Comparison

Rise vs Step 10 AI

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

Step 10 AI

Features
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Step 10 AI is a private, no-account journal built around one thing: a daily tenth-step practice. FOUR WAYS TO WORK STEP TEN • Classic 10 — the ten classic questions, as one quick scroll. Yes or no on each, with an optional note. • Journal inventory — the fuller nightly review, walked through one screen at a time. • Spot check — for the moment something happens, a quick check-in rather than a full review. • Gratitude — a running list, one day at a time. REFLECT WITH AI, ON YOUR OWN TERMS Add your own Anthropic API key and Step 10 AI can offer a reflective response to what you've written, or talk it through with you in a chat that draws on your own recent entries. No key, no AI features — everything else works exactly the same either way, and nothing is ever sent anywhere until you choose to use one of these features. A MORNING NUDGE, IF YOU WANT ONE Answer "What could we have done better?" during a nightly review, and get a quiet reminder the next morning to come back to it — just a nudge, with nothing shown on the lock screen. YOUR DATA, ON YOUR DEVICE Everything you log stays on your phone. There's no account, no sign-in, and no server run by this app. Export your full log to a file whenever you want, and import it back in on another device. PRIVACY, PLAINLY Nothing you write ever leaves your device unless you actively use an AI feature — and even then, it goes straight from your phone to Anthropic's API, never through, and never retrievable by, the developer. Step 10 AI is an independent app. In keeping with Tradition 6, it is not endorsed by, and has no affiliation with, AA or any other twelve-step fellowship.

Screenshots

Rise4 screens
Step 10 AI4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Step 10 AI at none against Rise's 9. Step 10 AI also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly). On price, ads, 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. Rise sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Step 10 AI asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Rise ships an update monthly, Step 10 AI every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Rise versus Step 10 AI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRiseStep 10 AI
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (30 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings30 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size123 MB2 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperYauheni BarkouskiNEIL ANTHONY THORMAN

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
None

Step 10 AI

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Rise free?
Rise is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Step 10 AI free?
Step 10 AI is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Rise or Step 10 AI have ads?
Neither Rise nor Step 10 AI shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Rise or Step 10 AI?
Rise ships an update monthly, and Step 10 AI every 5 days. Most recently, Rise was updated on October 30, 2026 and Step 10 AI on October 25, 2026.

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