Comparison

soundBrilliance vs Reset

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

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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

Reset

This app guides you through various breathing techniques using visual, haptic, and auditory cues. It offers customizable sessions and optional heart rate biofeedback for enhanced relaxation and wellness.

Highlights
  • Multiple breathing techniques (Resonance, Box, Sigh)
  • Multi-sensory guidance (visual, haptic, audio)
  • Customizable breath phase durations
  • Optional Bluetooth heart rate strap integration
  • Live HRV biofeedback and coherence gauge
  • Session summaries and trend tracking
  • Ad-free and privacy-focused design
Features
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Reset turns a few quiet minutes of slow breathing into a practice you can feel. Pick a protocol, press Begin, and follow along — the app does the counting. THREE WAYS TO BREATHE • Resonance — slow, even breathing near six breaths a minute. The daily practice. • Box — inhale, hold, exhale, hold. Steadiness on demand. • Sigh — two inhales, one long exhale. A quick reset when you're keyed up. GUIDED BY EVERY SENSE A living orb swells and empties with your breath. Haptic waves let you close your eyes and follow by touch — a crisp tap to breathe in, a long fade to breathe out. With headphones, binaural beats carry the same rhythm. MAKE IT YOURS Every phase has its own slider — inhale, exhale, holds. Balanced presets from 4.5 to 6.0 breaths a minute, timed sessions of 2, 5, or 10 minutes, and a first-launch tour that shows you around. SEE YOUR HEART RESPOND (OPTIONAL) Pair a Bluetooth heart-rate strap — Polar, or WHOOP with Broadcast Heart Rate — for live HRV biofeedback: heart rate, rMSSD, and a coherence gauge that climbs as you settle into rhythm. Capture 30-second before-and-after baselines and see each session's summary and trend. No sensor? Everything still works; the metrics simply stay blank. Reset never invents data. YOURS, PRIVATELY No ads, no tracking, no account required. Sessions stay on your device unless you choose to sign in with Apple, Google, or email and sync with the companion web app. Export your history as CSV or JSON anytime, and delete your account — and every synced session — from inside the app. Reset supports relaxation and general wellness. It is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat, or prevent any condition.

Screenshots

soundBrilliance4 screens
Reset4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: soundBrilliance at 7 against Reset's 2. soundBrilliance also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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 Reset. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

soundBrilliance ships an update every 3 weeks, Reset monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
soundBrilliance versus Reset: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametersoundBrillianceReset
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Mac
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB3 MB
Age rating17+4+
DevelopersoundBrilliance, LLCDavid Presby

Customer experience

soundBrilliance

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

Reset

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

soundBrilliance

No in-app purchases

None

Reset

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is soundBrilliance free?
soundBrilliance is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Reset free?
Reset is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, soundBrilliance or Reset?
soundBrilliance and Reset are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 7 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do soundBrilliance or Reset have ads?
Neither soundBrilliance nor Reset shows ads.
Which is updated more often, soundBrilliance or Reset?
soundBrilliance ships an update every 3 weeks, and Reset monthly. Most recently, soundBrilliance was updated on October 23, 2026 and Reset on October 14, 2026.

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