My Lighthouse vs NeuralStack.io™
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My Lighthouse
This app helps you understand yourself better by tracking your mood, setting life goals, and journaling your thoughts. It offers AI-powered insights and visualizations to guide your personal growth and emotional well-being.
- Mood tracking and trend analysis
- Personalized goal setting for life pillars
- Daily journaling with emotion reflection
- AI-powered insights and summaries
- Visual progress charts and analytics
- Data security with top-tier encryption
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How is your life really going? Not today — overall, across the things that matter to you. My Lighthouse is a calm, one-minute journal. Pick three to five parts of your life to look after — family, health, work, sleep, anything you like. Each evening, check in: how was the day, how did each part fare — bright, dim or unlit — and a note when something's worth keeping. On a rough day, one word is enough. Or nothing at all. Day by day, a picture forms that you can't see any other way. THE DAILY RITUAL • A one-minute evening check-in, built around your own pillars • A morning page for thoughts that won't wait — your sentences are sorted into the pillars they touch, kept in your own words • Busy night? Press and hold the reminder and log the day without opening the app • Missed a day? Fill it in later — honest gaps, no guilt • Widgets and gentle reminders that already know when you've logged WHAT THE APP GIVES BACK • A weekly report every Sunday: what rose, what dipped, and two honest sentences about your week • A letter at the end of each month from the Keeper, who read your notes and quotes you back to yourself • Trends, patterns and an annual report — watch the picture form • "A year ago today": your own words, returned when they matter • One photo a week becomes your year in light THE KEEPER A companion who remembers your year. Ask it anything — it answers plainly, with your actual days and notes to hand: "Work was bright four of the last seven days — and Family went unlit on three of them." No lectures, no guilt. YOUR WEEK, POINTED SOMEWHERE Choose one focus each week and say what would make it a win. The app keeps it in view — and asks how it went, in your words. KIND BY DESIGN • A heavy day never becomes homework: mark it and rest • Take a moment: a minute of slow, guided breathing • Rest days and holidays for any pillar — life bends, and the app bends with it • Day and night themes that follow the sky PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your notes are encrypted and your journal locks with Face ID. Nothing you write is sold, shared or used for ads. If you choose, share a single light with one trusted person — they see how you're doing, never what you wrote. My Lighthouse is free to use every day: check-ins, weekly reports, trends, and a weekly conversation with the Keeper. One simple yearly subscription unlocks the monthly and annual letters and the Keeper every day. Start tonight. Three lanterns, one minute — and the picture begins. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
NeuralStack.io™
Create personalized audio experiences for focus, sleep, and mindset enhancement. Combine brainwave entrainment, guided breathing, and ambient sounds to build custom 'Stacks'. Listen offline and alongside other apps.
- Customizable Stacks with multi-stage elements
- Brainwave entrainment (0.5-100 Hz)
- Guided breathing programs
- Layered ambience and nature sounds
- Offline listening
- Integration with other apps
- Stack playlists
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Shape your mindset with customizable Brainwave Entrainment Stacks. Listen in Binaural, Monaural, Isochronic, or combined Binaural + Isochronic Tone Modes. Headphones are optional when listening to Monaural or Isochronic tones. Start with 100+ included Explore Stacks, or create your own by combining any of 300+ Multi-Stage Brainwave Entrainment programs with Guided Breathing and background audio elements into an integrated Stack. NeuralStack.io is designed for people who want more than fixed audio tracks. Instead of locking you into pre-made sessions and pre-mixed tones, NeuralStack.io provides advanced tone modulation and flexible tools to create custom soundscapes, so you can shape your ideal mindset for any situation. Includes 300+ advanced brainwave entrainment programs for focus, relaxation, stress relief, memory, insomnia relief, sleep, meditation, anxiety relief, and much more. Create custom multi-stage brainwave entrainment programs for your Stacks: * Add or remove stages, fine-tune stage durations. * Specify any beat frequency from 0.5–100 Hz. * Specify fractional frequencies with 2-decimal precision. * Choose carrier frequencies from 100–1000 Hz with automatic power equalization. * Listen in 4 Tone Modes: Binaural, Monaural, Isochronic, or phase-synchronized Binaural + Isochronic modes. * Supports Schumann Resonance frequencies (ex 7.83 Hz). Listen alongside other audio/video apps: * Set your preference to allow other apps at the app-level or the stack-level. Listen Offline: * Audio resources are synchronized to the device instead of being streamed, eliminating network traffic, saving battery life, and allowing you to listen offline. Guided Breathing: * Remix the included breathing programs to match your pace. * Create custom multi-stage breathing programs with adjustable tempo, text, and visuals. * Supports fractional breathing patterns, such as Coherent 5.5 second cycles. Advanced Global Settings * Use the app's Global Settings to modify tone characteristics, such as cycles-per-pulse and gain to sharpen or soften isochronic and monaural modulation. Stack Playlists * Organize your Stacks into playlists to support your daily routine. * Create sequences of Stacks that use different Tone Modes. Ambience and Nature * Layer dynamic ambience and nature sounds. * Remix programs, combining them to create multi-stage ambient and nature programs, and reuse them across different Stacks. Solfeggio and Schumann Frequencies * Includes single and multi-stage entrainment programs utilizing Solfeggio carrier frequencies and Schumann resonant beat frequencies to be remixed and customized. Color Noise * Layer a color noise element into your stack for sound masking and tinnitus relief. Pure Sine Waves * Create pure sine waves from 100 to 1000 Hz with power equalization and 2-decimal precision. * Remix and combine programs to create multi-stage Solfeggio progressions. Custom Audio Programs * Integrate personal audio files into your Stacks. * Note: This feature is only intended for personal audio files, such as those recorded with voice recording apps, and cannot access copy-protected audio or audio from streaming services. Subscription Required NeuralStack.io offers a free trial. Continued access to all features and content requires an auto-renewing subscription. Subscription options: $2.99/month or $24.99/year. These prices are for the United States, pricing in other countries may vary. Subscription will automatically renew unless turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends. You can go to your App Store Account settings to manage your subscription and turn off auto-renew. Your App Store Account will be charged when the purchase is confirmed. If you subscribe before your free trial ends, the rest of your free trial period will be forfeited as soon as your purchase is confirmed. Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy https://neuralstack.io/#privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: My Lighthouse at every 5 days against NeuralStack.io™'s every 3 weeks. NeuralStack.io™'s advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, 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. My Lighthouse sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month and NeuralStack.io™ sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
My Lighthouse ships an update every 5 days, NeuralStack.io™ every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | My Lighthouse | NeuralStack.io™ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 179 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Synquire Ltd | Banzai Labs |
Customer experience
My Lighthouse
NeuralStack.io™
In-app purchases
My Lighthouse
- Monthly Subscription1 Month trial$2.991 Month
NeuralStack.io™
- NeuralStack.io Monthly Subscription14 Days trial$2.991 Month
- NeuralStack.io Annual Subscription14 Days trial$24.991 Year
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