SleepSmartz vs Shadow Work
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SleepSmartz
This app helps combat insomnia by guiding users through relaxation techniques and spiritual truths to calm the mind. It aims to facilitate a peaceful transition to sleep and improve daily habits for better rest.
- Guided relaxation techniques
- Spiritual truths for anxiety
- Mind calming sessions
- Habit change guidance
- Drift back to sleep feature
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Description Does insomnia make you feel like “The Walking Dead”? -- Do you lay in bed at night, unable to go to sleep? -- Do you wake up tired? -- Do you drag through the day? -- Do you think about sleep a lot? SleepSmartz is the only sleep app in existence that actually speaks to what is keeping YOU awake at night. Whether you struggle with anxiety, addictions or perhaps you are a veteran or first responder who struggles with destructive thoughts or PTSD - SleepSmartz has sleep sessions that give you hope based on proven therapeutic principles that are designed to help you drift off to sleep while overcoming negative thoughts. SleepSmartz is designed to help you gently transition each night from your high stress day to a peaceful state of tranquility where you naturally drift off to sleep. It does this by calming your mind with powerful scientific relaxation techniques combined with peaceful truths practically applied to the anxieties or negative thoughts that are keeping you awake at night. This is important because you are important. So is sleep deprivation crippling you, keeping you locked into a cycle of sleeplessness and despair night after night? Do you sometimes withdraw, just too exhausted to love your family and friends? If this describes your experience, SleepSmartz was designed for you. When you wake up in the middle of the night, your mind “spinning” from one stressful thought to another, SleepSmartz sleep sessions enable you to focus your mind on peaceful spiritual truths as you gently drift back off to sleep. Meditating on spiritual truth helps you experience reassuring peace and overcome anxiety or negative thoughts that are often a primary cause of insomnia. When combined with the science of relaxation, SleepSmartz provides a powerful tool to overcome insomnia. Downloading the app is FREE and there are FREE sleep sessions for your to begin your journey! Read more about our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy: https://learn.appdocumentation.com/en/collections/1618556-terms-conditions-and-privacy-policy
Shadow Work
Explore your unconscious patterns and hidden archetypes to understand self-sabotage and repeated behaviors. Engage in daily prompts, receive direct answers to your deepest questions, and interpret dreams with psychological depth. Understand the roots of addiction and navigate personal growth cycles.
- Shadow assessment and archetype mapping
- Daily reflective prompts
- Direct shadow question answering
- Jungian dream interpretation
- Psychology of addiction exploration
- Growth cycle guidance
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Finally understand the hidden patterns running your life, and break them for good. Trusted by 150,000+ people on their healing journey. Mindberg isn't another personality test, mood tracker, or feel-good habit app. It's a shadow work experience grounded in real depth psychology, designed to help you understand why you do what you do and finally break the patterns that keep repeating. If you've ever asked yourself: - Why do I keep finding myself in the same situations? - Why do I react the way I do in relationships? - Why do I feel stuck, numb, or disconnected? Mindberg helps you uncover the real answers hiding in your unconscious mind. WHY THOUSANDS CHOOSE MINDBERG - Break repeating patterns - Understand your shadow - Interpret your dreams to reveal what your unconscious is trying to tell you - Track patterns through guided reflection to build real self-awareness - Integrate insights into daily life, not just intellectual understanding - Make better choices rooted in deep self-knowledge Mindberg is about transformation from the inside out. MINDBERG GOES DEEPER Have you used any of these? - Enneagram - MBTI / Myers-Briggs - Personality tests - Astrology quizzes - Journaling apps - Habit trackers Those tools describe what you do. Mindberg helps you understand why you do it. Rooted in Jungian shadow work and psychology, Mindberg goes beyond surface-level labels. Your responses and patterns reveal the parts of you that are hidden, denied, or misunderstood. BUILT FOR YOUR HEALING JOURNEY Mindberg supports you through: - Trauma and emotional wounds - CPTSD and early conditioning - Grief and loss - Breakups and relational wounds - Identity crises and loss of direction - Recovery from numbing habits and addictive patterns - Inner child healing - Spiritual exploration and meaning-making Mindberg is a safe place to face what you've been avoiding and finally move through it. Everything you write stays private. Your journal is yours alone. YOUR UNCONSCIOUS SPEAKS. START LISTENING. Dreams, emotional triggers, repeating patterns. None of these are random. They're signs from your unconscious mind. Mindberg includes: - Guided shadow work sessions - Prompts for Shadow exploration - Relationship patterns - Dream analysis and dream journal tools to uncover recurring symbols - Reflection tools that connect behavior to deeper patterns When you understand the unconscious forces shaping your life, you stop fighting yourself and start making real progress. WHY IT WORKS Most apps try to change your behavior. Mindberg works with the source of your behavior. By identifying the unconscious beliefs and patterns behind your decisions, you gain clarity and control. This is how you stop reacting and start choosing differently. People don't invest in Mindberg for quick fixes. They come for insight, transformation, and the chance to finally understand themselves. WHAT MAKES MINDBERG DIFFERENT Mindberg was created by a Jungian psychotherapist accredited by the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich. This isn't a faceless app. It's built by people who care deeply about your journey. The Mindberg team is emotionally invested and committed to supporting you as you explore your inner world. We listen, we iterate, and we evolve based on your feedback. If you have suggestions, reflections, or ideas, we'd love to hear from you. Leave a review or reach out directly. Your voice shapes the future of Mindberg. Start your journey inward. Understand your shadow. Reclaim your power.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Shadow Work at 59% against SleepSmartz's 31%. On price, 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
Both are free to download. SleepSmartz sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Shadow Work sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $24.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SleepSmartz | Shadow Work |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.7 (342 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 31.4% of reviews | 59.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 342 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 100 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | SleepSmartz, LLC | Mindberg doo |
Customer experience
SleepSmartz
Shadow Work
Bugs and requests
SleepSmartz
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Shadow Work
Reported bugs
5 issues- App quits/backs out unexpectedly
- App doesn't work some days
- Dreams stuck on interpretation
- Lost all tokens
- Tokens taken but no response
Requested features
7 requests- App available in French
- Better UI/UX design
- More comforting app experience
- Clearer explanation of app usage
- Option to export dream logs
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- Tokens replenish monthly
- Dark mode option
In-app purchases
SleepSmartz
- SleepSmartz Monthly $9.99$9.991 Month
- SleepSmartz Premium$9.991 Month
- SleepSmartz Annual $45.00$45.001 Year
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- SleepSmartz Premium7 Days trial$69.991 Year
- SleepSmartz Premium$69.991 Month
Shadow Work
- Monthly Subscription1 Month trial$24.991 Month
- Mindberg- Monthly Subscription$24.991 Month
- Mindberg - 6 Months$59.996 Months
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- Annual Subscription$99.991 Year
- Annual Subscription Special$99.991 Year
- Mindberg – Annual with Trial3 Days trial$99.991 Year
- Annual Subscription Offer$249.991 Year
- 1 Token$0.99
- 5 Tokens$3.99
- Shadow Work Integration$99.00
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- Shadow Work Integration$199.99
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