Comparison

Coherence vs GroundApp

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

Head to head
About

Coherence

Master your nervous system through guided breathwork. Access over 500 breathing patterns to shift your state, from calm and focus to energy and sleep. Connect with a global community in live sessions and create custom routines.

Highlights
  • Nervous system interface via breath
  • Shift states: calm, focus, energy, sleep
  • Daily global live breathing sessions
  • 500+ research-backed breathing patterns
  • Custom breathing sequence creator
  • Progress tracking and stats
  • Community features and leaderboards
Features
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YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM, ON DEMAND Coherence is a nervous system interface. Using the science of breath, shift into calm, focus, or energy in minutes. Your breath is the only autonomic function you can consciously control - a direct line to your nervous system. Coherence gives you the patterns to use it. SHIFT YOUR STATE - Calm: Activate your parasympathetic system to release stress - Focus: Enter alert relaxation for deep work - Energy: Stimulate your system for peak performance - Sleep: Downregulate for faster, deeper rest BREATHE WITH THE WORLD Join the Daily Sync - a live global session where people worldwide breathe together in perfect unison. Watch participants appear around a real-time 3D Earth. Set an intention. Experience collective coherence. 500+ BREATHING PATTERNS Techniques selected from peer-reviewed research and proven traditions: - Coherence: Heart-brain synchronization (5.5s rhythm) - Box Breath: Used by Navy SEALs for composure under pressure - 4-7-8: Vagal activation for rapid calm - Physiological Sigh: The fastest way to reduce stress - Vortex: Fibonacci-based energizing sequence - Tummo: Traditional Tibetan inner heat practice - Sleep, Focus, Energy patterns and more CREATE YOUR OWN Build custom breathing sequences with our visual editor. Set phase durations, add music from Spotify or Apple Music, record your own voice guidance, and share with the community. TRACK YOUR REGULATION - Streaks and daily practice stats - Session history and insights - Weekly progress visualization - Level progression system COMPETE & CONNECT - Weekly leagues with promotion and demotion - Global leaderboards - User profiles and friends - Invite others to sync sessions DESIGNED FOR FOCUS - Minimalist dark interface - Zen mode fades the UI so nothing distracts you - Beautiful animations guide your breath - Sonic cues keep you on rhythm - Works with screen off - Works in airplane mode SUBSCRIPTION All features require an active subscription: - Monthly: $9.99/month - Annual: $39.99/year (3-day free trial) - Cancel anytime in App Store settings Take control of your nervous system. Terms of Use: https://www.coherencebreath.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.coherencebreath.com/privacy

About

GroundApp

This app guides you through various breathing techniques to help regulate your nervous system and promote calm. It offers personalized plans based on your mood and energy levels, with features for tracking progress and integrating with health devices.

Highlights
  • Guided breathing techniques
  • Mood-based breathwork suggestions
  • Progress tracking and streaks
  • Live heart rate and HRV monitoring
  • Integration with Apple Health and wearables
  • AI-powered personalized plans
  • Advanced O2 and CO2 breath-hold training
Features
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Your nervous system already knows how to settle. GroundApp gives it the right breath. Meet Bodie, your breathing companion. Bodie sits in the middle of Home and breathes the rhythm the wheel lands on. Scroll the wheel to pick a technique, then press and hold on Bodie and breathe with him. Collin's 3-minute intro film shows why he made GroundApp and how to use it. Create your account when you start, with Apple, Google or email. CHECK IN WITH BODIE Tap Check in on Home. Name how you feel, rate how strong it is and your energy. GroundApp maps that to a nervous system state and matches breathwork to it. Anxious and wired gets something different from flat and foggy. LIBRARY Techniques: more than 40, including Box Breathing, 4-7-8, Physiological Sigh, Resonance Breathing and Cyclic Sighing. Each has a practice guide: purpose, steps, length and safety. Advanced: O2 and CO2 tables for breath-hold training. Start from a ready-made table or build one from your own reference hold. You begin each hold and can stop any time. Dry land only. Never in or near water. Guided: sessions in Collin's voice, with ambient sound and haptic cues. Sleep sounds: rain, ocean waves, brown noise, a crackling fire and more. AI PLANS (PREMIUM) Bodie is Collin Chartier's AI expert in nervous system regulation. Check in, and Bodie builds a plan and shows it before you start: two or three techniques, about 10 minutes, and why each fits how you feel. Bodie asks before anything leaves your phone. Turn AI plans off any time in Profile and you still get a plan from your answers. PROGRESS Track your streaks and session history. Take the BOLT test, a comfortable breath hold timed in seconds, and watch your scores over time. Training history keeps your Advanced tables and holds. LIVE HEART RATE Tap the heart button in the player to connect any standard Bluetooth heart rate monitor, or a Whoop or Garmin with heart rate broadcast on. Watch live heart rate and HRV (RMSSD) as you breathe, then get a recap and charts. HRV needs beat-to-beat data. APPLE HEALTH AND WEARABLES Turn on Apple Health and GroundApp reads heart rate, HRV, sleep, steps and active energy to suggest the right breathwork for today, and saves your sessions to Health as mindful minutes. Whoop, Garmin, Oura, COROS and other wearables also reach GroundApp through Apple Health: sync them there, then switch it on here. Readings inform suggestions. They are not a medical assessment. PRACTICE YOUR WAY Set the session timer from 3 to 20 minutes, a custom length or no limit. Layer in music, nature sounds, voice guidance and haptics, each with its own volume. Haptic-only mode is for silent practice. APPLE WATCH Practice on your wrist with the Apple Watch app. FREE AND PREMIUM Free: 4 core techniques, the session timer, streaks, basic stats, check-ins with Bodie and live heart rate. GroundApp Premium adds all techniques, the Advanced O2 and CO2 tables, guided sessions and Bodie's AI plans. GROUNDAPP PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION GroundApp Premium is an auto-renewing subscription: $39.99 a year or $6.99 a month in the US (prices vary by country). Eligible new subscribers get a 3-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel any time in Settings > your name > Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://groundapp.live/terms Privacy Policy: https://groundapp.live/privacy Intense techniques show a short safety note before you start. If you have a heart, lung or other medical condition, check with your doctor before you begin a new breathing practice. If you're dealing with panic attacks, trauma, or thoughts of hurting yourself, start with a licensed professional. In the US you can call or text 988 any time. This is coaching and education, not medical or mental health treatment.

Screenshots

Coherence4 screens
GroundApp4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: GroundApp at freemium against Coherence's subscription. GroundApp also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and review sentiment (100% vs 86%). Coherence's advantage is ratings volume (658 vs 13) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, 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. Coherence sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month and GroundApp sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

GroundApp holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Coherence has 658 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Coherence's written reviews are positive against 100% of GroundApp's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Coherence ships an update every 4 days, GroundApp weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 14, 2026 and November 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Coherence versus GroundApp: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCoherenceGroundApp
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (658 ratings)5.0 (13 ratings) — better
Positive reviews85.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings658 — better13
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size225 MB249 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperJohn SweeneyCollin Chartier

Customer experience

Coherence

All ratings648 ratings
Positive94.6%
Neutral1.4%
Negative4.0%
Written reviews104 reviews
Positive85.6%
Neutral1.9%
Negative12.5%

GroundApp

All ratings12 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Coherence

Subscriptions6
  • Coherence Monthly Membership$14.991 Month
  • Coherence Membership3 Days trial$69.991 Year
  • Coherence Friend Pass14 Days trial$69.991 Year
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  • Coherence Membership$69.991 Year
  • Coherence Membership1 Month trial$69.991 Year
  • Coherence3 Months trial$69.991 Year
2 purchases

GroundApp

Subscriptions2
  • Ground Premium3 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Ground Premium3 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Coherence free?
Coherence is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is GroundApp free?
GroundApp is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Coherence or GroundApp?
GroundApp is rated higher. Coherence averages 4.8 out of 5 from 658 ratings, while GroundApp averages 5.0 from 13 ratings.
Do Coherence or GroundApp have ads?
Neither Coherence nor GroundApp shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Coherence or GroundApp?
Coherence ships an update every 4 days, and GroundApp weekly. Most recently, Coherence was updated on November 14, 2026 and GroundApp on November 15, 2026.

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