The Pure Joy App vs ⊛ CIRCA
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Pure Joy App
This app offers daily practices for physical, mental, and spiritual well-being to help you connect with your inner joy. It provides a variety of healing experiences, guided meditations, and movement sessions designed to support you through life's challenges.
- Daily well-being practices
- Guided meditations
- Joyful movement sessions
- Reiki-infused sound baths
- EFT tutorials
- Astrology readings
- Sleep support
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Welcome to the Pure Joy App, a daily opportunity to connect with your physical body, your mental health and your overall spiritual well-being so you can feel your life's JOY. Here, you are invited to tap into your highest and best self utilizing a variety of practices and modalities all under one app! Each experience is intended to help you feel at home in your own being and remind you of life's joy, even while experiencing adversity, grief, pain and sadness. Pure Joy was developed by Kelsey J Patel — Reiki Master Teacher, empowerment coach, fitness and yoga instructor, meditation teacher, spiritual mentor and author of the book Burning Bright. She created these healings for you, and her wellness-expert peers will be offering their pure joy as well to support your daily needs. Get ready for micro and macro healing experiences, joyful movement, reiki-infused sound baths, EFT tutorials, monthly astrology readings, sleep support, deeply expansive workshops, full moon and new moon clearings, meditations for life's moments and so much more. Welcome to your Pure Joy App healing journey! Privacy Policy and Terms and conditions can be found here: https://www.kelseyjpatel.com/pure-joy-app-policies
⊛ CIRCA
This app helps manage stress and anxiety by teaching users to interact with their brain in five simple steps. It aims to reduce stress, improve mental capacity, and make challenging situations more manageable. The application integrates with HealthKit to track time spent using its features.
- Stress and anxiety management
- Brain reactivity modification
- Five-step learning process
- HealthKit integration
- Meaningful minute tracking
- Mnemonic learning technique
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CIRCA The Mnemonic That Will Change The World Learn how to interact with your own brain to reduce your stress and anxiety Maybe you want to just feel less stressed. Maybe you want to take your life to the next level. Or maybe you have a need to be the best that you can be, but stress and anxiety are in the way. Whatever it is, the way you interact with your brain can make all the difference. CIRCA is an app that will help you manage any situation that is causing stress and anxiety. When you feel anxious, your brain gets overwhelmed. But CIRCA can help you change your brain’s reactivity in five simple steps, so that any stress is more manageable. CIRCA is connected with your HealthKit and counts all the meaningful minutes spent in the app. Brain-based Stress and Anxiety Reduction. Five steps that you will change your brain and open the doors to your fullest mental capacity. C - Chunking Information I - Ignore Mental Chatter R - Reality Check C - Control Check A - Attention Shift
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: The Pure Joy App at 100% against ⊛ CIRCA's 0%. The Pure Joy App also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (18 vs 4). ⊛ CIRCA's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 months). 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
Both are free to download. The Pure Joy App sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. ⊛ CIRCA asks for nothing beyond the download.
The Pure Joy App holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of The Pure Joy App's written reviews are positive against 0% of ⊛ CIRCA's.
The Pure Joy App ships an update every 2 months, ⊛ CIRCA every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Pure Joy App | ⊛ CIRCA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (18 ratings) — better | 3.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 12.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 83 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kelsey J Patel Inc. | Wellbeing Tech Incorporated |
Customer experience
The Pure Joy App
⊛ CIRCA
In-app purchases
The Pure Joy App
- Monthly Pure Joy Plus$12.991 Month
- Annual Pure Joy Plus$108.991 Year
⊛ CIRCA
No in-app purchases
