Lucent vs Bruce
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lucent
Organize and access your personal guided meditations. Upload your own audio files to create a structured daily practice, track your progress, and set reminders to stay mindful throughout the day.
- Play guided meditations
- Upload personal meditations
- Create playback queues
- Set daily practice commitments
- Track streaks and progress
- Personalized reminders
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Lucent is your personal space to access your guided meditations and help you keep a simple structure for your daily meditation practice. Upload the meditation you own and access them here to keep everything organized, maintain a consistent daily practice, integrate your insights and stay aligned throughout the day. Features: • Play your guided meditations • Upload your own meditations to your library • Create a seamless playback queue • Set daily commitments • Track streaks, insights, and progress • Stay coherent throughout your day with personalized reminders Important note: Lucent currently does not provide guided meditations. It a space to upload and access the meditations YOU ALREADY own.
Bruce
This app helps you track workouts with a focus on simplicity. Log sets, use built-in timers for rest, and monitor your progress with detailed charts and personal records. It offers a large exercise library and allows for custom plan creation.
- Customizable workout plans
- Extensive exercise library
- Per-set timers and rest countdowns
- Automatic personal record detection
- Volume and frequency charts
- Body weight tracking
- Optional iCloud sync
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Track your workouts without the noise. Bruce is a workout tracker that stays out of your way. Pick a plan, log your sets, rest when the timer beeps, repeat. That's it. PLANS • Create your own or choose from suggested programs (PPL, Upper/Lower, and more) • Warm-ups, drop sets, and supersets that alternate set by set • Share plans as tappable links • 800+ exercise library with beginner-friendly defaults • Plate calculator built into every barbell exercise TRACKING • Per-set timers, rest countdowns, and skip/complete controls • Pausable hold timers for planks and carries, with a lead-in countdown • Edit past workouts or log one you did without the app • Personal records detected automatically (weight, volume, estimated 1RM) • Post-workout summary with stats and optional progress photo • Body weight log with notes and sparkline trend TIMERS • Rest — repeating interval for between sets • Tabata — 20s work / 10s rest × 8 rounds • HIIT — custom work/rest/rounds • EMOM — every minute on the minute • Stretch — timed holds for flexibility PROGRESS • Volume and frequency charts • Weekly training-days goal • Workout streaks • Muscle ranks on a body map • Calendar view • Body weight history SYNC • Optional iCloud sync across devices • Optional Apple Health integration (workouts + body weight) • JSON export of your plans and history • Live Activity and Dynamic Island during workouts on iPhone • Runs on iPhone and iPad, in portrait and landscape PRIVACY • No account required • No analytics or tracking • iCloud and Apple Health sync are off until you turn them on • Your data stays on your device unless you choose to sync Free. No trials, no paywalls, no "pro" tier.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Bruce at every 6 days against Lucent's every 5 months. Lucent's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Lucent against 5.0 for Bruce. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Lucent ships an update every 5 months, Bruce every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lucent | Bruce |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 90 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LumaNexus LLC | Abhishek Agrawal |
In-app purchases
Lucent
No in-app purchases
Bruce
No in-app purchases









