Comparison

reecalm.me vs Basic Bins

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

Head to head
About

reecalm.me

Features
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Deleted the apps. Set the limits. Bought a blocker. Still scrolling? reCalm starts with a breath, not a block. When you reach for the feed, it asks you for one breath first. Ten seconds. Then the app opens, if you still want it. That sounds like it should not work. It works because the reach is automatic and the breath is not. Most of the time you are not even interested in what you are looking at. You just opened it. One breath is enough to notice that, and noticing is enough to put the phone down. Why the blockers did not hold A block makes you angry at the app instead of the scrolling. So you disable it, or you wait out the timer doing nothing, or you find the loophole, because there is always a loophole. Then you are back where you started, and now you are paying for it. reCalm gives you nothing to get past. You can always continue. If you are still scrolling at the third check-in, it can shield the apps you chose, and even then one breath opens them. You set that rule. You can change it. The pause is the whole product. What it looks like A breath. One slow round, guided, with something to follow so you are not counting in your head. Your day, in a ring. Every pause you took, laid out over the hours, so you can see the shape of the day rather than a number that makes you feel bad about it. A quiet check-in. What you noticed, in one tap, when you want to. Nothing to fill in. Nothing that nags you if you skip it. Timi. A small grey stone that sits with you while you breathe. It does not celebrate, it does not shame you, and it does not have a streak to protect. What it will not do It will not lock your whole phone. It will not shield anything you did not ask it to shield. It will not report your screen time to anyone. It will not send you a guilt notification for a day you missed. It will not ask you to keep a streak alive. It will not sell or share what you write down. Price, said up front The breathing is free. All of it, every day. There is no daily count and no trial that switches off. The subscription adds the interruption: the check-ins that turn up while you scroll, your chosen apps waiting for one breath, and your full history with the day ring. Seven days free, then the price shown on the plan screen before you agree to anything. Cancel in two taps from Settings. We are saying this here because you have been caught by this category before, and so have we. Who it is for People who have already tried, more than once. Who know the brainrot by name and do not need an app to explain it. If you have never tried to fix this, you probably do not need us yet. Download it, take one breath, and see whether you still want the feed. Terms: https://www.reecalm.me/terms/ Privacy: https://www.reecalm.me/privacy/

About

Basic Bins

Easily catalog your storage items by photographing them. The app automatically names items and allows you to add notes and counts. Print QR code labels for your bins to quickly scan and view contents without opening them.

Highlights
  • Photograph items for automatic naming
  • Add notes and counts to items
  • Printable QR code labels for bins
  • Searchable inventory via iPhone search
  • Track items checked out by users
  • Organize by location, box, and item
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You are standing in the storage unit with the door up, looking at forty identical boxes, and the thing you drove here for is in one of them. Basic Bins is the inventory you will actually keep. Photograph what goes in the box and it names itself. Print a label, scan it months later, and see everything inside without lifting the lid. PHOTOGRAPH IT, DON'T TYPE IT The reason inventory apps get abandoned is the typing. Point the camera at something and Basic Bins names it for you. Snap the drill, the Christmas lights, the box of cables, and keep moving. Corrections are one tap if it guesses wrong. Retake a photo any time, or add one to something you typed in a hurry. Add a note or a count to anything: six folding chairs, the drill that is missing its charger. Search reads both, and when nothing matches exactly it shows the closest thing rather than saying it found nothing. Your things turn up in iPhone search too. Pull down on the home screen, type what you are after, and the result says which box it is in. Tap it and Basic Bins opens there. Only your own inventory is listed, so a shared library stays private. Add what something would cost to replace, on the few things where it matters. The printable inventory totals the ones that do, box by box and location by location, and says how many it counted. Pick the currency once and every value uses it. A QR LABEL FOR EVERY BIN Print a label, stick it on the box, and the box is now searchable. Scan it with your phone and the whole contents list comes up. No opening, no digging, no lifting a tote down to find out it is the wrong one. Labels print from your own printer on plain paper or sticker sheets. Nothing to buy. BUILT THE WAY STORAGE ACTUALLY WORKS Locations hold boxes. Boxes hold items. Some things are not in a box at all, and that is fine: the bike, the ladder, the floor lamp all live loose in the location. Each location is a full-width photo of the place, so you know the unit by its orange doors before you read the name. Every box gets an icon you can change from its menu. Move a box to another location when the garage becomes the basement. Everything inside goes too. Drag boxes and items into whatever order you actually walk the room in. The printable list follows it. Take something out and check it out in the app, and it shows as out with your name on it. Inside the box, the item says who has it and for how long, right under its name. Put it back and it clears. The Out screen lists everything that has left, longest gone first. This is the part that stops the "I thought you had it" conversation. MOVING DAY Start a move and give each box the room it is going to, printed on its label. Mark boxes packed, loaded and arrived, or scan the labels to do it, and see what is still missing. SHARE IT WITH THE PEOPLE YOU LIVE WITH Storage is rarely one person's problem. Invite someone and you both see the same bins, both add to them, and both know what left. Whoever you invite joins free, and their own inventory stays private. WHAT'S FREE AND WHAT'S PREMIUM Free: one location, fifty items, and the full experience of both. QR labels, camera naming, and item values are included. It is a real inventory, not a demo. Premium, as many locations and items as you have, household sharing, and starting a move. Everything you cataloged on the free plan stays yours, and stays readable, if you ever stop. Every color scheme is free on both, the light default and the dark Ink included. IT IS YOUR INVENTORY, NOT OURS No account to create. Your locations, boxes, items, and photos sync across your own devices through iCloud, and they live in your iCloud, not on our servers. Export a backup any time and keep it wherever you like. Export a printable inventory or a spreadsheet for insurance, a move, or an estate, totals and your own notes included. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://basicapps.tech/privacy

Screenshots

reecalm.me4 screens
Basic Bins4 screens

Verdict

The call

reecalm.me and Basic Bins are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. reecalm.me sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days and Basic Bins sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $59.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
reecalm.me versus Basic Bins: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterreecalm.meBasic Bins
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequency—Daily
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size88 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShrijana SharmaSean Trapani

In-app purchases

3 purchases

reecalm.me

Subscriptions3
  • reCalm Pro Weekly$6.997 Days
  • reCalm Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Unlimited pauses, yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year
1 purchases

Basic Bins

Subscriptions1
  • Premium$59.991 Year

Questions

Is reecalm.me free?
reecalm.me is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Basic Bins free?
Basic Bins is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do reecalm.me or Basic Bins have ads?
Neither reecalm.me nor Basic Bins shows ads.

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