Absorb vs Deep Discourse
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Absorb
Enhance your ability to understand and retain information through daily training sessions. This app focuses on improving reading, listening, memory, attention, and visual reasoning skills with practical exercises.
- Reading comprehension training
- Listening recall exercises
- Visual reasoning with charts and tables
- Critical thinking practice
- Short, daily brain-training sessions
- Guided path with 180 comprehension sessions
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Absorb is a daily comprehension trainer for people who want to read more clearly, listen more carefully, remember details, and reason before they answer. Instead of abstract memory drills, Absorb trains the way you take in information in real life: short passages, audio prompts, charts, tables, claims, and conversations. Quick sessions help you build practical comprehension skills across reading, listening, memory, attention, and visual reasoning. TRAIN THE SKILLS YOU USE EVERY DAY Reading Comprehension Find main ideas, track details, notice contrast, and understand tone or subtext. Listening Comprehension Hear short audio prompts, then answer from memory to strengthen recall and sequence tracking. Visual Reasoning Study charts, tables, and evidence. Spot unsupported claims, compare sources, and notice when a conclusion goes beyond the data. Critical Thinking Practice slowing down, checking assumptions, and choosing answers based on evidence. WHY ABSORB - Quick daily brain-training sessions - Reading, listening, memory, and visual reasoning games - A guided path across 180 comprehension sessions - Progress, streaks, and skill insights - Built for students, professionals, and lifelong learners USE ABSORB TO PRACTICE - Reading comprehension without endless re-reading - Listening recall for lessons, calls, and conversations - Attention to details, caveats, and contrast - Critical thinking when claims and data compete - Clearer reasoning in short, focused sessions If you skim too fast, forget what was said, or lose the thread when information gets dense, Absorb gives you a simple daily practice for building sharper comprehension. Download Absorb and train how your mind takes in information. End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Deep Discourse
Engage in philosophical discussions with historical figures. Get advice and insights from thinkers like Lao Tzu, Plato, and Marcus Aurelius, with answers directly citing their original works. Explore different perspectives through AI-powered group debates.
- AI-powered philosophical conversations
- Citations from original philosophical works
- Group debates with multiple thinkers
- Multi-language support
- Cross-device syncing
- Daily free messages
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Ask Lao Tzu whether to take the job. He answers from the Tao Te Ching. Consult Epictetus about how to handle a difficult situation with a co-worker and he cites his Discourses. Answers show a reference to the philosopher's original work to support their claims: tap the reference to read that passage as a one-line gist, a short summary, or the translator's original text. Who's here? Buddha, Lao Tzu, Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Nietzsche, Marx, Thoreau, Benjamin Franklin, King Solomon, Moses, Paul, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther and John Calvin. More being added, just ask! Group Debates Start a chat with both Nietzsche and Aquinas and ask about suffering. Get their best statements and counterarguments to each other to help you see the question from several sides. They reply to you and to each other, supporting their points with citations. Write in your own language Most languages are supported. Write to the Buddha in Arabic and the answer comes back in Arabic, with the Dhammapada verse number. Characters are played by an AI and can be wrong. Citations let you confirm the philosophers' original meaning. 10 free messages a day. Sign in to keep your conversations and sync across all your devices. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://deepdiscourse.com/privacy-policy/
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Verdict
Absorb and Deep Discourse are too close to call on the numbers: across 10 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Absorb sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Deep Discourse sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Absorb against 5.0 for Deep Discourse. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Absorb ships an update every 5 weeks, Deep Discourse monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Absorb | Deep Discourse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 134 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Tanul Tewari | Deft Dynamics |
Customer experience
Absorb
Deep Discourse
In-app purchases
Absorb
- Absorb Pro3 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Abrosb Pro3 Days trial$44.991 Year
Deep Discourse
- Premium Subscription1 Month trial$6.991 Month
- Premium Subscription1 Month trial$39.991 Year









