Comparison

Maina vs Lisner

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Short video meditation lessons
  • Guided meditation practices
  • Connect with Apple Health for impact tracking
  • Progress visualization
  • Offline audio meditation playback
  • Private health data storage
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Voice-first thought capture
  • On-device AI transcription
  • Automatic headline summarization
  • Multi-language support
  • iCloud backup
  • Complete privacy by design
  • Distraction-free interface
Features
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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

Screenshots

Maina4 screens
Lisner4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Maina versus Lisner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMainaLisner
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (14 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews92.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings14 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size300 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLitchi Labs, LLCVira Holdings, Inc.

Customer experience

Maina

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive92.9%
Neutral7.1%
Negative0.0%

Lisner

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Maina

No in-app purchases

None

Lisner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Maina free?
Maina is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lisner free?
Lisner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Maina or Lisner?
Lisner is rated higher. Maina averages 4.7 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while Lisner averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Maina or Lisner have ads?
Neither Maina nor Lisner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Maina or Lisner?
Maina ships an update every 2 months, and Lisner every 3 weeks. Most recently, Maina was updated on October 2, 2026 and Lisner on October 8, 2026.

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