Comparison

soundBrilliance vs Next Walk

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

Head to head
About

soundBrilliance

This app uses enhanced music and natural visuals to help you manage your emotional state and improve well-being. It offers guided sessions for performance, motivation, creativity, calm, recovery, comfort, and sleep.

Highlights
  • Enhanced music for mood management
  • Natural video visuals
  • Expert guided sessions
  • Breathwork and mindfulness cues
  • Stress reduction
  • Improved sleep quality
  • Focus and creativity enhancement
Features
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ENHANCED MUSIC Every soundBrilliance session begins with Enhanced Music. We apply cutting-edge neuroscience and audio engineering to real music by real artists, amplifying music’s natural power to move your mind and body in the directions you need to go. The result is music built not only to be heard, but to help you move intentionally from one state to another. CHOOSE WHAT YOU NEED NEXT PERFORM — improve workouts with elevated physical and mental readiness. MOTIVATE — elevate energy and action, and arrive with purpose. CREATE — channel focus and unlock productive, creative flow. CALM — restore your mind and body and ease your response to stress. RECOVER — relax and refocus into a balanced, grounded presence. COMFORT — soothe and nurture your body toward healing. SLEEP — unwind, drift off, and maintain deep, restful sleep. GO AS DEEP AS YOU WANT Every session begins with Enhanced Music. From there, choose how deep to go. ADD NATURAL VISUALS Explore the natural world at every scale — from microscopic chemical reactions and mesmerizing physical phenomena to vast landscapes, oceans, skies, and storms. Using microscopy, chemistry, physics, experimental filmmaking, and natural cinematography, we reveal processes often too small, slow, fast, or strange to encounter in daily life. The result is something between art, science, and discovery: astonishing images created not simply of nature, but by nature itself. ADD EXPERT GUIDANCE Go deeper with experiences developed by licensed therapists and Featured Artists. Explore breathwork, movement, mindfulness, reflection, storytelling, and more — or hear from artists about the stories, emotions, and intentions behind their work. Sometimes the voice helps you understand yourself. Sometimes it helps you understand the art. REAL MUSIC. REAL ARTISTS. soundBrilliance is built in collaboration with musicians and artists. Their work remains at the center of the experience — enhanced to deepen music’s effects on attention, emotion, energy, and the body. Discover artists. Hear music differently. Use it with intention. New music monthly. BUILT ON SCIENCE soundBrilliance combines neuroscience, psychology, and audio engineering to explore what music can do when designed intentionally. In clinical testing, soundBrilliance Enhanced Music produced greater simultaneous reductions in self-reported anxiety and physiological stress than the same music without enhancement. This is not passive listening. It is music enhanced to its full potential — and put in your hands. SEE WHAT’S CHANGING Change is easier to direct when you can see it. Measure how your state shifts within a session and how those changes accumulate over time. Discover what settles you, energizes you, helps you focus, opens up creativity, and works for you. Measurement closes the loop between experience and understanding — giving you greater agency over what comes next. JOURNEYS: BUILD YOUR CAPACITY A session can change the moment. A Journey is designed to change your baseline. Choose an area you want to develop, build a plan around your life, set the duration and frequency, and follow your progress over weeks or months. Think of it like a training plan for your mental and physical well-being: not simply reaching for Calm when you need it, but developing your capacity to return there. Measure what changes. Learn what works. Practice it deliberately. Build greater capacity over time. MEMBERSHIP Start your soundBrilliance journey with a free week. Membership unlocks the full collection of Enhanced Music, Natural Visuals, Expert Guidance, and member experiences. Quarterly — $36 every 3 months ($3/week) Annual — $120/year Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled before the end of the current subscription period. Manage or cancel through your App Store account settings. How you feel is yours to direct. Welcome to soundBrilliance.

About

Next Walk

This app helps you consistently take walks by providing a personalized safe walking window based on weather and daylight. It offers a countdown to your chosen walk time, visible on your lock screen and widgets, to encourage follow-through.

Highlights
  • Personalized safe walking windows
  • Countdown to walk time
  • Lock Screen and widget integration
  • Weather and daylight considerations
  • No account required
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Walks are the easiest exercise to procrastinate on. There's no class booked, no trainer waiting, nothing on the calendar. You could go anytime — which somehow means you keep not going. "In five minutes" turns into a missed afternoon. Next Walk fixes that by making the walk a real decision: a specific time, and a specific place. That's what turns "I should" into "I'm out the door." It starts with the weather, because getting outside when conditions are actually good is what makes a walk something you want to repeat. But you shouldn't have to check a weather app every day to catch the right window. So Next Walk watches it for you and quietly taps you on the shoulder when your next good walking opportunity is coming up — no app to open, no login, nothing to remember. Commit with one tap, pick a nearby park or trail if you want, and a countdown on your Lock Screen walks you right up to the moment to head out the door. In a sea of apps built around tracking and streaks, Next Walk cares about one thing: getting you outside instead of losing another walk to procrastination, distraction, or bad weather. Quiet setup, no account, nothing to log. The app you don't have to remember to use — just let it coach you from the background. This is for all the walks you meant to take.

Screenshots

soundBrilliance4 screens
Next Walk4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Next Walk at every 5 days against soundBrilliance's every 3 weeks. soundBrilliance's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for soundBrilliance against 5.0 for Next Walk. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

soundBrilliance ships an update every 3 weeks, Next Walk every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
soundBrilliance versus Next Walk: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametersoundBrillianceNext Walk
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings7 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB14 MB
Age rating17+4+
DevelopersoundBrilliance, LLCVICTORIA LAUREN KANICKA

Customer experience

soundBrilliance

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Next Walk

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

soundBrilliance

No in-app purchases

None

Next Walk

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is soundBrilliance free?
soundBrilliance is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Next Walk free?
Next Walk is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, soundBrilliance or Next Walk?
soundBrilliance and Next Walk are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 7 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do soundBrilliance or Next Walk have ads?
Neither soundBrilliance nor Next Walk shows ads.
Which is updated more often, soundBrilliance or Next Walk?
soundBrilliance ships an update every 3 weeks, and Next Walk every 5 days. Most recently, soundBrilliance was updated on October 23, 2026 and Next Walk on October 18, 2026.

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