Comparison

Hedepy vs One Sitting

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Hedepy

This app connects users with over 700 certified therapists for online psychotherapy. A special questionnaire helps find the ideal therapist, and the first session can be booked for the next day. A money-back guarantee is offered if the initial therapist isn't a good fit.

Highlights
  • Access to 700+ certified therapists
  • Personalized therapist matching questionnaire
  • Book sessions for the next day
  • Online therapy from home
  • Money-back guarantee for therapist fit
  • Focus on self-improvement and understanding
Features
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If you're thinking about psychotherapy, it's definitely worth a try. It is suitable for anyone who wants to work on themselves and understand themselves better. At Hedepy, you will find more than 700 certified therapists who are ready to embark with you on the journey to greater mental well-being. Our special questionnaire will help you choose the ideal one for you, because for the therapy to work, you first need a good therapist with whom you can get along. You can book your first session for tomorrow and it can take place from the comfort of your own sofa. And if you don't end up sitting down with a therapist, we'll refund your money so you can try someone else. Sometimes it's the hardest thing to do. Take the first step right now...

About

One Sitting

Features
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A timer for one meditation sitting, split into three phases: anapana → vipassana → metta. Nothing else. No accounts, no network, no analytics, no ads, no reminders, no streaks. Free forever. FOR PEOPLE WHO ALREADY SIT It is made for people who have sat a ten-day course and know what to do when the gong sounds. It teaches nothing: no instruction, no guidance, no recordings, no course material — only gongs and time. If you have not sat a course, this app will not teach you the technique, and no app can. The technique is taught on ten-day courses in the tradition of S. N. Goenka, given free of charge — dhamma.org. This app is not connected with them in any way. WHY THREE PHASES A sitting has a shape, and the app only marks its boundaries with sound so you don't have to watch the clock. • Anapana — the short opening. • Vipassana — the main and longest part. • Metta — the short closing. What actually happens inside each phase is what the course is for. You will not find it here. HOW IT WORKS • Set the total length, from 5 minutes to 3 hours. The split is calculated for you — one hour becomes 5 / 52 / 3 by default. • Presets are rules, not fixed lengths: fixed edges (5 min and 3 min), proportional (17% and 10%), or no anapana. Vipassana always takes the rest, so the parts always add up. You can add your own. • A high gong opens and closes the sitting; a low gong marks the beginning and the end of vipassana. Recordings of a real singing bowl. • Gongs play through the silent switch and with the screen locked, and are scheduled in advance so they stay on time. • The session screen is black and empty. Touch it to reveal the current phase and the time left for about five seconds, then it fades back to black. There is an optional always-visible timer with a progress ring, off by default. • Apple Watch: the same session, with a haptic tap at every gong, and a black face that stays black in Always-On. • Ending early takes a one-second hold. There is no pause: either you are sitting or you are not. APPLE HEALTH The time you actually sat is written to Apple Health as a mindfulness session — also when you end early, so what is recorded is what you sat, not what you planned. Sittings shorter than a minute are skipped. The app asks for permission once and only ever writes: it reads nothing back from Health. If you say no, everything else works exactly the same. PRIVACY The app has no networking code at all. Nothing is collected, nothing is sent, nothing to sign into. Your sittings stay in Health, on your device and in your own iCloud. Settings sync between your iPhone and Apple Watch through the same iCloud account. An independent app, made by one person. Not a medical device and not a substitute for care of any kind.

Screenshots

Hedepy4 screens
One Sitting4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Hedepy at 15.0 against One Sitting's 18.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Hedepy versus One Sitting: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHedepyOne Sitting
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (18 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings18 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size205 MB6 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperHedepy s.r.o.TOMASZ KAZIMIERSKI

In-app purchases

None

Hedepy

No in-app purchases

None

One Sitting

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hedepy free?
Hedepy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is One Sitting free?
One Sitting is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Hedepy or One Sitting have ads?
Neither Hedepy nor One Sitting shows ads.

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