Comparison

BrainPatch e vs Heal

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

Head to head
About

BrainPatch e

Features
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Experience BrainPatch — an innovative neurostimulator and app for meditation and relaxation. Our device and app offer a variety of stimulation programs to reduce stress, improve focus, and boost productivity. Enjoy a safe, effective way to enhance your mental well-being. Join the neurotechnology revolution with BrainPatch.

About

Heal

This app offers personalized music therapy playlists and guided breathwork exercises to help regulate your nervous system, reduce stress, and improve sleep. It integrates with wearables to track heart rate variability and offers curated programs for mental well-being.

Highlights
  • Personalized healing playlists
  • Guided breathwork practices
  • HRV tracking with wearables
  • Curated programs for mindset
  • Original healing music and soundscapes
  • Visualization exercises
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Heal was created by Multi Platinum, award winning songwriters and producers for personalised nervous system regulation, merging breathwork, popular music and wearables to help you sleep better, improve HRV, recovery, anxiety and energy. “Music is more than entertainment. It’s a universal language that connects us to our emotions and helps us process what we feel. It has the power to regulate the nervous system, shift our mental state and support our health. Music isn’t just something we listen to it’s something that helps us heal” 

Anthony Hannides - Heal Founder & CEO This is the perfect app for music lovers that don't want to change habits but do want to improve their well-being. Connect your Apple Music subscription and your Apple Watch or Airpod Pro 3’s to recover, sleep better, improve overall health and track how your autonomic nervous system is responding in real time. Heal tracks recovery, sleep, activity and stress response through heart rate variability (HRV) the "gold standard" indicator for monitoring health, longevity and stress levels by offering valuable insight into the autonomic nervous system's function. Listening to Heal playlists and experiences can raise your HRV, reducing stress, chronic inflammation and improving sleep, overall health and wellbeing. FEATURES PERSONALISED HEALING PLAYLISTS: Using the clinically validated ‘Iso principle’ music playlists are curated around how you feel in the moment and how you want to feel. Playlists can take you on a journey from stressed or overwhelmed to calm and confident or from tired or sad to happy and energised. This is a new way to listen to your favorite artists and songs taking you on a healing journey to activate your parasympathetic nervous system. BREATHWORK: Powerful practices created by our expert practitioners. Peer reviewed studies confirm breathwork can create quick shifts from fight or flight into rest and repair, activating vagal tone. Breathwork practices in Heal and the music that accompanies them has been created by the founding team exclusively for Heal. They have been designed with modern living in mind to create transformation and increases in HRV in just a few minutes. Whether you want to practice relaxing breath, conscious connected breath, or energising breathwork, the library of exclusive content has what you need. PROGRAMS: Intentional programs to elevate HRV and cultivate a new mindset. These programs have been created as an easy to follow method for transformation. Whether that is activating inner power, reseting negative thought patterns, or establishing better sleep habits, these programs combine breathwork, visualisations and music for a complete experience. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS: With your wearable, track your HRV, sleep, activity & real time nervous system response. Insights will show you exactly how your nervous system responded after your experience. Your progress and insights are built over time. You will see weekly average increases, how many minutes you’ve dedicated to your well-being, experiences you’ve completed, Recovery minutes, Avg sleep, Resting HR, and HRV. You can track what had the biggest impact on your nervous system day by day and week by week. NOTES Subscription options: £12.99/month, £59.99/year. These prices are for United Kingdom. Pricing in other countries may vary. Your subscription to Heal will automatically renew, unless you disable auto-renew at least 24 hours before the current period ends. You can turn off auto-renew or manage your subscription from your Apple account settings. Payment will be charged to your Apple account. Read more about our terms and conditions here: Terms of service: https://www.healmusicapp.com/terms Privacy policy: https://www.healmusicapp.com/privacy

Screenshots

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Heal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BrainPatch e at none against Heal's 2. BrainPatch e also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, ads 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. Heal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. BrainPatch e asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BrainPatch e ships an update every 3 weeks, Heal every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
BrainPatch e versus Heal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrainPatch eHeal
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB255 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperBrainPatch Ltd.Heal Music LTD

In-app purchases

None

BrainPatch e

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Heal

Subscriptions2
  • Heal Monthly Subscription$12.991 Month
  • Heal Annual Subscription$59.991 Year

Questions

Is BrainPatch e free?
BrainPatch e is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Heal free?
Heal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do BrainPatch e or Heal have ads?
Neither BrainPatch e nor Heal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BrainPatch e or Heal?
BrainPatch e ships an update every 3 weeks, and Heal every 2 months. Most recently, BrainPatch e was updated on October 25, 2026 and Heal on October 19, 2026.

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