Comparison

Mesmerize vs Imagine

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

Head to head
About

Mesmerize

Experience a unique audio-visual meditation to calm your mind, reduce anxiety, and improve sleep. Engage with hypnotic visuals, soothing music, and guided sessions for deeper relaxation and enhanced focus. Offline compatibility and customizable features make it a private, all-encompassing wellness tool.

Highlights
  • Hypnotic visuals with speed control
  • Psycho-acoustic music for relaxation
  • Guided meditations and hypnosis sessions
  • Nature sounds and white noise
  • Sleepy stories and focus music
  • Visual breathing guidance
  • Offline content playback
Features
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Clear your mind and relax with a unique audio-visual meditation experience. Mesmerize combines engaging visuals with relaxing music and expertly crafted guided meditations to give you an all encompassing meditation experience. BENEFITS • Relieve Stress • Lower Anxiety • Better Sleep • Overcome Depression • Enhance Self-Awareness • Deeper Relaxation • Reduce Pain • Overcome Addiction • Increase Focus • In fact, there are many more proven benefits to meditation. The impact of a consistent meditation practice can have a profound impact on the overall quality of your life. FEATURES • Engaging Visuals; uniquely hypnotic visuals designed to mesmerize you. Control their speed with a pinch gesture. • Soothing Psycho-Acoustic Music; designed based on clinically validated principles to ease your body into a state of relaxation. • Guided Meditations & Hypnosis; expertly crafted to help you on a range of topics. • Nature Sounds and White Noise; including rain, ocean, thunder, train, fan and much more • Sleepy Stories; doze off quickly with drowsy tales. • Focus Music; music designed to help you beat distractions and concentrate. • Visual Breathing; the speed of visuals will automatically adjust to your selected breathing pattern. • 3D Voice • Narration speed control • Audio Fusion; mix outside audio with Mesmerize playback. • Sleep Timer; set Mesmerize to automatically stop after a period of time. • Variable Volumes; control the voice and music volumes separately to get your perfect balance between the two. • Offline Compatible; download your favorite content to listen later in airplane mode. • Random Modes; don't like choosing? Automatically chose a random from your favorites or a particular content category. • Healthkit; track your "Mindful Minutes" when using Mesmerize • Privacy Focused; no ads, no marketing emails, no logins or passwords, no accounts, no crazy permissions. In the age of information intrusion, Mesmerize is specifically designed to leave you alone. MEDITATION & HYPNOSIS TOPICS • Mindfulness • Anxiety • Gratitude • Loving Kindness • Emotional Wellbeing • Forgiveness • Self Care • Affirmations • Ease Pain • Compassion • Healing • Sleep • Chronic Pain • Depression • Addiction • ADD & ADHD • Focus & Study • Sports Performance • Quit Smoking & Vaping • Breaking bad habits • Erectile Dysfunction • Dating Confidence • Breathwork • and more! SCIENCE Interested in learning the science behind Visual Meditation? You can learn more at www.MesmerizeApp.com/Science SUBSCRIPTION AND TERMS When you download Mesmerize you can opt into a 7-day free trial. Mesmerize offers auto-renewing monthly/yearly/weekly subscription options for access to the app's features and content. Your Mesmerize subscription will automatically renew at the end of each term and payment will be charged through your iTunes account. You can turn off auto-renew at any time from your iTunes account settings but refunds will not be provided for any unused portion of the term. To avoid renewal, you must cancel at least 24 hours before your subscription or trial ends. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited if you purchase a subscription. As with all of our apps, if you would like to use Mesmerize but have trouble affording it please email us at support@mesmerizeapp.com so we can help you with our financial assistance program. While we can't keep bringing great experiences to the world without making money, we know not everyone that needs access to our content can afford it, and we're happy to help. Read more about our terms, conditions and privacy here: https://mesmerizeapp.com/terms Safety Warning: we present content that may not be appropriate for people with a history of seizures or epilepsy. Additionally do not use while driving, operating heavy machinery, or any settings where your full attention is required. Viewer discretion is advised.

About

Imagine

This app offers a peaceful escape from daily stress with satisfying visual and auditory experiences. Engage in calming gameplay or simply enjoy relaxing music and ASMR sounds to reboot your mind and improve your mood. It's designed for quick self-care without the need for traditional meditation.

Highlights
  • Distract from stress
  • Quick relaxation without meditation
  • Calm gameplay
  • Satisfying ASMR sounds
  • Relaxation music
  • Explore peaceful worlds
Features
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IMAGINE will help you to get distracted from any kind of activity, reboot your mind and quickly relax without meditation, which is also helpful, but not everyone has enough time to meditate regularly. IMAGINE is a quiet, safe and peaceful place, where you can distract from a stressful world and spend some time with yourself. In the world, full of stress and routine, self-care is a must-do thing, and we want to help you with it. No matter if you use your hands or your head, sometimes you just need to distract yourself. IMAGINE will help you to reboot and release stress. Construct oddly satisfying mechanisms whilst listening to the relaxation music and ASMR sounds, explore peaceful worlds and let us take care of you. High level of stress, workaholism and working without any breaks could lead to mental health problems, anxiety, panic attacks, dissociation etc. Do not neglect self care, open your mind and see how your mood changes. IMAGINE features: - Antistress app which will help you to distract yourself and reboot your mind - Quick relaxation without meditation: have a rest and take care of yourself - Calm gameplay without any stress-factors - Satisfying ASMR sounds and relaxation music When to use IMAGINE? - Lack of productivity or imagination - Routine work or any kind of activity - High level of stress - Coping with difficult emotions - Tired of working remotely and endless calls without real social interactions - Unable to go on vacation somewhere but want to have a rest IMAGINE can help you to: - Relieve stress - Take your emotions under control - Reboot your mind - Activate your imagination - Just take a break Using IMAGINE every day, you will: - Get used to take care of yourself - Learn how your emotions work - Reduce the amount of stress in your life - Improve your productivity in work or any kind of creation Stress is the disease of the 21st century. Stress is often being underestimated, people being told "just distract" or "you can't be tired, you just work in a comfortable office". We care about you and your mental health, so we made a new tool for quick and effective self-care. Calm your mind and release stress, while building oddly satisfying construction. Not in the mood to build anything? Just choose your favorite mechanism from the gallery and enjoy watching it to the relaxation music. Whole worlds full of calm and relaxation are waiting for you. Relaxation can be quick and easy with IMAGINE. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Mesmerize4 screens
Imagine4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Mesmerize at none against Imagine's shown. Mesmerize also leads on ratings volume (57K vs 8). Imagine's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, update cadence 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

Both are free to download. Mesmerize sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Imagine sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per year. 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 — 4.7 for Mesmerize against 4.6 for Imagine. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mesmerize has 57K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mesmerize ships an update every 3 weeks, Imagine every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Mesmerize versus Imagine: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMesmerizeImagine
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (57K ratings) — better4.6 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews34.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings57K — better8
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 11 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size274 MB499 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRockwell VenturesAppache apps and games ltd

Customer experience

Mesmerize

All ratings57,092 ratings
Positive93.2%
Neutral2.2%
Negative4.6%
Written reviews643 reviews
Positive34.2%
Neutral4.2%
Negative61.6%

Imagine

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Mesmerize

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Login issues and account restoration problems
  • Visuals getting stuck or not playing continuously

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add more nature-based visuals
  • Allow filtering by narrator
  • Implement a queue feature
  • Expand to VR support

Imagine

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Mesmerize

Subscriptions9
  • Weekly3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Weekly$4.997 Days
  • Monthly$12.991 Month
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  • Monthly3 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • Yearly1 Year trial2 variants$49.991 Year
  • Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Yearly$49.991 Year
  • Yearly3 Days trial$59.991 Year
  • Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year
1 purchases

Imagine

Subscriptions1
  • Premium subscription$9.991 Year

Questions

Is Mesmerize free?
Mesmerize is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Imagine free?
Imagine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Mesmerize or Imagine?
Mesmerize is rated higher. Mesmerize averages 4.7 out of 5 from 57K ratings, while Imagine averages 4.6 from 8 ratings.
Do Mesmerize or Imagine have ads?
Imagine shows ads; Mesmerize does not.
Which is updated more often, Mesmerize or Imagine?
Mesmerize ships an update every 3 weeks, and Imagine every 11 days. Most recently, Mesmerize was updated on November 10, 2026 and Imagine on November 3, 2026.

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