Comparison

Self vs Yantra Meditation

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

Head to head
About

Self

This app helps you connect with your inner knowing through guided card draws. Ask a question and explore the universe's communication with 80 powerful cards and various spread options. Save your draws and review your history to discover patterns and foster curiosity.

Highlights
  • 80 powerful Self-Discovery cards
  • Multiple card spread options
  • Save card draws and questions
  • History feature to discover patterns
  • Private and secure user data
Features
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This app is an intuition amplifier. Inside each of us is a deep knowing. It’s so easy to “out-source” what we know. Out-sourcing looks like asking others for information about how we’re feeling or the direction we want to head. The images and words on the Self-Discovery cards invite you in to your own inner knowing. Ask a question and then draw a card or three, let your question rest lightly in the back of your mind, and wonder into what the universe is communicating to you. There is lots of room for you to wonder and explore! Spending time with these cards invites curiosity and wonder. Features: ● 80 powerful Self-Discovery cards that invite instant access to your intuition ● Choose the card spread that works best for you in the moment: today’s card, a single card, or a three card spread ● Save images of your card draws and questions to your iPhone and iPad for easy reference and sharing ● Use the History feature to discover patterns ● Everything you do in the app is private (your data is never collected or shared) About the Author: Nancy Thiel Voogd loves finding beauty in unexpected places. She invites herself into a state of wonder on a regular basis through changing her perspectives. If you go walking with her, you can expect to suddenly notice that she’s paused to pull out her iPhone and take a picture of a small leaf on the ground that has an incredible shadow, or dewdrops on a tiny flower growing out of a crack in the sidewalk.

About

Yantra Meditation

This app offers guided meditation sessions with customizable playlist lengths for morning or evening use. It features a unique visual element with animated yantra symbols displayed alongside calming music to enhance concentration and promote deep relaxation.

Highlights
  • Customizable meditation playlist lengths
  • Random song generation for playlists
  • Animated yantra symbols
  • Visual aids for concentration
  • Promotes deep meditation and energy
Features
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The Yantra App is a meditation tool. Users can select between differing lengths of playlists for morning or evening meditation. The app will randomly generate the appropriate songs to play in order and play them. While the music is playing, 6 different color yantra symbols will display, one after the other, on the screen. A yantra is a geometric design that has been used for concentration and meditation techniques since ancient times. Gazing at the center of the yantra while listening to the music helps promote a deep meditation that will leave you feeling energized!

Screenshots

Self2 screens
Yantra Meditation3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Yantra Meditation at Free against Self's $6.99. Self's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 22 months) and rating (4.9 vs 4.5). On review sentiment, ratings volume, 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

Yantra Meditation is free to download; Self costs $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Self holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 20 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Self ships an update every 2 months, Yantra Meditation every 22 months. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Self versus Yantra Meditation: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSelfYantra Meditation
Price$6.99Free — better
Rating4.9 (10 ratings) — better4.5 (20 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1020 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 22 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB159 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPatrick BroomIan Gal

Customer experience

Self

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Yantra Meditation

All ratings20 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Self

No in-app purchases

None

Yantra Meditation

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Self free?
Self costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Yantra Meditation free?
Yantra Meditation is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Self or Yantra Meditation?
Self is rated higher. Self averages 4.9 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Yantra Meditation averages 4.5 from 20 ratings.
Do Self or Yantra Meditation have ads?
Neither Self nor Yantra Meditation shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Self or Yantra Meditation?
Self ships an update every 2 months, and Yantra Meditation every 22 months. Most recently, Self was updated on November 2, 2026 and Yantra Meditation on November 2, 2026.

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