“This app is freaking genius and really helps me build habits. Yeah, some things are behind a paywall, but I don't care. The birds are so cute and it's so fun to see them grow up. They'll even wish you a happy hatch day when your birthday…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 2,217 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
4.9 ★1,385,939 ratings
10M+Downloads
4+Age rating
536 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Meet your new self-care best friend! Finch is a self-care pet app that helps you feel prepared and positive, one day at a time. Take care of your pet by taking care of yourself! Choose from a wide variety of self-care exercises personalized for you.
THE BEST DAILY SELF-CARE APP
Struggling with stress, mental health, or need motivation? Is self-care a chore? Finch makes self-care finally feel rewarding, lightweight, and fun. Complete quick self-care exercises to grow your pet, earn rewards, and improve mental health! People who struggle with mental health, goals, meditation, and journaling found it easier to be mindful with their self-care pet in the Finch app!
REVIEWS
- "I’ve tried other apps for being thankful and thinking positive but never used them long.…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
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Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
App Store
This analysis describes version 3.73.220 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 3.73.220, updated 2026-10-02.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 3.73.211 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 3.73.211, updated 2026-09-29.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
90% or more five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (0.3% of 1462 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Getting worse — The ONLY thing that kept me opening the app and checking off tasks every day was to try and get the month’s micropet. Now it’s behind a $40-120 paywall… and the main feature of every screen is many lock graphics🔒. I used…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 3.73.220.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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