The Zensory vs Time Captn
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Zensory
This app offers an immersive platform to enhance mood, focus, and performance using neuroscience-backed sensory experiences. Explore scientifically curated sounds, breathwork, and interactive touchpads to unlock your potential and achieve inner peace.
- Immersive sense hacking platform
- Scientifically curated sounds
- Expert-led breathwork sessions
- Interactive touchpads for creativity
- Mood and focus enhancement
- Stress and anxiety management
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The first ever immersive sense hacking platform designed to super boost your mood to increase focus, performance and recalibration. Use the latest neuroscience to tap into the power of your senses, your body and your mind and help you live and work at your best. Explore new ways to use the power of scientifically curated sounds, breathwork, touchscapes and much more to hack into your unlimited potential. Learn which sensory combinations work best for you to unlock your personal code to your inner genius and your favourite version of you. Who is it for? If you’re looking to super boost your focus and peacefully glide through your working day with clarity and grace, then The Zensory is for you. If you’ve ever wondered if you could be more, do more or be happier or healthier in the process, then let us take you on a journey of exploration to get there. Reduce distraction, get more done in your day and spend more time on recalibration and calm during the chaos of modern living. What does The Zensory App do? The Zensory app helps you to identify which sensory code cracks into your inner genius and inner peace. The app offers a variety of scientifically curated and produced sensory experiences to bring out the best in you so that you can live in control of your moods, focus and performance. The Zensory is currently working with mental health experts, top neuroscientists and universities such as UCL to ensure that the features being developed are backed by the latest and most sophisticated scientific research. Try The Zensory if you’re looking for any of the uses below: Improve Focus for Deep Work Manage Stress Improve Work/Life Balance Create Healthy Habits Understand your own body’s power Sense-hack to improve your mood Calm Anxiety Increasing Creative Thinking Sleep Easier Binaural beats, music and naturescapes - Scientifically curated binaural beats are proven to induce mood states by using sound frequency waves which combined with calming music-scapes with no highs, lows, lyrics or interruptions are having life-changing effects on Zensory users. Touchpads - Our interactive touchpads enable you to turn your phone into a doodle pad so you can release your inner child and play! Research has shown that doodlers can outperform non-doodlers by having a creative outlet for their thoughts (Tadayon et al., 2016 - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305424586_Doodling_Effects_on_Junior_High_School_Students'_Learning). So we have included doodle touchpads in the app to enable clear thinking and recalibration throughout the day. Breathwork - Enjoy our expert led breathwork sessions to relax, reduce adrenaline and lower blood pressure proving to be phenomenal at helping you to get into your zone and then zone out. Movements - Regular movement does not only have phenomenal impacts on your physical health but it also has powerful benefits for relieving stress, improving memory, helping you sleep better, and boosting your overall mood (Segal et al. 2021). We help you stay active between meetings, with at-your-desk stretches and exercises. Pressure Points - We show you which points in your body you can activate if you’re wanting a boost of much needed focus, energy or relaxation. Acupressure acts as a bodywork technique based on the ideas of acupuncture and has been shown to increase energy, relaxation and stimulate greater focus. More … https://thezensory.com/terms-and-conditions/Tastes and Scents - Learn how to improve your diet through our curated mood boosting foods and scents that help you to increase states of focus, relaxation, positivity or creativity whenever you feel you need it. Our gut acts as our second brain and certain smells and tastes will get you deep into your zone. The Zensory guides you through these associated smells and tastes with focus foods and recipes to follow shortly. Terms of Service (EULA): https://thezensory.com/terms-and-conditions
Time Captn
This tool helps you build new habits and stay focused with a simple timer. Organize your day, manage tasks, and create to-do lists for improved productivity. It offers customizable features and cross-device syncing.
- Habit management
- Focus timer (Pomodoro)
- Task and to-do list creation
- Cross-device syncing
- Customizable features
- Dark mode option
- Todo analytics
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Time Captain is a focus timer & habit management tool to help you make develop new habits in 2023 to get Sh*t Done! Time Captain helps to GTD (get things done) create habits, stay focused with a simple study timer to keep you organized so you can easily manage your day-to-day tasks or todo lists. Make homework lists, checklist app, to do widget, study timer, countdown widget, shopping lists, to-do task lists to be focused & improve productivity with pomodoro focus 30 minute timer bursts. This free countdown app is a great replacement for wunderlist. Create lists of tasks with customizable features, cross device syncing and options for dark mode. Four Basic Steps to developing good daily habits with Time Captain: 1) Create a new lists & to-do focus tasks inside any list 2) Start the Countdown widget or todo Pomodoro timer (Default 30 min pomodoro) 3) Maximize your focus (Stay focused) on the task without distractions in a clean looking countdown app & todo countdown widget 4) Once finished take a long or short break doesnt matter then when ready choose another task and repeat! Time Captain: Focus & Get Things Done (GTD) is 100% free, does not share your data & syncs across all apple devices iOS, iPadOS, MacOS (M1-M2-M3) Whether you need a laundry timer or countdown widget for vacation, work, school, or home, Time Captain offers pomodoro style focus techniques to help you organize and develop good daily habits and track them over time using the new todo analytics widget.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Time Captn at 5.0 against The Zensory's 4.4. Time Captn also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2). The Zensory's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.4 vs 16.0). On price, update cadence, 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 Zensory sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Time Captn asks for nothing beyond the download.
Time Captn holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Zensory has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
The Zensory ships an update every 5 weeks, Time Captn monthly. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | The Zensory | Time Captn |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 79 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Zensory Limited | Inceva Amer |
Customer experience
The Zensory
Time Captn
In-app purchases
The Zensory
- Zensory Premium$5.991 Month
- Zensory Premium$49.991 Year
Time Captn
No in-app purchases









