Comparison

Pine vs Relax with C.A.R.E.

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

Head to head
About

Pine

This app offers guided deep breathing exercises and ambient sounds to help you relax and manage stress. It includes a personal journal with an emotions log and integrates with Apple Health to track your mindfulness minutes and mood over time. Customizable sessions and challenges help build consistent habits.

Highlights
  • Guided deep breathing exercises
  • Ambient soundscapes
  • Personal journal with emotion logging
  • Apple Health integration
  • Customizable session duration
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Habit-building challenges
Features
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Pine lets you find a moment to relax with deep breathing exercises, ambient sounds, and a personal Journal. Pine guides you through deep breathing exercises and meditation on your iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV, and now with Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for quick access. Pine features different breathing exercises, each designed to target different types of stress, anxiety, fatigue, and depression. Pine lets you build your own sessions to structure your practice exactly how you like it. Pine has a personal journal built right in, so you can record the daily events throughout your day. The journal also features an emotions log and Apple's State of Mind tracking, so you can record your mood, the thoughts or events behind it, and see how you're really doing over time, right alongside the rest of your data in the Health app. Challenges give you a simple way to build a lasting breathing and meditation habit, one session at a time. Complete Feature List: • A range of deep breathing exercises. • A customizable breathing exercises. • Ability to change the duration of your breathing exercise between 1 minute and 10 minutes. • A great design that helps you relax. • Various ambient sounds to play during your breathing exercises. • Import songs or playlists from Apple Music. • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for quick access to your favorite exercises. • Challenges to help you build a consistent breathing and meditation habit. • Reminders to take a minute to relax every day. • Works with Apple Health: Sync Mindfulness Minutes and State of Mind entries with the Health App. • iCloud syncing between your devices so all of your breathing exercises, journal entries, and mood logs stay in sync. Thank you for considering Pine, I hope it helps you improve your life and allows you to take a minute to appreciate the day, Casey

About

Relax with C.A.R.E.

This app uses nature imagery and soothing music to help relieve stress, ease anxiety, and improve mood. It offers guided meditations and ambient sounds for relaxation, sleep, and focus. Access content across all your devices with a subscription.

Highlights
  • Nature imagery and instrumental music
  • Guided meditations
  • Ambient sleep sounds
  • Stress and anxiety relief
  • Mood improvement
  • Content across devices
Features
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Nature and music paired together have been proven to help relieve stress, ease anxiety, improve your mood, and boost feelings of happiness and well-being. Filled with some of the world’s most iconic landscapes and paired with soothing instrumental music, Relax with C.A.R.E. embraces all of the positive benefits of nature and music, when and where you need it most. With over 25+ years of evidenced-based research that connects the use of music and nature, Relax with C.A.R.E. will help you: - Relieve stress - Calm anxiety - Find a good night’s sleep - And most importantly, relax By utilizing nature imagery with instrumental music, guided meditations, and ambient noise Relax with C.A.R.E. helps you create a relaxing environment right from your streaming device. CATEGORIES – -RELAX: The Relax category offers hours of stunning nature imagery from iconic locations paired with soothing instrumental music to help you relax, sleep, or focus. -MEDITATE: The Meditate category offers guided meditations that are narrated to guide you through your journey, inspire your imagination, and bring about responses in your body that give you a sense of calm, peace, and balance. -SLEEP: The Sleep category offers beautiful starfields with soothing music, sleep-focused guided meditations, and ambient sounds (like white, brown, and pink noise). ▷Already a Member? Sign-In to access your subscription. ▷New? Try it for free! Subscribe in the app to get instant access. Relax with C.A.R.E. offers an auto-renewing Monthly Subscription with a Free Trial. You'll receive unlimited access to content on all your devices. Payment is charged to your Apple ID Account at confirmation of purchase. Pricing varies by location and is confirmed prior to purchase. After the free trial, subscription automatically renews at the monthly rate unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the trial period. Subscription automatically renews each month unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period. Cancel anytime in Account Settings. For more information see our: -Privacy Policy: https://relaxwithcare.com/pages/privacy-policy -Terms of Service: https://relaxwithcare.com/pages/terms-of-use

Screenshots

Pine4 screens
Relax with C.A.R.E.3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Relax with C.A.R.E. at 100% against Pine's 11%. Relax with C.A.R.E. also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). Pine's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks) and ratings volume (28 vs 9). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Both are free to download. Pine sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Relax with C.A.R.E. sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Relax with C.A.R.E. holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 28 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 11% of Pine's written reviews are positive against 100% of Relax with C.A.R.E.'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pine ships an update fortnightly, Relax with C.A.R.E. every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Pine versus Relax with C.A.R.E.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPineRelax with C.A.R.E.
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (28 ratings)5.0 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews11.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings28 — better9
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV
Requires iOS18.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size146 MB69 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperBean's Bytes, LLCHealing HealthCare Systems, Inc.

Customer experience

Pine

All ratings28 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral7.1%
Negative17.9%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive11.1%
Neutral33.3%
Negative55.6%

Relax with C.A.R.E.

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Pine

Subscriptions2
  • Pine Premium Monthly1 Month trial$2.991 Month
  • Pine Premium Yearly3 Months trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pine Premium Lifetime$49.99
2 purchases

Relax with C.A.R.E.

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly access1 Month trial$9.991 Month
  • Relax with C.A.R.E. Monthly$9.991 Month

Questions

Is Pine free?
Pine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Relax with C.A.R.E. free?
Relax with C.A.R.E. is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pine or Relax with C.A.R.E.?
Relax with C.A.R.E. is rated higher. Pine averages 4.3 out of 5 from 28 ratings, while Relax with C.A.R.E. averages 5.0 from 9 ratings.
Do Pine or Relax with C.A.R.E. have ads?
Neither Pine nor Relax with C.A.R.E. shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pine or Relax with C.A.R.E.?
Pine ships an update fortnightly, and Relax with C.A.R.E. every 5 weeks. Most recently, Pine was updated on November 2, 2026 and Relax with C.A.R.E. on November 7, 2026.

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