Monk Mode vs Pust Reset
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Monk Mode
This app functions as a meditation timer, logging your sessions as mindful minutes directly into Apple Health. It also features a heart rate tracker to monitor your heart rate during meditation and provide an average at its conclusion.
- Meditation timer
- Log mindful minutes
- Apple Health integration
- Heart rate tracker
- View average heart rate
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A minimalist meditation timer that saves your mindful minutes to Apple Health, automatically. Sit down. Breathe. Let everything else fade. Whether you love silent, unguided sessions or gentle guided narration, Monk Mode meets you where you are. Pick a focus, set your timer, and begin. When you finish, your mindful minutes are saved to Apple Health on their own, so your mindfulness practice always counts. Wear an Apple Watch? Your heart rate is tracked live, so you can watch your body settle into stillness. Start a session from your iPhone, your watch, or straight from a home screen widget. Every session brings you closer to the version of yourself that shows up calmer, clearer, and more present. Free to use, with one optional purchase. Sessions up to 5 minutes are always free, and longer sessions include 4 free sessions each month. Deep Practice is a one-time in-app purchase that removes the monthly limit. Existing customers keep full access at no extra cost. What you get: • Mindful minutes saved to Apple Health after every session, with workouts logged too • A guided and unguided meditation timer (1-60 min + unlimited) • 5 focus types: Breath, Body Scan, Loving-Kindness, Open Awareness, and Sleep • On-device narration in 6 languages that adapts to your session • Live heart rate tracking with Apple Watch • Daily goals, a weekly streak, and progress at a glance • Configurable widgets that can start a session with a tap • Haptic breathing cues, custom bell tones, and adjustable guidance • A dedicated sleep meditation mode • Seamless sync between iPhone and Apple Watch Your meditation practice. No subscriptions. No accounts. One optional one-time purchase. Privacy Policy https://www.squeakbyte.com/monk-mode-privacy-policy Terms & Conditions https://www.squeakbyte.com/monk-mode-terms-conditions
Pust Reset
This app provides voice-guided breathing exercises designed to help you activate, calm, or balance your nervous system. It offers specialized sessions for different needs, with features like haptic feedback and heart rate monitoring, all accessible on Apple Watch and iPhone.
- Voice-guided breathing sessions
- Power Breathing for activation
- 4-7-8 breathing for calm
- Alternate Nostril breathing for balance
- Apple Watch integration
- Heart rate monitoring
- Saves to Apple Health
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Pust Reset puts a real breathing coach on your Apple Watch and iPhone. Three voice-guided breathing exercises, three different resets: Power Breathing to activate, 4-7-8 to calm, Alternate Nostril to balance. Pick the one the moment calls for, close your eyes, and follow the voice. BUILT FOR APPLE WATCH Most breathing apps skip the Watch entirely. Pust Reset gives every technique a full session on your wrist: the voice speaks from the Watch, haptic cues tap out the rhythm, and your live heart rate stays on screen. Follow it on the Always-On display, start it from the Action Button on Ultra, and leave your iPhone in your pocket. ACTIVATE. POWER BREATHING. Rounds of fast, full breaths, then a hold, then a recovery breath. Inspired by the breathing style Wim Hof made famous. The voice counts every breath, the screen times your retention hold and flags a new personal best the moment you beat it. Set rounds and pace to your level. CALM. 4-7-8 BREATHING. A long, slow exhale that tips you toward sleep. The voice carries the count so your mind can let go, and you can tune the timing to suit you. The classic wind-down before bed. BALANCE. ALTERNATE NOSTRIL (NADI SHODHANA). Breathe through one side at a time to settle a scattered head. The session shows the active nostril and the voice calls each switch, so you never lose your place. ONE SESSION PER TECHNIQUE, NOT A GENERIC TIMER A countdown can't pace your breathing, time a retention hold, and show the active nostril. Each technique in Pust Reset gets the session it needs, on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch alike. GUIDED BY VOICE A spoken guide leads every session, breath by breath. Glance at the screen or close your eyes. Add haptic cues, breath sounds, and music to taste, or run it with voice alone. TRACK EVERY RESET Sessions save to Apple Health as a workout, mindful minutes, or both, your choice. Your session count climbs, your retention holds get longer, your streak builds. Personal bests per technique. Daily goals with reminders that fit your day. CHECK IN AFTER EACH SESSION When a session ends, rate how you feel, from pleasant to unpleasant, and add a label if you like. It saves to Apple Health as a State of Mind entry, linked to the session, so you can watch what each reset does for you over time. On by default, off in a tap. FREE TO START All three techniques are free, and your first week from install is unlimited. After that, three free sessions a week. Premium unlocks unlimited sessions for $4.99, once. No subscription, ever. Your health data stays on your device and in Apple Health. We never send it anywhere. Reset your nervous system. The right breath, when you need it. Pust Reset is an independent app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Wim Hof.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Pust Reset at every 6 days against Monk Mode's every 2 months. Pust Reset also leads on monetization model (freemium vs paid) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). Monk Mode's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1). On price, rating, 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. Monk Mode sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Pust Reset sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Monk Mode against 5.0 for Pust Reset. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Monk Mode has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Monk Mode ships an update every 2 months, Pust Reset every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Monk Mode | Pust Reset |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 104 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kevin David Tanner | Michael Justesen |
In-app purchases
Monk Mode
- Deep Practice$4.99
Pust Reset
- Premium Unlock$4.99









