Night Whisper vs Sorta Zen
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Night Whisper
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Night Whisper is a calm space designed to help you unwind, slow down, and ease into sleep—gently and naturally. Build your perfect soundscape by layering rain, wind, fire, and night sounds, and fine-tune the balance that feels right for you. Save your favorite nights and return to them anytime. Explore immersive sleep stories crafted with expert sound design, where narration is enhanced by carefully layered soundscapes and music. Adjust voice, sound, and music levels to shape each story to your comfort. Night Whisper also offers guided meditations for sleep, designed to help you release the day and settle your body and mind into rest. Complement your routine with calming, lyric-free music and science-backed binaural beats—tuned for sleep, naps, focus, relaxation, meditation, and wake-up. Everything in Night Whisper is thoughtfully crafted to support real nights, without pressure or distraction—so you can rest in a way that feels right for you. Privacy Policy: https://nightwhisper.app/privacy Terms of Service: https://nightwhisper.app/terms
Sorta Zen
This app provides a minimalist meditation timer with optional background sounds and interval bells. It focuses on a simple, distraction-free experience without gamification or tracking features. Designed for quiet contemplation, it offers a straightforward way to practice mindfulness.
- Meditation timer
- Background sounds
- Interval bells
- Ad-free experience
- No user accounts
- Distraction-free interface
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It’s a meditation app. Eventually, you meditate. If you need a little help getting there, you can start with Touchscreen Meditation or a short daily talk. Then the app shuts up. The timer, Touchscreen Meditation, background sounds, and interval bells are free. The first 10 daily talks are free too. After that, the talks are an optional $20/year subscription that renews until canceled. There are no courses to complete. No libraries to browse. No streaks, badges, leaderboards, notifications, user accounts, mood tracking, sleep stories, ads, or little graphs implying you’re becoming a better person. Just a simple place to sit quietly for a while. Enlightenment not guaranteed. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.sortazen.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Night Whisper at 15.0 against Sorta Zen's 18.0. 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. Night Whisper sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Sorta Zen sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $20.00 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Night Whisper ships an update every 10 days, Sorta Zen weekly. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.
| Parameter | Night Whisper | Sorta Zen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 208 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Night Whisper Studio, Inc. | Patrick Griffith |
In-app purchases
Night Whisper
- NightWhisper Plus Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- NightWhisper Plus Yearly$59.991 Year
Sorta Zen
- Food For Non-Thought1 Month trial$20.001 Year
