Comparison

Train Your Brain Hypnosis vs Nominal Ops

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

Head to head
About

Train Your Brain Hypnosis

Enhance cognitive abilities and emotional well-being with guided hypnotherapy sessions. Improve memory, focus, and relaxation while reducing stress and anxiety. Customize your experience with various audio and visual options.

Highlights
  • Therapeutic hypnotherapy tracks
  • Customizable playlists
  • Adjustable hypnosis induction length
  • Soothing background animations and sounds
  • Customizable wake or sleep endings
  • Built-in alarm clock
Features
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Guided hypnosis for focus, study and concentration, narrated by Rachael Meddows, certified hypnotherapist. Train Your Brain Hypnosis has been rebuilt from the ground up around one idea: a calmer, clearer mind makes it easier to sit down, begin and keep going. Get Organized and Stay Organized is included, so you can hear Rachael's voice before you buy anything. NEW: YOUR 3-WEEK BRAIN PLAN - Write your goal with the Finish Line Exercise: picture the work done and find why it matters - A few simple brain habits each week, with the programs that go with them - Before you focus: one tap plays Get Organized with a short induction and a wake ending, then a line for today's wins - Focus days with a gentle reminder, and a new focus line every day - Everything stays on your device WHAT'S INSIDE - 87 hypnosis programs by Rachael Meddows, led by Improve Your Memory and IQ, Super Fast Learning, Class Genius and Get Organized and Stay Organized - Shelves for Focus & Productivity and Memory & Learning first, then confidence, money, calm, relationships and healthy habits - Six inductions: Short, Long and Sleep, plus the Classic Beach, Speed and Staircase - Wake, sleep, quiet-pause or no-ending choices - Repeat, a sleep timer and playlists - Sound Mixer: one background sound is included; layering and saved mixes are a separate purchase - Tap the player to hide the controls and rest your eyes - Lock-screen and Control Center playback controls ONE PAYMENT, NO SUBSCRIPTION Buy a single program, or Unlock All for every program in one payment. Nothing renews. Programs you bought before are still yours: tap Restore Purchases in Settings. Hypnosis programs are intended for relaxation and self-improvement. Do not listen while driving or operating machinery. This app is not a substitute for medical or psychological care.

About

Nominal Ops

This app bridges the gap between your plans and actual work. It helps you shape projects, manage your week, and track focused work sessions. Gain insights from reality with flexible reports and stay organized with shared tags.

Highlights
  • Live dashboard for focus, commitments, and interruptions
  • Kanban and Gantt project views
  • Capacity-aware Agenda Days for work balance
  • Focused work session tracking
  • Flexible reports for time and project health
  • Private iCloud sync
  • AI-assisted planning
Features
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Your plans are not the work. Nominal Ops is where the two meet. Turn outcomes into roadmaps, roadmaps into a realistic week, and the week into focused action. When priorities shift or interruptions land, Nominal Ops shows what changed—and what to do next. ONE LIVING PLAN • See focus, commitments, and interruptions together on a live dashboard. • Shape projects in Kanban, then move into Gantt for dependencies, forecasts, milestones, and baselines. • Balance planned and unplanned work across a capacity-aware Agenda Days view. • Build routines that stay visible, schedulable, and connected to the rest of your work. STAY WITH THE WORK • Start and track focused work sessions. • Capture interruptions without losing your place. • See scheduled work alongside Apple Calendar, with optional calendar and reminder sync. • Use widgets and App Shortcuts to keep the next action close. LEARN FROM REALITY • Build flexible reports for time, interruptions, project health, and roadmap velocity. • Organize projects, tasks, sessions, routines, and interruptions with shared tags. • Account for working days and workspace holidays when a plan reaches the calendar. MADE FOR APPLE PLATFORMS Nominal Ops is a native workspace for Mac, iPad, and iPhone. It supports keyboard and pointer workflows, touch, Apple Pencil on iPad, light and dark appearances, custom themes, accessibility settings, and private iCloud sync. On supported devices, Apple’s on-device models can turn a written or dictated outcome into a structured roadmap. On Mac, an optional local automation server lets tools you explicitly approve work with your Nominal Ops data. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No Nominal Ops account. No ads. No tracking. No data collection. Your planning data stays on your device and, when you enable sync, in your private iCloud database. START FREE. GROW WHEN YOU NEED TO. Standard includes up to 3 active projects, 100 active roadmap items, reports, sync, and AI-assisted planning. Pro is a one-time unlock for unlimited active projects, unlimited active roadmap items, and widgets. Plan work. Track reality.

Screenshots

Train Your Brain Hypnosis4 screens
Nominal Ops4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Nominal Ops at 5.0 against Train Your Brain Hypnosis's 4.4. Nominal Ops also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 9 months). Train Your Brain Hypnosis's advantage is ratings volume (89 vs 2) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Train Your Brain Hypnosis sells 15 one-off in-app purchases and Nominal Ops sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Nominal Ops holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Train Your Brain Hypnosis has 89 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Train Your Brain Hypnosis ships an update every 9 months, Nominal Ops every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Train Your Brain Hypnosis versus Nominal Ops: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrain Your Brain HypnosisNominal Ops
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (89 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews63.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings89 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 9 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.4
Further details — not scored
Size127 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHypnosis & SubliminalJames Sodini

Customer experience

Train Your Brain Hypnosis

All ratings89 ratings
Positive83.1%
Neutral9.0%
Negative7.9%
Written reviews41 reviews
Positive63.4%
Neutral9.8%
Negative26.8%

Nominal Ops

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Train Your Brain Hypnosis

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • App crashes when editing playlist
  • App does not open after purchase
  • App stops working after upgrade
  • Purchased programs not available in other parent apps
  • App stops when device locks
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  • Delayed wake feature not working correctly
  • App requires phone/iPad to stay on during the whole program

Requested features

11 requests
  • Increase customization options for tracks
  • Allow adding more tracks
  • Fix the voice issue with the new update
  • Improve background noise looping
  • Fix the abrupt stream ending
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  • Improve rain animation
  • Improve stream animation
  • Allow purchases to carry over to other parent apps
  • Fix the issue where the app stops when the device locks
  • Allow the app to run in the background without the screen on
  • Allow the app to be played more than once a day without issue

Nominal Ops

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

15 purchases

Train Your Brain Hypnosis

One-time15
  • Law of Attraction$3.99
  • Chakra Healing$3.99
  • Psychic Intuition$3.99
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  • Sleep$3.99
  • Success$3.99
  • WeightLoss$3.99
  • Seduction$3.99
  • Ancient Knowledge$3.99
  • Super Fast Learning$3.99
  • Improve Your Memory and IQ$3.99
  • Skinny$3.99
  • Exercise Motivation$3.99
  • Positive Thinking$3.99
  • Great Health Hypnosis$3.99
  • Third Eye & Psychic Power$3.99
1 purchases

Nominal Ops

One-time1
  • Pro Unlock$19.99

Questions

Is Train Your Brain Hypnosis free?
Train Your Brain Hypnosis is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Nominal Ops free?
Nominal Ops is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Train Your Brain Hypnosis or Nominal Ops?
Nominal Ops is rated higher. Train Your Brain Hypnosis averages 4.4 out of 5 from 89 ratings, while Nominal Ops averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Train Your Brain Hypnosis or Nominal Ops have ads?
Neither Train Your Brain Hypnosis nor Nominal Ops shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Train Your Brain Hypnosis or Nominal Ops?
Train Your Brain Hypnosis ships an update every 9 months, and Nominal Ops every 3 weeks. Most recently, Train Your Brain Hypnosis was updated on October 21, 2026 and Nominal Ops on October 10, 2026.

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