Comparison

baseline vs simpleRelax

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

Head to head
About

baseline

This app offers a distraction-free journaling experience to help you understand your emotions and improve mental well-being. Track your mood, reflect on your feelings, and gain insights through weekly surveys and visualizations. Your data is encrypted and secured with a passphrase.

Highlights
  • Distraction-free journaling
  • Mood tracking with two scales
  • Upload pictures and screenshots
  • Journaling and mood log reminders
  • Weekly mental health surveys
  • Mood change visualizations
  • Passphrase data lock
  • Financial support fund
Features
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Understanding what you’re feeling and why is often way harder than it should be. baseline is here to help. By giving you a distraction-free, easy way to journal and track your mood, baseline gives you easy opportunities to write and reflect on what you’re feeling throughout the day. With time, you’ll start to understand yourself and your brain better. baseline is designed not just to help you write and reflect more often, but also to help you understand more about yourself and your mood over time. You’ll get mental health surveys and reviews each week, and we have beautiful visualizations across our app that are designed to help you better see what you’re going through and when you’re struggling. We know we’re dealing with really sensitive information here, so we’re committed to keeping your personal information 100% secure. Everything you write and upload to baseline is encrypted, so we can’t even see what you’ve written. You can also protect your data in-app against people who might have access to your device. Start journaling and mood tracking today with baseline. Features: - Write about how you’re feeling whenever you want, and rate your mood with two different scales - Upload pictures and screenshots to remember important moments - Set reminders to keep yourself accountable to your journaling and mental health goals - View all of your mood logs at a glance, and see how your mood changes over time - Take mental health surveys to track things like anxiety, depression, and stress over time - Lock your data with a passphrase to stop people who might have access to your device from reading it - Find mental health support, including financially with the baseline Gap Fund, which can help users cover “gaps” in their finances - 100% free, forever.

About

simpleRelax

Features
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Relax Timer is a simple yet highly focused 10-minute timer app designed for deep concentration and rest. Whether you're meditating, taking a quick break, or entering a focused work session, this timer helps you begin with just a single tap—no complicated setup, no distractions. Crafted to provide exactly 10 minutes of uninterrupted calm, Relax Timer offers a clean interface and soothing nature sounds that gently wrap around your day. When your busy schedule calls for a moment of stillness, Relax Timer becomes your most effortless and effective tool for mindful breaks.

Screenshots

baseline4 screens
simpleRelax3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: baseline at none against simpleRelax's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
baseline versus simpleRelax: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterbaselinesimpleRelax
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (106 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews86.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings106 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB89 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerbaseline healthJIHEE KIM

Bugs and requests

baseline

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Hourly logging reminders delete old ones after the 11th
  • App tells user they are not connected to the internet when they are
  • Audio recordings are erased instead of saved when internet connection fails
  • Blank white screen after opening app through notification and writing an entry
  • Entries deleted without warning

Requested features

9 requests
  • AI short summary of rants with generalized headlines
  • Sort notes by topic/category and tags
  • Aesthetic themes for personalization
  • Ability to edit recent logs
  • More interactive features like emoticons or affirmations
Show 4 more
  • Randomize notification time
  • Option to go back and log a skipped day
  • Allow Apple Silicon Macs to download the app
  • More advanced weekly recap features for healthcare team reporting

simpleRelax

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

baseline

No in-app purchases

None

simpleRelax

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is baseline free?
baseline is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is simpleRelax free?
simpleRelax is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do baseline or simpleRelax have ads?
simpleRelax shows ads; baseline does not.

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