Comparison

NeuralStack.io™ vs Golden Hour Focus

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

Golden Hour Focus

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Golden Hour generates continuous focus audio on your iPhone — a steady, tuned blend of music and noise designed for deep work. Nothing streams and nothing repeats: the audio is created live on your device, works fully offline, and runs all day. Set your blend, press play, work. No accounts, no subscription, nothing collected. WHAT IT DOES • Generates a continuous soundscape on device — a soft chord pad, gentle noise, and an optional lo-fi backing with drums and bass • Balance the blend between noise and music with one slider • Adapt to Room listens for two seconds and shapes the masking noise to your space — analysed on device, never recorded • New Feel re-styles the music without touching your settings • A session timer that eases down gently at the end rather than stopping abruptly • Plays alongside your own music, so you can layer it under whatever you're listening to • Runs in the background with lock screen controls and a Control Center toggle PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no sign-up, no subscription, and no analytics. Nothing you do in the app is collected or sent anywhere — it all stays on your device, and it all works in airplane mode.

Screenshots

NeuralStack.io™4 screens
Golden Hour Focus1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Golden Hour Focus at none against NeuralStack.io™'s 2. NeuralStack.io™'s advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Golden Hour Focus asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
NeuralStack.io™ versus Golden Hour Focus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNeuralStack.io™Golden Hour Focus
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size179 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBanzai LabsLuke David

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
None

Golden Hour Focus

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NeuralStack.io™ free?
NeuralStack.io™ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Golden Hour Focus free?
Golden Hour Focus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do NeuralStack.io™ or Golden Hour Focus have ads?
Neither NeuralStack.io™ nor Golden Hour Focus shows ads.

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