Comparison

SetSense vs Mana

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

Head to head
About

SetSense

This app offers intelligent strength tracking for lifters, allowing full control over training. It provides personalized periodized programs, detailed set logging, progress visualization, and step tracking integration. Share programs with others and earn achievements for consistency and personal records.

Highlights
  • Personalized periodized programs
  • Detailed set logging
  • Progress visualization
  • Step tracking with HealthKit
  • Program sharing
  • Achievements and streaks
Features
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SetSense is a lifting app for people who want to think about their training, not just record it. Most fitness apps either treat you like a beginner who needs a robot to tell you what to do, or they treat you like a spreadsheet. SetSense is different. You chat with the SetSense Trainer about your goals, training history, and the gym you have access to, and it builds you a real training block in under two minutes. You review it, edit it, and start lifting. Then every workout, SetSense shows you exactly what you did last time. Same exercise, same set, same week. You decide what to do next. CHAT WITH THE SETSENSE TRAINER Skip the boring questionnaires. Tell the trainer what you want. Strength, hypertrophy, a specific lift, a deadline, and it builds a personalized 4-12 week training block. YOU DECIDE WHAT'S NEXT Other apps tell you to add 5 pounds every week. SetSense shows you what you did last time and trusts you to make the call. Because that's what real lifters do. TALK TO YOUR LIFTING DATA Ask the trainer questions about your own history. "How has my bench progressed?" "Which weeks did I skip the most?" "What's my best 5-rep on squat?" Your full training history is the context. SHARE BLOCKS WITH ONE TAP Built a program your friends should try? Share it as a link. They tap it, the program imports into their app, ready to go. STEPS, NOT CARDIO Daily step tracking from Apple Health. No clunky cardio screens, no fake heart-rate logging — just a passive step goal that pairs with your lifting. PERSONAL RECORDS, ON AUTOPILOT Every set you log gets compared to your history. PR celebrations when you beat them. Pinned 1RM tracking for the lifts you actually care about. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your training data is yours. Account deletion is one tap and permanent. No social feed, no gamified leaderboards, no notifications begging you to come back. SUBSCRIPTION SetSense is $2.99/month, $14.99 every 6 months, or $26.99/year. Two-week free trial on all plans, billed through your Apple ID. Cancel anytime in Settings. Privacy: setsense.app/privacy-policy Terms: setsense.app/terms-of-service Support: setsense.app/support

About

Mana

This app provides a guided space to process emotions and navigate difficult moments. Designed with therapists, it helps users slow down, feel their emotions, and achieve a sense of calm clarity. It's a tool for understanding feelings, managing anxiety, and preparing for important conversations.

Highlights
  • Guided emotional processing
  • Anxiety management
  • Preparation for conversations
  • Body-rooted emotional guidance
  • Structured sessions
  • Personalized support over time
  • Encrypted privacy
Features
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Mana is an AI designed to help you slow down and process how you feel in your relationships — not just in your thoughts, but in your body. HOW IT WORKS Talk or type. Tell it what happened. The fight. The text you didn’t send. The thing your mom said. Mana listens, reflects back what it hears, and asks the question that takes you one layer deeper. No scripts. No worksheets. No clock. Just your pace. ROOTED IN REAL PRACTICE Designed with licensed therapists and relationship experts, Mana draws on Internal Family Systems, Hakomi, and Relational Somatic Healing. Where most apps work with your thoughts, Mana starts with the body: it invites you to slow down, notice what’s happening inside, and let what needs to move, move. A COMPANION, NOT A REPLACEMENT Mana isn’t a substitute for therapy or the people in your life. It’s a place to get in touch with your own experience, so you can understand what you're really longing for and then create that in your relationships. If you’re in crisis or thinking about harming yourself, please contact your local emergency services or a crisis line (in the US, call or text 988). PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your conversations are yours. The Mana team doesn’t read your sessions. Delete individual sessions or your whole account anytime. This is your space. Everything you’re feeling is welcome here. We're so glad you're here.

Screenshots

SetSense4 screens
Mana4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Mana at every 3 days against SetSense's every 3 weeks. Mana also leads on ratings volume (61 vs 8). SetSense's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. SetSense sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Mana sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $24.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for SetSense against 4.9 for Mana. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mana has 61 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SetSense ships an update every 3 weeks, Mana every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
SetSense versus Mana: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSetSenseMana
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings) — better4.9 (61 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings861 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB103 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperLandon CurtisThe Mana Verse, PBC

Customer experience

SetSense

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Mana

All ratings61 ratings
Positive98.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative1.6%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

SetSense

Subscriptions3
  • 1 Month Subscription14 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • 6 Month Subscription14 Days trial$14.996 Months
  • 1 Year Subscription14 Days trial$26.991 Year
2 purchases

Mana

Subscriptions2
  • Mana Monthly$24.991 Month
  • Mana Yearly$239.991 Year

Questions

Is SetSense free?
SetSense is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mana free?
Mana is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SetSense or Mana?
SetSense is rated higher. SetSense averages 5.0 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Mana averages 4.9 from 61 ratings.
Do SetSense or Mana have ads?
Neither SetSense nor Mana shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SetSense or Mana?
SetSense ships an update every 3 weeks, and Mana every 3 days. Most recently, SetSense was updated on October 5, 2026 and Mana on October 30, 2026.

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