Guided Alchemy vs Run Wilder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Guided Alchemy
This app helps you recall dreams and achieve lucidity through daily voice journaling. It transforms your spoken reflections into narrated summaries, fostering self-awareness and a deeper connection to your subconscious.
- Daily voice note recording
- Personal narrated reflections
- Dream recall assistance
- Lucid dreaming trigger
- Private dream journal collection
- Subconscious connection
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Speak your dream before it fades. Guided Alchemy is a voice-first dream journal. Each morning you talk for a minute or two about whatever you remember. Settings, characters, feelings, fragments. Later that day, at a time you choose, a narrated reflection comes back to you. The gap between those two moments is the point. You catch the dream while it is still raw, then meet it again hours later, in the middle of an ordinary Tuesday. WHY VOICE Dreams go strange the moment you start typing them. Speaking is faster and looser, and it keeps the feeling in. Guided Alchemy asks you to talk before words harden. WHAT COMES BACK A personal reflection, narrated, delivered at the moment you picked. Lunchtime. The dead hour at four. Whenever you might appreciate a little grounding. It draws only on what you actually said. Noticing how a dream's emotion moves through your waking hours is a practice. It may sharpen your recall over time. For some people that noticing becomes a trigger for lucidity, the moment of recognizing you are dreaming while you are still inside the dream. SOME MORNINGS THERE IS NOTHING Speak the residue instead. How you woke up. What was still sitting in your chest. Blank mornings are part of the practice, and it builds over weeks. YOUR ARCHIVE Every entry is saved and searchable. Look up a person, a place, a recurring object, and see every dream it appears in. Patterns surface on their own once there is enough to look across. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your recordings stay on your device or in your personal iCloud. Sign in with Apple. Download a copy of everything, any time you want. Two minutes in the morning. One reflection in the afternoon. That is the whole practice.
Run Wilder
This app helps women run more informed by analyzing route safety. Create routes with instant safety scores based on crime density, street conditions, and time of day. Explore routes created by others and find opportunities to run together.
- Route safety scoring
- Time-of-day analysis
- Crime density data
- Street condition analysis
- Explore community routes
- Find running partners
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Map your route, check street data, run informed. BUILT FOR WOMEN. BY WOMEN. Wilder is the running route app built to help women run more informed by analyzing route safety. CREATE ROUTES WITH INSTANT SAFETY SCORES. Every running route you create is scored for safety by time of day. Morning and night are different runs. Each route score is powered by real data: - Crime density along your route - Street conditions: lighting, foot traffic, sidewalks - Elevation profile - Time-of-day analysis: Morning · Afternoon · Evening · Night Check your score before you head out. Run with confidence. EXPLORE ROUTES NEAR YOU Browse routes created and rated by other runners in your area. Filter by distance, time of day, or proximity then tap to see the full safety breakdown before you go. RUN TOGETHER - See upcoming runs near you - Tap any run to view the route, meeting point, and who's going - Post a run and invite your community to join Because running with someone is the best safety feature there is.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Run Wilder at none against Guided Alchemy's 3. Run Wilder also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs monthly) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.4). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Guided Alchemy sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Run Wilder asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Guided Alchemy against 5.0 for Run Wilder. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 3 respectively.
Guided Alchemy ships an update monthly, Run Wilder every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Guided Alchemy | Run Wilder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.4 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 208 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Remind Voice LTD | Alysha Cormack |
Customer experience
Guided Alchemy
Run Wilder
In-app purchases
Guided Alchemy
- Monthly subscription$5.991 Month
- Annual subscription$34.991 Year
- Lifetime patron$700.00
Run Wilder
No in-app purchases









