Sonirest vs Vivablee
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sonirest
This app offers a wide variety of high-quality natural and sacred soundscapes to aid in sleep and focus. Users can customize sound combinations and volumes to create personalized white or pink noise. Features include timed playback, random effects, and energy efficiency.
- Natural soundscapes
- Sacred music series
- Customizable sound mixing
- Timed playback stop
- Random sound effects
- Energy saving efficiency
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"Sonirest" is a sound application designed for your peace and efficiency. It has a large number of high-quality natural soundscapes and premium sounds such as rain, sea waves, deer calls and more. In addition, the Sacred Music series of independent music is also a good choice such as the Buddhist bell, temple, incense etc. You can freely combine all sounds and control volume to create a white noise / pink noise effect that is exclusive to you, eliminating interference, ensuring full concentration. This app has many special features such as timed playback stop, random sound effects, AirPlay projection, and excellent energy saving efficiency to ensure long-lasting use. Whether it is before sleep, yoga fitness, reading novels, writing homework, busy work, etc., "Sonirest" can help you. It can even help babies fall asleep, making it an ideal music background for newborn education. Even if you use the free version, you can still customize all non-premium sound effects at will and support 40 minutes of rotation. The free version will always support normal operation. If you have any questions or suggestions, please send an email to cypmatrix@gmail.com.
Vivablee
This platform offers guided Cantonese meditations for various life moments and personalized soundtracks. It also features a booking system for online and offline leisure activities, helping users discover new interests or deepen existing ones.
- Guided Cantonese meditations
- Personalized meditation soundtracks
- Online leisure activity booking
- Offline leisure activity booking
- Mindfulness companion
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Vivablee 是一個心理健康服務的綜合平台。 Vivablee提供多樣化的廣東話冥想練習，包括圍繞生活不同時刻的固定練習以及根據個人喜好度身訂造的冥想錄音。Vivablee獨特的練習是你在靜觀和冥想的道路上的夥伴！ 通過Vivablee，用家亦可以輕鬆快捷報名參加各種線上和線下的休閒活動。不論你想探索新事物，還是想深造興趣， Vivablee的平台都會有你合適的活動！ 服務條款: https://www.vivablee.com/TermsOfService 私隱條款: https://www.vivablee.com/PrivacyPolicy Vivablee is a mental well-being integrated platform providing guided meditation in Cantonese and booking services for leisure activities. Vivablee offers a vast library of guided meditation content in Cantonese catered for different moments of a given day, as well as personalized soundtracks configured to your liking. Vivablee is your very own mindfulness companion! Vivablee provides a simple booking system for leisure activities both conducted online and offline. Discover something new or pursue a passion! Terms of Service: https://www.vivablee.com/TermsOfService Privacy Policy: https://www.vivablee.com/PrivacyPolicy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Sonirest at free with in-app purchases against Vivablee's subscription. Sonirest also leads on ratings volume (30 vs 2). Vivablee's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 6 weeks). On price, in-app purchases 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. Sonirest sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Vivablee sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Vivablee holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sonirest has 30 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Sonirest ships an update every 6 weeks, Vivablee every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sonirest | Vivablee |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (30 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | — |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 延平 陈 | Vivablee Limited |
Customer experience
Sonirest
Vivablee
Bugs and requests
Sonirest
Reported bugs
8 issues- Play button overlaps with upgrade/crown icon on newer iPhones (12, 13, 14)
- No sound at all
- App crashes when trying to access Pro features
- Timer display issues
- Volume bar response is sensitive
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- App crashes when accessing Pro features
- Play button is unusable due to overlapping icons
- App crashes when accessing Pro features
Requested features
5 requests- Add more high-quality white/pink noise options
- Increase the variety of sound types
- Improve UI readability and button placement
- Allow playback control when the phone is locked
- Add more cicada and frog sounds
Vivablee
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Sonirest
- Premium Version$1.99
Vivablee
- Vivablee 專屬會員訂閱 (每月)$5.991 Month
- Vivablee 專屬會員訂閱 (每年)$69.991 Year
