Comparison

Essence Journal vs SleepBlend AI

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

Head to head
About

Essence Journal

Features
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Essence Journal is a calm, grown-up place to capture how you actually feel — without the clutter, ads, or teen-app noise. Open it on a lunch break or in five quiet minutes: write freely, log a feeling in a word instead of an emoji, and watch the day's "essence" take shape on a living ink field. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Write freely, or with a gentle daily prompt, a gratitude page, or a guided deep-reflection page. • Log nuanced moods from a rich palette — or add your own words — with triggers and notes. • See your day's essence: a computed score and tone drawn from every feeling you log. • Tend the small things — water, self-care rituals, hobbies, and upcoming appointments. • Revisit everything in an elegant calendar archive that tints each day by mood, with week-over-week trends and plain-English patterns. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your journal is yours. The core writing experience, your privacy, and your data are never paywalled. LIFETIME OWNERSHIP Essence Journal is a one-time purchase — no subscription, no renewals. Pay once and it is yours to keep, forever. Privacy Policy: https://preview.apppublishing.ai/legal/essence-journal/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://preview.apppublishing.ai/legal/essence-journal/terms

About

SleepBlend AI

Create personalized soundscapes for sleep with a multi-layer mixer. Track your sleep quality and discover which sounds help you drift off faster. Enjoy a gentle fade-out timer and on-device processing for privacy.

Highlights
  • Customizable multi-layer sound mixer
  • Real-time sound generation
  • Gentle fade-out sleep timer
  • On-device sleep quality check-in
  • Personalized sound recommendations
  • Sleep Mix Score tracking
Features
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SleepBlend is a sound console for bedtime. Instead of scrolling a wall of tracks at midnight, you compose tonight's blend from a handful of voices — rain, ocean, wind, coloured noise, a warm drone — each generated on your device in real time, with its own volume and its own place in the stereo field. Nothing to download, and no loop that comes round again at 3am. COMPOSE YOUR OWN SOUNDSCAPE Stack voices in the multi-layer mixer and hear the blend change as you move each slider. The Resonance Ring shows the mix as bands of light around a still centre — when the voices sit in balance it settles into an even halo. A SLEEP TIMER THAT FADES, NEVER STOPS DEAD Set a timer with quick presets and a gentle fade-out over the last few minutes, so the night ends softly instead of cutting to silence. A blend keeps playing with the screen locked. ONE HONEST NUMBER Give a one-minute check-in in the morning — how quickly you drifted off, how rested you feel — and the Sleep Mix Score reflects how each blend works for you. It is built only from your own check-ins, shown with a transparent five-part breakdown, and it stays quiet until there is enough of your own data to be honest. Nothing is measured: no sensors, no wearables, no microphone. IT LEARNS WHICH VOICES SUIT YOU Over time the app surfaces which sounds turn up on the nights you settled faster, labelled as a pattern in your own logs — an association, not a cause. Tonight's recommendation is ranked from the same data. Every one of these calculations runs on your device, from your own entries. FREE, AND GENUINELY USEFUL The whole play loop is free: the full mixer with per-voice volume and stereo balance, the core voices, the sleep timer and gentle fade, the morning check-in, your Nights Composed streak, a nightly wind-down reminder and a 7-night rest trend. Free keeps up to three saved blends — and a blend you have saved is always free to replay, edit, favourite and delete. SLEEPBLEND PRO (optional subscription) - All 50 premium voices, and the starter mixes built on them - Unlimited saved blends, and deeper blends of up to eight voices - Adaptive recommendations with tweak suggestions - The full Sleep Mix Score breakdown, 90-night trends and sound associations - Per-voice Adaptive Volume Fade, and Gentle Wake - Monthly or yearly, with a 7-day free trial - Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation; the subscription auto-renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period; manage or cancel it in Settings SleepBlend is a wellness and relaxation tool. It is not a medical device, not a sleep tracker, and not a treatment for insomnia or any sleep disorder. If sleep trouble persists, please talk to a licensed healthcare provider. Privacy Policy: https://preview.apppublishing.ai/legal/104/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://preview.apppublishing.ai/legal/104/terms

Screenshots

Essence Journal4 screens
SleepBlend AI4 screens

Verdict

The call

Essence Journal and SleepBlend AI are too close to call on the numbers: across 7 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Essence Journal sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and SleepBlend AI sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 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 Essence Journal against 5.0 for SleepBlend AI. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Essence Journal versus SleepBlend AI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEssence JournalSleepBlend AI
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings33
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerheather sherryChristian Adrian Harvey-Michael

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Essence Journal

One-time1
  • Lifetime Ownership$9.99
2 purchases

SleepBlend AI

Subscriptions2
  • SleepBlend Pro Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • SleepBlend Pro Yearly7 Days trial$69.991 Year

Questions

Is Essence Journal free?
Essence Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SleepBlend AI free?
SleepBlend AI is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Essence Journal or SleepBlend AI?
Essence Journal and SleepBlend AI are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Essence Journal or SleepBlend AI have ads?
Neither Essence Journal nor SleepBlend AI shows ads.

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