HAMESH vs Sparkles
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HAMESH
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Welcome to the HAMESH members app! Download our app to plan and book your fitness classes. At the click of a button, you can view class schedules, sign up for classes and even invite a friend to join you! With the app, you’ll keep in touch with HAMESH staff and coaches, receive notifications, news and reminders. After setting up your personal profile in the app, you'll be able to easily renew your membership, purchase HAMESH merchandise and connect with other HAMESH members. Download the App today! This app is powered by Arbox, the leading fitness management platform for fitness and wellness businesses.
Sparkles
This app helps you remember important personal insights, affirmations, or quotes through customizable reminders and widgets. It leverages research-backed principles to promote well-being and habit formation by delivering timely messages.
- Customizable reminders
- Home and lock screen widgets
- Live Activities support
- Personalized content creation
- Research-backed well-being principles
- Free quote packs
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Sparkles brings back the sentences that matter to you. An insight from therapy. A habit you're building. A line from a book. A mantra from a retreat. A reminder to message someone you love. Write it once, and Sparkles returns it at the right moments: on your home screen, on your lock screen, and in a few gentle notifications a day. WHAT THE RESEARCH SAYS Sparkles is built on published research, and the app shows the source behind each claim. • Seeing it again days later helps it stick. Spreading practice out beats cramming it into one sitting. (Cepeda, Pashler, Vul, Wixted & Rohrer, 2006, Psychological Bulletin; Roediger & Karpicke, 2006, Psychological Science) • A reminder at the right moment turns intention into action. Specific "when and where" plans helped people reach their goals more often across 94 studies. (Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006, Advances in Experimental Social Psychology; Head, Noar, Iannarino & Grant Harrington, 2013, Social Science & Medicine) • Your own words help more than a borrowed slogan. Reflecting on what you truly value helps, while generic positive slogans can backfire for people with low self-esteem. (Steele, 1988; Cohen & Sherman, 2014, Annual Review of Psychology; Wood, Perunovic & Lee, 2009, Psychological Science) • Habits take time. A simple daily habit took about 66 days, on average, to feel automatic, with wide differences between people. (Lally, van Jaarsveld, Potts & Wardle, 2010, European Journal of Social Psychology) • Gratitude: people who wrote down what they were grateful for each week felt better about their lives. (Emmons & McCullough, 2003, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology) • Reaching out: people underestimate how much others appreciate hearing from them. (Liu, Rim, Min & Min, 2023, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology) Sparkles is a well-being tool, not therapy or medical treatment. WHAT YOU CAN KEEP • Insights from therapy, coaching, a book or a talk • Habits and small daily reminders ("Drink a glass of water.") • Mantras and affirmations in your own words • Quotes that lift you • A nudge to message someone you love • A quick check-in: how do I feel right now? GENTLE REMINDERS Choose 1, 3 or 5 a day, the days and the hours. Sparkles picks a different sparkle each time and favors the ones you mark "Often". A few well-timed reminders, never a flood. WIDGETS AND LIVE ACTIVITIES Home screen and lock screen widgets with calm photo backgrounds show a new sparkle through the day. Tap one to open it. On iPhone, a Live Activity can keep a sparkle on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. THE BAZAAR Not sure where to start? Add lines from free quote packs: Well-being, Affirmations, Inspirational, Therapy prompts, Quotes from Books, Spiritual, with packs in every app language: from Pirkei Avot and Hebrew poetry to Italian proverbs, French letters and Russian classics, every line quoted from a published source. Add one line, a whole pack, or make a pack "live" so it keeps bringing new lines. LIVE SPARKLES Sparkles that refresh by themselves: quote of the day, word of the day, the moon phase, the Hebrew date, on this day, or the latest news headline. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your sparkles stay on your phone. No account needed. Back them up to iCloud or export a file whenever you like. The Community feed is optional: nothing is shared unless you choose to share it. EIGHT LANGUAGES The whole app works in English, Hebrew (right to left), Italian, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese (Brazil) and Russian. Sparkles is free, with no ads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Sparkles at weekly against HAMESH's every 10 months. 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
HAMESH ships an update every 10 months, Sparkles weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HAMESH | Sparkles |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Arbox LTD | Ben Novak |
In-app purchases
HAMESH
No in-app purchases
Sparkles
No in-app purchases









