Neurotoned vs Smiling Faces
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Neurotoned
This app offers guided exercises and customized programs based on neuroscience and therapeutic techniques to help reset your nervous system. It aims to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and foster emotional resilience through expert-led content and community support.
- Daily nervous system reset exercises
- Customized healing journeys
- Expert guidance from therapists
- Trauma-informed yoga
- Community and support
- Progress tracking
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Feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck in survival mode? The Neurotoned App guides you step-by-step to gently reset your nervous system using proven techniques based on neuroscience, trauma-informed care, and therapeutic movement. What You'll Experience: Daily Nervous System Reset Exercises: Short, easy-to-follow exercises designed by nervous system experts that help relieve anxiety, stress, trauma responses, fatigue, and emotional numbness. Customized Healing Journeys: Tailor your experience with programs specifically crafted for anxiety relief, trauma recovery, improving sleep, overcoming chronic fear, managing dissociation, and coping with grief and loss. Expert Guidance at Your Fingertips: Learn from world-class therapists, trauma specialists, somatic experiencing practitioners, and yoga therapists dedicated to helping you feel safe, grounded, and present in your body. Accessible and Adaptive Yoga: Therapeutic, trauma-informed yoga exercises focused on body-awareness and nervous system regulation—suitable for all levels, including specialized options for mobility limitations. Community & Support: Access to an uplifting, supportive community that understands your journey and dedicated Neurotoned guides who personally support your progress. Progress Tracking & Mindful Check-ins: Easy-to-use tools to help you notice shifts in your well-being, mood, sleep quality, and resilience, reinforcing your healing journey. Proven, Science-Backed Results: Reduce anxiety and overwhelm Improve sleep and energy levels Rebuild emotional resilience Reconnect to your body and emotions Break free from trauma patterns without re-living painful memories Neurotoned isn't a replacement for medical care—it's your daily companion in building a healthier nervous system, feeling empowered, and reclaiming your life. Download Neurotoned today and start your journey toward lasting calm, clarity, and connection. END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Smiling Faces
A simple, calming practice for busy minds. Focus on finding a single smiling face among many, with no timers or scores. Designed to reduce stress and promote well-being in just a few minutes.
- Positive attention practice
- Find the smiling face
- No timers or scores
- Reduces stress
- Promotes well-being
- Private and ad-free
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Smiling Faces is a small, gentle positive attention practice for busy minds. Among a crowd of faces, one is smiling. Your only task is to find it. No timer racing against you, no score to beat, no streak to maintain. Just a quiet moment of focused attention, whenever you need one. Take two minutes, find the smile, find your calm. It's built on a simple idea from attention research: gently directing your focus toward positive cues can help settle a restless mind, decrease stress and increase feelings of wellbeing. A calmer few minutes: No pressure, no penalties. Play for as long or as little as you like. Positive by design: Every round ends on a smile. The practice is quiet, warm, and made to leave you a little steadier than you started. Yours, privately: No accounts, no ads, no tracking. Just you and a moment of calm. Best as a small daily habit, but there's no wrong way to use it, and no judgement either.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Smiling Faces at 100% against Neurotoned's 50%. Smiling Faces also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.7) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Neurotoned's advantage is price (Free vs $2.99). On ratings volume, update cadence, 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
Neurotoned is free to download; Smiling Faces costs $2.99 up front. Neurotoned sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Smiling Faces asks for nothing beyond the download.
Smiling Faces holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Neurotoned's written reviews are positive against 100% of Smiling Faces's.
Neurotoned ships an update every 3 weeks, Smiling Faces every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Neurotoned | Smiling Faces |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 3.7 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #128 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Neurotoned LLC | Anthropic Advisory, LLC |
Customer experience
Neurotoned
Smiling Faces
In-app purchases
Neurotoned
- 30-Day Neurotoned Program$29.00
Smiling Faces
No in-app purchases
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