Comparison

BrainDrain vs Aeris

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

Head to head
About

BrainDrain

This app offers a quick, structured journaling experience designed to help individuals with ADHD and anxiety clear their minds in just one minute. It transforms mental clutter into peace through quick journaling, mindfulness, and task management, promoting focus and calm.

Highlights
  • 1-minute journaling sessions
  • Thought dumping and sorting
  • Task creation and reminders
  • Mindfulness exercises
  • ADHD-friendly structure
  • Anxiety relief tools
  • iCloud syncing
Features
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Too many thoughts at once? Give them sixty seconds. BrainDrain is a 60-second brain dump for busy, anxious, or ADHD-wired minds. Type or speak what's on your mind, then sort it by what you can control. Make a plan when it helps, or let a thought go. No blank page, no pressure to turn every thought into a task. Your thoughts stay on your device or in your own iCloud. HOW IT WORKS • Drain: start the timer and pour it all out for 60 seconds. Type it or speak it. No prompts, no blank page staring back. Just a deadline. Let it all out. • Sort: swipe each thought where it belongs. Within my control, need someone's help, outside my control, or just a happy thought. • Act: turn a thought into a reminder or a calendar event, send it to someone who can help, or let it go for good. BUILT FOR BUSY, ANXIOUS, or ADHD-WIRED MINDS • One minute is the feature. Short enough to actually do, bounded enough to feel safe. • Every thought gets a decision. BrainDrain doesn't file your worries away. Each one lands somewhere: an action, a person, or a deliberate letting go. • Sorting by control is the calm. What you can act on becomes action. What you can't, you release. BRAINDRAIN PLUS Sixty seconds a day is always included. Plus is for the days that need more: unlimited drains, sixty more seconds when a thought needs the runway, your patterns read back to you by on-device intelligence, recurrence that spots what keeps coming back, progress by month and year, and your streak on your Watch and widgets. Everything stays on your device or in your own iCloud. Plus is an auto-renewing subscription billed to your Apple Account. It renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. YOUR THOUGHTS STAY YOURS Everything, including the intelligence behind Insights, runs on your device. AI journals send your thoughts to a server to be understood. BrainDrain never does. Private iCloud sync, no account, no ads. Give it sixty seconds. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://braindrain.app/privacy Support: https://braindrain.app/support

About

Aeris

Features
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Calm is a skill. Aeris teaches it, one breath at a time. Most calm apps hand you a library and wish you luck. Aeris asks how you feel, then picks the breathing protocol that matches — and stays with you through it, out loud, in your language. TONIGHT Your shoulders drop, your breath slows, and sleep arrives more easily. IN A FEW WEEKS You recover faster after hard moments and stay steady for longer. OVER MONTHS Calm becomes something you can call on whenever you want it. — 27 BREATHING PROTOCOLS — Physiological sigh, box breathing, 4-7-8, resonance, alternate nostril, Buteyko, Kapalabhati, cooling breath and more. Each one carries its real timing, its evidence level, and a plain description of what it is for. Adjustable tempo where the technique allows it. — 35 GUIDED MEDITATIONS — Body scan, breath counting, loving-kindness, noting, open awareness, gratitude, sleep wind-down. Every cue is spoken, not just written. — VOICE GUIDANCE IN 11 LANGUAGES — The guide tells you the route and the count: "in through the nose, four seconds." You can practise with your eyes closed. English, Turkish, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Korean and Arabic. — 53 SOUNDS YOU LAYER YOURSELF — Rain, ocean, forest, fire, wind, night insects, room tone, white and brown noise. Mix up to four at once with per-layer volume, and let them breathe with you. — A FIELD THAT MOVES WITH YOUR BREATH — Every session draws a living Metal-rendered field, seeded by the practice and the moment. No two sessions look the same. — PROGRESS THAT MEANS SOMETHING — Coherence minutes, mood before and after, a twelve-week mark season, streaks that forgive. — ALSO — Home Screen widgets and Lock Screen Live Activities. Apple Watch companion, which writes finished sessions to Apple Health as mindful minutes. Works fully offline. — BUILT FOR EVERY BODY — Epilepsy-safe visuals, reduced transparency, patterns as well as colour, adjustable text sizes, a vibration switch, full VoiceOver support, and a health screening that keeps breath-holding behind a clear warning. From Horus Studios, whose apps 500,000 people have used. SUBSCRIPTION Aeris Premium unlocks the full catalogue. Monthly subscription with a 3-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. The subscription renews automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the period. You can manage it in your App Store settings. Terms: https://horusstudios.com/products/aeris/terms Privacy: https://horusstudios.com/products/aeris/privacy

Screenshots

BrainDrain4 screens
Aeris4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: BrainDrain at every 4 days against Aeris's every 10 days. BrainDrain also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Aeris's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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. BrainDrain sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Aeris sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BrainDrain ships an update every 4 days, Aeris every 10 days. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
BrainDrain versus Aeris: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrainDrainAeris
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size85 MB39 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperRDub Studios, LLCHorus Studios

In-app purchases

8 purchases

BrainDrain

Subscriptions6
  • Plus Weekly$1.997 Days
  • Plus Weekly7 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • BrainDrain Plus Monthly3 Days trial$3.991 Month
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  • Plus Yearly$29.991 Year
  • Plus Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Plus Annual Special Offer1 Year trial$49.991 Year
One-time2
  • Pro Lifetime$79.99
  • Pro Lifetime$99.99
2 purchases

Aeris

Subscriptions2
  • Aeris Weekly$2.997 Days
  • Aeris Monthly3 Days trial$7.991 Month

Questions

Is BrainDrain free?
BrainDrain is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Aeris free?
Aeris is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do BrainDrain or Aeris have ads?
Neither BrainDrain nor Aeris shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BrainDrain or Aeris?
BrainDrain ships an update every 4 days, and Aeris every 10 days. Most recently, BrainDrain was updated on October 25, 2026 and Aeris on October 25, 2026.

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