Comparison

PureMind Affirmations vs Bedside

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

Head to head
About

PureMind Affirmations

Features
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Find calm, confidence, and clarity β€” completely offline. PureMind Affirmations helps you nurture a positive mindset through beautifully designed daily affirmations, gentle reminders, and ambient sounds. No accounts. No internet. No tracking. Everything runs locally on your device β€” so your reflections stay entirely yours. Why users love it β€’ Personalized daily affirmations that adapt to your goals and mood β€’ Categories for focus, gratitude, calm, relationships, energy, and more β€’ Soothing ambient audio and beautiful fullscreen themes β€’ Custom reminders and Home Screen widgets for daily motivation β€’ Works entirely offline β€” your data never leaves your device Pro Unlock (one-time purchase) β€’ Unlock 6 extra categories and 4 premium themes β€’ Access all ambient soundtracks β€’ Customize your widget and experience β€” no subscriptions, ever Highlights β€’ iPhone & iPad support β€’ 8 languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese β€’ Privacy-first: no login, no ads, no analytics Find your calm and confidence β€” one affirmation at a time.

About

Bedside

Features
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You're not awake because you're not tired. You're awake because you're still scrolling. Bedside blocks the apps that keep you up β€” during the sleep window you set, and only then. ONE-TIME PURCHASE. NO SUBSCRIPTION. The core works free, with ads. A single purchase removes them for good and unlocks multiple sleep windows, multiple break rules, and the guardian password. No yearly bill, no plan to cancel, no account to make. Comparable apps in this category charge a subscription every year, and their buy-once tiers cost many times this. SLEEP WINDOW Pick a time range and the apps that derail your night β€” social, video, news, games, your call. They're blocked from bedtime until morning. The phone stops calling you back. PERIODIC BREAK Tracks each app's continuous use independently. Fifteen straight minutes on any one of them triggers a fifteen-minute cooldown. It pulls you out of the doomscroll before the hour disappears. LIMITED UNLOCKS, NEVER A DEAD-END Getting in during a blocked window takes a small deliberate task first β€” just enough to lose interest if you're sleepy. A real emergency always gets through; it only has to wait for you to actually stop and think. The door is never welded shut, because a tool that traps you is a tool you delete. A MORNING RECAP, NOT A VERDICT The next morning Bedside shows how last night went compared to the one before. No score, no streak to break, no guilt notification. Just progress you can see β€” which is the reason people are still using it on night four. WRITE THE BLOCK SCREEN YOURSELF Don't like our wording? Replace the title and subtitle with your own goal. Add several lines and they rotate at random, because any single sentence stops working around the fortieth time you read it. PRIVACY Built on Apple's Family Controls framework and runs on-device. Your rules, app selections and usage never leave your phone β€” no account, no server of ours. The free version shows ads (never during sleep hours, and never the moment you pause); the one-time purchase removes them and loads no third-party SDKs at all. For anyone who has tried deleting the app, tried promising themselves, tried the built-in screen time limit and switched it off.

Screenshots

PureMind Affirmations4 screens
Bedside3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: PureMind Affirmations at none against Bedside's shown. Bedside's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. PureMind Affirmations sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Bedside sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 4 level
PureMind Affirmations versus Bedside: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPureMind AffirmationsBedside
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyβ€”Every 5 days
AdsNo β€” betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size496 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCederic Schmidzhenyu song

In-app purchases

1 purchases

PureMind Affirmations

One-time1
  • PureMind Pro β€” Lifetime Unlock$3.99
1 purchases

Bedside

One-time1
  • Bedside Pro$9.99

Questions

Is PureMind Affirmations free?
PureMind Affirmations is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bedside free?
Bedside is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PureMind Affirmations or Bedside have ads?
Bedside shows ads; PureMind Affirmations does not.

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