Comparison

Regulate vs Thinking Walks

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

Head to head
About

Regulate

Enhance your mental and physical state in real time with science-backed breathwork exercises. Designed for professionals, this app helps boost focus, reduce stress, recover energy, and improve sleep for peak performance.

Highlights
  • Real-time state regulation
  • Guided breathwork sessions
  • Focus enhancement
  • Stress reduction
  • Energy recovery
  • Sleep improvement
  • Performance tracking
Features
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Unlock sustainable peak performance. Top athletes prepare their state before every high-stakes moment. Most professionals don’t. Regulate closes the performance gap — helping leaders and teams shift their mental and physical state in real time. It’s the breathwork app for the workday, built to boost focus, reduce stress, recover energy and improve sleep so you can perform at your best. TRUSTED BY TOP ATHLETES Elite athletes use Regulate to prepare, perform and recover. Now the same tools fit into your workday. WHY THIS MATTERS The modern work environment constantly pulls you off balance: • Always-on digital routines • Fragmented attention and dopamine-driven feeds • Isolation in hybrid and remote setups • Constant pressure and uncertainty The cost is business-critical: fatigue, reactivity, poor decisions. State management isn’t wellness — it’s a leadership skill. THE SOLUTION — REGULATE Science-backed breathwork for mental performance. Fast, practical, measurable. • Workday Focus — enter meetings clear and composed • Stress Relief — regulate your nervous system in minutes • Energy Boost — reset between calls without caffeine • Sleep & Recovery — down-regulate before bed for deep rest Each session is designed by breathwork and performance coaches and proven through wearable data (HRV, resting heart rate, sleep). WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT • Real-time regulation — shift your state instantly • Two-way control — activate or calm with one tool • 96% of surveyed users report benefits (internal survey, 2025) • Trusted by Europe’s most innovative companies • Enterprise-ready • Based on research on breathwork (Harvard Medical School (July 2024), Stanford Medicine (Feb. 2023)) Wearables measure stress. Meditation apps calm you. Regulate changes your state — in real time. HOW IT WORKS 1. Choose your goal — Focus, Energy, Calm, or Sleep 2. Follow guided sessions (1–30 min) 3. Feel the shift instantly — and build resilience over time With regular use, Regulate builds long-term resilience, strengthens mental performance, and enhances productivity throughout the workday. FREE TO START Start with daily sessions — no ads, no long sign-up. Upgrade to Regulate Premium for full access to programs, deeper breathwork journeys, and performance tracking. Regulate — the Breathwork App for Professionals. Train your breath. Control your state. Think clearly. Sleep deeply. Lead effectively.

About

Thinking Walks

Features
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A Thinking Walk is a half-hour walk with someone who keeps you sharp. You each walk your own route, in your own city, but you start on the same second, hear the same music, and know the other one is out there too. No video call, no chat, no screen. Just walking, listening and thinking about one question. PLANNING WITHOUT THE BACK-AND-FORTH Tap three moments that suit you and send a link. Your buddy picks one, even without the app. It lands in both calendars as a normal appointment, once or every week. START TOGETHER, HEAR TOGETHER Open the walk just before it begins and the start happens on its own. Both phones play the same playlist from the same second, synced to a shared clock. The music is on your phone in advance, so it works without signal. YOUR MUSIC OR OURS Add your own audio files from Files or iCloud Drive. They stay private, playable only by you and your buddy. Or pick from the Thinking Walks library: royalty-free tracks at walking tempo, credited to their makers. THE RACE TRACK AND YOUR BEAT SCORE The next seconds of the song lie on the road as a waveform, so you see the build-up and the drop coming. Your beat score shows how well you walk in time, live next to your buddy's. Afterwards it counts: records, streaks and averages, just for the two of you. QUIET BY DEFAULT, ONE TAP TO TALK Want to say something on the way? Tap the mic and your buddy hears you live, over the music. Phone to phone, never recorded. YOU KNOW THEY'RE WALKING. NOTHING ELSE. During the walk you only see whether your buddy is walking too. No location, no heart rate. Afterwards you can share your route; the start and end stay hidden. LOGGED AUTOMATICALLY WITH APPLE WATCH When the walk begins, your Apple Watch workout starts with it. Distance, pace and heart rate land in Health. Without a Watch, your iPhone logs the walk. Health data stays on your device. WRAP UP OUT LOUD After the walk, record a short note on where you landed. No keyboard, only voices. Every walk stays easy to find, together with what you said. NO BUDDY YET? Try a walk with the demo buddy and feel how it works before you invite anyone. Thinking Walks is free, with no ads and no subscription. Privacy: https://thinkingwalks.app/privacy Terms: https://thinkingwalks.app/terms

Screenshots

Regulate4 screens
Thinking Walks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Thinking Walks at none against Regulate's 4. On price, ads, 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. Regulate sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Thinking Walks asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Regulate versus Thinking Walks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRegulateThinking Walks
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.417.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size83 MB48 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperRegulate GmbHPitstop Payments B.V.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Regulate

Subscriptions4
  • Regulate Monthly$12.991 Month
  • Regulate Yearly Community Offer7 Days trial$69.991 Year
  • Regulate Yearly 14 Days Trial14 Days trial$79.991 Year
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  • Regulate Yearly7 Days trial$79.991 Year
None

Thinking Walks

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Regulate free?
Regulate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Thinking Walks free?
Thinking Walks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Regulate or Thinking Walks have ads?
Neither Regulate nor Thinking Walks shows ads.

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