Comparison

EMDR vs SomaShare

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

Head to head
About

EMDR

This app offers customizable visual, audio, and haptic bilateral stimulation. It allows users to control pace, sound positioning, and vibration intensity, and can sync across Apple devices or broadcast to web browsers. Full accessibility support is included.

Highlights
  • Customizable visual, audio, and haptic stimulation
  • Control over pace, sound, and vibration
  • Cross-device syncing (Apple ecosystem)
  • Broadcast to web browsers via EMDR Connect
  • Full VoiceOver and Assistive Access support
  • Start stimulation from Control Center or Siri
Features
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The EMDR app puts you in full control of visual, audio, and haptic bilateral stimulation. Turn game controllers and Joy-Cons into tappers, position sound precisely in stereo, and fine-tune vibration intensity. Sync across your Apple devices or broadcast to compatible web browsers with EMDR Connect. Full VoiceOver and Assistive Access support is built in. STIMULATION YOUR WAY Tailor every session to your needs: • Set your pace with presets or fine-tune it with a slider. • Use auto-stop so you never have to count along. • Choose from a wide range of sounds, animations, and vibrations. • Hear the count spoken aloud in 21 languages. • Position stereo sound to the left, right, or center. • Fine-tune vibration intensity, automatically adapted to each device. • Personalize colors, patterns, and more. WORKS ACROSS YOUR DEVICES Connect iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Apple Vision Pro, Joy-Cons, and game controllers. Alternate flashes or vibrations between devices, or use one as a remote control for another. No specialized tapper hardware is needed. The devices you already own do the work. BROADCAST WITH EMDR CONNECT Send your stimulation to a protected webpage in a compatible browser on a computer, tablet, or phone, whether it's your own device or someone else's. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account is needed. Shared names are encrypted. Our privacy policy explains what data EMDR Connect processes and how long it is retained. START FROM ANYWHERE • Start stimulation from Control Center, the Lock Screen, or the Action button. • Ask Siri, or automate your setup with Shortcuts. • Control playback from your headphones or a widget, even in the background. BUILT FOR ACCESSIBILITY Full support for Assistive Access and VoiceOver makes the app usable for people with diverse needs, with specialized interfaces that don't compromise on capability. TRY ONE MONTH FREE Explore everything the EMDR app offers with a free one-month trial for new subscribers. EMDR+ unlocks the full feature set across your Apple devices. EMDR Connect adds broadcasting to compatible web browsers. Download today and see how it fits your routine. APP PURPOSE This app is a general-purpose tool for generating bilateral and other types of stimulation. It supports a wide range of applications, including: • Research, e.g. testing the effects of bilateral stimulation. • Education, e.g. illustrating bilateral stimulation principles. • Focus and attention, e.g. pacing tasks with timed signals. • Relaxation and wellness, e.g. promoting physical relaxation through bilateral vibration. This app is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or condition. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

SomaShare

This app offers daily healing practices and a supportive community to help you regulate your nervous system and process past experiences. It features trauma-informed practitioners guiding you through various techniques for emotional healing, anxiety relief, and personal growth at your own pace.

Highlights
  • Daily healing practices
  • Nervous system regulation
  • Trauma-informed practitioners
  • Emotional healing techniques
  • Anxiety relief practices
  • Community support
  • Personal growth guidance
Features
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◦ Healing practices and community SomaShare was founded to support your healing journey by providing you with practices you can do daily to heal and regulate your nervous system. You’ll also be part of a community where you can share your progress and feelings. ◦ Experience powerful shifts: By practicing with our incredible, hand picked practitioners who stand out in their field, you can begin to experience powerful shifts in your stress levels, moods, and behaviors over time. ◦ Trauma-informed Our focus is on bringing you trauma informed practitioners who understand the impact of overwhelming past experiences on the body, soul and spirit. This means you won’t be pushed, encouraged to go at your own pace and to accept your experience for exactly what it is in the present moment. Some of the types of practices you can find on SomaShare: ◦ Emotional healing: Practices for emotional healing and integration of past stress and trauma ◦ Regulating your nervous system: Practices for more presence and grounding, moving through states like overwhelm, anxiety or shutdown and into inner alignment and peace ◦ Feel more pleasure: Practices to tune into your inherent pleasure, joy, expansion and aliveness ◦ Change your patterns & habits: Practices to move from habits and patterns you feel stuck in and into more freedom and flexibility in your life ◦ Setting aligned goals: Practices to help you set goals in alignment with your values and who you are, goals that feel right in your body and spirit ◦ Profound Anxiety Relief: Practices to support you in embracing and learning from anxiety, as well as experiencing relief in the somatic symptoms of it Some of the types of practices you will find include: - yoga nidra - somatic grounding and nervous system regulation - anxiety relief - somatic experiencing - creating safety in the body - spiritual growth - self connection - and more!

Screenshots

EMDR4 screens
SomaShare4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: SomaShare at 4.8 against EMDR's 4.4. SomaShare also leads on review sentiment (55% vs 46%) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 15). EMDR's advantage is device support (7 vs 2). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. EMDR sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and SomaShare sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $59.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SomaShare holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 173 and 179 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 46% of EMDR's written reviews are positive against 55% of SomaShare's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

EMDR ships an update every 6 days, SomaShare every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
EMDR versus SomaShare: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEMDRSomaShare
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (173 ratings)4.8 (179 ratings) — better
Positive reviews45.8% of reviews54.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings173179 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS1513.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size119 MB31 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperBas OppenheimSomaShare LLC

Customer experience

EMDR

All ratings173 ratings
Positive85.0%
Neutral3.5%
Negative11.6%
Written reviews48 reviews
Positive45.8%
Neutral4.2%
Negative50.0%

SomaShare

All ratings157 ratings
Positive94.9%
Neutral2.5%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive54.5%
Neutral18.2%
Negative27.3%

Bugs and requests

EMDR

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • Apple Watch app won't launch after update
  • Sound issues (thudding noise, stereo problems)
  • Apple TV app doesn't work
  • Session disrupted by upsell window
  • App crashes when selecting features
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  • Sound doesn't work after purchasing
  • App doesn't work without internet
  • Trial starts without warning
  • Trial period doesn't work
  • App doesn't play in background or when screen is locked

Requested features

13 requests
  • Gradient effect for circle
  • More customization for circle
  • Alternating controller vibration
  • Timer feature
  • Slower BPM options (down to 30)
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  • More frame rates per second
  • Additional movements (Achten, Kreise)
  • Slower option for Slow EMDR
  • Use two Nintendo controllers for each hand
  • Pitch control for tone option
  • Option for 48 repeats
  • Ability to run with screen locked or in background
  • Manual input for repetitions and speed

SomaShare

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

EMDR

Subscriptions5
  • EMDR+1 Month trial$4.991 Month
  • EMDR+ with Connect1 Month trial$19.991 Month
  • EMDR+ with Connect (Monthly)1 Month trial$39.991 Month
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  • EMDR+ (Yearly)1 Month trial$49.991 Year
  • EMDR+ with Connect (Yearly)1 Month trial2 variants$199.991 Year
1 purchases

SomaShare

Subscriptions1
  • SomaShare Premium subscription7 Days trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is EMDR free?
EMDR is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SomaShare free?
SomaShare is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, EMDR or SomaShare?
SomaShare is rated higher. EMDR averages 4.4 out of 5 from 173 ratings, while SomaShare averages 4.8 from 179 ratings.
Do EMDR or SomaShare have ads?
Neither EMDR nor SomaShare shows ads.
Which is updated more often, EMDR or SomaShare?
EMDR ships an update every 6 days, and SomaShare every 9 days. Most recently, EMDR was updated on October 30, 2026 and SomaShare on October 30, 2026.

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