CROSSNote HLM vs Spinning Mandalas
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CROSSNote HLM
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CROSSNote: your life, connected. Calendar, tasks, ideas, notes, health and goals in one place. Because your life doesn't happen in separate apps. CROSSNote is a personal operating system for the Apple ecosystem. It helps you organize your day, preserve what matters and understand how you spend your time and energy. YOUR DAY, ALL CONNECTED Plan and see what's ahead without separating your tasks from your activities. - Calendar and tasks in one unified view. - Day, week and month views. - Workouts integrated into your schedule. - Priorities, deadlines and subtasks. - Areas and lists to organize your projects. MORE THAN A TASK A meeting can include notes, a recording and decisions. A project can bring together files, images and ideas. In CROSSNote, everything stays connected to the relevant record. - Add notes, photos, drawings, files and audio. - Record and transcribe conversations. - Organize records with AI assistance. - Capture ideas without having to classify them immediately. - Find what you've saved with text or semantic search. Capture now. Find it later. SEE HOW YOU LIVE Where does your time really go? Which areas of your life take up the most space? Life Model brings your activities together and organizes them by life area, showing how you spend your time across weeks, months and years. A perspective for reflection, not judgment. UNDERSTAND YOUR HEALTH IN CONTEXT Your calendar shows what you do. Your body tells another part of the story. CROSSNote brings information from Apple Health and compatible devices into a more complete picture: - Sleep, sleep stages and efficiency. - Heart rate and heart rate variability (HRV). - Workouts, training load and estimated recovery. - Energy, stress and mental focus indicators. - Charts and trends over time. Health indicators are estimates for informational purposes and are not medical diagnoses. LIVE WITH INTENTION It's not about doing more and more. Set intentions for your day, week or longer periods, record how you feel and keep the things that truly matter to you in sight. FIND WHAT YOU THOUGHT YOU'D FORGOTTEN Ideas, meetings, conversations, notes and projects can remain valuable long after they happened. With semantic search, you can find records by meaning, even when you don't remember the exact words you used. AN ASSISTANT WITH CONTEXT CROSSNote's AI assistant can access selected information from your calendar, tasks and health to answer questions about your day, help you review a task or explain how you slept. It's not here to make decisions for you, but to help you better understand your information. YOUR LIFE. YOUR DATA. Your personal records are stored on your device and in your iCloud, not on CROSSNote's own servers. Some AI features send the necessary context to external providers to process your requests. Privacy, autonomy and user control are built into the design. Start by organizing your day. Discover everything you can connect over time. CROSSNote. Your life, connected. Terms and Conditions: https://www.crossnote.net/termsandconditions Privacy Policy: https://www.crossnote.net/privacy-policy Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Spinning Mandalas
This app combines animated mandalas with binaural beats for a unique meditation experience. It also features a social community for wellness enthusiasts to connect, learn, and share their journeys. Users can customize mandalas, track progress, and access educational content.
- Animated mandalas
- Binaural beats tracks
- Custom mandala builder
- Chakra education videos
- Progress Tracker
- Social community
- Voice commands
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Welcome to Spinning Mandalas, Patent-Pending meditation app and social wellness community. Get your Username now! Join the global wellness community! To add to our fast-acting meditation tools, we’ve created a social network focused on wellness. This network allows you to connect and interact with others, learn from your peers about personal wellness and helpful techniques, and ask questions of your community. This community will help you learn, practice, and grow collectively. The end goal: to feel better. Spinning Mandalas invites you to sit back, breathe deep, and watch the wheels spin. It’s that simple – simple like it should be. Spinning Mandalas is priced to prevent bots and bad actors. Save with a yearly subscription. Spinning Mandalas does not use AI nor do we sell your data. You’re safe here. Spinning Mandalas combines animated Mandalas with Binaural Beats, lets understand why: Mandalas are ancient visual understandings of our universe, symbolic geometric configurations. They are also humanity’s oldest physical representation of complex sound - the original digital sound files. Across spiritual traditions and therapeutic techniques, mandalas are used to focus attention, establish sacred spaces, and as an aid to meditation, prayer, and study. Swiss Psychologist Dr. Carl Jung used mandalas with his patients and noticed these ancient symbols had a calming effect and offered “safe refuge of inner reconciliation and wholeness.” Jung’s work opened the door to further understand the therapeutic value of mandalas. Binaural beats are audio frequencies used to serve modern seekers and healers and have also been attributed to positive effects on memory, attention, and pain perception. Binaural beats work best with headphones, though playing the tones over stereo can be productive as well. Spinning Mandalas combines two great wholeness and meditation aids merging the visual and the audio, marrying the ancient with the modern. SPINNING MANDALAS FEATURES: • Curated selection of high-quality binaural beats tracks, tailored to individual chakra frequencies • Animated mandalas for added visual stimulus • Custom mandala builder – change multiple levels of rings and colors • Chakra education videos – one comprehensive animated video for each chakra • Progress Tracker • Record your own Mantra • Spin rotation user controlled • Voice Commands for Hands-free • Mandala Creation Contests • Join the Social Community to share and learn from others wellness journeys! • Chat with likeminded practitioners • Library of introductory lessons on: Meditation, Chakras, Binaural Beats, Mandalas, Mindfulness, and related topics • Subscribing gets you new content immediately! • Development on-going
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CROSSNote HLM at none against Spinning Mandalas's 2. CROSSNote HLM also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 6 days vs monthly). Spinning Mandalas's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.6). On price 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
Both are free to download. Spinning Mandalas sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. CROSSNote HLM asks for nothing beyond the download.
CROSSNote HLM ships an update every 6 days, Spinning Mandalas monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CROSSNote HLM | Spinning Mandalas |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 105 MB | 103 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | OS3e Technologies LLC | Spinning Mandalas LLC |
In-app purchases
CROSSNote HLM
No in-app purchases
Spinning Mandalas
- Monthly$4.991 Month
- Yearly$39.991 Year
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