Comparison

Pine vs Relaxify HD

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

Head to head
About

Pine

Find moments of calm with guided deep breathing exercises, soothing ambient sounds, and a personal journal to track your emotions and daily events. Access a variety of exercises and sounds to target stress and anxiety, all synced across your devices.

Highlights
  • 8 deep breathing exercises
  • 16 ambient sounds
  • Personal journal with emotion log
  • Customizable exercise duration
  • Syncs across Apple devices
  • Integrates with Apple Health
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. • 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

Relaxify HD

Features
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A collection of relaxing visual experiences along with gentle relaxing ambient audio, settings allow you to customize audio for each experience and set a sleep timer

Screenshots

Pine4 screens
Relaxify HD4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Pine at fortnightly against Relaxify HD's every 10 months. Relaxify HD's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.6). On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Pine sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Relaxify HD sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pine ships an update fortnightly, Relaxify HD every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Pine versus Relaxify HD: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPineRelaxify HD
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (28 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews11.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings28 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 10 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV
Requires iOS18.611.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size145 MB130 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBean's Bytes, LLCEdgeway Software

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Pine

Subscriptions2
  • Pine Premium Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Pine Premium Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pine Premium Lifetime$19.99
1 purchases

Relaxify HD

One-time1
  • Unlock experiences$4.99

Questions

Is Pine free?
Pine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Relaxify HD free?
Relaxify HD is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pine or Relaxify HD have ads?
Neither Pine nor Relaxify HD shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pine or Relaxify HD?
Pine ships an update fortnightly, and Relaxify HD every 10 months. Most recently, Pine was updated on September 29, 2026 and Relaxify HD on September 28, 2026.

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