Rest Rise Grow vs Ruby Rhythm
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rest Rise Grow
This app helps retrain your brain with positive thoughts, affirmations, and goal-setting tools. It offers guided rest with simulated sunsets and an inspiring sunrise alarm to promote a positive mindset and achieve success.
- Bedtime affirmations and simulated sunsets
- Sunrise alarm with motivational music
- Daily and long-term goal setting
- Gratitude journaling
- Written affirmations
- Affirmations widget
- Emergency alarm backup
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You are a child of the Creator. Unlock your potential with positive thoughts so you can achieve what you were created for. Rest Rise Grow is more than the most positive sleep app and motivational alarm clock. We help you to retrain your brain, think positive, set goals and achieve success. Free to use - No subscription required. How Rest Rise Grow Works: Rest – Bedtime affirmations and simulated sunsets bring your mind and body to a restful state. Rise – The inspiring alarm clock mimics the sunrise while playing motivational music, prayers of gratitude and positive affirmations. Grow – Goal setting, step by step, and so much more. Start with small simple goals and move on to life-changing success. The Thankfulness feature of the app reminds you to take a moment to write down the things you are thankful for. Research shows that gratitude positively affects brain chemistry and mood. The Daily Goals - leverages studies showing that your brain benefits from small wins just like large ones. Setting and achieving small goals will increase confidence and motivation. Your brain gets used to winning, and you can move forward to accomplish bigger and more amazing things. The Written Affirmations section locks in positivity. You’ve enjoyed listening to our uplifting and positive affirmations as you lie down to rest and when you rise in the morning. Now it’s time for the next step. You write the affirmations and help your brain to lock in a positive attitude. In the Long-Term Goals section, take your first steps toward making your dreams reality. Start with our guided assistance by writing goals down and making a plan. You’ve been successful with your daily goals and developed good consistent habits. Now it’s time to turn your new motivation to the future and set long term goals. New career? Finish college? A dynamic invention? With your newfound motivation and the vast knowledge accessible by the internet, the whole world is within your reach. Using our affirmations widget, you can reinforce your positive attitude - It’s simple, and so effective. Enjoy repeating them on the widget as they slowly change. Feel inspired every time you look at your phone. Share your favorites with your friends or on Social Media to give other people a beautiful boost. — Setup — The app works by first setting a wake-up time, then the app calculates the optimal bedtime. At night, plug in your phone to charge, press the Rest button to start the affirmations and simulated sunset. With the app left open, it will wake you in the morning, with uplifting affirmations, prayers of gratitude and motivational music to start your day in a positive way. — Features — Now included is an ‘emergency’ alarm as a backup for heavy sleepers. After all the motivational affirmations and automatic brightening of your phone during the wake-up sequence, you now have the option to have a loud beep to make sure you are up. We also added a recommended books section with some of our favorite motivational and positive reading. — Science — The features used in the app: sleeping, waking, lighting, gratitude, writing hearing and reading affirmations, daily goals, and long-term goals are based on scientific research. We brought them all together in a simple and elegant app to help you have a happier, more positive life that starts with the push of a button.
Ruby Rhythm
This app offers a unique approach to period tracking by integrating Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) principles. It helps users understand their cycle phases, energy levels, mood, and overall well-being with a user-friendly interface and cute animal illustrations.
- Period and cycle tracking
- Traditional Chinese Medicine integration
- Cycle phase identification (Inner Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn)
- Insights into energy, mood, and well-being
- User-friendly interface
- Data privacy: local storage, no sharing
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Say goodbye to overly complicated and pink period tracking and hello to Ruby Rhythm, the app that goes beyond the calendar. Ruby Rhythm integrates the wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to help you understand your cycle like never before. Track your periods and get insights into your body's unique rhythm. Ruby Rhythm isn’t just about dates; it’s about phases. With our easy-to-use interface, you can see if you're in your Inner Winter, Inner Spring, Inner Summer or Inner Autumn Phase, and see how they affect your energy, mood, and well-being. Ruby Rhythm is designed to empower you with knowledge, support, and cute animals to make every day of your cycle a little more fun. Your data never leaves your device and is never used or shared for advertising, data collection, or marketing purposes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ruby Rhythm at none against Rest Rise Grow's 4. Rest Rise Grow's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 2). On price, rating, ads 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
Both are free to download. Rest Rise Grow sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Ruby Rhythm asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Rest Rise Grow against 5.0 for Ruby Rhythm. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Rest Rise Grow has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Rest Rise Grow | Ruby Rhythm |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 353 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rest Rise Grow, Inc | Vampire Squids LLC |
Customer experience
Rest Rise Grow
Ruby Rhythm
In-app purchases
Rest Rise Grow
- Inspire BundleFree
- Ocean Waves Background Sound$1.99
- Soothing - Harp Rest$2.99
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- Epic Harp Rise$3.99
Ruby Rhythm
No in-app purchases









