Comparison

MeditationWise vs Guided Alchemy

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Extensive library of meditation techniques
  • Techniques from world spiritual traditions
  • Basic sitting methods
  • Mantras and visualization practices
  • Dynamic movement meditations
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Daily voice note recording
  • Personal narrated reflections
  • Dream recall assistance
  • Lucid dreaming trigger
  • Private dream journal collection
  • Subconscious connection
Features
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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.

Screenshots

MeditationWise4 screens
Guided Alchemy4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MeditationWise ships an update fortnightly, Guided Alchemy monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
MeditationWise versus Guided Alchemy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeditationWiseGuided Alchemy
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings16 — better
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13 — better26.4
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB208 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperUma DhamijaRemind Voice LTD

Customer experience

MeditationWise

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Guided Alchemy

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

MeditationWise

Subscriptions2
  • Meditation Wise Monthly Plan$6.991 Month
  • Meditation Wise Yearly Plan$49.991 Year
3 purchases

Guided Alchemy

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly subscription$5.991 Month
  • Annual subscription$34.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime patron$700.00

Questions

Is MeditationWise free?
MeditationWise is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Guided Alchemy free?
Guided Alchemy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, MeditationWise or Guided Alchemy?
MeditationWise and Guided Alchemy are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 6 ratings respectively.
Do MeditationWise or Guided Alchemy have ads?
Neither MeditationWise nor Guided Alchemy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MeditationWise or Guided Alchemy?
MeditationWise ships an update fortnightly, and Guided Alchemy monthly. Most recently, MeditationWise was updated on October 2, 2026 and Guided Alchemy on October 7, 2026.

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