Comparison

Lava Play vs Daily Affirmations Widget Ella

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

Head to head
About

Lava Play

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Lava Play turns your screen into an interactive digital lava lamp. Pick a color, tilt your device, and watch the lava stretch, merge, and flow. PLAY WITH COLOR Experiment with colors and create a lava lamp that feels completely your own. CONTROL THE FLOW Tilt your device to steer the lava in real time. MAKE SOUND. MOVE LAVA. Watch your lava respond to your voice and the sounds around you. EXPLORE NEW STYLES Give your lava a different look with Glow, Glass, Metal, Jelly, Ink, Marble, and Pearl. SAVE YOUR FAVORITES Save your favorite color and style combinations and return to them anytime. MORE WAYS TO PLAY Unlock sound-reactive lava, extra visual styles, and saved lamps with a one-time purchase. No subscription.

About

Daily Affirmations Widget Ella

This app provides personalized positive affirmations tailored to your goals and interests. Receive gentle daily reminders and customize your experience with various themes and widgets. It also offers guided breathing sessions and the ability to save or create your own affirmations.

Highlights
  • Personalized affirmations based on user goals
  • Gentle daily notification reminders
  • Lock screen and home screen widgets
  • Guided breathing sessions with narration
  • Streaks, favorites, and custom affirmations
  • Customizable themes and wallpapers
Features
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How many times a day do you talk yourself out of something good? Ella is a quiet place to practice the other voice — the one that backs you. Tell us what you're working on, and every day the app composes affirmations shaped around it: your goals, your name, your language. PERSONALIZED FOR YOU A short onboarding builds your feed from thousands of affirmations across 85+ topics — confidence, gratitude, calm, focus, love, sleep and more. In 14 languages, with your name woven into the words when you want it. REMINDERS THAT STAY GENTLE Choose your hours and how many. Affirmations arrive as quiet notifications through the day — present when you look, never demanding. WIDGETS FOR YOUR LOCK SCREEN Your daily affirmation where you'll actually see it. The widget is free with one topic and a new line every day. With Premium, customize topics, themes, refresh rhythm and buttons, or mirror the app exactly, in every widget style for the Home Screen and Lock Screen. GUIDED PRACTICE & NARRATION A slow breathing session with affirmations read aloud. Thousands of professionally voiced recordings follow your breath — in your language. STREAKS, FAVORITES & COLLECTIONS Keep a daily streak, save the lines that move you, organize collections, and write your own affirmations. THEMES & WALLPAPERS 201 themes — solids, gradients, silk, watercolor, photo scenes. Turn any affirmation into a wallpaper for your phone. WHY AFFIRMATIONS? Repeated, positive self-statements change how you habitually think. Practiced daily, they build self-esteem, quiet negative loops, and keep your focus on what you want to grow: confidence, gratitude, a calmer mind. A few minutes a day is enough to notice the shift. PRIVACY Your favorites, collections, the affirmations you write, your streak, reminders and themes stay on your device. When you start a 28-day plan, your first name, your goal and your setup answers are sent to Ella's server and an AI provider to write it; Reframe sends the sentence you type. See the Privacy Policy for details. ELLA PREMIUM One subscription unlocks every theme, topic pack, narration voice and widget style. Try it free. Choose an annual plan at $39.99/year or a weekly plan at $4.99/week, each after a 7-day free trial, or a monthly plan — availability and pricing vary by region. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase after the free trial. Subscription automatically renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage and cancel in Settings › Apple ID › Subscriptions. Privacy: https://theiam.day/privacy.html Terms: https://theiam.day/terms.html

Screenshots

Lava Play4 screens
Daily Affirmations Widget Ella4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Lava Play at none against Daily Affirmations Widget Ella's shown. Lava Play also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Lava Play sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Daily Affirmations Widget Ella sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lava Play ships an update every 3 days, Daily Affirmations Widget Ella every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Lava Play versus Daily Affirmations Widget Ella: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLava PlayDaily Affirmations Widget Ella
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.8 (60 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—98.6% of reviews
Number of ratings—60 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB141 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAbraham MitchellMagic Unicorn Inc.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Lava Play

One-time1
  • Lava Play Full Feature Unlock$2.99
9 purchases

Daily Affirmations Widget Ella

Subscriptions8
  • Ella Premium Weekly7 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Ella Premium Weekly$4.997 Days
  • Premium Monthly2 variants$9.991 Month
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  • Premium Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • Ella Premium Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Premium Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Ella Premium Yearly$39.991 Year
  • Premium Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium Lifetime$99.99

Questions

Is Lava Play free?
Lava Play is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Daily Affirmations Widget Ella free?
Daily Affirmations Widget Ella is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Lava Play or Daily Affirmations Widget Ella have ads?
Daily Affirmations Widget Ella shows ads; Lava Play does not.
Which is updated more often, Lava Play or Daily Affirmations Widget Ella?
Lava Play ships an update every 3 days, and Daily Affirmations Widget Ella every 2 days. Most recently, Lava Play was updated on October 31, 2026 and Daily Affirmations Widget Ella on November 8, 2026.

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