Comparison

NeuralStack.io™ vs NeuroSounds

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

Head to head
About

NeuralStack.io™

Create personalized audio experiences for focus, sleep, and mindset enhancement. Combine brainwave entrainment, guided breathing, and ambient sounds to build custom 'Stacks'. Listen offline and alongside other apps.

Highlights
  • Customizable Stacks with multi-stage elements
  • Brainwave entrainment (0.5-100 Hz)
  • Guided breathing programs
  • Layered ambience and nature sounds
  • Offline listening
  • Integration with other apps
  • Stack playlists
Features
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Shape your mindset with customizable Brainwave Entrainment Stacks. Listen in Binaural, Monaural, Isochronic, or combined Binaural + Isochronic Tone Modes. Headphones are optional when listening to Monaural or Isochronic tones. Start with 100+ included Explore Stacks, or create your own by combining any of 300+ Multi-Stage Brainwave Entrainment programs with Guided Breathing and background audio elements into an integrated Stack. NeuralStack.io is designed for people who want more than fixed audio tracks. Instead of locking you into pre-made sessions and pre-mixed tones, NeuralStack.io provides advanced tone modulation and flexible tools to create custom soundscapes, so you can shape your ideal mindset for any situation. Includes 300+ advanced brainwave entrainment programs for focus, relaxation, stress relief, memory, insomnia relief, sleep, meditation, anxiety relief, and much more. Create custom multi-stage brainwave entrainment programs for your Stacks: * Add or remove stages, fine-tune stage durations. * Specify any beat frequency from 0.5–100 Hz. * Specify fractional frequencies with 2-decimal precision. * Choose carrier frequencies from 100–1000 Hz with automatic power equalization. * Listen in 4 Tone Modes: Binaural, Monaural, Isochronic, or phase-synchronized Binaural + Isochronic modes. * Supports Schumann Resonance frequencies (ex 7.83 Hz). Listen alongside other audio/video apps: * Set your preference to allow other apps at the app-level or the stack-level. Listen Offline: * Audio resources are synchronized to the device instead of being streamed, eliminating network traffic, saving battery life, and allowing you to listen offline. Guided Breathing: * Remix the included breathing programs to match your pace. * Create custom multi-stage breathing programs with adjustable tempo, text, and visuals. * Supports fractional breathing patterns, such as Coherent 5.5 second cycles. Advanced Global Settings * Use the app's Global Settings to modify tone characteristics, such as cycles-per-pulse and gain to sharpen or soften isochronic and monaural modulation. Stack Playlists * Organize your Stacks into playlists to support your daily routine. * Create sequences of Stacks that use different Tone Modes. Ambience and Nature * Layer dynamic ambience and nature sounds. * Remix programs, combining them to create multi-stage ambient and nature programs, and reuse them across different Stacks. Solfeggio and Schumann Frequencies * Includes single and multi-stage entrainment programs utilizing Solfeggio carrier frequencies and Schumann resonant beat frequencies to be remixed and customized. Color Noise * Layer a color noise element into your stack for sound masking and tinnitus relief. Pure Sine Waves * Create pure sine waves from 100 to 1000 Hz with power equalization and 2-decimal precision. * Remix and combine programs to create multi-stage Solfeggio progressions. Custom Audio Programs * Integrate personal audio files into your Stacks. * Note: This feature is only intended for personal audio files, such as those recorded with voice recording apps, and cannot access copy-protected audio or audio from streaming services. Subscription Required NeuralStack.io offers a free trial. Continued access to all features and content requires an auto-renewing subscription. Subscription options: $2.99/month or $24.99/year. These prices are for the United States, pricing in other countries may vary. Subscription will automatically renew unless turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends. You can go to your App Store Account settings to manage your subscription and turn off auto-renew. Your App Store Account will be charged when the purchase is confirmed. If you subscribe before your free trial ends, the rest of your free trial period will be forfeited as soon as your purchase is confirmed. Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy https://neuralstack.io/#privacy

About

NeuroSounds

Features
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NeuroSounds unlocks your mind's potential by using Binaural Beats - an auditory phenomenon where slightly different frequencies played in each ear create a perceived third, rhythmic beat. Your brain naturally aligns its electrical activity to this frequency - a process called “Neural Entrainment”. This gently encourages your brainwaves to shift towards desired states, supporting your cognitive and emotional well-being without conscious effort. -- -- -- -- Mental States NeuroSounds allows you to choose between the following specific Mental States, for your desired outcome: • Deep Sleep & Recovery (Delta) Use these frequencies when you need deep physical healing, total recovery from exhaustion, and restorative rest. • Deep Relax & Meditate (Theta) Use these frequencies to cultivate inner calm, deepen a mindfulness practice, or access quiet creative insight. • Relax & Unwind (Alpha) Use these frequencies to clear your head, enjoy light reading, or comfortably absorb new concepts. • Calm Focus & Study (Low Beta) Use these frequencies for technical learning, long reading sessions, and steady, uninterrupted study. • Alert & Active (Mid Beta) Use these frequencies when tackling demanding workloads, writing code, analyzing data, or managing complex active tasks. • Focus & Insight (Gamma) Use these frequencies for high-level problem solving, advanced pattern recognition, and breakthrough creative insights. -- -- -- -- Mental Presets NeuroSounds also offers the following selection of Presets for those who conveniently need to access a journey for a desired outcome: • Drift To Sleep Ideal for bedtime routines, late-night restlessness, or recovering from sleep disruption, this preset is designed to ease overactive night-time thoughts toward physical heaviness and deep sleep. Place your device nearby, close your eyes, and let the acoustic progression guide you into undisturbed, high-quality rest. • Meditative Cycle Ideal for midday resets, stress relief, and mindfulness practice, this cycle helps ease mental tension, restore emotional equilibrium, and enhance intrinsic self-awareness. You exit the session with a centered, resilient mind, recharged with calm focus and ready to re-engage with your day. • Cognitive Cycle Designed for long study sessions, complex problem solving, and intensive project execution, this cycle helps manage mental fatigue by matching your body’s natural BRAC physiological rhythm. It supports focused output while building in structured cognitive recovery, keeping you sharp, productive, and mentally sustainable throughout the day. • Calm Down From The Stress Ideal for high-stress work moments, post-confrontation resets, or easing intense overthinking, this preset helps bring you back to a state of calm productivity. It works to clear the mental static and physical tightness caused by high stress, supporting emotional control, objective decision-making, and composed focus so you can navigate the rest of your day with ease. • Push Through The Stress Ideal for high-pressure deadlines, emergency troubleshooting, or critical rapid-response scenarios, this preset helps channel nervous energy into high-throughput execution. It supports redirecting overwhelming stress into hyper-focused insight, rapid pattern recognition, and decisive action, helping you power through critical bottlenecks when failure is not an option. • Hyper Focus Cycle Designed for long-form deep work, complex architecture, and intensive project execution, this cycle structures a multi-hour focus session into a self-sustaining loop. Because it supports sustained productivity across both its ascent and descent phases while demanding heavy metabolic energy during the Gamma peak, Hyper Focus Cycle should be used strategically, no more than once or twice a day, to deliver maximum output while safeguarding long-term stamina. Apple Terms Of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

NeuralStack.io™4 screens
NeuroSounds4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: NeuralStack.io™ at none against NeuroSounds's shown. NeuroSounds's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. NeuralStack.io™ sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and NeuroSounds sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NeuralStack.io™ ships an update every 3 weeks, NeuroSounds every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
NeuralStack.io™ versus NeuroSounds: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNeuralStack.io™NeuroSounds
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 11 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size179 MB55 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBanzai LabsDamien Devillian

In-app purchases

2 purchases

NeuralStack.io™

Subscriptions2
  • NeuralStack.io Monthly Subscription14 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • NeuralStack.io Annual Subscription14 Days trial$24.991 Year
2 purchases

NeuroSounds

Subscriptions2
  • One Month$1.991 Month
  • Upgrade$9.991 Year

Questions

Is NeuralStack.io™ free?
NeuralStack.io™ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is NeuroSounds free?
NeuroSounds is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do NeuralStack.io™ or NeuroSounds have ads?
NeuroSounds shows ads; NeuralStack.io™ does not.
Which is updated more often, NeuralStack.io™ or NeuroSounds?
NeuralStack.io™ ships an update every 3 weeks, and NeuroSounds every 11 days. Most recently, NeuralStack.io™ was updated on October 6, 2026 and NeuroSounds on October 11, 2026.

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