Comparison

ASHR vs Velarium Studio

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

Head to head
About

ASHR

This app uses binaural audio, ASMR visuals, and guided practices to help you achieve calm, focus, or sleep. It's designed for those who struggle to switch off or experience racing thoughts.

Highlights
  • Binaural audio and resonant frequencies
  • Adaptive 3D visual worlds
  • Voice-guided breathwork practices
  • ASMR soundscapes
  • Research-based psychoacoustics and neuroscience
  • No pressure or failure mechanics
Features
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ASHR blends three sensory layers into one immersive experience that gently transforms your inner state. TUNE Binaural audio, resonant tones, tuned frequencies, and nature soundscapes shift the nervous system into calm, focus, or sleep. IMMERSE ASMR and adaptive 3D visual worlds respond to you, deepening the shift and holding your attention gently in place. GUIDE Voice-guided practices and breathwork are woven into the experience itself, no skills, no discipline, no habit to maintain. Grounded in research in psychoacoustics, neuroscience, and visual perception. Made for anyone who can't switch off after work, loses an hour to the feed, or feels their mind race at night. No streaks. No pressure. No way to fail. Step in. Walk out realigned. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internetservices/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://privacy.ashr.com/

About

Velarium Studio

This app offers a private digital space for creative expression and mindfulness. Engage in drawing, painting, journaling, or music creation. It also provides guided sensory grounding and sleep visualizations designed to be calming and non-intrusive.

Highlights
  • Drawing and painting with optional guidance
  • Journaling with open-ended prompts
  • On-device music creation
  • Sensory grounding exercises
  • Guided sleep visualizations
  • Customizable day/night moods
Features
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Velarium is a trauma-informed art therapy companion. A quiet room you can step into when the day is too loud — to draw, paint, journal, make a little music, ground through your senses, or drift off to sleep with a guided visualization. Nothing here is trying to optimize you. There are no streaks chasing you. No push notifications begging for your attention. No social feeds. Just exercises, your own creative output, and a way to look back gently on what you made. — What's inside — • Drawing & painting. Pencil-friendly canvases with gentle, optional guidance. Save what you finish to a private gallery on your device. • Journaling. Open-ended prompts paired with a calm editor. Mood check-ins use weather metaphors instead of numbers. • Music. Soft on-device piano, bells, ambient pad, strings, and marimba. Export your composition as a real audio file. • Sensory grounding. Guided practices for tactile and visual grounding when you need to return to your body. • Sleep tapes. Guided visualizations of moonlit oceans, autumn villages, falling snow, distant cities, and rainforests in the rain. Body scans and color meditations include calm on-device narration. • Day and night moods. Tap the sun or moon in the corner to shift the entire app's palette to match how you feel. — Designed for nervous systems that have had a day — Every part of Velarium follows trauma-informed design principles: • Soft motion and slow transitions • Permission-style language ("you might let your shoulders soften") instead of commands • No timers chasing you through exercises • Reduce Motion fully respected • Gentle haptics, never sharp ones • You can always exit, never penalized for stopping early — Privacy by default — Velarium does not collect, transmit, or share any of your data. Your drawings, paintings, journal entries, music compositions, sleep playback history, and goals live only on your device. There are no servers, no analytics, no advertising SDKs, and no third-party trackers. The app works fully offline. Sleep tape narration uses Apple's on-device speech synthesizer, so even the spoken cues never leave your phone. For the highest voice quality, download a Premium voice in iOS Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content → Voices; Velarium will use it automatically. — Built with care — Velarium ships zero third-party dependencies. Every drawing canvas, every breath of procedural ambience, every visual scene, every body-scan glow is rendered from scratch on your device with Apple's frameworks. There's nothing here you didn't already trust when you installed iOS. Made for anyone who needs a slower, gentler corner of the App Store.

Screenshots

ASHR4 screens
Velarium Studio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ASHR at Free against Velarium Studio's $0.99. ASHR also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (8 vs 1). Velarium Studio's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On 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

ASHR is free to download; Velarium Studio costs $0.99 up front. ASHR sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Velarium Studio asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Velarium Studio holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ASHR has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ASHR ships an update every 2 weeks, Velarium Studio every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
ASHR versus Velarium Studio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterASHRVelarium Studio
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.6 (8 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size1.1 GB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAuratuneAndreea Buraga

Customer experience

ASHR

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

Velarium Studio

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

ASHR

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly3 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Yearly3 Days trial$59.991 Year
None

Velarium Studio

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ASHR free?
ASHR is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Velarium Studio free?
Velarium Studio costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ASHR or Velarium Studio?
Velarium Studio is rated higher. ASHR averages 4.6 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Velarium Studio averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do ASHR or Velarium Studio have ads?
Neither ASHR nor Velarium Studio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ASHR or Velarium Studio?
ASHR ships an update every 2 weeks, and Velarium Studio every 3 months. Most recently, ASHR was updated on October 25, 2026 and Velarium Studio on October 24, 2026.

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