Restful Radio vs Episodic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Restful Radio
Experience calming photography paired with soothing music. This application aims to help you relax, lower your heart rate and blood pressure, and encourage mindful contemplation.
- Calming photography
- Soothing music
- Heart rate reduction
- Blood pressure lowering
- Mindful contemplation
- Breathing exercises
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Calming photography put to soothing music. This app is intended to help slow your heart rate, lower your blood pressure, breathe and provide a way to open your mind to contemplation.
Episodic
Create dynamic, moving collages from black and white looping animations. Reposition and scale these "episodes" to build unique narratives and explore new visual relationships.
- Create moving collages
- Utilize black and white looping animations
- Reposition and scale animation fragments
- Build unique narratives
- Explore new visual relationships
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Episodic is an artwork that allows users to create a moving collage from disparate fragments. Contained within the app are black and white looping animations. Each animation is a short episode that can be repositioned and scaled allowing users to link together different segments to create a narrative and explore new relationships. The app reconfigures pop-up windows containing Flash animations originally created for the website www.urban fragments.net
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Episodic at 5.0 against Restful Radio's 4.3. Episodic also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 8 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 76%). Restful Radio's advantage is ratings volume (11 vs 3) and iOS requirement (12.1 vs 17.4). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Episodic holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of Restful Radio's written reviews are positive against 100% of Episodic's.
Restful Radio ships an update every 8 months, Episodic every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Restful Radio | Episodic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.1 — better | 17.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David Burba | jody zellen |
Customer experience
Restful Radio
Episodic
In-app purchases
Restful Radio
No in-app purchases
Episodic
No in-app purchases
