Comparison

EMDR Sound Relax vs Rescript Sleep

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

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About

EMDR Sound Relax

This app uses EMDR therapy techniques with visual and auditory stimulation to help reduce emotional distress and promote relaxation. It features nature sounds, Solfeggio frequencies, and a customizable frequency generator for a personalized healing experience.

Highlights
  • EMDR therapy with visual stimulation
  • Calming nature sounds
  • Solfeggio frequencies for healing
  • Customizable frequency generator
  • Instrumental music
  • Advanced audio settings
Features
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Experience deep relaxation and healing with EMDR Sound Relax. Our app offers a unique blend of therapeutic features: EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy uses eye movements as a form of stimulation in both sides of the brain to reduce the effects of traumatic memories and emotional distress. EMDR Therapy: Try Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy with a moving seaball and peaceful landscape scenery such as a rainy forest, snow, lake, and sea, The headphone sound balance is adjusted according to the ball's movement to the right or left. Relaxing Nature Sounds: Choose from calming nature sounds like river, rain, campfire, sea, forest, waterfall, and brown noise. Solfeggio Frequencies: Explore the healing benefits of Solfeggio Frequencies, including: 50Hz: Deep Sleep 111Hz: Divine Frequency 144Hz: Mental Clarity 174Hz: Pain Relief 285Hz: Tissue Healing 320Hz: Rose Smell 396Hz: Fear Release 417Hz: Wipe out Negativity 432Hz: Stress Relief 528Hz: Love Energy 639Hz: Harmonization 741Hz: Detoxification 852Hz: Intuition 963Hz: Consciousness Frequency Generator: Customize your experience with a frequency generator offering different waveforms such as sinusoidal, square wave, sawtooth, triangle, from 1Hz to 20000Hz. Instrumental Music: Enjoy soothing instrumental music tuned to 417Hz and 432Hz frequencies. Advanced Settings: Take control with advanced settings for ball speed, audio balance, vibration, volume control of solfeggio frequencies and nature sounds, and more. Ball size and ball spin speed settings are available on Pro version! Relax, unwind, and restore balance with EMDR Sound Relax.

About

Rescript Sleep

This app helps you overcome recurring nightmares by guiding you through a proven therapy technique. You'll log your nightmares, rewrite their endings, and rehearse the new versions during the day to reduce their impact on your sleep.

Highlights
  • Nightmare logging
  • Customizable ending rewrites
  • Daily rehearsal reminders
  • Weekly progress review
  • Private data storage
  • Imagery Rehearsal Therapy method
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Some nightmares don't visit once. They come back — the same road, the same room, the same thing behind you — until going to sleep starts to feel like something you'd rather avoid. Rescript Sleep is built around one established practice for exactly that: you take the nightmare that keeps returning, write a different ending for it, and rehearse the new version while you're awake. That's the whole method. It comes from Imagery Rehearsal Therapy, which the American Academy of Sleep Medicine gives its strongest recommendation for nightmare disorder. The app's only job is making that easy enough to keep doing. HOW IT WORKS Log it the morning after. Three taps, about thirty seconds, designed for someone barely awake. "No nightmare" is worth logging too — that's what progress gets measured against. Name it briefly. Speak or type for up to ninety seconds. Enough to recognise it later, deliberately not enough to relive it. Write the ending you want. A blank page and one instruction: change it any way you wish. You are the author. That part is not a formality — it's how the method works. Rehearse it in the afternoon. A few quiet minutes with your own story, with an optional daily reminder. Kept away from bedtime on purpose, so bed never gets paired with the nightmare. WHAT IT WON'T DO It won't tell you what your dreams mean. No symbols, no analysis, no interpretation. The practice doesn't need it, and interpretation is where apps like this do harm. It won't chase you. No streaks, no badges, no bedtime notifications. Progress is measured in quieter nights, not in days opened. It won't write your rewrite for you. Handing you an ending would be a different thing from the one that has evidence behind it. It won't send your nightmares anywhere. Entries stay on your device and back up to your own iCloud, which we cannot read. Voice notes are transcribed on your phone and never uploaded. The app makes one network request in total, when you open Settings, and it sends nothing. WHAT PROGRESS LOOKS LIKE A weekly review showing how often nightmares happened, how distressing they were, and how many nights you practised. Only measures that nightmare research actually tracks. No scores, no grades, and it says plainly when a pattern isn't evidence of cause. FREE, AND STAYING THAT WAY No subscription, no in-app purchases, nothing locked. We looked hard at a paid tier and the honest version kept collapsing — the one feature worth charging for would have sold people a worse practice. HONEST ABOUT THE EVIDENCE Imagery Rehearsal Therapy has strong evidence when delivered by a clinician. Evidence for fully self-guided app versions is thinner, and we'll keep saying so. Rescript Sleep is not a medical device. It does not diagnose or treat any condition, and it is not a substitute for professional care or emergency support. If nightmares are severely affecting your life, please speak with a clinician — this app is designed to sit alongside that, not to replace it. If you are in crisis, contact your local emergency number or a crisis line. A Remidy Labs app.

Screenshots

EMDR Sound Relax4 screens
Rescript Sleep4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Rescript Sleep at 5.0 against EMDR Sound Relax's 4.4. Rescript Sleep also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). EMDR Sound Relax's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 1). On price 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. EMDR Sound Relax sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Rescript Sleep asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Rescript Sleep holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: EMDR Sound Relax has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
EMDR Sound Relax versus Rescript Sleep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEMDR Sound RelaxRescript Sleep
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (13 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better1
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size250 MB8 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperAudiosdroid OURemidy Labs LLC

Customer experience

EMDR Sound Relax

All ratings11 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral18.2%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Rescript Sleep

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

EMDR Sound Relax

One-time1
  • EMDR Sound Relax PRO Version$1.99
None

Rescript Sleep

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is EMDR Sound Relax free?
EMDR Sound Relax is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Rescript Sleep free?
Rescript Sleep is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, EMDR Sound Relax or Rescript Sleep?
Rescript Sleep is rated higher. EMDR Sound Relax averages 4.4 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while Rescript Sleep averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do EMDR Sound Relax or Rescript Sleep have ads?
EMDR Sound Relax shows ads; Rescript Sleep does not.

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