Comparison

Wellful vs Nervine

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

Head to head
About

Wellful

This app offers guided meditations, ambient music, and natural soundscapes to help users reduce stress, anxiety, and improve sleep. It provides tools for focus, breathing, and creating balance for all levels of meditation experience.

Highlights
  • Guided meditations
  • Ambient music
  • Natural soundscapes
  • Stress reduction
  • Anxiety relief
  • Sleep improvement
  • Mindfulness exercises
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With the Wellful app you'll find tools to help you focus, breathe, stay calm, and create balance in your life. Wellful is the perfect mindfulness app for beginners, as well as intermediate and advanced meditators. Experience lower stress, less anxiety and better sleep with our guided meditations, ambient music and natural soundscapes. Our app offers relaxing mindfulness meditation experiences for everyone. Guided Meditations Wellful guided meditations include courses, body scans, breathing space and expanding awareness meditations among many other wellness experiences. Sleep Around a third of people suffer from some form of sleep disturbance. If you find sleep elusive, our guided meditations and relaxing music will help calm the mind & body in preparation for rest. Sound Combining music and soundscapes with meditation can deepen the positive effects of both and bring more significant stress relief. For many beginners, music and soundscapes can feel instantly more relaxing than other forms of practice. Terms of Use: www.wellful.com.au/terms-and-conditions

About

Nervine

This app offers guided somatic exercises to help regulate your nervous system when feeling anxious, stressed, or fatigued. It provides a variety of short, voice-led practices focusing on breath, grounding, and release, with customizable durations and ambient sounds.

Highlights
  • Voice-guided somatic exercises
  • Mood-based practice selection
  • 30 exercises across 7 categories
  • Five guided programs
  • Progress tracking
  • Customizable exercise length and guidance
  • Ambient soundscapes
Features
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Nervine is a quiet place to settle your nervous system. Thirty short, voice-guided somatic exercises help you come back into your body when you feel anxious, wired, frozen or simply worn out. Somatic exercises work from the body up: a slow exhale, a low hum, a gentle shake, feet on the floor. Nervine guides you through each one so you can close your eyes and follow along. HOW DO YOU FEEL RIGHT NOW? Pick what is true in this moment: anxious, wired, frozen, shut down, tired or overwhelmed. Nervine suggests a practice that fits, and you can begin with one tap. 30 SOMATIC EXERCISES IN 7 FAMILIES • Vagal toning: voo sound, humming, gargle, ocean breath, lion's breath • Orienting: room orienting, soft gaze, near and far, slow head turns, 5-4-3-2-1 grounding • Discharge: standing shake, TRE-style leg tremor, pandiculation, wet dog shake • Breath: physiological sigh, extended exhale (4:8), box breath, 4-7-8, diaphragmatic breathing • Grounding: feet on the ground, hand on heart, butterfly tap, body scan • Release: jaw release, face softening, shoulder drops, hip opener • Activation: ear rub, cold water on the face, temple press Every exercise comes with its own hand-drawn botanical illustration and calm, paced voice guidance. FIVE GUIDED PROGRAMS • First Week: a gentle 7-day introduction • Before Sleep Wind-Down: 5 evenings to let the day go • Morning Orientation: 7 mornings to arrive in your body • Vagus Activation: 10 days of vagal toning • Release Stored Tension: 14 days of shaking, stretching and letting go NOTICE THE CHANGE Before and after each session, rate your tension, energy and calm. Nervine shows you the difference, so you learn which practices actually help you. MAKE IT YOURS • Choose the length: 1, 3, 5 or 10 minutes • Choose the guidance: full, minimal or off • Ambient soundscapes: rain, stream and birds, or binaural tones • Calming background scenes • A gentle daily reminder WHAT THE RESEARCH SAYS We keep this honest. In a study published in Cell Reports Medicine (Balban et al., 2023), five minutes a day of cyclic sighing, a breath with a long exhale, improved mood and lowered breathing rate. A review in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (Zaccaro et al., 2018) linked slow breathing to higher heart-rate variability. Cool water on the face triggers the dive reflex, which slows the heart. Nervine builds its practices around simple mechanisms like these. Nervine is a wellness tool for everyday stress and tension. It is not a medical device and does not replace care from a qualified professional. SUBSCRIPTION Nervine is free to download. Full access to all exercises, programs and features requires a subscription, which begins with a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account when the free trial ends, or at confirmation of purchase if you subscribe without a trial. Your subscription renews automatically unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your App Store account settings. Canceling during the free trial means you will not be charged. Privacy Policy: https://www.easytech-agency.net/privacy/nervine Terms of Use: https://www.easytech-agency.net/terms/nervine

Screenshots

Wellful4 screens
Nervine4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Wellful at none against Nervine's shown. Wellful also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.2 vs 17.0). Nervine's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 7 months). On price, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Wellful sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.49 per month and Nervine sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Wellful ships an update every 7 months, Nervine every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Wellful versus Nervine: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWellfulNervine
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.2 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB131 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWellful Pty LtdAlexis Raimbault

Customer experience

Wellful

Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Nervine

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Wellful

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$4.491 Month
  • Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$22.991 Year
2 purchases

Nervine

Subscriptions2
  • Nervine Premium - Monthly7 Days trial$8.991 Month
  • Nervine Premium - Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Wellful free?
Wellful is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Nervine free?
Nervine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Wellful or Nervine have ads?
Nervine shows ads; Wellful does not.
Which is updated more often, Wellful or Nervine?
Wellful ships an update every 7 months, and Nervine every 5 weeks. Most recently, Wellful was updated on November 3, 2026 and Nervine on October 31, 2026.

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