Comparison

Stress Free with AJ vs Wild bird Timer

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

Head to head
About

Stress Free with AJ

This app offers guided meditations and mindfulness sessions to help you manage stress, improve your mindset, and build resilience. Learn to control your thoughts, create positive routines, and find balance for a healthier, more relaxed life.

Highlights
  • Guided meditations
  • Mindfulness sessions
  • Breathing exercises
  • Positive messages
  • Sleep improvement
  • Anxiety relief
Features
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Sometimes it can seem that there’s nothing you can do about your stress levels. Constant bills, lack of time, too many commitments, busy at work, demanding families and so many more situations that can seem overwhelming. This app allows you to realize that you have a lot more control than you may think. These simple and effective suggestions listened to daily will reduce your stress and allow you to see solutions to your problems. Stress Free with Andrew Johnson will help you: • Learn to take charge of your thoughts and emotions. • Create a healthy, positive routine for work or studies. • Change the way you react to problems. • Maintain a balanced life that allows quality time for family, work, and fun. • Build the resilience to deal with pressure and meet challenges with a relaxed, positive, stress-free mind and body. Destress, improve your mindset, sleep better, grow your confidence and be healthier with guided meditations, mindfulness sessions and positive messages – and much more. Mindfulness expert, coach and therapist Andrew Johnson has been helping people deal with life’s challenges with guided relaxations, meditations, self-care tools and breathing exercises for many years. His best-selling range of mindfulness apps have a variety of content to help you, whether you are looking for ways to reduce stress and anxiety, lose weight, improve your health & confidence, learn relaxation techniques, etc. Key features: • Short meditations you can do anywhere: at work, commuting, at home, walking. • Inspirational sessions to help you tackle life’s challenges, to be calm and find clarity. • Mindfulness stories and talks to help you build better, healthy habits. Meditations to help you feel inspired and find motivated to eat well, workout and stay healthy both in body and mind. Relaxation techniques and tools to help you sleep better every night, to wake feeling energised and refreshed. Breathing exercises and calming meditations for anxiety, panic attacks and stress relief. Meditation sessions to stop anxiety in its tracks and release stress. How do I get more? Start your day mindfully, keep feeling positive and be inspired throughout the day with a range of guided meditations to help during tough or stressful moments. Boost your energy with a Power Nap, stay focussed to Beat Procrastination, and then drift off using a Deep Sleep meditation for a restful night. Think of Andrew as your personal mindfulness coach, always there to help when you need him most. Search for Andrew Johnson to unlock more daily mindfulness and guided meditation sessions.

About

Wild bird Timer

Features
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A timer that notifies you with wild bird sounds (warbler,cuckoo,bulbuls) when the set time comes. 1. The time that can be set is from 1 second to 99 minutes and 59 seconds. 2. Touch [Start] to start the timer. 3. Select wild bird sounds from warbler,cuckoo,bulbuls. 4. When the set time comes, it will notify you with wild bird sounds. The chirping lasts about 1 minute. 5. Multi-timer, 3 timers operate independently. Timer 1 is a warbler, timer 2 is a cuckoo, and timer 3 is a bulbuls.

Screenshots

Stress Free with AJ3 screens
Wild bird Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Wild bird Timer at $0.99 against Stress Free with AJ's $2.99. Stress Free with AJ's advantage is iOS requirement (12.4 vs 15.0). On update cadence, 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

Stress Free with AJ costs $2.99 and Wild bird Timer $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stress Free with AJ ships an update every 7 months, Wild bird Timer every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Stress Free with AJ versus Wild bird Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStress Free with AJWild bird Timer
Price$2.99$0.99 — better
Rating4.7 (10 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews85.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 7 months — betterEvery 9 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.4 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size102 MB30 MB
Age rating17+9+
DeveloperUniversal Relaxation LtdMasahiro Tomosada

Bugs and requests

Stress Free with AJ

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • App crashes when changing induction settings
  • App won't play or opens then closes immediately
  • No sound output through headphones or speakers
  • Delayed wake feature triggers at wrong time
  • App crashes after induction phase completes
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  • Persistent banner notifications after uninstall
  • Long loading times before playback
  • Audio quality drops during main section

Requested features

6 requests
  • Auto-suggestions or auto-play to next session
  • Customizable session lengths (e.g., 10-15 minute options)
  • Music-only listening option without voice
  • More varied content to reduce repetition
  • Better notification management system
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  • Improved audio mixing between session sections

Wild bird Timer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Stress Free with AJ

No in-app purchases

None

Wild bird Timer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stress Free with AJ free?
Stress Free with AJ costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Wild bird Timer free?
Wild bird Timer costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Stress Free with AJ or Wild bird Timer have ads?
Neither Stress Free with AJ nor Wild bird Timer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stress Free with AJ or Wild bird Timer?
Stress Free with AJ ships an update every 7 months, and Wild bird Timer every 9 months. Most recently, Stress Free with AJ was updated on November 6, 2026 and Wild bird Timer on November 3, 2026.

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