Regulate vs Settl

Meditation asks you to sit still, close your eyes, and breathe. If your heart is pounding, or you feel nothing at all, that can make things worse. Regulate is not a meditation app. It's a nervous system app: short, active, body-first exercises matched to the state you're actually in. Pick how you feel, get the right tool, use it for 1 to 3 minutes, then rate how you feel. That's the whole loop. Built from lived experience of PTSD recovery and four years of somatic work, for the people meditation apps didn't work for. FOUR STATES. THE RIGHT TOOL FOR EACH. ANXIOUS / PANIC - Physiological Sigh: a double inhale and long exhale, one of the best-studied quick ways to help your body settle (2023 Stanford randomized trial) - Pattern Breaker: a cognitive interrupt for racing panic loops - Geode Release: rapid tapping to burn through the surge - Pressure Gauge: tap fast to drive the needle through the redline, then let it fall with one long exhale NUMB / FREEZE - Pendulum: follow a slow swing left and right and tap each side at the peak, with a soft tone in each ear - 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding: sensory anchoring to bring you back online - Focus Follow: smooth-pursuit eye tracking ANGRY / FRUSTRATED - Chaos Release: a physical discharge shake game - Tension Release: find and release the tension your body is holding - Haul: drag a heavy rope down with slow, full pulls; it gets heavier as you go BALANCED / FLOW - Regulate Breath: a 1:2 inhale-to-exhale ratio, the slow pace HRV research points to - Current: rest a fingertip on a wandering light and follow it WHY BODY-FIRST WORKS When your nervous system is stuck in fight, flight, or freeze, thinking your way out rarely works. Regulate's exercises are rooted in breathing science, somatic psychology, and nervous system research: science-backed techniques that work through the body. Breath, movement, bilateral stimulation, and sensory grounding. Every exercise is interactive and animated, with haptic feedback that gives your hands something to do. TRACK WHAT ACTUALLY HELPS Rate how you feel after every exercise. Earn XP, build streaks, hit daily goals, and see which tools work best for your nervous system, not someone else's. A gentle daily nudge, at the time you choose, helps you come back to it. REGULATE+ The four base state exercises are free, unlimited, forever. Regulate+ unlocks: - The full exercise menu for every state - Pattern Insights: hourly patterns, best times of day, effectiveness tracking - Custom Daily Goals: set multiple goals that fit your life - Protocol Builder: build your own exercise sequences - Morning, midday and evening reminder slots - Favorites: one tap to the tools that work for you - PDF progress report (CSV and JSON export stay free) $4.99/month or $34.99/year, with a 7-day free trial on the annual plan. Your nervous system isn't broken. It's doing its job, just a little too well. Regulate helps you work with it. Not meditation. Regulation. --- Regulate is a self-care tool, not a medical device, and is not a substitute for professional care. Terms of Use: https://getregulate.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://getregulate.app/privacy.html

Paid for a meditation app and quit anyway? Settl is science-backed breathwork and meditation: one tap, one 90-second pattern, and your body down-shifts. Built for people who bounced off 10,000-session libraries, streak guilt, and 20-minute "sit with your thoughts" demands. The meeting ran hot and the next one starts in five minutes. Tap Ground: a warm glow swells as you inhale twice and ripples on each long exhale — haptics trace the rhythm, eyes closed. Ninety seconds later it ends in silence, and you walk into that meeting steadier. The pattern is science-backed: a double inhale tops up your lungs, and the long exhale tells your body it's safe. You feel what it does on day one — no course to finish first. Awake at 2 a.m. with the same thought looping? A slow-exhale pattern in the dark, eyes closed, no screen. In the car before a hard conversation? Two minutes of breath before you go in. WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH SETTL - Reset in 90 seconds — Ground plus 7 guided breathing exercises (Box, 4-7-8, Cyclic Sighing, and more), haptic-paced so you can follow them eyes closed - Get a personalized meditation written for you — type what's going on, tag your mood, pick one of 3 voices and a length from 3 to 10 minutes; Settl writes and voices it in about 1-4 minutes, yours to replay offline. Script and voice are generated by AI. - Stack a super-practice — combine breathing and meditations into one Flow for the situations that repeat: pre-meeting, post-game, evening wind-down (11 curated, plus a builder for your own — Premium) - Fall asleep without the spiral — slow-exhale breathing, body scans, and Yoga Nidra for winding down - Learn from zero — the entire Beginners branch: 25 practices including a 10-Day Course, one short session a day, free - Go deeper when you have time — 163 guided meditations across 11 branches, from Stress & Anxiety to Relationships, with 3 narrators you can preview - Stay on task — a focus timer on your Lock Screen, a one-minute gratitude practice, and an unguided timer for silent sits A PRACTICE THAT'S EASY TO KEEP Sessions start at 90 seconds, so there's always room for one. Practice of the Day picks one for you each day — no scrolling, no deciding. And there are no streaks to break: progress builds in pebbles and 20 Stillness levels, fades gently when you miss days, and returns faster when you come back. Reminders go quiet after 14 days instead of nagging you. A GENUINELY GENEROUS FREE TIER Ground, Cyclic Sighing, Box, and 4-7-8 are free forever. So are 66 of the 163 meditations — the entire Beginners branch plus free practices in every branch — the daily Practice of the Day unlock (even when it's usually Premium), and one 3-minute personalized session every week. The breathing tools that matter most are free — and stay free. Premium deepens the experience: all 163 practices, every Flow and the builder, and up to 60 minutes of personalized sessions a month. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No ads. No cross-app tracking. We don't sell your data. Your practice history lives on your device and in your private iCloud, and Apple Health logging is optional and write-only. Breathwork and saved sessions work fully offline. PRICING Settl has one optional subscription, Settl Premium: $7.99 per month, or $49.99 per year with a 7-day free trial on the annual plan. Cancel before the trial ends and you won't be charged. Prices are for United States customers; pricing in other countries may vary. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Try Ground once. If that's all you ever need from Settl, it's free forever — and that's fine with us. Settl supports general wellbeing. It is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Terms of Use: https://settl.co/terms Privacy Policy: https://settl.co/privacy