Practice Recorder vs ACIM Meditations
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Practice Recorder
Record and listen to audio privately on your device. Organize recordings into folders, play them in various orders, and easily back them up. Designed for focused, long-term practice with features like earpiece playback and automatic suggestions.
- Private on-device recording
- Folder organization
- Multiple playback modes
- Backup and restore
- AirDrop and Finder sharing
- CarPlay support
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Record and listen with privacy and focus. Organize recordings into folders and play them in order or on shuffle. Designed for private listening and long-term practice. Privacy first • Recordings stay on your device — no cloud upload • Playback starts through the iPhone earpiece by default (like a phone call) Backup & restore • Included in device backups • Fully restored on a new device Playback • iPhone earpiece, headphones, speaker, Bluetooth, AirPlay • Shuffle by folder, across all folders, or by least-recently-played • Repeat single recordings or playlists • Prefer new or recently added recordings Organization • Create, rename, reorder, and delete folders (up to 200) • Move one or all recordings between folders • Undo deletes with shake • Automatic folder name suggestions • Rename recordings (emoji supported) Sharing & import • Export and import recordings between compatible apps • AirDrop support • Finder File Sharing with metadata, cover art, and Sound Check Advanced • One-tap recording • CarPlay support for safe listening in the car • High-quality compressed audio for long recordings • Current recording is safely preserved during interruptions or low battery • Built-in reminders to record and listen daily • Detailed in-app instructions and direct developer support
ACIM Meditations
This app offers guided audio lessons and meditations to help users practice and master the A Course in Miracles Workbook. It incorporates binaural beats to enhance relaxation and receptivity, making learning effortless and facilitating profound absorption of teachings.
- Guided audio lessons
- Meditations
- Binaural beats integration
- Progress tracking
- Regular practice tools
- Relaxation induction
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The most immersive and integrative tool to practice and master the A Course in Miracles: Workbook for Students. Our unique guided workbook audio lessons and meditations will take you to states of relaxation where learning becomes effortless. Our app is designed to make it easy to practice ACIM lessons regularly and track your progress so you can progress through the extensive teachings presented in the workbook. All of the audio lessons are infused with binaural beats, which involve the presentation of slightly different frequencies to each ear and are known to induce states of relaxation, focus, and heightened receptivity. When harmonized with ACIM's lessons, these beats foster a state of consciousness that facilitates a profound absorption of the teachings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: ACIM Meditations at Free against Practice Recorder's $19.99. ACIM Meditations also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.2). Practice Recorder's advantage is ratings volume (49 vs 9). On rating, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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
ACIM Meditations is free to download; Practice Recorder costs $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Practice Recorder against 4.8 for ACIM Meditations. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Practice Recorder has 49 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 95% of Practice Recorder's written reviews are positive against 100% of ACIM Meditations's.
Practice Recorder ships an update every 3 months, ACIM Meditations every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Practice Recorder | ACIM Meditations |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (49 ratings) | 4.8 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 94.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 49 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Maks and Pasha | Active Meditation Inc. |
Customer experience
Practice Recorder
ACIM Meditations
In-app purchases
Practice Recorder
No in-app purchases
ACIM Meditations
No in-app purchases
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