Comparison

BeThereNow vs orma run

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

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About

BeThereNow

Experience unique ambient soundscapes generated from real-world GPS coordinates. Choose any location on Earth to create personalized audio for meditation and sleep, with live weather influencing the sound. Includes real-time audio analysis tools.

Highlights
  • GPS coordinate-based sound generation
  • Real-time ambient soundscapes
  • Live weather integration
  • Time and frequency domain audio analysis
  • Customizable session lengths
  • AI-powered session analysis
Features
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BeThereNow is a meditation and sleep app that generates its sound from a place — any place. Choose a destination anywhere on Earth, and its real GPS coordinates become a unique ambient soundscape, computed live on your device. No human chose the frequencies. The location did. Pick a mountain summit, an ocean trench, a city on the other side of the planet. BeThereNow converts its GPS coordinates into spherical quantum coordinates (θ, φ, r) using the GPS2Quantum™ coordinate transform engine, then derives every parameter of the audio from them. HOW THE AUDIO WORKS - θ (polar angle) sets the root frequency. Tokyo produces ~122 Hz. Sydney produces ~207 Hz. No two locations share the same combination of θ, φ, and r. - φ (azimuthal angle) selects the harmonic intervals from just-intonation ratios unique to your longitude. - r (radial distance from Earth's center) shapes the reverb. K2's summit sounds vast and crystalline. Challenger Deep sounds dark and pressurized. Houston sits near the surface — present and dry. - Live weather at your destination, queried at session start, modifies brightness, LFO rate, and harmonic balance. The Matterhorn in a storm sounds different from the Matterhorn on a clear night. Every session is unrepeatable. TWO REAL-TIME INSTRUMENTS Watch it happen during every session. The TIME DOMAIN oscilloscope shows the live waveform — amplitude, shape, and dominant frequency. The FREQ DOMAIN spectrum analyzer shows exactly which frequencies are active, with markers at the root, 2nd partial, and 3rd partial. The same instruments used in recording studios and physics labs. FOR MEDITATION AND SLEEP Sessions run from 15 seconds to 8 hours, or unlimited. Deep-ocean locations produce dark, enveloping soundscapes suited to sleep; high-mountain locations produce crystalline, airy tones. Every session ends with a gentle 5-second fade. After a session, tap BUILD for an optional AI analysis of your session's quantum parameters and derived audio, powered by Claude (Anthropic). Analysis runs only when you tap BUILD, uses approximate city-level location only, and is included in your subscription. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT Most meditation apps loop fixed frequencies a human picked — 432 Hz, 528 Hz, binaural beats. The number is declared, not derived. BeThereNow's audio is a mathematical consequence of real coordinates, and you can verify every frequency on the instruments mid-session. No celebrity voice. No courses. No streaks. Just the sound of wherever you chose to be. SUBSCRIPTION BeThereNow requires a subscription. Download is free with a trial (Monthly plan: 7 days, Annual plan: 14 days). Subscriptions auto-renew after the trial unless canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in iOS Settings → Subscriptions. Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://gps2quantum.com/betherenowprivacypolicy

About

orma run

Features
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orma is a private diary for running and walking, for iPhone, Apple Watch and iPad. it records your run or your walk, hides the numbers while you move, and turns the data into color and shape afterwards. three principles, in this order: experience first, memory after, data last. DURING THE RUN choose run or walk, then start. the Apple Watch stays silent. no pace, no distance, no heart rate, no time. you see only a line drawing itself kilometer by kilometer, and a color slowly forming. everything is measured and saved. nothing is shown. the run stays a run, the walk stays a walk. WHEN YOU STOP fifteen seconds, two questions: how good it was, and one word that stayed with you. that is all orma asks while you catch your breath. a longer note is written later, on iPhone. COLOR FROM THE BODY every run and every walk becomes a colored tile. the color is not chosen, it is computed from three measured signals: elevation, heart rate, distance. a flat, calm, short outing and a steep, hard, long one come out as different colors. runs and walks share the same scale for distance and elevation, while a walk's heart keeps its own quieter band: a walk never looks like a run. orma learns your personal range and keeps tuning it, so the color is yours from the first day. THE TRACE each run and each walk is rendered as an orma: a generative line built from your own data. one loop per kilometer, its size set by your heart rate, its drift shaped by how your heart rises and falls and by the gradient under your feet. no two are alike. even the tile carries meaning: its width is the distance, its height the time. YOUR YEAR, AS ONE IMAGE your days fill a grid of the whole year, one cell per day. the days you moved become colored tiles. the days you did not stay blank. when you run and walk on the same day, they merge into a single tile: the grid shows days, not workouts. the empty days count as much as the full ones: a quiet week, a holiday, a season of life. the grid becomes a portrait of your year, lived on foot. MADE TO BE PRINTED orma is built for paper. export your year as a high-resolution poster, export a single orma as a clean image of one outing, or turn a whole year into a print-ready book. orma never sells or ships anything: the files are yours, and you choose where, and whether, to print them. A DIARY FOR EVERY STEP you do not have to record with orma to use orma. it reads your runs and walks from Apple Health automatically, whatever recorded them. import a full year at once, add outings done without a device by hand, or import a .gpx file for the full route and heart rate, then mark each one as a run or a walk. add a word, a rating and a note to any past outing, and build your diary backwards as well as forwards. export any outing as a .gpx for Strava or anywhere else. FREE AND PRIVATE orma is free and complete. every feature is open. no subscription, no in-app purchase, no ads, no account. nothing is tracked, nothing is sold. your runs and walks live on your device and in your own private iCloud, and nowhere else. ON EVERY DEVICE record on Apple Watch, read on iPhone and iPad. an Apple Watch is needed to record with orma; without one, you can still use orma as a diary by importing from Apple Health. orma is an independent app, made in Umbria, Italy.

Screenshots

BeThereNow3 screens
orma run4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: orma run at none against BeThereNow's 2. BeThereNow's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). On price, update cadence, 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

Both are free to download. BeThereNow sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. orma run asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BeThereNow ships an update every 5 weeks, orma run every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
BeThereNow versus orma run: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeThereNoworma run
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB7 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperThomas GillanFilippo Parroni

In-app purchases

2 purchases

BeThereNow

Subscriptions2
  • BeThereNow Premium7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • BeThereNow Premium14 Days trial$69.991 Year
None

orma run

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BeThereNow free?
BeThereNow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is orma run free?
orma run is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do BeThereNow or orma run have ads?
Neither BeThereNow nor orma run shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BeThereNow or orma run?
BeThereNow ships an update every 5 weeks, and orma run every 6 weeks. Most recently, BeThereNow was updated on October 1, 2026 and orma run on October 5, 2026.

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