Sonal vs Safety Plan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sonal
This application connects to a specialized device to administer brain optimization sessions. It allows users to manage their profile, set session parameters, and monitor progress. The app facilitates the transfer of session data to the connected device.
- Connect to Sonal Device
- Administer brain optimization sessions
- Access Braincare profile
- Transfer session parameters
- Monitor session progress
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The Braincare app allows you to connect to Wave Neuroscience's Sonal Device to administer Sonal sessions for brain optimization. Current features include access to your Braincare profile and Sonal session parameters, transfer of Sonal session parameters to Sonal Device and monitor session progress.
Safety Plan
This app guides users through creating a personalized safety plan to manage suicidal thoughts and self-harm urges. It offers tools for crisis moments, mood tracking, and access to support resources for individuals and their loved ones.
- Step-by-step safety plan creation
- Shareable safety plans
- Crisis intervention tools
- Mood tracking
- Access to crisis support
- Informational resources
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Safety Plan is here to help you make a plan for dealing with thoughts of suicide and self-harm. The app will walk you through filling out the 6 steps of a safety plan, share your safety plan with your loved ones, and use your safety plan in a moment of crisis. The app also includes audio and interactive tools to help you calm down, information for you and your loved ones about safety plans and suicide, mood tracking, and ready access to crisis support. Safety Plan is a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs app, developed by the National Center for PTSD Dissemination and Training Division and the Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Sonal at every 3 weeks against Safety Plan's every 22 months. On price, rating, ratings volume 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
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 — 5.0 for Sonal against 4.9 for Safety Plan. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 19 respectively.
Sonal ships an update every 3 weeks, Safety Plan every 22 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sonal | Safety Plan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better | 4.9 (19 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 19 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 22 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wave Neuroscience, Inc | US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) |
Customer experience
Sonal
Safety Plan
In-app purchases
Sonal
No in-app purchases
Safety Plan
No in-app purchases
