Chill Drills vs Safety Plan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chill Drills
This app offers guided audio sessions and music designed to reduce stress, lower heart rate, and improve sleep quality. Regular use can help decrease baseline stress levels and enhance preparedness for future stressors. It includes various drills focusing on relaxation, pain relief, and sleep.
- Guided meditation exercises
- Sleep music
- Offline audio playback
- Progressive muscle relaxation
- Stress reduction techniques
- Pain relief exercises
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These stress relief drills can help slow your heart rate, lower your blood pressure and reduce the level of stress hormones in your body. Audio sessions include guided meditation exercises and sleep music that you can play with or without an internet connection. By doing these drills regularly, you can lower your baseline stress level and be better prepared to deal with stress in the future. Chill Drills Table of Contents 1. What’s a Chill Drill? – an overview of chill drills and how they help service members 2. Tuning In – progressive muscle relaxation exercise to help reverse the symptoms of stress 3. Releasing Stress – helps you relax by focusing on different parts of your body 4. Easing Back Pain – helps you release stress in your neck, shoulders, and back 5. Getting to Sleep – helps you fall asleep and improve the quality of your sleep 6. Music to Chill By – plays music to help you fall asleep and improve the quality of your sleep Chill Drills by Military OneSource is part of a family of apps from the War Department and Military Community and Family Policy. These apps support service members from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Coast Guard, National Guard and Reserves, their spouses, immediate family members, survivors and other members of the military community. Military Community and Family Policy is the office of the DOW that addresses quality-of-life issues to help service members and their families live their best military lives. MC&FP offers a suite of programs, tools and services — including My Military OneSource and Chill Drills — that connect the military community to resources they can use every day, from relocation planning and tax services to confidential counseling and spouse employment. Download this free app today from the DOW and Military OneSource and put personalized support to work for you, anytime, anywhere.
Safety Plan
This app guides users through creating a personalized safety plan to manage suicidal thoughts and self-harm urges. It offers tools for crisis moments, mood tracking, and access to support resources for individuals and their loved ones.
- Step-by-step safety plan creation
- Shareable safety plans
- Crisis intervention tools
- Mood tracking
- Access to crisis support
- Informational resources
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Safety Plan is here to help you make a plan for dealing with thoughts of suicide and self-harm. The app will walk you through filling out the 6 steps of a safety plan, share your safety plan with your loved ones, and use your safety plan in a moment of crisis. The app also includes audio and interactive tools to help you calm down, information for you and your loved ones about safety plans and suicide, mood tracking, and ready access to crisis support. Safety Plan is a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs app, developed by the National Center for PTSD Dissemination and Training Division and the Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Safety Plan at 5.0 against Chill Drills's 4.4. Safety Plan also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and device support (3 vs 1). Chill Drills's advantage is update cadence (every 4 months vs every 22 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Safety Plan holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 21 and 23 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Chill Drills's written reviews are positive against 100% of Safety Plan's.
Chill Drills ships an update every 4 months, Safety Plan every 22 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chill Drills | Safety Plan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (21 ratings) | 5.0 (23 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 21 | 23 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 22 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Office of the Secretary of Defense, Military Community and Family Policy | US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) |
Customer experience
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In-app purchases
Chill Drills
No in-app purchases
Safety Plan
No in-app purchases
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