Comparison

Fetters vs Tone Threshold

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

Head to head
About

Fetters

This app offers AI-guided self-inquiry to explore Buddhist psychology's ten fetters. Engage in personalized conversations, journal your insights, and connect with a community of fellow travelers. It provides a distraction-free, privacy-focused experience for personal contemplation.

Highlights
  • AI-guided self-inquiry
  • Progress tracking through ten fetters
  • Private journaling
  • Community presence
  • Offline functionality
  • Privacy-focused design
Features
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A contemplative app guiding you through the ten fetters of Buddhist psychology. No beliefs required — only honest looking. THE PATH The Buddha identified ten fetters (samyojana) — mental patterns that bind us to suffering. This app guides you through each one using AI-powered self-inquiry based on the Liberation Unleashed methodology. AI-GUIDED INQUIRY Engage in deep, personalized conversations that point you toward direct experience. Not philosophy or belief — just honest looking at what's actually here. JOURNAL YOUR INSIGHTS Capture what you notice after each inquiry session. Writing deepens seeing. Review your journey over time. WALK TOGETHER, ALONE See who else is looking right now. Share insights with fellow travelers on the path. THE TEN FETTERS 1. Self-View (Sakkaya-ditthi) — The belief in a separate experiencer 2. Doubt (Vicikiccha) — Uncertainty about the path 3. Rites & Rituals (Silabbata-paramasa) — Attachment to practices 4. Sensual Desire (Kama-raga) — Craving pleasant experiences 5. Ill Will (Vyapada) — Aversion to unpleasant experiences 6. Desire for Form (Rupa-raga) — Attachment to material existence 7. Desire for Formless (Arupa-raga) — Attachment to subtle states 8. Conceit (Mana) — The sense of "I am" 9. Restlessness (Uddhacca) — Subtle mental agitation 10. Ignorance (Avijja) — Not seeing things as they are FEATURES - AI-guided self-inquiry conversations - Progress tracking through all ten fetters - Daily contemplation prompts - Private journaling with prompts - Community presence and messaging - Beautiful, distraction-free design - Offline reading, journaling, and timed practice - Guide and community require an internet connection - No email or password required - Privacy-focused SAFETY This app includes grounding practices and safety resources. If difficult experiences arise, support is available. INSPIRED BY Liberation Unleashed, Simply the Seen, and the Pali Canon. The path is ancient. The looking is now.

About

Tone Threshold

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Tone Threshold is a contemplative app for standing at the edge of a question. It is not a meditation timer, journal, quote app, therapy tool, or productivity system. It is a quiet doorway: a place to meet one question at a time and let the answer fall silent. Free gives you a beautiful threshold question. Tone Plus opens the Living Threshold: returning questions, deeper crossings, personal chambers, and soundfields that remember where you have stood. With Tone Plus, saved questions can return later through Return Field. They do not come back as tasks, streaks, or archive items. They return as unfinished thresholds: something in them has not finished with you. Tone Threshold includes single-question crossings, saved marks, Return Field, Return Ritual, premium doors, Personal Chamber, and low grounded ritual soundfields. Tone Threshold is for contemplative inquiry. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, therapy, crisis support, or emergency services.

Screenshots

Fetters3 screens
Tone Threshold4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fetters at none against Tone Threshold's 1. Tone Threshold's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads and device support 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. Tone Threshold sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Fetters asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Fetters versus Tone Threshold: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFettersTone Threshold
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.113.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB16 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperinDevsNIKOLAI S HALAY

In-app purchases

None

Fetters

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Tone Threshold

One-time1
  • Tone Plus Lifetime$1.99

Questions

Is Fetters free?
Fetters is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tone Threshold free?
Tone Threshold is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Fetters or Tone Threshold have ads?
Neither Fetters nor Tone Threshold shows ads.

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