automatic prompt duration setting
  • Pause and resume prompting
  • Multiple behavior change projects
Features
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Virtual MotivAider® is designed to help users of all ages make desired changes in their own behavior and habits. ​ This app is intended to replicate much of the functionality of the MotivAider®, an ingeniously simple dedicated electronic device invented by a clinical psychologist. Since 1987, the MotivAider® device has helped thousands of people in over 50 countries make a wide range of desired behavioral changes. Like the MotivAider® device, Virtual MotivAider® corrects for a largely overlooked glitch in the design of the human mind -- the lack of a dependable mechanism for keeping good intentions "on the front burner" of your mind. By repeatedly sending you signals or prompts that remind and urge you to act in accord with any chosen behavioral objective or goal, the app prevents your good intentions from getting lost in the shuffle. To use the app, you first devise a brief personal message – a word, phrase or image -- that serves as a trigger to remind and urge you to take a specific action required to achieve your goal. Next, you simply associate your personal message with the app’s signals or prompts, so that whenever you receive the prompt, you'll automatically think your personal message and be reminded and urged to take the desired action. Then, you set the app to send you prompts – and therefore your personal message – as often as it takes to get the best possible results. By design, Virtual MotivAider® is simple and straightforward. It has no bells and whistles to distract you from its singular purpose, which is to keep your attention focused on making whatever change in behavior you decide to make. Virtual MotivAider® lets you: • Choose the type(s) of prompts you’d like to receive – from a simple vibration signal (if your device is capable of vibration) and/or a sound (you can even record your personal message in your own voice) and/or a text notification with your personal message. • Get prompts as often as you want – from as often as once every few seconds to as seldom as once a day. • Choose whether to get prompts at Regular intervals (for example, once every 5 minutes), at Average intervals (for example, from 15 minutes to one hour apart with an Average of 30 minutes apart), or even at Random intervals (for example, at random intervals that are no less than 10 seconds apart and no more than 10 minutes apart). • Choose how long to have prompting continue before stopping automatically. • Pause and resume prompting whenever you want. • Create and save multiple behavior change projects. (To achieve the best results, however, we recommend that you work on only one project at a time). • Access the same free habit change resources that help users of the dedicated MotivAider® device achieve great results.

Screenshots

Countee4 screens
Virtual MotivAider4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Countee at Free against Virtual MotivAider's $3.99. Countee also leads on review sentiment (67% vs 23%) and rating (4.3 vs 2.9). Virtual MotivAider's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). On ratings volume, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Countee is free to download; Virtual MotivAider costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Countee holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Countee's written reviews are positive against 23% of Virtual MotivAider's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Countee ships an update every 4 months, Virtual MotivAider every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Countee versus Virtual MotivAider: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCounteeVirtual MotivAider
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating4.3 (12 ratings) — better2.9 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews — better23.1% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 4 months — betterEvery 8 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.611.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDigital Taco, vl. Davor Peic-GavranBehavioral Dynamics, Inc.

Customer experience

Countee

All ratings12 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Virtual MotivAider

All ratings7 ratings
Positive42.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative57.1%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive23.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative76.9%

In-app purchases

None

Countee

No in-app purchases

None

Virtual MotivAider

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Countee free?
Countee is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Virtual MotivAider free?
Virtual MotivAider costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Countee or Virtual MotivAider?
Countee is rated higher. Countee averages 4.3 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while Virtual MotivAider averages 2.9 from 7 ratings.
Do Countee or Virtual MotivAider have ads?
Neither Countee nor Virtual MotivAider shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Countee or Virtual MotivAider?
Countee ships an update every 4 months, and Virtual MotivAider every 8 months. Most recently, Countee was updated on October 4, 2026 and Virtual MotivAider on October 8, 2026.

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