BrainRest vs Zeddy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
BrainRest
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The brain you end the day with is not the one you woke up with. BrainRest turns your screen time into something you can actually feel. Your Brain Level climbs from 1 to 10 as the hours pile up โ Fresh, Chill, Meh, Tired, Struggling, Fading, Cooked, Fried, Melting, Dead โ and a Brain Buddy sits on your home screen looking exactly as cooked as you do. Then it helps you bring the number back down. BrainRest requires a subscription or a one-time Lifetime purchase. There is no free tier and no free version โ every feature described below, including app blocking, Focus Mode and the Bedtime Schedule, needs a paid plan. The annual plan starts with a 7-day free trial. SEE WHERE THE HOURS GO โข Daily and weekly screen time, broken down app by app โข Tap any app for its own hourly chart and week-over-week trend โข A calendar of every tracked day, so streaks and slides are obvious โข Your Brain Level, recalculated as you use your phone BLOCK WHAT KEEPS PULLING YOU BACK โข App limits โ set a daily cap and get shielded when you hit it โข Focus Mode โ one tap, distractions locked, with an auto turn-off time โข Bedtime Schedule โ your phone goes quiet at night and wakes when you do โข Shields you can't swipe past by accident WIDGETS THAT NAG, GENTLY Seven home-screen widgets: Brain Buddy, the Daily Goal ring, Top Apps, and Pulse in single, stacked and wide layouts. The number you're avoiding, right where you keep looking. YOUR USAGE STAYS ON YOUR PHONE Screen time and per-app usage are read from your device and never leave it. There is no cloud copy of your usage and nothing about your habits is sold. Your account exists to keep your settings and goals, nothing more. WHY IT WORKS Most screen time apps show you a chart and hope you feel bad. BrainRest gives the number a face and a consequence, then puts the block one tap away โ at the exact moment you would have opened the app anyway. The average person spends over four hours a day on their phone. That is roughly sixty days a year. BrainRest is the plan to take some of it back. PRICING A paid plan is required to use BrainRest. Nothing is sold separately and no feature costs extra โ every plan includes everything described above. โข Monthly โ $9.00 per month โข Annual โ $69.00 per year, starting with a 7-day free trial โข Lifetime โ $199.00, a one-time purchase that never renews Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the period. Manage your plan or turn off auto-renew in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when a subscription is purchased. โโ Terms of Use: https://brainrest.pro/terms Privacy Policy: https://brainrest.pro/privacy
Zeddy
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Zeddy is a notes app for people who work away from a desk. Talk, and it writes the note for you โ not a raw transcript, but a tidied note with a title, sorted into whatever fields you use. Ramble, backtrack, read a model number off a nameplate. It sorts it out. Photograph a handwritten page and Zeddy reads it into a note. Photograph a sketch and it redraws it cleanly. Any note can be reshaped afterwards. A quick note becomes a meeting note, a field call, or a shopping list without retyping anything โ it re-reads what you actually said, so nothing degrades along the way. WHAT'S FREE Unlimited text notes. Tags, search, reminders, pinning, trash, export, and sync across your phone and the web. No ads. WHAT'S IN ZEDDY PRO Voice dictation, note reshaping, reading handwriting, and sketch digitizing. Free for 14 days. ALSO IN ZEDDY โข Works offline โ notes sync when you're back in range โข Place reminders: get a note when you arrive somewhere โข Attach photos to any note โข Use it in a browser at zeddynotes.com โข Export everything, any time, in a format you can read Zeddy is not funded by advertising. Your notes are not sold, rented, or used to train anyone's models. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
BrainRest and Zeddy are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters โ price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them โ neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BrainRest ships an update every 10 days, Zeddy weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BrainRest | Zeddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Weekly โ better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 79 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nguyen Thanh Thien | CKT Group LLC |
In-app purchases
BrainRest
No in-app purchases
Zeddy
No in-app purchases









