Comparison

Brass Monkey vs Life Listener

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

Head to head
About

Brass Monkey

Control and monitor your smart bath or barrel remotely. Schedule cooling cycles, access product guidance, and receive maintenance reminders. Offers enhanced control for ice-generating products.

Highlights
  • Remote monitoring and control
  • Eco-friendly scheduling
  • Product guidance and maintenance reminders
  • Status updates and issue alerts
  • Enhanced ice generation control
  • Redesigned intuitive interface
Features
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Starting a journey with cold water? This app has free guided content and inspirational stories with plenty more to come in this space. For Brass Monkey customers, this app helps your bath or barrel become even smarter: • Use it to connect your bath or barrel to the Brass Monkey cloud for remote monitoring, support and software updates • Control your Brass Monkey from anywhere and set eco schedules for it to be cooling only when you need it to • Access product guidance and get reminders of maintenance tasks • See the status of your Brass Monkey and get notified of any issues • For those with a Brass Monkey zero degree ice generating product, this new app gives greater control of the bath’s patented ice cycles, offering 3 levels of ice generating intensity. The new features this app brings from the last: • A redesigned interface to make navigation and bath status more intuitive • As customers were telling us they want more control over exactly when the cooling engine is on or off, we’ve also simplified the scheduling feature • We’ve simplified the ice cycles on ice baths. So now, under 2 degrees, you can now set the intensity of ice production, removing the guesswork of using a temperature setting to get ice • Improved responsiveness between the app, Brass Monkey cloud and your bath • Greater set of maintenance reminders and issue alerts, with push notifications to your phone • Water flow rate alerts for chiller engine products.

About

Life Listener

Connect with trained human listeners for anonymous, non-judgmental conversations. Message at your own pace to process feelings of anxiety, loneliness, or being overwhelmed. This service offers a safe space to be heard and gain clarity without advice or therapy.

Highlights
  • Human listeners only
  • Structured reflective listening
  • Anonymous conversations
  • Free access
  • Daily mood check-ins
  • Reporting tools
Features
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Life Listener connects you with a trained human listener whenever you need space to talk something through. No bots. No scripts. No advice. You can message at your own pace, whether you are feeling anxious, overwhelmed, lonely or stuck. What makes Life Listener different: • Human listeners only • Structured reflective listening - not therapy, not advice • Anonymous conversations • Free access • Daily mood check-ins • Clear boundaries and reporting tools Our listeners are trained in reflective listening. They do not tell you what to do. They focus on helping you feel understood and think more clearly about what you are going through. Life Listener is designed for moments when you want: • A safe space to talk something through without being judged • Feel heard and less alone • Make sense of what you are feeling. It is not therapy. It is not a crisis service. If you are in immediate danger, please contact emergency services or a local crisis helpline.

Screenshots

Brass Monkey4 screens
Life Listener4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Brass Monkey at weekly against Life Listener's every 5 weeks. Brass Monkey also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 15.1). On price, rating, 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Brass Monkey against 5.0 for Life Listener. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Brass Monkey ships an update weekly, Life Listener every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Brass Monkey versus Life Listener: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrass MonkeyLife Listener
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.4 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB46 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperBrass Monkey Health LTDLife Listener

Customer experience

Brass Monkey

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Life Listener

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

In-app purchases

None

Brass Monkey

No in-app purchases

None

Life Listener

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Brass Monkey free?
Brass Monkey is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Life Listener free?
Life Listener is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Brass Monkey or Life Listener?
Brass Monkey and Life Listener are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Brass Monkey or Life Listener have ads?
Neither Brass Monkey nor Life Listener shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Brass Monkey or Life Listener?
Brass Monkey ships an update weekly, and Life Listener every 5 weeks. Most recently, Brass Monkey was updated on November 4, 2026 and Life Listener on October 31, 2026.

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