Comparison

Leanos vs Brain

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

Head to head
About

Leanos

This app acts as a personal coach, tracking your meals, workouts, sleep, and steps. It analyzes your data to provide insights and holds you accountable to your personal fitness goals.

Highlights
  • Photo-based meal calorie tracking
  • Progressive lift logging
  • Sleep quality and duration tracking
  • Step count integration with Apple Health
  • Weekly body check-in photos
  • Cross-data analysis by a virtual coach
  • Personalized commitment tracking
Features
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You know what to do. The hard part is doing it every day, for years. You log your meals, your lifts, your sleep, and your steps. A coach in Leanos reads everything you put in. When the numbers shift, it points it out. When you show up, it notices that too. WHAT YOU LOG Meals. Take a photo of your plate. The app reads the photo and returns a calorie number. You see the number against your daily target. Eyeball estimates are off by about a quarter for most people. The photo version is closer to true. Lifts. On training days, log your sets. You pick three to five lifts to follow over time. The coach watches the numbers and tells you what they're saying. Sleep. Each morning, log what you got. Hours, quality, anything weird. Steps. Your phone already counts them. Leanos reads the count from Apple's Health app and shows it against the daily floor you picked at install. Body. Take a check-in photo every week or two. Photos show what the scale can't. The scale moves for water, sodium, and bowel reasons, none of which are fat loss. WHAT THE COACH DOES The coach reads everything above, plus your chat history. It reads them together, not separately. Most fitness apps look at one of these things. The Leanos coach reads across all of them. It has a point of view. It knows why each habit works inside the body. Why a morning walk in bright light lines up the body clock that puts you to sleep at night. Why deep sleep is when muscle actually gets built back. Why a calorie deficit without enough protein takes the muscle along with the fat. It remembers. Six months in, it knows your pattern in March, in June, in November. Two years in, it knows what worked for you before. WHAT YOU COMMIT TO At install, you write down a short list. Things you'll do. Things you won't. You write the list, not the app. The coach holds you to your own list. Most apps don't ask for any commitment. They track and stay silent. You set the rules, you break the rules, and nothing happens. Leanos doesn't work that way. WHY IT WORKS The hard part of getting lean isn't the knowledge. The information has been everywhere for years. The hard part is doing the daily things on a Tuesday in February when nobody is watching. The coach is the someone. Knowing the coach reads what you log is what makes you log. Logging is what makes the habits stay real. The habits are what change the body. WHO IT'S FOR You've tried before and you're tired of starting over. Or you've never tried and you want a sober starting point. You want a coach that pays attention, not an app that hands out gold stars. WHO IT'S NOT FOR You're trying to gain weight. You're a competitive bodybuilder. You're in the middle of a mental-health crisis. You want a tracker that doesn't push back when you slack. ON YOUR DEVICE Most of your data lives on your phone. No account to sign up for. No email to give. Plate photos, body photos, lifts, weight, chat history all stay on the device. The coach sends your chat messages to Anthropic's servers to generate the replies. That's the one external service. The app asks for your consent before sending anything. WHAT IT COSTS Leanos Pro. 149 dollars a year, with a 14-day free trial. Or 19.99 dollars a month. Subscription renews until you cancel. Cancel any time from Apple ID subscriptions in iPhone Settings. Privacy Policy: https://leanos.me/privacy Terms of Use: https://leanos.me/terms

About

Brain

This app offers a private audio practice designed to cultivate positive self-talk and transform beneficial thoughts into consistent actions. It features guided conversations and affirmation loops to aid in sleep and daytime use, with options for personalization and local storage of all your data.

Highlights
  • Two-voice conversation practice
  • Overnight affirmation loops
  • Customizable voice packs
  • Record your own phrases
  • Private journal for goal tracking
  • Local data storage
Features
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Brain Shift trains your mind with looping audio affirmations built for real habits like quitting smoking or vaping, managing stress, and building confidence. Pick from 20+ voices or record your own phrases in your own voice. No account required - start right away, sign in only if you want to. Everything stays private on your phone. No ads. Try Brain Shift Plus free for 7 days. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Leanos4 screens
Brain4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Leanos at Free against Brain's $39.99. On rating, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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

Leanos is free to download; Brain costs $39.99 up front. Leanos sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month and Brain sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Leanos against 5.0 for Brain. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Leanos ships an update every 8 days, Brain every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Leanos versus Brain: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLeanosBrain
PriceFree — better$39.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB895 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperLeanOS Inc.ANTONINO COLOMBA

Customer experience

Leanos

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Brain

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Leanos

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$19.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly14 Days trial$149.991 Year
3 purchases

Brain

Subscriptions1
  • Sound-a-tude Plus3 Days trial$0.991 Month
One-time2
  • Quit Smoking$49.99
  • Calm & Control$49.99

Questions

Is Leanos free?
Leanos is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Brain free?
Brain costs $39.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Leanos or Brain?
Leanos and Brain are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Leanos or Brain have ads?
Neither Leanos nor Brain shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Leanos or Brain?
Leanos ships an update every 8 days, and Brain every 5 days. Most recently, Leanos was updated on October 6, 2026 and Brain on October 1, 2026.

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