Comparison

Beats and Breath vs Willowave

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

Head to head
About

Beats and Breath

This app offers guided breathwork sessions combining ancient techniques with modern music and bioacoustics. It aims to reduce stress, enhance focus, improve mood, and promote self-discovery through immersive audio experiences. Access a library of sessions, live journeys, and community features to support personal growth.

Highlights
  • Guided breathwork sessions
  • Sonic Breathwork™ technology
  • Stress and anxiety reduction
  • Focus and clarity enhancement
  • Mood improvement
  • Access to on-demand library
  • Live virtual journeys
Features
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Beats and Breath is on a mission to activate human potential through the power of breath and sound.  We are a hub for healing and transformation, guiding and empowering your journey of self-discovery. Our innovative technology and practice, Sonic Breathwork™ blends ancient, science-backed rhythmic breathing techniques with modern, cutting-edge musical compositions and the latest advancements in bioacoustics to create an immersive, invigorating and expansive user experience.  Each of our sessions and journeys are curated with intention to help you: - Reduce Stress and Anxiety - Enhance Focus and Clarity - Experience Heightened States of Flow and Creativity - Improve Mood and Experience Greater Peace - Release of Limiting Beliefs, Fears and Doubts - Increase Energy and Vitality - Enhance Sleep Quality - Improve Digestion - Reach Heightened State of Self-Awareness and Consciousness - Experience a Greater Connection to Your Purpose and Destiny - Increase Manifestation Potential OUR MEMBERSHIP OFFERS: - Access to our full library of on-demand breathwork sessions with new sessions released each month - Innovative and cutting-edge musical composition - Live monthly virtual journeys - Workshops and challenges - Curated notifications to amplify your practice and ignite your personal growth - Session tracking and favoriting - A global community of daily breathers Subscription plans in the app are processed via your App Store account and will automatically renew under Apple's terms and conditions. All in-app purchases on your Beats and Breath account will adhere to App Store's payment, subscription, and refund policies. You can manage your subscription plans in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://beatsandbreath.com/privacy/ Terms & Conditions: https://beatsandbreath.com/terms/

About

Willowave

This app uses adaptive soundscapes, healing frequencies, and affirmations to help you reprogram your subconscious mind. It guides you through sonic journeys and offers personalized soundscapes to reshape your reality and manifest desired states.

Highlights
  • Adaptive soundscapes
  • Healing frequencies
  • Brainwave entrainment
  • Personalized affirmations
  • Nature ambience
  • Guided sonic journeys
Features
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Rewire your mind. Reshape your reality. Willowave turns intention into experience through vibration, subconscious reprogramming, and ancestral wisdom. Using adaptive soundscapes that weave together healing frequencies, brainwave entrainment, nature-inspired ambience, and affirmations, Willowave helps you rewire your subconscious, reshaping the reality you manifest for yourself. *Features: -Healing Frequencies: Science-backed tones designed to target specific processes or emotions. Once you choose your frequency, every sound in the app automatically tunes to it for maximum potency. -Brainwave Technology: Shift into Alpha, Theta, or Delta states for focus, meditation, sleep, or deep release. -Affirmations: Rewire your subconscious story by feeding it the truths you want to live. -Nature Ambience: Layer rain, fire, forest, or even a cat’s purr to create a sensory field of safety and peace, allowing your nervous system to relax. -Sonic Journeys: Guided rituals that combine breathwork, toning, and somatic imagery for deep transformation. -Practical Tools: Save your soundscapes, set timers, schedule sessions, and more. This is the alchemy at the heart of Willowave: a proprietary fusion of neuroscience, sound, and subtle magic that speaks to the subconscious in its own language—frequency, rhythm, and truth. *How It Works -Set Your Intention: Tell Willow (your AI guide) how you want to feel, what you’re ready to release, or what you’re calling in. -Receive Your Soundscape: Willow creates a personalized soundscape using healing frequencies, brainwave entrainment, adaptive music, and affirmations crafted to reprogram your subconscious. If you know what you want, you can also manually select your own. -Rewire Your Reality: Your brain treats thought like lived experience, activating the same neural pathways whether you’re remembering, imagining, or affirming. Willow’s affirmations harness this mechanism to rewrite your inner narrative. As your subconscious adopts new beliefs, your brain begins to seek—and create—patterns that confirm them. Reality reorganizes around your story. Every soundscape is an energetic technology, tuning your nervous system and subconscious to the state you desire. Whether you’re seeking clarity, confidence, love, creativity, or peace, Willowave brings it into resonance. *Why It Works Our brain is a pattern-matching engine. It doesn’t perceive reality as it is—it perceives reality as it expects it to be. Every thought, feeling, and sound reshapes the neural architecture that guides your perceptions, behaviors, and choices. Over time, this architecture becomes the scaffolding of your life. Willowave works by shifting that architecture at its root. Through repeated exposure to affirmations delivered in states of openness, Willowave rewires subconscious beliefs—reshaping the lens through which you engage with the world. As your inner story changes, your external reality follows.

Screenshots

Beats and Breath4 screens
Willowave4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Beats and Breath at 5.0 against Willowave's 4.3. Beats and Breath also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 83%) and ratings volume (74 vs 7). Willowave's advantage is monetization model (freemium vs subscription). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Beats and Breath sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month and Willowave sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Beats and Breath holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Beats and Breath has 74 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Beats and Breath's written reviews are positive against 83% of Willowave's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Beats and Breath ships an update every 2 weeks, Willowave monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Beats and Breath versus Willowave: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeats and BreathWillowave
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (74 ratings) — better4.3 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better83.3% of reviews
Number of ratings74 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.0.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size86 MB77 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChristopher WilsonDawnlight Studios LLC

Customer experience

Beats and Breath

All ratings67 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews54 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Willowave

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

Bugs and requests

Beats and Breath

Requested features

5 requests
  • Display breath pattern in info window
  • Show total time spent on Breathwork
  • Add dark mode option
  • More options for session lengths
  • Integration with other wellness platforms

Willowave

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Beats and Breath

Subscriptions4
  • Full Access for Month1 Month trial3 variants$12.991 Month
  • Full Access for Month3 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • Full access for a year1 Year trial3 variants$99.991 Year
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  • Full access for a year7 Days trial$99.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$299.00
6 purchases

Willowave

Subscriptions2
  • Willowave Premium Monthly7 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Willowave Premium Annual7 Days trial$69.991 Year
One-time4
  • Alan Watts Lectures$1.99
  • Grabovoi Numbers$1.99
  • Silas Dubelaar$2.99
Show 1 more
  • Bhikkhu Bodhi$2.99

Questions

Is Beats and Breath free?
Beats and Breath is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Willowave free?
Willowave is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Beats and Breath or Willowave?
Beats and Breath is rated higher. Beats and Breath averages 5.0 out of 5 from 74 ratings, while Willowave averages 4.3 from 7 ratings.
Do Beats and Breath or Willowave have ads?
Neither Beats and Breath nor Willowave shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Beats and Breath or Willowave?
Beats and Breath ships an update every 2 weeks, and Willowave monthly. Most recently, Beats and Breath was updated on October 24, 2026 and Willowave on October 4, 2026.

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