Comparison

SettleMind vs Slumba

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

Head to head
About

SettleMind

This app offers guided breathing exercises to help manage anxiety, overthinking, and everyday stress. It provides simple tools to slow down racing thoughts and promote a sense of calm and steadiness.

Highlights
  • Guided breathing exercises
  • Support for overthinking
  • Tools for stressful moments
  • Distraction-free experience
  • Promotes daily calm
Features
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SettleMind helps you calm your mind with simple breathing tools for anxiety, overthinking, worry, and everyday stress. When your thoughts feel loud, your mind starts racing, or a small problem turns into a spiral, SettleMind gives you a simple way to slow down and feel more steady. Open the app, choose a breathing exercise, and take a few minutes to reset. SettleMind is designed for daily calm, not just crisis moments. It is made for people who want a cleaner, simpler way to handle anxious thoughts, stress, overwhelm, and busy days. Features: • Guided breathing exercises for daily calm • Simple support for overthinking and worry • Fast tools for stressful or overwhelming moments • A clean, distraction-free experience • Designed to help you feel more steady over time Whether you are dealing with stress, rumination, or a mind that will not slow down, SettleMind helps you pause, breathe, and settle back into your day.

About

Slumba

Craft personalized soundscapes to aid sleep with an intuitive mixer. Choose from various nature and noise themes, set sleep timers, and control playback via Apple Watch or home screen widgets. Integrates with Sleep Focus for automated bedtime routines.

Highlights
  • Intuitive soundscape mixer
  • Five handcrafted soundscapes
  • Customizable sleep timers
  • Apple Watch app control
  • Home screen widgets
  • Sleep Focus integration
  • Siri voice commands
Features
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Sleep shouldn't be complicated. Slumba gives you a beautiful, handcrafted soundscape — and lets you blend it exactly the way you want. THE MIXER Most sleep apps give you a volume slider. Slumba gives you something more intuitive. Each soundscape layers three sounds together, and you blend them by dragging a single glowing point across a soft triangle. Ease it toward rain and the storm deepens. Nudge it to the center and everything balances. Find what feels right tonight, set your phone down, and let it carry you off. FIVE SOUNDSCAPES Noise — White, Pink & Brown Noise Storm — Rain, Wind & Thunder Ocean — Waves, Breeze & Gurgle Creek — Stream, Rustle & Birds Campfire — Fire, Night Air & Crickets Noise is always free. Try the rest free for 5 minutes — one small purchase unlocks everything. Forever. SLEEP TIMER Set a timer for 15, 30, 45, 60, or 120 minutes and Slumba fades your sounds gently to silence. No sudden cutoffs. Just a slow, peaceful fade — and then sleep. YOUR PHONE CAN STAY FACE-DOWN Once you're in bed, you shouldn't need to touch your phone. Slumba makes that easy. The Apple Watch app lets you start a soundscape, switch presets, and set a timer from your wrist. The Lock Screen widget shows your timer counting down without unlocking. Add the toggle to Control Center and starting Slumba becomes a single tap before you set your phone down for the night. On iPhone 14 and later, the Live Activity keeps your timer visible in the Dynamic Island while you do your bedtime routine. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN The small home screen widget shows what's playing at a glance. The medium widget goes further — when nothing is playing, it shows all five soundscapes as soft buttons you can tap to start one directly, without opening the app. SLUMBA KNOWS WHEN IT'S BEDTIME Connect Slumba to your Sleep Focus and it can start your chosen soundscape automatically when your bedtime routine begins — without you having to remember. Ask Siri to play a specific soundscape, or set a timer hands-free. "Play Ocean on Slumba." That's all it takes. BUILT FOR SLEEP No accounts. No subscriptions. No ads. No tracking. Just sounds that help you sleep. APPLE WATCH The best thing about the Apple Watch app is what it saves you from doing — reaching for your phone when you're already comfortable. From your wrist you can start any soundscape, switch between Noise, Storm, Ocean, Creek, and Campfire, and set a sleep timer for exactly as long as you need. The countdown rests softly on screen. When the time comes, Slumba fades out on its own. Your phone can stay face-down. The room can stay dark. You don't have to move.

Screenshots

SettleMind4 screens
Slumba4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SettleMind at none against Slumba's 1. SettleMind also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.2). Slumba's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, rating and ads 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. Slumba sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. SettleMind asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for SettleMind against 5.0 for Slumba. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Slumba has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
SettleMind versus Slumba: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSettleMindSlumba
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings17 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSachin SankonattiIan Goudie

In-app purchases

None

SettleMind

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Slumba

One-time1
  • Unlock All Presets$2.99

Questions

Is SettleMind free?
SettleMind is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Slumba free?
Slumba is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SettleMind or Slumba?
SettleMind and Slumba are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 7 ratings respectively.
Do SettleMind or Slumba have ads?
Neither SettleMind nor Slumba shows ads.

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