Aliven vs NP CARES
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Aliven
This app offers guided somatic practices, sensory exercises, and embodied rituals to deepen your connection with your body and enhance daily awareness. It helps you stabilize expanded states of consciousness and integrate them into everyday life, fostering creativity and intuition.
- Guided somatic journeys
- Sensory-based practices
- Movement and breathwork
- Embodied rituals
- Progress tracking
- Offline sync
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Aliven is a curated library of somatic practices designed to bring depth, sensation, and embodied awareness back into daily life. Aliven is for those who have touched expanded states — through travel, creativity, nature, ceremony, or peak experiences — and are looking for a way to live from that place, not chase it. Inside the app you’ll find guided somatic journeys, sensory-based practices, movement, breath, kriyas, meditations, and embodied rituals designed to reorganize how you perceive, move, and inhabit your body. These practices sharpen perception, restore contact with sensation, and bring aliveness back online — in a way that feels intelligent, grounded, and real. Use Aliven to: • Reconnect with your body beyond thinking about it • Stabilize expanded awareness into everyday life • Restore creativity, presence, and felt intuition • Move beyond mechanical routines into lived experience This is not about becoming someone new. It’s about returning to what’s already alive. INFORMATION ABOUT THE APP AND PURCHASE OPTIONS By signing up, you will get access to subscription(s) that include features such as progress tracking, and offline sync. The download of Aliven is free of charge. Should you use Aliven app to access in-app content, we offer one of the following options: Subscription based plan(s) - a recurring payment will be charged to your credit card after the trial period ends and when a subscription renews. A subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours prior to the end of the subscription period. There is no increase in price when renewing. Subscription(s) can be managed and auto-renewal turned off in Account Settings in the App Store after purchase. One-time purchase based plan(s) - a payment will be charged to your credit card only once. Read our full Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy: https://passion.io/terms-of-service https://passion.io/privacy-policy
NP CARES
This app helps users build sustainable daily routines for improved wellbeing. It offers guided resets, nervous system practices, and Mediterranean-inspired food guidance, focusing on simple steps for steady habit formation. Explore optional biological insights and community discussions for deeper support.
- Guided reset programs
- Mediterranean-inspired recipes
- Nervous system practices
- Lifestyle rhythm practices
- Habit and lifestyle tracking
- Community discussions
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NP CARES helps you know what to do for your body in real life. Instead of overthinking food, supplements, routines, or conflicting health advice, the app gives you calmer, clearer daily guidance you can actually follow. You open the app. You check in. You get one clear next step. Inside the app, you’ll find Mediterranean-inspired recipes, nervous-system-first nutrition, Functional Medicine guidance, daily check-ins, and direct human support when things feel off. NP CARES helps health feel simpler, calmer, and easier to maintain in everyday life. Created by Nicole Punzi after 15+ years working with Functional Medicine, lab testing, nutrition, and real client guidance. Because health doesn’t fail in theory. It fails in real life. Food. Nervous system. Mindset. INFORMATION ABOUT THE APP AND PURCHASE OPTIONS By signing up, you will get access to subscription(s) that include features such as progress tracking, and offline sync. The download of NP CARES is free of charge. Should you use NP CARES to access in-app content via available subscription(s), a payment will be charged to your credit card after the trial period ends and when a subscription renews. A subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours prior to the end of the subscription period. There is no increase in price when renewing. Subscription(s) can be managed and auto-renewal turned off in Account Settings in the App Store after purchase. Read our full Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy: https://passion.io/terms-of-service https://passion.io/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: NP CARES at every 3 weeks against Aliven's every 2 months. Aliven's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Aliven sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $16.00 per month and NP CARES sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $22.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Aliven against 5.0 for NP CARES. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Aliven ships an update every 2 months, NP CARES every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 4, 2026.
| Parameter | Aliven | NP CARES |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 92 MB | 87 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Alicja Zwardon | Nicole Punzi |
Customer experience
Aliven
NP CARES
In-app purchases
Aliven
- Daily Practice App Access$16.001 Month
NP CARES
- Foundation$22.991 Month
- Daily Support7 Days trial$44.991 Month
- Subscription7 Days trial$45.001 Month
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- Advisory$129.001 Month
- Mediterranean Course$69.00
- 10-day Longevity Plan!$79.00
- One time subscription$89.00
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- 1:1 Online Session$89.00









