U1 vs Orbit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
U1
This mindfulness app offers a unique haptic meditation experience, allowing users to meditate for any duration without timers. It prioritizes privacy with no registration or ads, and seamlessly integrates mindful minutes into Apple Health.
- Haptic meditation experience
- Unlimited meditation duration
- No registration required
- No advertisements
- Apple Health integration
- Privacy-focused design
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U1-MA is a mindfulness app designed to ease your meditation routine. It doesn't ask you to set up a timer. You can meditate for as long as you want. Instead of field recordings or spiritual sounds, it uses haptics that gives you a tactile experience comparable to thumbing through a loop of prayer beads. The app is made with your privacy in mind. No registration. No ads. Mindful minutes are recorded directly to Apple Health. There is no subscription or in-app purchases.
Orbit
Record and listen to your own affirmations with daily scheduled reminders. This app focuses on privacy and calm, offering offline functionality and no tracking. Enhance your daily routine by repeating positive thoughts for deeper impact.
- Record personal voice affirmations
- Schedule daily listening times
- Automatic affirmation repetition
- Send affirmations to future self
- Offline functionality
- No login required
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Everything starts with a thought. Orbit helps you repeat the right ones. Designed for privacy, calm, and daily consistency, Orbit lets you record your own affirmations and schedule daily reminders to mindfully listen to them — all offline, with no tracking or cloud storage. Features: - Record and organize personal voice affirmations - Schedule daily times to listen to them - Each session automatically repeats affirmations for deeper impact - Send affirmations to your future self with Time Capsules - No login required - 100% offline — local-only storage, no cloud, no ads - Premium unlocks unlimited recordings, unlimited schedules, and up to 7 active Time Capsules
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: U1 at none against Orbit's 1. Orbit's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). 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. Orbit sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. U1 asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for U1 against 5.0 for Orbit. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
U1 ships an update every 2 weeks, Orbit every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | U1 | Orbit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dima Koskin | PROFOUND AI SOLUTIONS LLC |
Customer experience
U1
Orbit
In-app purchases
U1
No in-app purchases
Orbit
- Lifetime Access$9.99
