True Emotions vs Breathtaking
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
True Emotions
This app provides a gentle space to understand your emotions, offering quick check-ins, detailed labeling, and context tracking. It helps you identify patterns, access recovery tools, and build a calmer relationship with your feelings.
- Fast emotional check-ins
- Detailed emotion labeling
- Context and tag tracking
- Personalized insights
- In-the-moment recovery tools
- Dashboard and trend analysis
- Customizable reminders
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True Emotions is a gentle space where feelings stop feeling like the enemy—and start feeling like information you can understand. This isn’t about forcing positivity. It’s about noticing sooner, naming more clearly, and recovering with compassion. What you’ll find inside • A fast emotional check-in you can complete in under a minute. • More depth than a mood tap—intensity, pleasant vs. heavy, nervous-system activation, how costly the state feels, and how easy it is to return to balance. That’s how emotional clarity grows. • Richer emotion labeling—from broad categories toward precise names, so patterns become visible instead of vague “bad days.” • Context & tags—capture life areas that matter (work, relationships, body, rest). Your history becomes a map of triggers and support. • Insights—see recurring themes, energy dips, supportive windows, and the kinds of support you reach for most. • In-the-moment recovery tools—physiological sigh, box breathing, 5‑4‑3‑2‑1 grounding, and a one-minute reflection line. Suggestions adapt to the state you just logged. • Dashboard & trends—mood, energy, activation, and recovery over time; a 28‑day footprint; goals and streaks to turn awareness into a repeatable habit. • Reminders & rhythm—pick a daily check‑in goal and a reminder window that fits your real life. • English & Russian—switch languages in Profile. Who it’s for If you react before you understand what you feel, if stress costs too much energy, or if you want a kinder inner voice—True Emotions helps you build a calmer relationship with your emotions. Happiness here isn’t constant highs—it’s returning to yourself more often, with more clarity and care.
Breathtaking
This app creates personalized mental fitness plans based on your personality and current feelings. It offers daily practices drawn from breathwork, meditation, and journaling, adapting weekly to your needs.
- Personalized weekly practice plans
- Personality assessment for stress management
- Daily check-ins on mental state
- 60+ techniques including breathwork and meditation
- Practices rooted in neuroscience and therapy
- No browsing or guessing, just follow the plan
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Breathtaking is a daily reset for your nervous system: a personalized weekly plan of short practices for the days you're wired, the evenings you're flat, and the nights your thoughts won't stop. Open the app and today's practices are already picked for you. No scrolling, no deciding. Plans start at 5 minutes a day. HOW YOUR PLAN WORKS • A short personality assessment maps how you're wired and which practices fit you • You choose your plan length: 5 to 60 minutes a day • You get your 7-day plan, 1 to 3 practices a day, each with a purpose • Once a week, rate how you're doing. Next week's plan is rebuilt around your answers. FOUR KINDS OF PRACTICE, ONE PLAN • Breathwork to shift your state in minutes. • Meditation to settle attention. • Movement to release what the day left in your body. • Guided Journaling to make sense of what's going on inside. Your plan blends all four, drawing on 60+ techniques, so the work stays balanced. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS Each week you rate five things: Stress, Emotional Imbalance, Energy, Motivation, Focus. They land on one simple graph, with a plain-language summary of what your plan is working on and why. Progress you can see, not a score to perform. START FREE WITH A 28-DAY JOURNEY Choose what matters most right now: Lower Stress, Stabilize Emotions, Increase Energy, Increase Focus, or Increase Motivation. Every journey is free: two short guided practices a day for four weeks, starting easy on purpose. This is practice. Most days it will feel small. That's the design: practices small enough to keep are the ones that end up changing how you carry everything else. Breathtaking is free to download. The five 28-day journeys are free, no card needed. Premium adds your personalized plan and the full guided journaling library, with a 7-day free trial. Pick a journey, or take the assessment and get your first personalized week. Terms of Use: https://www.trybreathtaking.com/app-tos Privacy Policy: https://www.trybreathtaking.com/app-privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Breathtaking at Free against True Emotions's $1.99. Breathtaking also leads on ratings volume (5 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On rating, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Breathtaking is free to download; True Emotions costs $1.99 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 — 5.0 for True Emotions against 5.0 for Breathtaking. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Breathtaking has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | True Emotions | Breathtaking |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 14.0.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 167 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Denis Kashin | Tarex Ventures Inc. |
Customer experience
True Emotions
Breathtaking
In-app purchases
True Emotions
No in-app purchases
Breathtaking
No in-app purchases









