Comparison

Aliven vs NP CARES

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Guided somatic journeys
  • Sensory-based practices
  • Movement and breathwork
  • Embodied rituals
  • Progress tracking
  • Offline sync
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • Guided reset programs
  • Mediterranean-inspired recipes
  • Nervous system practices
  • Lifestyle rhythm practices
  • Habit and lifestyle tracking
  • Community discussions
Features
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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

Screenshots

Aliven3 screens
NP CARES4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Aliven ships an update every 2 months, NP CARES every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 4, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Aliven versus NP CARES: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAlivenNP CARES
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size92 MB87 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperAlicja ZwardonNicole Punzi

Customer experience

Aliven

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

NP CARES

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Aliven

Subscriptions1
  • Daily Practice App Access$16.001 Month
8 purchases

NP CARES

Subscriptions4
  • 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
One-time4
  • 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

Questions

Is Aliven free?
Aliven is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is NP CARES free?
NP CARES is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Aliven or NP CARES?
Aliven and NP CARES are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Aliven or NP CARES have ads?
Both Aliven and NP CARES show ads.
Which is updated more often, Aliven or NP CARES?
Aliven ships an update every 2 months, and NP CARES every 3 weeks. Most recently, Aliven was updated on November 4, 2026 and NP CARES on November 4, 2026.

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