AEON Mindfulness App vs Affirmations by SP
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AEON Mindfulness App
This app guides users in a mindfulness technique to observe thoughts without reacting. It helps cultivate awareness and distance from intrusive thinking patterns. The effectiveness of this method has been validated in academic research.
- Mindfulness technique practice
- Observe thoughts without reaction
- Cultivate awareness
- Distance from intrusive thinking
- Research-validated effectiveness
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The AEON app helps users in practicing a mindfulness technique that requires individuals not to react in response to their thoughts, but to be aware of them and observe them while they are going away (distancing from thoughts). The effectiveness of the AEON app was tested in a thorough lab study, published by the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (Elsevier), see http://hcilab.uniud.it/publications/354.html For more information, visit also the AEON page: http://hcilab.uniud.it/aeon
Affirmations by SP
Record custom affirmations with your own voice, set to background music or your own library. Organize, delete, and create new affirmations with accompanying text. Enjoy hundreds of pre-recorded affirmations and over an hour of background music.
- Record custom voice affirmations
- Create and edit affirmation text
- Use own voice or pre-recorded affirmations
- Background music playback
- Select music from library
- Hundreds of pre-recorded affirmations
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This app has no in-app purchases, subscriptions, or advertising. The user can record their voice over any of the default affirmations, delete them, re-arrange them, and create their own affirmation text and record their voice using the iPhone or iPad built in microphone. The user can listen to pre-recorded affirmations while background music plays. The app comes with several hundred pre-recorded affirmations and musings. Each affirmation has associated text that shows up as the affirmation is played. The affirmations can be anything the user wants to record. The app comes with over an hour’s worth of music to play in the background, or the user can select songs from their music library, as long as the songs aren’t DRM protected.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Affirmations by SP at every 2 weeks against AEON Mindfulness App's every 20 months. Affirmations by SP also leads on ratings volume (9 vs 2). AEON Mindfulness App's advantage is iOS requirement (6.0 vs 18.6). On price, rating, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for AEON Mindfulness App against 4.9 for Affirmations by SP. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 9 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
AEON Mindfulness App ships an update every 20 months, Affirmations by SP every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AEON Mindfulness App | Affirmations by SP |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.9 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 20 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 352 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica - Universita' degli Studi di Udine | Steven Poulson |
Customer experience
AEON Mindfulness App
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In-app purchases
AEON Mindfulness App
No in-app purchases
Affirmations by SP
No in-app purchases
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