NeuroSounds vs why?
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NeuroSounds
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NeuroSounds: Guiding Your Mental States With Binaural Neural Entrainment for Focus, Relaxation, and Deep Sleep Unlock your mind's potential with NeuroSounds, the premier app for binaural beats and brain entrainment. Effortlessly guide your brainwaves to enhance focus, deepen meditation, promote profound relaxation, or achieve truly restorative sleep. Discover a powerful tool for stress relief, productivity, and overall mental well-being. ———— How NeuroSounds Can Transform Your Life: NeuroSounds empowers you to actively influence your cognitive state, helping you to: • Boost Focus & Productivity: Sharpen concentration for work or study. • Reduce Stress & Anxiety: Find calm and inner peace. • Enhance Meditation: Deepen your meditative practice and mindfulness. • Improve Sleep Quality: Achieve faster, more rejuvenating sleep. The Science Behind NeuroSounds: NeuroSounds uses binaural beats, an auditory illusion where slightly different frequencies played in each ear create a perceived third, rhythmic beat. Your brain naturally aligns its electrical activity to this frequency – a scientifically supported process called brain entrainment. This gently encourages your brainwaves to shift towards desired states, supporting your cognitive and emotional well-being without conscious effort. ———— Explore Tailored Mental States: NeuroSounds offers expert-crafted mental states to support your specific goals. Each state guides your brainwaves to a unique frequency range: • Deep Sleep & Restore (Delta): For profound sleep, physical healing, and true rejuvenation. • Deep Relax & Meditate (Theta): For inner calm, deep meditation, and subconscious insights. • Relax & Calm (Alpha): For gentle alertness, stress reduction, and peaceful focus. • Alert & Active (Beta): For elevated alertness, sharpened concentration, and cognitive performance. • Focus & Insight (Gamma): For peak cognitive performance, heightened awareness, and sudden insights. • Cognitive Cycle This gently guides your brain between the mental states of Alert & Active, and Relax & Calm, over the natural 120minute period. • Meditative Cycle This gently guides your brain into deep relaxation and self-reflection for 30 or 60 minutes. ———— Customizable Settings for Your Comfort: Fine-tune your session for optimal results: • Main Frequency: Sets the central pitch within your chosen Mental State's range. • Binaural Intensity: Controls how strongly your brain entrains; adjustable intensity and ear emphasis. • White Noise: Masks distractions for easier focus and effective entrainment in noisy environments. • Playback Duration: Set session length up to 2 hours. For dynamic effects, this duration is divided among frequencies. • Playback Effect: Choose how frequencies play to maximize effectiveness. ———— Dynamic Playback Effects: Maximize your NeuroSounds experience with varied playback modes: • Fixed: A single, unchanging tone based on your settings. • Random: New, unpredictable frequencies every ~10 minutes within your Mental State's range to prevent habituation. • Sweep Up: Gradually increases frequency from low to high, guiding you to higher energy states. • Sweep Down: Gradually decreases frequency from high to low, guiding you to more relaxed states. ———— (Please note: For the optimal binaural beat experience, headphones are required.) Download NeuroSounds today and start harmonizing your mind for better focus, deeper relaxation, and improved sleep! Apple Terms Of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
why?
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why? We don’t think your phone is the enemy. And we don’t think every minute on your screen is a minute wasted. Sometimes you open Instagram because you need to reply to someone. Sometimes you open YouTube because you want to watch something. Sometimes you just want to do nothing. That’s okay. The problem isn’t using your phone. The problem is using it without choosing to. We unlock. We tap. We scroll. And somewhere along the way, we stop knowing why we started. So we built why? Not to block you. Not to shame you. Not to tell you how many hours of your life you’ve wasted. Just one small question, at the moment it matters: Why? Why are you opening this? What are you looking for? What do you actually want to do? Sometimes, asking the question is enough. Sometimes, you’ll realize you do want to continue. Good. Continue. Sometimes you’ll realize you don’t. Good. Close it. Both are wins. Because the goal isn’t less screen time. The goal isn’t perfect discipline. The goal isn’t becoming someone who never scrolls. The goal is something much simpler: To put you back in the driver’s seat. A phone should be a tool you pick up, not a place you disappear into. So pause. Ask yourself. And choose. Why? FREE & PRO why? is free for two apps. Pro removes the two-app limit. The yearly plan includes a 7-day free trial. Monthly and yearly subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase and, for renewals, within 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Lifetime is a one-time purchase and does not renew. REQUIREMENTS why? requires Screen Time access, which iOS requests during setup. You can withdraw this permission at any time. Showing all three answers together requires iOS 26.4 or later. On earlier versions, the question still appears with one answer and a way back. Fifteen minutes is the shortest access window Apple’s system allows. PRIVACY No account. No sign-up. No ads. No tracking. Your data stays on your device. TERMS Privacy Policy: commalabs.co/why/privacy Terms of Use: commalabs.co/why/terms Apple Standard EULA: apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: why? at none against NeuroSounds's shown. why? also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 11 days). NeuroSounds's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). On price 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
Both are free to download. NeuroSounds sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and why? sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
NeuroSounds ships an update every 11 days, why? every 5 days. Both last shipped on September 8, 2026.
| Parameter | NeuroSounds | why? |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Damien Devillian | Comma Labs |
In-app purchases
NeuroSounds
- One Month$1.991 Month
- Upgrade$9.991 Year
why?
- Monthly$2.991 Month
- Yearly$9.991 Year
- Lifetime$24.99









