Comparison

Self Affirmed vs iOSHO

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

Head to head
About

Self Affirmed

Record affirmations in your own voice and integrate them into calming soundscapes. Organize your recordings, choose from various ambient sounds, and customize listening sessions. Track your progress and practice mindfulness discreetly.

Highlights
  • Record affirmations in your own voice
  • Over 100 affirmation ideas
  • Eight customizable soundscapes
  • Adjustable session lengths
  • Lock screen and headphone controls
  • Apple Health integration (Mindful Minutes)
  • Private by design, no cloud storage
Features
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Hearing an affirmation is good. Hearing it in your own voice is different — your mind knows who's talking. Self Affirmed lets you record affirmations in your own voice, then weaves them into calming soundscapes for listening sessions you shape yourself. Speak it once, and let your own conviction do the work. RECORD, IN YOUR WORDS • Tap the mic and speak — your words appear on screen as you say them and become the recording's title, so your library is always easy to browse • Need a starting point? Explore over 100 affirmation ideas across 14 areas of life — confidence, gratitude, health, motivation, success, and more — and record any of them read-along style, straight from the list • Organize everything into categories you create and name yourself LISTEN, YOUR WAY • Eight soundscapes to carry your voice: Angelic Choir, Nature's Lullaby, Ethereal, Birds and Bells, Celtic Harp, Electric Dream, Meditation Zone, and Drone • Sessions ease you in with pure ambience — and an optional spoken relaxation wind-down — before your affirmations begin their gentle cycle • Choose a 12 to 30 minute session, or let it play until you end it • Mix your voice against the ambience, add a touch of reverb, or layer in a subtle binaural undertone (headphones recommended) • Control everything from the lock screen or your headphones — pause, resume, and see the current affirmation without opening the app BUILT AROUND YOUR DAY • Made for iPhone Duo — open your phone and every screen spreads into two panes at the hinge; fold it like a laptop and recording becomes a teleprompter • A home screen widget keeps your affirmations in sight and in mind all day • Completed sessions can be logged to Apple Health as Mindful Minutes, so your practice becomes a habit you can see • Unplug your headphones and the session politely pauses; a phone call holds your place PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Your recordings never leave your device — no account, no cloud, no tracking • Try it free with your first six recordings. One simple purchase unlocks unlimited recording forever — no subscription, ever Your voice. Your words. Your calm.

About

iOSHO

This app offers a revolutionary approach to meditation and mindfulness for modern individuals. It provides tools for stress release through active meditations and guided talks, along with transformative tarot games for personal clarity.

Highlights
  • Active meditations for stress release
  • Guided OSHO Talks
  • Transformative tarot card games
  • OSHO Radio (24/7)
  • OSHO iMeditate with 17 key meditations
  • OSHO Audio Series and curated playlists
  • OSHO TV with video talks
Features
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iOSHO – Revolutionary Meditation Approach for Contemporary People iOsho represents a revolution in making meditation, mindfulness, awareness and consciousness available as a daily life experience for contemporary people. It has tools to help you dissolve whatever is blocking your meditation with active meditations that allow you to express and release your accumulated stress and tensions – and then discover the silent center within. You can learn the “knack” of being a witness to the body and then the mind, with its thoughts and feelings while listening to OSHO Talks. And if you need support with a personal issue, you can use two transformative tarot card games to gain clarity and understanding. What Your Subscription Includes: OSHO Radio Silence Shared in Words – 24/7 OSHO Radio plays Osho Talks continuously. A new series is uploaded every week. Your subscription includes English and Hindi talks. OSHO iMeditate Enjoy 17 Key OSHO Meditations – plus the daily OSHO Evening Meeting You have tried just sitting, and it drives you nuts. Those sitting meditations were not created for contemporary people, but for people who lived a long time ago, in a very different world. That is why these OSHO Active Meditations were created. You release whatever emotions are rumbling inside, you dance, you hum, you just let go and feel the delight of then being able to be silent. OSHOPlay OSHO Audio Series, Curated Playlist and Music from the World of OSHO Discover the true essence of Tantra, Yoga, Zen or the Eastern or Western Mystics with hundreds of Osho Talks in English and Hindi. Delve into meditation, learn what it means to understand love, ego, life and death from 17 playlist of most searched topics, create your own playlists – including music from the World of OSHO. OSHO TV OSHO Talks on Video On OSHO TV you can access fifty different OSHO videos at any one time. Answers to questions from seekers, his replies to the press and some very intimate biographical talks. A new video is added each week. OSHO Zen Tarot Award Winning Game of Zen The world’s most popular Zen-based, Tarot Deck. OSHO Transformation Tarot 60 Illustrated Parables for Everyday Life OSHO No-Thought for the Day Start your day from your center – where your life really happens! A nudge from Osho on audio & text ABOUT OSHO Osho defies categorization. His thousands of talks cover everything from the individual quest for meaning to the most urgent social and political issues facing society today. Osho has been described by the Sunday Times in London as one of the “1000 Makers of the 20th Century” and by American author Tom Robbins as “the most dangerous man since Jesus Christ.” Sunday Mid-Day (India) has selected Osho as one of ten people – along with Gandhi, Nehru and Buddha – who have changed the destiny of India. About his own work Osho has said that he is helping to create the conditions for the birth of a new kind of human being.. Osho is known for his revolutionary contribution to the science of inner transformation, with an approach to meditation that acknowledges the accelerated pace of contemporary life. His unique OSHO Active Meditations are designed to first release the accumulated stresses of body and mind. If you subscribe via Apple, payment will be charged to App Store Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period at the rate of the selected plan. Subscriptions and auto-renewal may be managed by going to Account Settings after purchase. Privacy policy: https://iosho.osho.com/privacy-policy Terms of use: https://iosho.osho.com/terms-and-services

Screenshots

Self Affirmed4 screens
iOSHO4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: iOSHO at Free against Self Affirmed's $4.99. iOSHO also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 9 months) and ratings volume (55 vs 12). Self Affirmed's advantage is review sentiment (67% vs 54%). On rating, 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

iOSHO is free to download; Self Affirmed costs $4.99 up front. Self Affirmed sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and iOSHO 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for Self Affirmed against 4.1 for iOSHO. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 55 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Self Affirmed's written reviews are positive against 54% of iOSHO's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Self Affirmed ships an update every 9 months, iOSHO monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Self Affirmed versus iOSHO: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSelf AffirmediOSHO
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (12 ratings)4.1 (55 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews — better53.9% of reviews
Number of ratings1255 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size93 MB119 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGet Happy, LLCOsho International Corp.

Customer experience

Self Affirmed

All ratings12 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral8.3%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral16.7%
Negative16.7%

iOSHO

All ratings55 ratings
Positive76.4%
Neutral5.5%
Negative18.2%
Written reviews76 reviews
Positive53.9%
Neutral11.8%
Negative34.2%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Self Affirmed

One-time1
  • Unlimited Affirmation Creation$4.99
2 purchases

iOSHO

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Yearly7 Days trial$69.991 Year

Questions

Is Self Affirmed free?
Self Affirmed costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is iOSHO free?
iOSHO is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Self Affirmed or iOSHO?
iOSHO is rated higher. Self Affirmed averages 4.0 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while iOSHO averages 4.1 from 55 ratings.
Do Self Affirmed or iOSHO have ads?
Neither Self Affirmed nor iOSHO shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Self Affirmed or iOSHO?
Self Affirmed ships an update every 9 months, and iOSHO monthly. Most recently, Self Affirmed was updated on November 4, 2026 and iOSHO on November 7, 2026.

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