Comparison

ShakeItOff vs Phoenix

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

Head to head
About

ShakeItOff

This app guides users through Trauma Release Exercises (TRE) to help resolve trauma, anxiety, and stress. It facilitates neurogenic tremors, a natural bodily response for releasing tension and promoting calm and resilience. Learn and perform 7 exercises with video instructions.

Highlights
  • Trauma resolution guidance
  • Anxiety and panic relief
  • Neurogenic tremor induction
  • Stress tension release
  • 7 guided exercises
  • Video instructions
Features
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The app Shakeitoff with the TRE® exercises can help you resolve your traumata, overcome anxiety, compulsions and panic, and find calm, confidence and serenity serenity. This app helps you trigger neurogenic tremors, a self-healing reflex of our body, an innate ability to release tension and stress reactions. The word "neurogenic" means that it is a physical reaction that you cannot consciously induce or control. Neurogenic tremors release the tension your body has built up from strong internal feelings and external influences. You become calmer, serener and more relaxed. Neurogenic tremors make you more resilient, more resistant to stress, and also gradually make pain disappear. Ancient healing traditions have used the power of involuntary trembling for thousands of years. NeuroZittern offers the following functionalities: Knowledge - Background information about TRE. How to - Basic instructions on how to perform the exercises. Exercises - Detailed description of the 7 exercises with additional video instructions. The 7 TRE exercises trigger neurogenic tremor. Poem by the Inuit shaman Uvavnuk: The great sea has set me in motion, Set me me in motion, Moving me as the weed moves in a river. The arch of sky and mightiness of storms Have moved the spirit within me, Till I am carried away Trembling with joy.”

About

Phoenix

This app provides tools for men in recovery, including daily check-ins, mood scans, breathing exercises, and crisis planning. It offers a private space to record thoughts and connect with support contacts, all stored locally on the device.

Highlights
  • Daily check-ins
  • HALT scan for mood assessment
  • 4-7-8 breathing exercises
  • Crisis plan creation
  • Support contact list
  • Private journaling
Features
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Phoenix is a quiet set of tools for men in recovery. Check in each day with one tap. Run a HALT scan when something feels off. Breathe through a 4-7-8 cycle. Watch your days add up. Write a crisis plan while you're steady, and read it when you're not. Call one of three men who pick up. Say the thing you can't say out loud and let it go. Everything stays on your phone. No accounts, no ads, no tracking, nothing sold. Free, always. Phoenix is a self-help tool, not treatment or medical advice. If you're in crisis, call 988.

Screenshots

ShakeItOff4 screens
Phoenix4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Phoenix at Free against ShakeItOff's $4.99. ShakeItOff's advantage is chart position (#118 vs unranked) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On rating, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Phoenix is free to download; ShakeItOff costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for ShakeItOff against 5.0 for Phoenix. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ShakeItOff has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
ShakeItOff versus Phoenix: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShakeItOffPhoenix
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews63.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#118 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better14.0.0
Further details — not scored
Size131 MB22 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMichele De LorenziWhite Pines Community Co

In-app purchases

None

ShakeItOff

No in-app purchases

None

Phoenix

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ShakeItOff free?
ShakeItOff costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Phoenix free?
Phoenix is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ShakeItOff or Phoenix?
ShakeItOff and Phoenix are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do ShakeItOff or Phoenix have ads?
Neither ShakeItOff nor Phoenix shows ads.

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