PeaceBox vs My Downshift
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PeaceBox
This app offers a collection of tools designed to help users manage stress and anxiety. It provides features like guided breathing exercises and journaling prompts to promote relaxation and inner peace. The app is completely free with no ads or in-app purchases.
- Breathing patterns for calmness
- Journaling for inner conflicts
- Stress and anxiety management
- Tools for relaxation
- Completely free
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We all deal with stress and anxiety in our lives but most of us don't know how to effectively get rid of it. We all need something that can help us relax and de-stress. That includes you! PeaceBox is like a toolbox for your mind with everything you need to let go of your worries. In PeaceBox you'll find tools like breathing patterns to help you calm down and journaling to help you let go of inner conflicts with much more planned to come! Best of all, there are no ads, no paywalls and no in-app purchases. This is a passion project and there will never be any monetization. You have my word. I hope you find this app useful. And coming from me, the developer, I hope you overcome your stress, anxiety or whatever else is bothering you or creating conflict. Thank you for giving PeaceBox a chance to become your toolbox for peace.
My Downshift
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Downshift is a gentle nervous system regulation app designed to help you slow down, reconnect to your body, and move through daily life with more presence and less overwhelm. Built for modern stress, burnout recovery, and high-performing lifestyles, Downshift offers calming audio practices, guided breathwork, nervous system support, and restorative experiences designed to help you regulate without adding more pressure to your routine. Inside the app: • Daily Downshift practices • Guided breath work + nervous system support • Evening Exhale audio sessions • Burnout recovery tools • Gentle regulation for everyday life Less performance. More presence.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: PeaceBox at monthly against My Downshift's every 4 months. PeaceBox also leads on ratings volume (15 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for PeaceBox against 5.0 for My Downshift. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PeaceBox has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
PeaceBox ships an update monthly, My Downshift every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PeaceBox | My Downshift |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (15 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 141 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Neil Agrawal | hey meet maddy llc |
Customer experience
PeaceBox
My Downshift
In-app purchases
PeaceBox
No in-app purchases
My Downshift
No in-app purchases
