Cadence vs Mantl.
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cadence
This app offers guided breathwork and bilateral stimulation exercises to help users reset, refocus, and unwind. It features various visual cues, optional haptics, and panning audio to enhance the experience. Users can track their progress, journal after sessions, and log mindful minutes to Apple Health.
- Bilateral stimulation exercises
- Guided breathwork sessions
- Visual cues (Moving Dot, Light Bar, Jet Stream)
- Optional haptics and panning audio
- Session tracking and history
- Journaling and practice summaries
- Apple Health integration
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Cadence helps you reset, refocus, and unwind with left-right rhythm and guided breathwork. Choose a visual, start a session, and follow the cue for a short pause or a longer wind-down. Use Cadence to: * Practice with Moving Dot, Light Bar, and Jet Stream * Move from left-right rhythm into guided breathing * Add optional haptics, panning audio, and soundscapes * Track check-ins, streaks, and session history * Journal after sessions and review practice summaries * Log completed sessions to Apple Health as Mindful Minutes, if you choose Cadence works offline and does not require an account. Your sessions, notes, and preferences stay on your device unless you export them.
Mantl.
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Fine all day. Not fine with her. You hold it together everywhere else, then the smallest thing at home sets you off. Your body fires in an argument the same way it fires for real danger, and nobody ever showed you how to bring it back down. The short fuse. The silence afterwards. The intimacy that stopped, and neither of you has said a word about it. Your body has a brake pedal. Mantl shows you where it is. Designed to help men stop reacting in ways they regret. BUILT FOR THE MOMENT Not ten minutes of meditation every morning. The moment itself. • About to snap. Calm down before you say something you regret. • Going on a date. Settle your nerves before you get there. • Don't send the text. Wait until you can think clearly. • After a fight. Bring your body back down. • After a breakup. Get through tonight and get some sleep. • Being ghosted. Stop checking your phone. • Can't switch off. Slow down enough to sleep. • Before the pitch. Steady your hands and your voice. Pick the moment. Mantl gives you the tool for that exact moment, then what to do next. THE TOOLS Guided tools in a real voice, with music and pacing, so you are told what to do instead of guessing. Choose Short or Full. A long sigh out. A low hum. Clench hard, then let go. Shake out your arms. Eye movements, side to side. BURN IT Write the message you will never send, to anyone. Say every word, then hold to burn the thread. Nothing is sent. Nothing is saved. VOICE DUMP Say everything out loud. Read your words back, then keep them or hold to burn them. Your recordings stay on your phone and are never sent anywhere. NS RADIO Sound designed to settle your system, in stations like Chilled, Deep, Pick Me Up and Guide Me To Sleep. Tracks built using techniques backed by neuroscience: custom frequencies, ambient sound, carefully shaped rhythms. It keeps playing with your phone locked, and there is a sleep timer for the night. Save a track to My Station with the heart, or play it quietly behind any tool. Everything is unlocked. Free right now, no account, no sign-up. WHAT ACTUALLY CHANGES She stopped telling you things. That's the part that should worry you. Steady isn't the goal. It's the ground everything else stands on. The relationship. The discipline. The confidence to lead. Those get easier when your body isn't stuck in survival mode. She'll notice before you tell her. WHEN YOU WANT MORE THAN THE FIX Straight talk on the rest of it. Dating, Decoded. After Her. The Steady Man. Money Nerves. Short parts, plain words, written like a brother who's been there, not a therapist. Underneath all of it sits Groundwork. Twelve moments in the Mirror show you the pattern you have been standing inside, then thirty lessons, one rep each, built around what it finds. DOES IT WORK FOR YOU One question after every exercise: did that shift anything? Mantl tracks which tools work for you and leads with those. No streaks. No guilt. Just evidence. Sleep easier. Think straight. Be the same man at home as you are everywhere else. Steady men can build steady homes. Start with the body. Privacy Policy: https://mantlapp.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://mantlapp.com/terms Mantl is a training tool, not medical care or therapy. If you are in crisis, contact your local emergency services.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Mantl. at 15.1 against Cadence's 26.2. On price, update cadence, 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.
Cadence ships an update every 4 weeks, Mantl. monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cadence | Mantl. |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Paul Govan | Edward Barber |
In-app purchases
Cadence
No in-app purchases
Mantl.
No in-app purchases









