CalmDown‑Anger Pause Helper vs Dial
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CalmDown‑Anger Pause Helper
This app offers a private space to pause and manage strong emotions. It provides guided breathing exercises, creative outlets for emotional release, and tools for journaling and saving personal memories. Features include photo albums for pets and parenting, custom messages, and home screen widgets for quick access.
- Guided breathing exercises
- Emotional release activities
- Memory albums for parenting and pets
- Mood journaling
- Customizable healing messages
- Home screen widgets
- Private iCloud sync
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When emotions run high, you do not have to respond right away. CalmDown gives you a gentle, private place to pause, care for yourself, and decide what to do next. KEY FEATURES • Calm Down: Follow a guided 4-7-8 breathing rhythm. • Let It Out: Release emotions through safe, on-screen interactions. • Memory Albums: Keep separate Parenting and Pet memories with support for photos and Live Photos. • Mood Journal: Record the source, feeling, and intensity of each moment. • Custom Healing Messages: Save reminders written in your own words. • Share Cards: Turn memories and messages into images you can save or share. • Home Screen Widgets: Quickly open Calm Down or Let It Out. • Private iCloud Sync: Sync memories, messages, journal entries, and preferences across devices using the same Apple Account. • Global Simplified Chinese and English switching. • Light, Dark, and System appearance modes. • Designed for iPhone and iPad. FREE VERSION • Unlimited Calm Down sessions and mood entries. • Up to 15 photos in each Parenting and Pet album. • Two Let It Out sessions per day. • Up to 20 custom healing messages. • iCloud sync, widgets, appearance, and language settings are available to everyone. CALMDOWN PRO LIFETIME • Unlimited Let It Out sessions. • Unlimited Parenting and Pet album photos. • Unlimited custom healing messages. • Eleven exclusive Pro app icons. • One purchase, lifetime access. No subscription or automatic renewal. PRIVACY No developer account is required. CalmDown contains no advertising, third-party analytics, or cross-app tracking. Content stays on your device by default. When iCloud sync is enabled, selected content is stored in the private CloudKit database of your Apple Account. CalmDown supports everyday emotional self-care. It does not provide medical diagnosis, treatment, or emergency assistance.
Dial
This app transforms countdowns into a tactile experience with precise haptic feedback and spatial audio. Choose from various material themes and enjoy a focus-designed interface for setting and managing timers across multiple Apple devices.
- Tactile dial with one-second detents
- Synchronized Core Haptics and mechanical clicks
- Binaural spatial audio for clicks
- Multiple material themes
- Countdown timers up to two hours
- Cross-device synchronization (iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch)
- Widget and Live Activity support
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Time should feel as good as it looks. Dial: Haptic ASMR Timer turns a familiar countdown into a tactile, spatial instrument. Rotate the dial through precise one-second detents. Below one minute, choose any whole second. At one minute and above, the dial settles cleanly on :00 or :30. Each adjustment can answer with synchronized Core Haptics and a tiny mechanical click. With compatible headphones, binaural spatial rendering lets each click follow your touch around the dial. On other audio routes, Dial keeps sound quiet and balanced. CHOOSE YOUR MATERIAL • Sycamore — pale figured wood and warm metal • Atelier — rich wood with a private-club glow • Saddle — cognac leather and polished brass • Carbon — forged carbon with cool titanium • Nocturne — piano-black lacquer and chrome DESIGNED FOR FOCUS • Set countdowns from one second to two hours • Start, pause, adjust, and reset with tactile controls • Keep a countdown running when you leave the app • Receive an optional quiet completion notification • Control sound and haptics independently • Finish with a soft, fading tone instead of a jarring default alarm • Use VoiceOver labels and Reduce Motion support TIME ACROSS YOUR DEVICES • Enjoy the full tactile dial on iPhone and the spacious crafted interface on iPad • Turn the Digital Crown to set, start, pause, repeat, and reset timers on Apple Watch • Keep timer state aligned between iPhone and a paired Apple Watch when connectivity is available • Follow a centered, second-by-second countdown from Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • Launch 30-second, 1-minute, 3-minute, and 5-minute presets from a widget • Keep an active timer visible on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island with a system-driven Live Activity • Add circular, rectangular, inline, or corner complications to your Apple Watch face Timers up to and including five minutes are free. Dial Pro is a one-time, non-consumable in-app purchase that unlocks longer timers. There is no subscription, account, or advertising. When the countdown ends, a theme-matched Time’s Up moment sweeps light across the dial before the instrument quietly comes to rest. Turn the dial. Feel every second. Make time tangible. Privacy Policy: https://mikecerdeiros.github.io/dial-asmr-timer/privacy/ Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
CalmDown‑Anger Pause Helper and Dial are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. CalmDown‑Anger Pause Helper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Dial sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for CalmDown‑Anger Pause Helper against 5.0 for Dial. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
| Parameter | CalmDown‑Anger Pause Helper | Dial |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 201 MB | 105 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 凯 马 | Michael Cerdeiros |
Customer experience
CalmDown‑Anger Pause Helper
Dial
In-app purchases
CalmDown‑Anger Pause Helper
- CalmDown Pro Lifetime$1.99
Dial
- Dial Pro$3.99
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