Comparison

Instinct vs Sauna Guide & Tracker

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

Head to head
About

Instinct

Enhance your reaction time, reflexes, and cognitive speed with engaging, fast-paced games. Track your progress with detailed graphs, compete with friends on global leaderboards, and unlock achievements. Designed for quick daily mental agility training.

Highlights
  • Reaction Speed game
  • Turbo Tap challenge
  • Aim Training mode
  • Unlockable awards
  • Game Center leaderboards
  • Progress tracking graphs
Features
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Instinct improves your reaction time, reflexes, speed, and awareness through engaging, fast-paced cognitive games designed for all skill levels. Track your progress with interactive graphs, compete with friends, and climb the global leaderboards to claim the top spot. Designed for quick daily sessions, Instinct is built on scientifically inspired exercises for mental agility. Features: • Reaction Speed - Tap as quickly as possible when the background changes • Turbo Tap - Tap rapidly to score as many points as you can in 10 seconds • Aim Training - Tap targets before they disappear, miss one, and you lose a life • Unlockable awards that will challenge your skills, can you earn them all? (Plus one hidden award) • Game Center integration for seamless leaderboards and achievements • No ads or distractions

About

Sauna Guide & Tracker

Features
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Ember is a sauna guide and a session tracker in one. Find a sauna worth the trip, then record every round on your iPhone or Apple Watch. FIND A SAUNA WORTH THE TRIP The atlas covers 1,000+ saunas in 19 countries, and every venue is added by hand. Finnish saunas, floating saunas, banyas, bathhouses and Japanese sento all sit on one map. Search by type and feature, or browse by city. Venue pages give opening hours, price range and booking links where they exist, plus what's worth knowing before you go. RECORD EVERY SESSION Record a sauna or cold plunge session on your iPhone or Apple Watch. Switch between heat, cold and rest as you go, and Ember times every round. Your Apple Watch adds heart rate across the whole session. Forgot to record one? Log it afterwards with notes, a photo and the temperature. APPLE HEALTH Ember saves each session to Apple Health as a workout, and reads heart rate and active energy from it. Ember never uploads your health data. SHARE AND COLLECT Turn a session into a card on the venue's own photo, then share it or save it to Photos. Record a session at a venue and its stamp is yours. Your weekly streak counts sessions at home too. Activity keeps your history, streak and stamps in one place. EMBER FREE • The full atlas, map and guides for your home region • Session recording on iPhone and Apple Watch • Saved places, stamps, your streak and your full history EMBER PRO • Every other region, with venue names, map pins and full guides • New venues in every region as the atlas grows • Trends: how your practice changes week to week • What to seek out next: the stamps you haven't collected yet, and where to find them Ember Pro is a monthly or yearly subscription. You can also unlock a single region with a one-time purchase. Prices show in the app in your local currency. Ember is made by one person. A Pro subscription backs independent curation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.saunadiscovery.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.saunadiscovery.com/privacy

Screenshots

Instinct4 screens
Sauna Guide & Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Instinct at none against Sauna Guide & Tracker's 10. Instinct also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Sauna Guide & Tracker sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Instinct asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Instinct ships an update every 5 days, Sauna Guide & Tracker every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Instinct versus Sauna Guide & Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInstinctSauna Guide & Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.218.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB19 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperJasper CheyneyJames Butler

In-app purchases

None

Instinct

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Sauna Guide & Tracker

Subscriptions2
  • Ember Pro — Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Ember Pro — Yearly$27.991 Year
One-time8
  • Europe$2.99
  • Asia$2.99
  • North America$2.99
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  • Oceania$2.99
  • United States$2.99
  • Canada$2.99
  • Nordic & Baltic$2.99
  • Western & Central Europe$2.99

Questions

Is Instinct free?
Instinct is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sauna Guide & Tracker free?
Sauna Guide & Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Instinct or Sauna Guide & Tracker have ads?
Neither Instinct nor Sauna Guide & Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Instinct or Sauna Guide & Tracker?
Instinct ships an update every 5 days, and Sauna Guide & Tracker every 3 weeks. Most recently, Instinct was updated on November 5, 2026 and Sauna Guide & Tracker on October 31, 2026.

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