Soulbase vs Shadow Self
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Soulbase
This app offers a comprehensive toolkit for personal growth and wellness. It combines journaling, meditation, breathwork, and visualization tools to help users build daily practices for self-discovery and mental clarity. Users can also connect with a supportive community and track their progress.
- Guided journaling with prompts
- Dream logging and coincidence tracking
- Breathwork and meditation sessions
- Vision board creation
- Customizable ritual routines
- Community sharing and progress tracking
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SoulBase — Your Personal Growth & Wellness Toolkit Build a daily practice that actually sticks. SoulBase brings together the tools you need for self-discovery, mental clarity, and personal growth — all in one place. Reflect & Journal Write freely with guided prompts, track your dreams, log meaningful coincidences, and explore shadow work exercises designed for genuine self-understanding. Includes self-reflection tools like astrology, tarot, and numerology. Breathe & Meditate Follow guided breathwork sessions, meditate with sound healing frequencies and binaural beats, and build routines that fit your schedule. Create & Visualize Design vision boards, set daily affirmations, and craft custom ritual routines that combine any of the app's tools into a single guided session. Connect & Grow Share insights with a supportive community, track your progress with streaks and milestones, and get personalized recommendations based on your practice history. Every feature is free. No paywalls, no ads, no trials. Optional supporter tiers help keep things running, but they're never required. Whether you're starting a journaling habit, building a morning routine, or deepening your self-awareness practice, SoulBase meets you where you are.
Shadow Self
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There's a part of you that runs in the background shaping your choices, your reactions, your relationships without you ever seeing it clearly. Shadow Self helps you find it. Through Sage, an AI companion trained in Jungian psychology, you discover your shadow archetype: the hidden pattern beneath your behavior. Then you learn to work with it. What you get: Your shadow archetype from six Jungian archetypes Deep one-on-one conversations with Sage Journal to track patterns and breakthroughs Shadow work exercises tailored to your archetype Deep Analysis: behavioral patterns, root causes, integration plan Private by design. No account required. No data sold. Your conversations stay on your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Soulbase at 8 against Shadow Self'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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Soulbase against 5.0 for Shadow Self. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Soulbase has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Soulbase | Shadow Self |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Cayden Allen | yehuda breuer |
In-app purchases
Soulbase
No in-app purchases
Shadow Self
No in-app purchases









