Bricks Performance System vs Vaken
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bricks Performance System
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Bricks Performance System would like to help provide more insight into the mental, physical and nutritional development areas you as a talent or athlete must go through in order to maintain your development and the pursuit of an even better performance. We believe that physical and mental health come before performance! Bricks is a communication, data processing and education tool with the user at the center, where the user has the data ownership. Brick's mission is to create a meaningful and long-term well-being and training tool for the user, where through motivation we will create curiosity and give inspiration and so that talents and mature athletes can ensure or improve their physical and mental well-being in order to perform better. In Bricks, through your daily reports in areas such as mental load, sleep, fluid balance, training load, dietary habits and much more, you will get live feedback on what your current status looks like. Through our knowledge library, you will be informed and educated in the important areas of physical, mental and nutrition. Our goal is that throughout your career using Bricks you will be educated in all facets of performing. With the end goal that you can make your own decisions based on the knowledge you have gained, instead of getting a message from your trainer and you just obey. We want to create a tool where you can reflect on how you feel. Do you have body aches? Are you extra or recurring soreness in the same place? Do you feel good about what you eat? Do you not perform as you want when you get your period? Are you mentally balanced before a match or tournament? You will be asked many questions and go through many scenarios throughout your career, and when you reflect on particular areas, we will give you the specific knowledge and guidance you are looking for in your individual situation to increase your knowledge about the physical, mental and nutritional areas. That way, you will take more and more ownership and control over your own development and success. terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Vaken
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Vaken is a breathing app with one job: help you take the control back. A ring grows when you inhale. Shrinks when you exhale. That's it. No voices, no timers to set, no streaks to lose. Just a ring that breathes with you. WHY VAKEN EXISTS Dan built Vaken after three tours in Afghanistan and a PTSD diagnosis in 2017. Breathing was the tool that carried him through. Vaken is the app he wished he'd had back then. Vaken is not a wellness app. It doesn't promise to cure anything. It gives you access to the oldest tool we have as humans, your own breath, in the simplest form it can be delivered. WHAT YOU GET (FREE) • The ring, breathes with you, with haptic feedback • Mild · 3·5 rhythm, 3 sec in, 5 sec out (daily use) • Six languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, English, German That's it. Try the ring. See if it works for you. CALM FOR ADHD (FREE, ALWAYS) One swipe away lives a whole page for ADHD brains: • Kids mode: a gentle snake that breathes along with your child. Its belly fills as you breathe in and empties as you breathe out, so children learn belly breathing just by breathing along. No numbers, no pressure, and a grown-up lock keeps the child inside the kids view • Focus sounds for grown-ups: brown and white noise, can help concentration • Made to be used together with an adult None of it sits behind a paywall. Vaken was built to help children with ADHD too. WHAT YOU DON'T GET • No ads • No subscriptions • No dark patterns • No push notifications pressuring you to open the app • No AI analyzing your breathing • No social feed, no competition, no streaks to lose PREMIUM (LIFETIME ONE-TIME PURCHASE) Pay once. Own it all. No subscription, ever. • More rhythms: Medium · 4·7, Deep · 5·8, Sleep · 4·7·8, Box · 4·4·4·4, custom • Crisis mode, one tap away from calm, even with the screen locked • Sleep routine, 4-7-8 breathing before bed • Training plan and focus timer • Apple Watch companion, the ring on your wrist • StandBy widget, calm display while your iPhone charges • Lock Screen widget • Apple HealthKit, sessions in the Health app • Stress detection via wearables (Oura, Whoop, Garmin, Fitbit, Polar, Samsung) • Sounds: nature sounds, brown noise, binaural beats • Weekly insights Buy premium on your iPhone, it unlocks on your Apple Watch too. Purchase follows your Apple ID. FOR THOSE WHO KNOW THE FIGHT If you're a veteran, a first responder, dealing with stress, anxiety, insomnia, or just tired, this is built by someone who has sat in that chair. No polish, no promises that can't be kept. One ring. Your breath. The control back. Vaken is designed and developed in Denmark/Norway. Built by Dan Kristoffer Holmstad, Norwegian-Danish veteran, three ISAF tours to Helmand Province. Contact: dan@vaken.dk Web: vaken.dk
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Bricks Performance System at 15.0 against Vaken's 17.0. On price, 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
Both are free to download. Bricks Performance System sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month and Vaken sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Bricks Performance System ships an update weekly, Vaken fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bricks Performance System | Vaken |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bricks Performance System ApS | Dan Kristoffer Holmstad |
In-app purchases
Bricks Performance System
- Månedligt abonnement14 Days trial$14.991 Month
- Yearly subscription14 Days trial$119.991 Year
- Årligt abonnement$0.99
Vaken
- Vaken Premium$4.99









