Comparison

Settle vs Conicia

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

Head to head
About

Settle

This app offers science-backed tools for nervous system regulation, helping users reduce anxiety, calm stress, and recover from trauma. It provides personalized plans based on a nervous system quiz and features over 70 expert-designed practices like breathwork, EFT tapping, and guided meditations.

Highlights
  • Nervous System Quiz & Score
  • Personalized Regulation Plans
  • Breathwork & Breathing Exercises
  • EFT Tapping & Somatic Tools
  • Vagus Nerve & Polyvagal Practices
  • Guided Meditations & Visualizations
  • Progress Tracking & Daily Streaks
Features
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Settle is the #1 app for nervous system regulation. Reduce anxiety, calm stress, recover from trauma, and find balance with science-backed tools. Backed by neuroscience and based on research from Stanford, Harvard and UCLA. Take the Nervous System Quiz to discover your Nervous System Score. See if your body is stuck in survival mode and get a personalized plan to regulate. Many people living with stress, trauma, or chronic illness experience nervous system dysregulation — Settle helps you track your score and build steady progress toward recovery. In just 2 minutes a day, Settle helps you reset your nervous system and feel more resilient. Explore 70+ expert-designed practices including breathwork, EFT tapping, vagus nerve exercises, grounding techniques, somatic movement, and guided meditations. Join thousands already using Settle to regulate their nervous systems and transform daily life. SETTLE FEATURES NERVOUS SYSTEM QUIZ & SCORE - Take a quick quiz to discover your Nervous System Score - See if you are stuck in survival mode and get a personalized plan - Track your nervous system health and watch your score improve over time BREATHWORK & BREATHING EXERCISES - Practice 4-7-8 Breathing, Box Breathing, Resonance Breathing, Physiological Sigh and more - Reduce anxiety, improve focus, and sleep deeper with guided breathing sessions - Choose from short resets or longer calming practices EFT TAPPING & SOMATIC TOOLS - Step-by-step tapping exercises for stress, anxiety and trauma release - Explore somatic tools like shaking, gentle rocking, pendulation and havening - Support trauma recovery and chronic illness regulation with body-based resets VAGUS NERVE & POLYVAGAL PRACTICES - Daily exercises to activate and tone the vagus nerve - Polyvagal-based grounding tools to move out of fight-or-flight - Learn to restore balance and feel safer in your body MEDITATION & VISUALIZATION - Short calming meditations and visualizations for anxiety and overwhelm - Guided practices to rewire your limbic system and support recovery - Build daily resilience with self-compassion and grounding techniques TRACK YOUR PROGRESS - Nervous System Score updates as you practice - Daily streaks and progress tracking to keep you consistent - Personalized recommendations based on your state and goals Subscription pricing and terms: Settle offers an auto-renewing monthly subscription and an auto-renewing yearly subscription, providing unlimited access to Settle while you maintain an active subscription. Payment will be charged to the credit card connected to your iTunes Account when you confirm the initial purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal in Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial will be forfeited when a subscription is purchased. Terms of service: https://withsettle.com/terms-of-service Privacy policy: https://withsettle.com/privacy-policy

About

Conicia

This app provides self-help tools and lessons for managing Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). It offers techniques for handling urges, unhooking from thoughts, and guided exercises to understand and confront OCD patterns. The app also includes a journal to track urges and compulsions, and optional features for clinicians to monitor progress.

Highlights
  • Urge surfing for managing immediate urges
  • Thought unhooking exercises
  • Loop management tools
  • Audiobook mode for lessons
  • Guided writing exercises
  • OCD journal for tracking patterns
  • Weekly check-ins for progress monitoring
Features
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OCD's tricks are predictable. That's the good news. Once you can see them, you have something to act on. Conicia is self-help for OCD from Weston Scott Fisher, MD, a psychiatrist who has specialized in OCD for more than a decade. Start free: the first lesson, three tools for hard moments and an OCD journal. No chatbot, no ads. Open it and it asks one question: what do you need right now? - OCD is loud. Practices for not acting on it, right now. - I have time to work on it. Your next lesson, read or listened to. - OCD got me earlier. Log it in the journal, and the pattern shows. TOOLS FOR HARD MOMENTS - Urge surfing: stay with an urge without acting on it. You set the length. Ocean sound, no timer on screen. - Unhook from a thought: write it down, put it on a leaf, and watch the stream carry it. Nothing is saved. - Caught in a loop: when you cannot stop going over it, two minutes of cards that help you set the question down unsolved. Not an answer. A way to stop circling. THE LESSONS Short lessons, a few minutes each, in Weston's own words: how OCD works and what it has you doing, what sets it off, facing what it has you avoiding, where the doubt really starts, living alongside OCD, and staying well. Draws on exposure and response prevention (ERP), inference-based CBT, and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), not just one. Read them, or listen: Audiobook mode plays lesson after lesson with your screen locked, and you can keep a chapter's audio on your phone for a flight or the subway. THE EXERCISES Guided writing exercises from the lessons: map your triggers, take stock of your safety behaviors, build your exposure ladder from easiest to hardest, write the alternative story, plan your response to a slip. Your answers are saved to your account. THE OCD JOURNAL Catch OCD in the act. When it shows up, log what set it off, what it pushed you to do, and what you did instead. A minute per moment, in three short steps. Each week you see the urges you did not feed and the time compulsions took. Week by week, the pattern shows. THE WEEKLY CHECK-IN Five questions, about a minute, once a week. How OCD has been this week, in one chart over time. For tracking, not diagnosis. IF YOU WORK WITH A CLINICIAN Connecting is free and your choice. Your clinician can follow your progress, assign readings and exercises that fit you, open the parts meant to be done together (guided exposures, the medication lessons), leave you voice notes for hard moments, and open your app with you in session, on one screen. WHO MADE IT Conicia is two people: Weston, a psychiatrist who has specialized in OCD for more than a decade, and a product manager who has OCD. No AI chatbot anywhere in it. No reassurance on tap. No streaks, no badges, no feed. Short practices you use and leave. PRIVATE BY DESIGN - No ads, no ad trackers, and no third-party analytics companies in the app - What you write is encrypted, and access is limited and audited - Optional Face ID lock - Delete your account and its data from inside the app, any time WHAT IT COSTS - Free with an account, for good: your first lesson, the three tools for hard moments, and the OCD journal. - The full program: $20 a month or $144 a year, and your first 7 days are free. We email you before the first charge, and you can cancel in two taps in the app. GOOD TO KNOW - Conicia is educational and self-management only. It is not a substitute for professional medical advice, and it is not for the diagnosis or treatment of any condition, including OCD. Talk to your clinician before making decisions about your care. - Conicia is not a crisis service. If you are in crisis, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, 24/7). In immediate danger, call 911. Outside the US, findahelpline.com lists free helplines worldwide. - A Conicia account is required. Reading, exercises and tools work offline. - Clinician-connected features are available in the United States.

Screenshots

Settle4 screens
Conicia4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Conicia at none against Settle's 10. Conicia also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Settle's advantage is ratings volume (202 vs 14). On price, update cadence, 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. Settle sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Conicia asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Conicia holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Settle has 202 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Settle's written reviews are positive against 100% of Conicia's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Settle ships an update every 9 days, Conicia every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Settle versus Conicia: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSettleConicia
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (202 ratings)5.0 (14 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings202 — better14
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscriptionFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size89 MB66 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperSola Studios, LLCConicia Inc

Customer experience

Settle

All ratings174 ratings
Positive90.2%
Neutral4.0%
Negative5.7%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

Conicia

All ratings14 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Settle

Subscriptions10
  • Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Weekly Premium$4.997 Days
  • Weekly Premium$6.997 Days
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  • Weekly Premium$9.997 Days
  • Yearly Premium7 Days trial$59.991 Year
  • Yearly Premium3 Days trial$59.991 Year
  • Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year
  • Yearly Premium$89.991 Year
  • Yearly Premium3 Days trial$99.991 Year
  • Yearly Premium3 Days trial$119.991 Year
None

Conicia

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Settle free?
Settle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Conicia free?
Conicia is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Settle or Conicia?
Conicia is rated higher. Settle averages 4.6 out of 5 from 202 ratings, while Conicia averages 5.0 from 14 ratings.
Do Settle or Conicia have ads?
Settle shows ads; Conicia does not.
Which is updated more often, Settle or Conicia?
Settle ships an update every 9 days, and Conicia every 5 days. Most recently, Settle was updated on November 5, 2026 and Conicia on November 6, 2026.

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