Comparison

Sleep Meditations vs Major Tom

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

Head to head
About

Sleep Meditations

This app offers guided meditations, relaxing music, and interactive touch experiences to help you achieve deeper calm and better sleep. It includes breathing exercises and customizable rituals for both nighttime and daytime relaxation.

Highlights
  • Guided meditations and sleep stories
  • Relaxing music and soundscapes
  • Interactive hypnotic touch surfaces
  • Cardiac coherence breathing exercises
  • Customizable relaxation rituals
  • Sessions for sleep, stress, and anxiety
Features
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Sleep Meditations is your nightly ritual for deeper calm and better sleep. It brings together guided sessions, relaxing music, interactive slow-touch surfaces and calming breathing exercises to help your mind and body settle, day or night. Built on the calming technology behind Heat Pad, our heat-sensitive touch simulation app enjoyed by over 5 million users worldwide, Sleep Meditations takes the experience further with a complete sound, touch and breath-based ritual. GUIDED MEDITATIONS & STORIES • Handpicked guided meditations and sleep stories for beginners and experienced meditators • Short resets, body scans, visualisations and deep sleep journeys • Sessions for sleep, stress relief, anxiety, decompression after work and more RELAXING MUSIC & SOUNDSCAPES • High-quality relaxing music and ambient soundscapes • Slow, evolving soundscapes, soft piano and night atmospheres • Relaxing ambient sounds: white noise, rain, birds and much more INTERACTIVE HYPNOTIC TOUCH SURFACES • Heat-inspired, responsive surfaces that react smoothly to your fingertips • Slow, gentle finger movements create fluid light patterns and subtle haptics • Rooted in techniques like five-finger relaxation and touch-based meditation, offering a hypnotic way to ground attention, ease anxiety and release tension in minutes. CARDIAC COHERENCE BREATHING • Simple 5-minute breathing cycles with clear visual guides • Based on cardiac coherence, a well-studied breathing pattern used in stress management • Helps calm your nervous system and support deeper, more restorative rest BUILD YOUR OWN RELAXATION RITUAL • Combine breathing, touch, meditations and music into a nightly wind-down • Use it during the day to take a quiet break, reset between meetings or decompress after a long day • Middle-of-the-night sessions you can launch in seconds when you wake up and want to drift back to sleep SLEEP MEDITATIONS IS FOR YOU IF… • You want help falling asleep and staying asleep • You need short, reliable ways to relax during the day • You want a gentle ritual you can repeat each evening or during tough days Whether you have 5 minutes or 30, Sleep Meditations gives you a quiet, multi-sensory space to reset. SUBSCRIPTION Sleep Meditations is free to download and explore. Unlock the full experience with a subscription: unlimited access to all meditations, music, touch-based relaxation surfaces and breathing sessions, plus new content and improvements over time. You can cancel anytime in your account settings. Read more about our terms and conditions here : Terms and conditions: https://heatpad-pull.b-cdn.net/terms_sm.html Privacy policy: https://heatpad-pull.b-cdn.net/terms_sm.html#privacy-policy

About

Major Tom

Features
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Beat Doomscrolling for Good. Major Tom is a gamified anti-doomscrolling app designed to help you cut your screen time below 1 hour a day, stay focused, and compete with friends to finally break the grip of endless scrolling. In just minutes, Major Tom turns your daily phone habits into a challenge: track your usage, earn a Focus Score, and climb the leaderboard as you reclaim your attention for good. Built for ambitious people who want control — not chaos — Major Tom makes beating doomscrolling fun, social, and actually achievable. Features You’ll Love: - Real-Time Screen Time Tracker: See exactly where your minutes go and stay under the 1-hour mission target. - Focus Score: A simple metric showing how well you’re resisting distractions each day. - Competitive Leaderboard: Challenge friends, push your limits, and rise through the ranks. - Daily Mission Streaks: Make consistent focus a habit and build discipline that sticks. - Gamified Progress: Unlock milestones, level up, and make unplugging feel rewarding. Download Major Tom and take back control of your attention. Less scrolling. More living. Mission accepted. A subscription is required to access the full app experience and features. Terms of Use: https://legal.rocapine.com/terms Privacy policy: https://legal.rocapine.com/privacy

Screenshots

Sleep Meditations4 screens
Major Tom4 screens

Verdict

The call

Sleep Meditations and Major Tom are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Sleep Meditations sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Major Tom sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Sleep Meditations versus Major Tom: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSleep MeditationsMajor Tom
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB54 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPadadazLes Nants

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Sleep Meditations

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Plan7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Yearly Plan7 Days trial$49.991 Year
2 purchases

Major Tom

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Plan$9.991 Month
  • Yearly Plan7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Sleep Meditations free?
Sleep Meditations is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Major Tom free?
Major Tom is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sleep Meditations or Major Tom have ads?
Both Sleep Meditations and Major Tom show ads.

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