Woliba vs. Starling Minds

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More Than a Digital Mental-Health Program.

Starling Minds delivers a digital Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) platform focused on stress, anxiety, depression, and return-to-work programs.

Woliba delivers a full employee experience—combining wellness challenges, recognition, rewards, coaching, surveys, and real-time analytics to build culture and engagement across your entire workforce.

Pay for Performance

With Woliba, you pay only when your people engage. Our pay-for-performance model charges based on monthly active users—so your investment aligns with actual usage and impact.

Starling Minds typically charges for access to digital mental-health modules, CBT training, and therapy-adjacent solutions regardless of broader wellness challenge or recognition engagement.

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Feature comparison

Woliba vs. Starling Minds

Woliba
Starling Minds
Wellness Challenges

Yes

Hundreds of customizable challenges across steps, distance, calories, hydration, nutrition, habits, mindfulness, and more—new themes added regularly

close No

Starling Minds focuses primarily on digital CBT, mental fitness and return-to-work programs—not broad, highly customizable physical challenges and multi-domain wellness campaigns.
Wellness Content Library

Yes

Weekly articles, videos, workouts, and recipes from Woliba’s in-house wellness team

Yes

Starling Minds offers a rich digital mental-fitness library (bite-sized CBT sessions, tools, skill toolbox, assessments, and peer-community support) for stress, anxiety, and burnout.
Health Risk Assessments (HRAs)

Yes

Built-in, personalized with content recommendations and pathways

close No

Starling Minds emphasises mental fitness/screening, stress and anxiety assessments—not full lifestyle, biometric, physical-health HRAs in public documents.
Live & On-Demand Events

Yes

Stream fitness classes, meditations, and webinars

close No

Starling Minds focuses on self-guided digital CBT programs and modules; a broad live-event wellness library spanning fitness/mindfulness is not prominently marketed.
Custom Rewards Catalog

Yes

Fully customizable rewards, points tracking, flexible integrations

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Starling Minds is centered on mental-health training and resilience support—not marketed as a full rewards catalog tied to wellness/recognition workflows.
Admin Dashboard & Reporting

Yes

Real-time analytics dashboard with engagement trends, risk reports, usage data, and team-level insights

Yes

Starling Minds provides dashboards and reporting on mental-health risk, resilience, engagement metrics, and client insights for organizations.
Recognition Tools

Yes

Peer-to-peer recognition, birthdays, anniversaries, spotlight awards, manager roles, values-based kudos

close No

Starling Minds does not highlight peer recognition tools (spotlight awards, anniversaries, full recognition workflows) in its core public offering.
Manager Recognition Tools

Yes

Managers can recognize, reward, and track team-specific data

No

Not available or clearly defined as a structured manager-recognition toolset in Starling’s public materials.
Platform Customization

Yes

Branding, outcomes, recognition workflows, rewards, messaging—all configurable

Yes

Starling Minds supports enterprise customisation (deployment, config, brand, content modules) especially for mental-health programs.
Modular Product Suite

Yes

Pick and pay for only what you need: recognition, wellness, surveys, coaching, more

close No

Starling Minds is structured as a mental-health platform focused on CBT + digital support; not marketed as a full modular engagement suite incorporating wellness + recognition + rewards + surveys.
Platform Evolution

Yes

Continuous improvements and new feature releases based on client feedback

Yes

Starling Minds emphasises ongoing advancement—digital mental-health tools, Return-to-Health programs, enterprise deployments.
Employee Engagement Surveys

Yes

Built-in pulse surveys with dashboards and action planning

close No

Starling Minds focuses primarily on mental-health assessments and training—not full employee engagement-survey modules tied to culture, recognition, and experience.
Mobile-Friendly Experience

Yes

Sleek, modern, mobile-first UX

Yes

Starling Minds offers mobile-accessible CBT, self-guided modules, and peer-community support across devices.
Customer Support

Yes

Dedicated account manager, fast support, strategic engagement reviews

Yes

Starling Minds provides enterprise-level support, onboarding, training resources, customer success teams for employer programs.

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Why Woliba is the Smarter Choice

A Truly Holistic Platform

Woliba supports physical, mental, social, emotional, and professional wellbeing through its 12 Pillars of Wellbeing—addressing all dimensions of employee experience. From wellness challenges to recognition, surveys, coaching, and rewards, every feature connects to culture and engagement.

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Powerful Admin Dashboards and Real-Time Data

Woliba gives admins full visibility into wellness usage, recognition activity, engagement trends, team insights, and culture metrics—all from one unified dashboard built to drive action and growth.

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Customization Without Limits

From branding to outcomes, rewards, communications, recognition workflows, and program design—Woliba adapts completely to your organization’s culture and goals. Starling Minds offers excellent mental-health support; Woliba offers full flexibility across wellness, recognition, engagement, and culture.

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Built to Power Your Entire Workplace

Creating a work culture is a shared responsibility where every individual plays a vital role and it all starts with selecting the right solution. Allow Woliba to transform this into a reality.

Woliba is my favorite wellness program I’ve ever experienced. The articles and recipes are easy to read and valuable, and I love that I can access everything during the workday. The videos and articles stay current with health trends, which is especially nice.

Lisa Owen

I love the flexibility—there’s no set schedule, so I can explore videos, recipes, and challenges on my own time. On weeks when I have a few extra minutes, I can really take advantage of the app.

Malcolm O’Brien

I give Woliba a solid 10. It offers a lot of informative topics on health and wellness, and I really enjoy the variety of recipes for different health needs. The step challenges are great!

Sumana Disimone

I’d give Woliba a 10! I’m motivated by the point system and love that I can sync my Fitbit to track my steps. As a busy mom of two, it’s great to have a place to log my workouts and stay on track.

Brehan Stetka

The Woliba program keeps me motivated to participate with others and maintain a healthy mindset. I enjoy the challenges, tips, recipes, engagement board, and helpful videos. On a scale of 10, I would absolutely recommend Woliba—it’s been a great program.

Naomi L CDC

Woliba is extremely easy to use! I love the variety of content—sessions, recipes, and articles that support a more holistic approach to wellness. The challenges and points system keep me motivated, and syncing with my watch makes it even easier to stay on track.

Erin Z

Woliba is a great tool for staying on track with your goals. I love that I can earn points in so many different ways, including doctor’s visits and immunizations—other apps don’t offer that range. The mental health resources, yoga, and stretching videos have been especially helpful for managing anxiety and improving flexibility.

Billie Ann M.

Woliba helps set my goals and keep me on track throughout the year. It’s great for staying consistent with daily workouts, discovering new recipes, and learning through wellness education. The challenges use gamification to make healthy habits fun—and the rewards and insurance incentives are a big bonus.

Katie B

Starling Minds is a leading digital mental-health platform with strong CBT-based tools and early-intervention support.
Woliba is a full employee-experience platform that combines wellness, recognition, surveys, rewards, and culture.

If you’re ready to move beyond mental-health care and build a culture that attracts, retains, and energizes your people—Woliba is ready.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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Woliba utilizes a Monthly Active User (MAU) pricing model, ensuring you only pay for employees who actively engage with the platform. This approach offers cost-efficiency and aligns expenses with actual usage, providing better ROI compared to traditional per-seat pricing models.

Absolutely. Woliba offers extensive customization options, allowing you to align wellness challenges, recognition programs, rewards systems, surveys, and branding with your organization’s specific goals and culture.

 Yes. Woliba supports teams in over 25 countries, offering multilingual content, timezone flexibility, and mobile-first access, making it ideal for distributed and international workforces.

Woliba provides access to over 300 wellness challenges, including those focused on physical activity, mental health, nutrition, and more. Challenges are fully customizable to align with your company’s wellness strategy.

 Indeed. Woliba integrates employee recognition, surveys, DEI tools, coaching, and real-time analytics into a single platform, facilitating a comprehensive approach to employee engagement and well-being.

Woliba’s real-time admin dashboard delivers insights into participation rates, wellness trends, recognition activities, and more, enabling HR teams to make data-driven decisions and measure program effectiveness.

 Woliba offers a 60-90 day guided onboarding process, with continuous support thereafter. Additionally, optional program management services are available, starting at $200/month, to assist in running engagement campaigns and wellness initiatives.

 Yes. Woliba’s challenges are designed based on the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change, promoting sustainable habit formation through stages of change, motivation, and accountability.

Woliba’s in-house team of wellness professionals, including coaches and mental health experts, curates and updates content regularly, ensuring relevance and alignment with the 12 Pillars of Wellbeing.

Woliba employs points systems, badges, leaderboards, and social feeds to gamify wellness activities, fostering motivation and participation among employees.

Yes. Woliba allows administrators to pre-schedule wellness campaigns, events, and automated communications, streamlining program management and ensuring consistent engagement.

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Wellness Challenges

Wellness Resources

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Recognition

Recognition that bolsters company culture, empowers employees, and boosts productivity.