Comparison

Pure Cadence vs Path Proof

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

Head to head
About

Pure Cadence

Build a calmer daily rhythm with focus, breathing, and meditation exercises. Track your progress by saving completed sessions as unique planets in a personal sky, reflecting your dedication over time. Customize reminders and add photos to cherish your mindful moments.

Highlights
  • Focus timer with visual feedback
  • Guided breathing sessions
  • Meditation with nature soundscapes
  • Personal practice sky with planet creation
  • Customizable practice reminders
  • Focus history and distraction insights
Features
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Pure Cadence helps you build a calmer daily rhythm through focus, breathing, and meditation. Choose a practice, set a comfortable duration, and take time to slow down. Each completed practice can be saved as a unique planet in your personal sky. Its size reflects the time you spent. Key Features: - Focus timer with flexible session lengths and visual feedback - Guided breathing sessions with ready-made patterns and a customizable breathing rhythm - Meditation sessions with optional nature soundscapes, including forest, rain, and waves - A personal practice sky where saved sessions become planets, form constellations by practice type, and can be opened to view practice details and attached sky photos - Custom practice reminders with your chosen practice, time, and days of the week - After each practice, add a photo of the sky from that moment to keep the memory - Focus history, current and best streaks, weekly activity, focus scores, and distraction insights Pure Cadence helps you slow down, focus, and build a regular practice over time.

About

Path Proof

Features
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A pros-and-cons list has one flaw: it treats "I read a great review" and "the seller told me it's waterproof" as the same weight. They aren't. One is a fact you can point to, the other is a claim nobody's checked yet. Path Proof keeps them apart, all the way to the choice. It's built for the decisions that actually cost you if you get them wrong — a laptop, a contractor, a course, a move, a big piece of furniture. You start by writing down what you're deciding and what a good result looks like. Then the constraints that aren't negotiable: a price ceiling, a warranty you must have. Anything that breaks one of those gets marked disqualified on its own, no matter how good it looks elsewhere. Next you set the criteria that matter and how much each one weighs, and they have to add up to a hundred before you can compare — no fudging it. Add your options, and each one gets a blank row for every criterion, so nothing quietly goes unscored. Here's the part most tools skip. When you rate an option on a criterion, the rating doesn't count as solid until you've written why or attached something that backs it up. Evidence lives in its own inbox — a link, a photo, a spec sheet, a quote from the seller, a note to yourself — and you say plainly whether each piece supports a rating, contradicts it, or is just context. A link that won't open is saved anyway and marked "source not checked," because the app isn't going to claim it verified something it didn't. Claims get their own screen. Every promise the seller made, every assumption you're carrying, sits there as unverified until you decide otherwise. Anything still unproven when you go to choose shows up in Open Questions, next to the criteria with no score and the options with no price. If you want to proceed with a gap, fine, but you have to write down why you're comfortable. Then you compare. The matrix shows value, rating, confidence, and whether there's evidence behind each cell, and an option that fails a must-have can't quietly top the table on points. The scenario lab lets you ask what happens if the budget drops or speed suddenly matters most, and it tells you exactly why the leader changed. Risks get a board of their own, and a high-impact, high-likelihood one won't let you past without either a plan or a written "accepting this anyway." You record the final choice with your reasons, the trade-offs you accepted, and how sure you are, and that freezes a snapshot of everything as it stood. Then it sets a date to come back. That last part is the point. Weeks or months later, it asks how it actually went — did the budget hold, did the risk you shrugged off show up, would you choose it again. Do that a few times and it starts showing you your own patterns: where you overrate price, where you underrate time, which sources kept letting you down.

Screenshots

Pure Cadence4 screens
Path Proof4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Path Proof at 16.4 against Pure Cadence's 18.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pure Cadence ships an update every 11 days, Path Proof every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Pure Cadence versus Path Proof: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPure CadencePath Proof
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB28 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperFred BentleyAnthony Tubbs

In-app purchases

None

Pure Cadence

No in-app purchases

None

Path Proof

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pure Cadence free?
Pure Cadence is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Path Proof free?
Path Proof is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pure Cadence or Path Proof have ads?
Neither Pure Cadence nor Path Proof shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pure Cadence or Path Proof?
Pure Cadence ships an update every 11 days, and Path Proof every 2 weeks. Most recently, Pure Cadence was updated on October 31, 2026 and Path Proof on October 31, 2026.

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