Maina vs Lisner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Maina
This app helps you build a consistent meditation habit by showing you the real-world impact of your practice. It blends quick lessons with your health data to reveal how meditation affects your sleep, stress, and overall well-being. Understand why you feel better by tracking your progress and seeing tangible results.
- Short video meditation lessons
- Guided meditation practices
- Connect with Apple Health for impact tracking
- Progress visualization
- Offline audio meditation playback
- Private health data storage
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Stress doesn’t wait for a quiet moment. It shows up before a meeting, after a stressful message, while sitting in the car, or at the end of a long day. Maina is a micro-breathwork app for real life stress. Start with a breathing check to see how you’re handling stress. Then use the Sigh, a simple guided breathing exercise to calm your mind quickly. Build a breathwork habit and see what changes over time using simple mood check-ins, breathing checks, and Apple Health metrics like heart rate variability (HRV), resting heart rate (RHR), movement, and sleep. How Maina works: • Check your breathing Get a baseline for how your body may be responding to stress. • Use micro-breathwork Practice short guided breathing exercises for calm, focus, and unwinding. • Build a habit Stay consistent without needing a long meditation routine. • See what changes Connect Apple Health to see how your breathwork practice is affecting your HRV, RHR, movement, sleep, and more. • Stay private Your sensitive health information stays securely on your device. Maina is not another app asking you to meditate for 30 minutes. It is a practical breathwork tool for real life stress. Thanks for giving Maina a try. If it’s not the right fit yet, you might explore other meditation, sleep, breathwork, and relaxation apps like Calm, Headspace, Insight Timer, Reveri, Breathwrk, Stoic, Balance, Waking Up, Ten Percent Happier, Aura, or Mindshine.
Lisner
This voice-first journal app allows you to quickly capture thoughts by speaking, with on-device AI transcribing and summarizing your entries. It prioritizes privacy by never storing or sending your audio, offering seamless iCloud backup and a distraction-free interface.
- Voice-first thought capture
- On-device AI transcription
- Automatic headline summarization
- Multi-language support
- iCloud backup
- Complete privacy by design
- Distraction-free interface
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Sometimes you just need someone to listen. Lisner is a voice-first thought journal built for the way busy, creative, and neurodivergent minds actually work. A thought hits you mid-run, mid-meeting, mid-shower — tap once, speak, and it's saved. No typing. No friction. TAP. TALK. DONE. Hold the record button. Speak freely. Lisner transcribes your voice entirely on-device — a state-of-the-art AI model built into your iPhone. Your audio is never recorded, never stored, and never sent anywhere. SMART, ON-DEVICE AI An AI headline summarizes each thought in one crisp line so you can scan your whole week at a glance. If a headline ever gets stale after you edit a thought, Lisner silently fixes it in the background — automatically. SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE Record in any of 99 languages. Lisner detects your language automatically and translates everything into English before saving — no setup required. ICLOUD BACKUP — YOUR THOUGHTS, EVERYWHERE. Lisner seamlessly syncs your thoughts to iCloud. Restore everything on a new device, instantly. You stay in control — iCloud backup is on by default and can be turned off anytime from the Permissions screen. COMPLETELY PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Audio is never stored — only the transcript is kept • Thoughts live locally on your iPhone using Apple's SwiftData • iCloud sync uses Apple's encrypted CloudKit infrastructure • No ads. No tracking. No selling your data. • Delete your account and every thought — on-device and in the cloud — instantly, anytime. BUILT FOR YOUR BRAIN Soft colors. No streaks. No guilt trips. Lisner is a calm, distraction-free space to offload whatever is in your head so you can stop carrying it around. A 30-day Recently Deleted bin means nothing is gone for good until you choose. The best thoughts are the ones you don't lose. Lisner makes sure you never lose them. https://lisner.ai/terms.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Lisner at 5.0 against Maina's 4.7. Lisner also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Maina's advantage is ratings volume (14 vs 2). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Lisner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Maina has 14 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 93% of Maina's written reviews are positive against 100% of Lisner's.
Maina ships an update every 2 months, Lisner every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Maina | Lisner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (14 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 300 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Litchi Labs, LLC | Vira Holdings, Inc. |
Customer experience
Maina
Lisner
In-app purchases
Maina
No in-app purchases
Lisner
No in-app purchases








