Comparison

Night Light Pro Nightlight vs Aliven

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

Head to head
About

Night Light Pro Nightlight

This app provides a customizable glowing light and peaceful sounds to help users fall asleep and stay asleep. It projects light onto walls and ceilings, offering a range of colors and optional sleep soundscapes. Users can also adjust screen brightness and set sleep timers for a more restful night.

Highlights
  • Customizable nightlight colors
  • Multi-color mode
  • Peaceful sleep sounds (beach waves, white noise)
  • Sound store for additional audio
  • Adjustable screen brightness
  • Sleep timer
  • Customizable LED flashlight
Features
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Trying to fall asleep? Now you can, with Night Light Pro. Upgrade your sleep today! Some of our GLOWING reviews: “Me and my kids l-o-v-e this app, 5 stars!!!” Night Light nightlight to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Night Light projects a glowing light onto your ceiling and walls that will help you fall asleep while playing peaceful sounds to relax to. “Slept like a ROCK last night thanks to this Nightlight app” Night Light is a 100% easy to use nightlight to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Night Light projects a glowing light onto your ceiling and walls that will help you fall asleep while playing peaceful sounds to relax to. “This helped with my insomnia and made me sleep better than ever, I use it every night!” All you need to do is download the app on your iOS device, select your nightlight colors, optional sleep sounds, screen brightness, sleep timer and flashlight settings - then place your device on a night stand or near a corner in a room for the best illumination. MOST POPULAR FEATURES + Custom nightlight colors or a glowing range of colors with multi-color mode. + Sounds to sleep to including beach waves, running water, white noise and more! + Build your sleep sound library by visiting the sound store. Earn credits each night you use Night Light to unlock even more awesome free features and content to help make your sleep even more restful. + Customize your LED torch flash light settings to a custom brightness to help illuminate your bedroom or personal space to keep it as well lit as you would like! Night Light is the #1 night light app that not only illuminates your bedroom but also helps you sleep better and get a more restful nights sleep!

About

Aliven

This app offers guided somatic practices, sensory exercises, and embodied rituals to deepen your connection with your body and enhance daily awareness. It helps you stabilize expanded states of consciousness and integrate them into everyday life, fostering creativity and intuition.

Highlights
  • Guided somatic journeys
  • Sensory-based practices
  • Movement and breathwork
  • Embodied rituals
  • Progress tracking
  • Offline sync
Features
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Aliven is a curated library of somatic practices designed to bring depth, sensation, and embodied awareness back into daily life. Aliven is for those who have touched expanded states — through travel, creativity, nature, ceremony, or peak experiences — and are looking for a way to live from that place, not chase it. Inside the app you’ll find guided somatic journeys, sensory-based practices, movement, breath, kriyas, meditations, and embodied rituals designed to reorganize how you perceive, move, and inhabit your body. These practices sharpen perception, restore contact with sensation, and bring aliveness back online — in a way that feels intelligent, grounded, and real. Use Aliven to: • Reconnect with your body beyond thinking about it • Stabilize expanded awareness into everyday life • Restore creativity, presence, and felt intuition • Move beyond mechanical routines into lived experience This is not about becoming someone new. It’s about returning to what’s already alive. INFORMATION ABOUT THE APP AND PURCHASE OPTIONS By signing up, you will get access to subscription(s) that include features such as progress tracking, and offline sync. The download of Aliven is free of charge. Should you use Aliven app to access in-app content, we offer one of the following options: Subscription based plan(s) - a recurring payment will be charged to your credit card after the trial period ends and when a subscription renews. A subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours prior to the end of the subscription period. There is no increase in price when renewing. Subscription(s) can be managed and auto-renewal turned off in Account Settings in the App Store after purchase. One-time purchase based plan(s) - a payment will be charged to your credit card only once. Read our full Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy: https://passion.io/terms-of-service https://passion.io/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Night Light Pro Nightlight4 screens
Aliven3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Aliven at Free against Night Light Pro Nightlight's $0.99. Aliven also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and review sentiment (100% vs 86%). Night Light Pro Nightlight's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On monetization model and device support 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

Aliven is free to download; Night Light Pro Nightlight costs $0.99 up front. Aliven sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $16.00 per month. Night Light Pro Nightlight asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Aliven holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Night Light Pro Nightlight has 970 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Night Light Pro Nightlight's written reviews are positive against 100% of Aliven's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Night Light Pro Nightlight ships an update every 4 weeks, Aliven every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Night Light Pro Nightlight versus Aliven: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNight Light Pro NightlightAliven
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (970 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings970 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS10.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size85 MB92 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperInfinite Wave Media, LLCAlicja Zwardon

Customer experience

Night Light Pro Nightlight

All ratings967 ratings
Positive95.3%
Neutral3.6%
Negative1.0%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral8.9%
Negative5.4%

Aliven

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Night Light Pro Nightlight

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Timer fade out text feature doesn't work
  • Sounds can't be heard after play is pressed

Requested features

5 requests
  • Manually adjust screen, and flashlight brightness on the main screen
  • Show the time
  • Gentle alarm for light sleepers
  • Allow sounds to continue to play while phone is locked or app is is on in background
  • Choose colors based on color temperature, like f.lux

Aliven

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Night Light Pro Nightlight

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Aliven

Subscriptions1
  • Daily Practice App Access$16.001 Month

Questions

Is Night Light Pro Nightlight free?
Night Light Pro Nightlight costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Aliven free?
Aliven is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Night Light Pro Nightlight or Aliven?
Aliven is rated higher. Night Light Pro Nightlight averages 4.8 out of 5 from 970 ratings, while Aliven averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Night Light Pro Nightlight or Aliven have ads?
Aliven shows ads; Night Light Pro Nightlight does not.
Which is updated more often, Night Light Pro Nightlight or Aliven?
Night Light Pro Nightlight ships an update every 4 weeks, and Aliven every 2 months. Most recently, Night Light Pro Nightlight was updated on November 6, 2026 and Aliven on November 4, 2026.

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