Comparison

Steady Current vs Glowly

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

Head to head
About

Steady Current

This app provides a spiritual journaling experience to foster peace, gratitude, and awareness through daily practices. It offers guided reflection for mornings and evenings, alongside prompts for gratitude and noticing divine timing. The app encourages a consistent, gentle return to practices that promote a grounded and connected inner life.

Highlights
  • Morning prayer and intention setting
  • Daily gratitude journaling
  • Divine timing and synchronicity tracking
  • Evening reflection and release
  • Spiritual, non-denominational guidance
  • Personalized inner life record
Features
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Find greater peace—one day at a time. Deepen your connection with the Divine. Notice the good that is already here. Note: A subscription is required to use Steady Current. Start with a free trial: 7 days on the monthly plan or 14 days on the annual plan. Steady Current is a spiritual journaling app designed to help you move through life with greater peace, gratitude, awareness, and connection. Life can pull us in countless directions. Steady Current creates a quiet space to pause, reflect, and reconnect with what matters most. Through four simple daily practices, you can begin your morning with intention, notice gratitude and meaning throughout your day, and bring each evening to a peaceful close. YOUR DAILY PRACTICE Morning Prayer Begin the day by quieting your mind, expressing what is on your heart, and asking for guidance. Set an intention for how you want to move through the day—and release what is beyond your control. Gratitude Record the people, experiences, and ordinary moments for which you are grateful. Over time, this simple practice can gently shift your attention toward the good that is already present in your life. Divine Timing Capture meaningful coincidences, unexpected connections, answered prayers, and moments that seem to arrive at just the right time. Whether you think of them as divine timing, synchronicity, grace, or something else, Steady Current gives you a place to remember them. Evening Prayer Reflect on the day with honesty and compassion. Acknowledge what went well, consider where you may want to grow, and let go of the day before you rest. A QUIET RHYTHM FOR DAILY LIFE Steady Current is not about completing a perfect routine. It is about returning—gently and consistently—to the practices that help you feel grounded. Morning brings intention. The day brings opportunities for awareness and gratitude. Evening brings reflection, release, and renewal. As your entries accumulate, they become a meaningful record of your inner life: what brings you joy, what weighs on you, where you are growing, and the moments when life seems to offer guidance or reassurance. SPIRITUAL, NOT PRESCRIPTIVE Steady Current is designed for anyone who believes there may be something greater at work in life. It is spiritually oriented without requiring a particular religion, doctrine, or way of describing the Divine. Use the language that feels natural to you—God, a Higher Power, the Divine, the universe, or simply the quiet wisdom within. Steady Current does not tell you what to believe. It gives you space to deepen the connection you already feel. PEACE THROUGH PRACTICE Lasting peace rarely arrives all at once. More often, it develops through small moments of stillness, gratitude, surrender, and reflection repeated over time. Like a steady current beneath the surface, these simple practices can help carry you back toward peace—even when life feels uncertain. Begin where you are. Write what is true. Notice what is good. Release what you cannot control. And let a few quiet moments each day change the way you experience your life. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS • Steady Current offers monthly and annual auto-renewing subscriptions, each with a free trial (7 days monthly, 14 days annual). • Payment is charged to your Apple Account when the free trial ends. • Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.steadycurrentapp.com/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://www.steadycurrentapp.com/privacy-policy

About

Glowly

Track UV exposure and optimize tanning sessions with personalized routines and smart notifications. Analyze your skin tone and tan level on-device, and monitor Vitamin D intake. Includes helpful widgets and motivational achievements.

Highlights
  • Live UV index tracking
  • Personalized tanning routines
  • On-device skin scan
  • Vitamin D tracking
  • Lock Screen and Dynamic Island countdown
  • Widgets for Home and Lock Screen
  • Session history and achievements
Features
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The fastest (and prettiest) way to tan your body is using the Glowly tanning app. Know everything about upcoming UV index and when the best and most optimal times are to tan YOUR skin! Glowly also lets you CREATE your OWN dynamic tanning routines to suit the way you tan and help achieve your tanning goals. Track everything from Vitamin D, the best tanning weather - and times as well as smart notifications that check when Glowly believes the best times of the day are to tan your skin along with personalized sunscreen recommendations and cute achievements to keep you motivated. Cute achievements included :) Glowly also includes helpful widgets so that you can always easily see the UVI and the best times to get outside! Subscription required. Glowly Premium is an auto-renewing subscription. The yearly plan includes a 3-day free trial. WHAT GLOWLY DOES • Live UV index for your exact location, hour by hour, powered by Apple Weather • Your own burn limit in minutes, worked out from your skin type and today's UV • A guided tan session with a countdown on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, with flip and reapply reminders • Skin scan — tone, tan level and evenness, analyzed entirely on your device • Vitamin D tracking against a daily goal • Session history, streaks, achievements and your Glow Passport • Widgets for your Home and Lock Screen: UV now, best window, vitamin D and your streak • A collectible Glow Passport card that fills up as your summer does • Home and Lock Screen widgets: UV now, your best window, vitamin D, your streak • Midday being dramatic? Glowly points you at a calmer, lower-UV window later on BUILT AROUND YOUR SKIN Answer a few questions about your eyes, your hair and how your skin reacts to the sun, and Glowly works out your skin type. Every limit, SPF suggestion and time window is calculated for that type, not a generic average. YOUR PHOTOS STAY ON YOUR IPHONE The skin scan runs entirely on your device. Photos are never uploaded. Glowly has no account and no server of ours. Your location is sent only to the weather provider, to fetch the forecast where you are. IMPORTANT Glowly is for ages 13 and over. Under 18 needs a parent or guardian's permission; they accept the Terms of Use on your behalf and are responsible for your use. It is for general education only: not medical advice, not a medical device, not a diagnostic or screening tool. Every UV figure, burn limit, vitamin D, SPF suggestion and scan result is an estimate and may be inaccurate; no number Glowly shows means any sun exposure is safe for you. UV radiation is a recognised human carcinogen and there is no safe tan. Sun exposure can cause sunburn, eye injury, heat illness, premature ageing and skin cancers including melanoma — even if you follow Glowly exactly. Every sun decision is yours alone; sunscreen, clothing and shade, not this app, are the accepted protective measures. Never use Glowly to assess a mole, lesion or skin change — see a doctor promptly. See a doctor before using Glowly if you have a personal or family history of skin cancer, atypical or changing moles, a photosensitivity condition, are pregnant or breastfeeding, or take photosensitising medicine. Under 18: sunburn before 18 is a recognised melanoma risk factor and health authorities advise against deliberate tanning. Nothing in Glowly recommends that you tan. Full Terms, disclaimers and limitation of liability: annoyinggoose.com/glowly/terms/ SUBSCRIPTION Glowly Premium unlocks the app. Yearly and monthly plans are available, and the price is shown in the app in your local currency before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in Settings → Apple Account → Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://annoyinggoose.com/glowly/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://annoyinggoose.com/glowly/privacy/

Screenshots

Steady Current4 screens
Glowly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Steady Current at 6 against Glowly's 1. On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Steady Current sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Glowly sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Steady Current against 5.0 for Glowly. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Steady Current has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard1 real difference · 7 level
Steady Current versus Glowly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSteady CurrentGlowly
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings6 — better1
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB6 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperBeacon Quadrant HealthAnnoying Goose For Software Publishing

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Steady Current

Subscriptions2
  • All-Access Monthly7 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • All-Access Annual14 Days trial$39.991 Year
2 purchases

Glowly

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Steady Current free?
Steady Current is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Glowly free?
Glowly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Steady Current or Glowly?
Steady Current and Glowly are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 6 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Steady Current or Glowly have ads?
Neither Steady Current nor Glowly shows ads.

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