Comparison

Rise vs A New Dawn

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

Head to head
About

Rise

This app provides a simple meditation timer and tracker for iPhone and Apple Watch. It uses heart rate data to offer insights into your mind and body's calm during sessions. Track your progress with detailed statistics and access guided courses.

Highlights
  • Simple meditation timer
  • Apple Watch heart rate tracking
  • Mind and body insights
  • Meditation progress tracker
  • Guided video courses
  • Widgets and Siri integration
Features
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Rise is a simple meditation timer for iPhone and Apple Watch, and a meditation tracker that shows what each session did for your mind and body. Sit in silence with a singing bowl or a gentle vibration. With Apple Watch, Rise records your heart rate while you sit and turns it into clear insights: how still your mind was, how calm your body became, and how your practice grows over time. No guided voices, no music, no distractions. Just you, the timer and your progress. HOW IT WORKS • Set your time, add a Delay to settle in, and let the singing bowl mark the start and the end. • Want to keep sitting? Extra Time keeps counting after the final bell. • Turn the volume down and the bell becomes a vibration you can feel through your clothes. • Start from iPhone or Apple Watch. Sessions are saved to Apple Health as Mindful Minutes. SEE WHAT EACH SESSION DID With Apple Watch, Rise records your heart rate while you meditate and shows how the session affected you: • Mind: Stillness, from how steady your heart rate stays. Drifting, Gathering, Present, Immersed, Absorbed. • Body: Calm, compared with your own resting heart rate from Apple Health. Settled, Softened, Relaxed, Restored, Released. • Calm Time, a heart rate chart, session and lowest heart rate, and heart rate variance. No Apple Watch? Rate how your mind and body feel after each session. Rise builds the same progress from your reflections. TRACK YOUR PRACTICE • Weekly calendar, streaks, total sessions and average session length • Best Session of the week, month and year • Practice Depth: Mind, Body and Rhythm, how regularly you sit • Smart hints that find your patterns: the time of day and session length that take you deepest, and how fast your body calms • Practice Trend: every session as a dot, with a smooth line that shows how your practice changes • A full meditation log: add, edit or delete sessions by hand LEARN WITH A TEACHER Video courses with meditation teacher Haejung Ocean, including Bongwoo: Tao Breathing Meditation, plus articles and wisdom quotes. APPLE WATCH A full Rise app on your wrist: meditation timer with the Digital Crown, singing bowl, your live heart rate as you sit, and, with Rise Premium, Mind and Body results right after you sit. Sessions reach your iPhone on their own. WIDGETS AND SIRI • Watch face and Lock Screen widgets: today's minutes, your streak, and one-tap Quick Start • A Rise button for Control Center and the Action button • Siri and Shortcuts: "Start Rise", "Set Rise timer", "Show Rise stats", "Stop Rise" ALSO Practice reminders on the days you choose and Sunrise and Sunset themes. Sign in with Apple or Google to keep your practice safe and synced across your devices; you can delete your account anytime. FREE AND PREMIUM Free: the meditation timer, vibration, the Apple Watch app with heart rate recording, reminders, courses and articles, weekly stats, Apple Health and sync across your devices with a Rise account. Rise Premium: Mind and Body insights from Apple Watch (Stillness, Calm, Calm Time, heart rate variance), monthly, yearly and all-time stats, Practice Depth and Trend, session summaries, and offline courses. The annual plan starts with a 7-day free trial and supports Family Sharing: $49.99 per year. Monthly: $8.99 per month. Prices are in US dollars and may vary by country. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple ID account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.risemeditation.app/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://www.risemeditation.app/privacy-policy Support: info@risemeditation.life

About

A New Dawn

Features
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Watch your new day break. A New Dawn isn't another chart of what you've given up. It's a living sky that brightens with every smoke-free hour — from the deep indigo of your first night, through amber dawn across your early days, to full daylight as your new life takes hold. The longer you stay smoke-free, the higher your sun climbs. Light is the reward. A live timer counts every smoke-free second, minute and hour, while the money you've saved and the cigarettes you've never smoked add up beside it. A personalised recovery timeline tells your story as it unfolds — taste and smell sharpening, nerve endings regrowing, lungs clearing — always showing exactly where you are. When a craving hits, you're not left on your own. There's guided breathing built around a gently rising sun, a five-minute wait timer to ride out the urge, a quick distraction game for when you need to look away, and your own reasons kept close for the hard moments. Every milestone arrives as a sunrise you can share — the sky you've earned, showing the days you've won. And if you slip, A New Dawn never punishes. One cigarette doesn't erase what you've built, so you keep your streak or reset gently, your choice, no shame. A companion Apple Watch app and home- and lock-screen widgets keep your sunrise with you everywhere you go. Start with a three-day free trial. After that, a single one-time purchase of £8.99 unlocks everything — no subscription, ever. Your data stays on your device. Here's to the days ahead.

Screenshots

Rise4 screens
A New Dawn4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: A New Dawn at every 2 days against Rise's monthly. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Rise sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and A New Dawn sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Rise ships an update monthly, A New Dawn every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Rise versus A New Dawn: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRiseA New Dawn
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (30 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings30 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size123 MB7 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperYauheni BarkouskiNICHOLAS EDWARD WHITE

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Rise

Subscriptions8
  • Rise Monthly Premium7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Rise Monthly Premium7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Rise Monthly Premium2 variants$8.991 Month
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  • Rise Annual Premium14 Days trial$12.991 Year
  • Rise Annual Premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Rise Annual Premium$49.991 Year
  • Rise Annual Premium7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Rise Annual Premium1 Year trial$49.991 Year
1 purchases

A New Dawn

One-time1
  • A New Dawn Unlock$9.99

Questions

Is Rise free?
Rise is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is A New Dawn free?
A New Dawn is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Rise or A New Dawn have ads?
Neither Rise nor A New Dawn shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Rise or A New Dawn?
Rise ships an update monthly, and A New Dawn every 2 days. Most recently, Rise was updated on November 3, 2026 and A New Dawn on November 5, 2026.

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