Unrush vs Protocol
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Unrush
This app helps you find focus, calm, and rest through personalized sound experiences. It adapts to your mood and needs, offering a simple way to practice self-care without constant decision-making. Track your emotional journey and enjoy a seamless, distraction-free listening experience.
- Adaptive sound journeys
- Mood tracking and journaling
- Personalized sound experiences
- Visual soundscapes
- Continuous, uninterrupted listening
- Touchpad for sound adjustment
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Unrush is a self-care app built around sound. It helps you notice how you feel and find your way back to focus, calm, and rest—at your own pace. Life already asks you to make enough choices. Unrush makes caring for yourself feel a little simpler. There’s no need to search through playlists or rush to change your mood. Start with how you feel or what you need. Take a moment for yourself. Start a journey with how you feel How are you feeling today? Choose your mood and share what you need. Then begin a journey for this moment. Want to settle into work? Recover from a long day? Or get ready for sleep? There’s a place to start. Keep your moments in a Mood Bottle Every journey is a chance to check in with yourself. Revisit your mood records and the words you wrote at the time. Look back on the days you’ve lived and the moments you made space for yourself. See your state come to life Step into a new visual space that responds to your state. Watch it change alongside your sound. Spend less time searching, switching, and checking your phone. Make more room for what you’re doing—and for yourself. Sound that moves with you Your state changes throughout the day. Your sound can change with it. Unrush uses signals such as mood, intention, time, weather, and health data you choose to share. It recommends a sound direction for the moment, then shapes music into a continuous flow. You don’t have to keep choosing what comes next. Created by people. Thoughtfully arranged. Unrush brings together artist-created, lyric-free music and AI-guided sound planning. The result is a low-distraction listening experience that’s easy to stay with. Its sound design draws inspiration from research on attention, stress recovery, sleep, and rhythm. It’s made to accompany you as you find your own pace. Make a little time for yourself with Unrush: - Focus on work, study, reading, or creative projects - Find calm after stress or information overload - Rest when you’re tired and make space to reset - Slow down and prepare for sleep - Find sound for walking, movement, and daily routines - Record your mood and revisit your journeys - Adjust the energy and atmosphere of your sound with Touchpad Unrush Premium Unlock more adaptive sound journeys, Touchpad, and personalized sound experiences. Enjoy continuous, uninterrupted listening. Unrush Premium is available as a monthly or annual subscription. The world keeps asking for your attention. Step away from the noise. Return to your own rhythm. There’s no rush. Take care of yourself.
Protocol
Track nutrition, training, sleep, and more in one adaptive system. Scan meals for instant macro breakdowns, build custom workouts, and monitor progress with data-driven insights. Features AI and human coaching options for personalized guidance.
- Meal scanning for instant macro analysis
- Customizable training plan generation
- Holistic tracking of nutrition, training, sleep, and steps
- AI-powered coaching and insights
- Optional human coaching integration
- Seven specialized fitness archetypes
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Protocol is an adaptive fitness system for nutrition, training, fasting, body composition, and accountability. A Protocol Operator subscription is required to use the app. Protocol exists to remove excuses by replacing motivation with structure. It treats the body as a system that adapts to conditions, not emotions. The app is not a motivator, diary, or game. It is a compliance engine that records reality, reinforces constraints, and helps you operate the system long enough for results to compound. Scan meals. Generate workouts. Track lifts, macros, fasting, sleep, steps, weight, and weekly progress in one system that learns how you eat, move, train, and recover. Built for consistency over motivation, Protocol gives you structure without guilt mechanics, streak pressure, or noisy dashboards. Just clear targets, adaptive feedback, and tools that keep your plan moving. MEAL LOGGING Log food with a photo, text, barcode, or saved meal. Protocol estimates calories and macros in seconds, then lets you edit every entry by ingredient or macro. Save meal preps, relog common meals, and use verified local food data for faster, cleaner tracking. TRAINING Build custom training plans across strength, hypertrophy, conditioning, endurance, and performance. Choose 2–7 day splits, target specific muscle groups, log sets and rest times, swap exercises, save templates, and track progressive overload, volume, density, and personal records over time. BODY + HEALTH DATA With Apple Health permission, Protocol uses steps, workouts, weight, sleep, and activity data to help estimate your real energy needs. Track weight trends, body composition scans, compliance patterns, and weekly changes without turning your health into a scorecard. AI COACH Protocol's AI coach uses your logged nutrition, training, compliance, and progress context to give more relevant answers. Ask questions, generate workouts, review patterns, and adjust your plan with guidance based on your actual data, not generic advice. HUMAN COACHING Sentinel connects you with a real coach inside Protocol. Your coach can review your training, nutrition, and body composition context, adjust programming, update macros, and communicate through built-in chat. No scattered spreadsheets. No third-party messaging. One system. BUILT TO KEEP YOU ON TRACK Daily reviews take seconds. Weekly audits surface patterns you might miss. Intelligent reminders help redirect your attention when meals, training, fasting, or check-ins fall behind. Protocol is not just a tracker. It is a structured operating system for staying consistent. SUBSCRIPTION Protocol is free to download. Using the app requires a Protocol Operator subscription, which unlocks every feature. Choose monthly or annual billing. • Payment is charged to your Apple ID account when you confirm the purchase. • Your subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period, at the same price and billing period. • Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID Account Settings. • Prices are shown in the app before purchase and may vary by country or region. Coaching with a human coach through Sentinel is a separate subscription, priced by the coach and shown before you subscribe. Privacy Policy: https://protocolapp.ai/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Unrush at 29 against Protocol's 6. On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Unrush sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $11.90 per month and Protocol sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Unrush against 5.0 for Protocol. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 29 and 6 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Unrush ships an update every 5 days, Protocol every 3 days. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | Unrush | Protocol |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (29 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 183 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | EING TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED | Rizfel Kei Tolentino |
Customer experience
Unrush
Protocol
In-app purchases
Unrush
- Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$11.901 Month
- Annual Membership7 Days trial$41.901 Year
Protocol
- Protocol Elite$14.991 Month
- Protocol Elite Annual$79.991 Year









