MeditationWise vs Guided Alchemy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MeditationWise
Explore over sixty meditation techniques from diverse spiritual traditions including Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity. Discover methods for stilling the mind, powerful mantras, dynamic movement, and advanced visualization practices.
- Extensive library of meditation techniques
- Techniques from world spiritual traditions
- Basic sitting methods
- Mantras and visualization practices
- Dynamic movement meditations
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The MeditationWise library contains more than sixty techniques from each of the world’s great spiritual traditions. You’ll find meditations from Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Sufism, Taoism, Judaism, and Ageless Wisdom. There are basic sitting methods that still the mind, along with powerful mantras, dynamic movement, and advanced visualization practices.
Guided Alchemy
This app helps you recall dreams and achieve lucidity through daily voice journaling. It transforms your spoken reflections into narrated summaries, fostering self-awareness and a deeper connection to your subconscious.
- Daily voice note recording
- Personal narrated reflections
- Dream recall assistance
- Lucid dreaming trigger
- Private dream journal collection
- Subconscious connection
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Speak your dream before it fades. Guided Alchemy is a voice-first dream journal. Each morning you talk for a minute or two about whatever you remember. Settings, characters, feelings, fragments. Later that day, at a time you choose, a narrated reflection comes back to you. The gap between those two moments is the point. You catch the dream while it is still raw, then meet it again hours later, in the middle of an ordinary Tuesday. WHY VOICE Dreams go strange the moment you start typing them. Speaking is faster and looser, and it keeps the feeling in. Guided Alchemy asks you to talk before words harden. WHAT COMES BACK A personal reflection, narrated, delivered at the moment you picked. Lunchtime. The dead hour at four. Whenever you might appreciate a little grounding. It draws only on what you actually said. Noticing how a dream's emotion moves through your waking hours is a practice. It may sharpen your recall over time. For some people that noticing becomes a trigger for lucidity, the moment of recognizing you are dreaming while you are still inside the dream. SOME MORNINGS THERE IS NOTHING Speak the residue instead. How you woke up. What was still sitting in your chest. Blank mornings are part of the practice, and it builds over weeks. YOUR ARCHIVE Every entry is saved and searchable. Look up a person, a place, a recurring object, and see every dream it appears in. Patterns surface on their own once there is enough to look across. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your recordings stay on your device or in your personal iCloud. Sign in with Apple. Download a copy of everything, any time you want. Two minutes in the morning. One reflection in the afternoon. That is the whole practice.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Guided Alchemy at 6 against MeditationWise's 1. MeditationWise's advantage is iOS requirement (13 vs 26.4). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. MeditationWise sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Guided Alchemy sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for MeditationWise against 5.0 for Guided Alchemy. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Guided Alchemy has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
MeditationWise ships an update fortnightly, Guided Alchemy monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MeditationWise | Guided Alchemy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13 — better | 26.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 208 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Uma Dhamija | Remind Voice LTD |
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MeditationWise
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In-app purchases
MeditationWise
- Meditation Wise Monthly Plan$6.991 Month
- Meditation Wise Yearly Plan$49.991 Year
Guided Alchemy
- Monthly subscription$5.991 Month
- Annual subscription$34.991 Year
- Lifetime patron$700.00
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