Comparison

meQuilibrium vs Secondwind

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

Head to head
About

meQuilibrium

This app offers tools and techniques to build resilience and manage stress, improving emotional and physical well-being. It helps users identify stress triggers, overcome negative thinking, and develop healthier coping mechanisms for a more engaged life.

Highlights
  • Build resilience
  • Manage stress
  • Improve well-being
  • Identify stress sources
  • Develop coping skills
  • Track progress
Features
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NOTE: You must have a meQuilibrium account through your employer or health plan to use this app. DESCRIPTION Go from coping to thriving—and beat the negative effects of stress. meQuilibrium brings you proven tools and techniques to build resilience and take control of your emotional and physical well-being. Developed by leading scientists and experts in the field of resilience, positive psychology, mindfulness, and integrative medicine, meQuilibrium will help you reduce stress, overcome negative thinking, and build greater resilience. Imagine feeling better emotionally and physically, improving relationships and your performance at work, and feeling more engaged in life. That’s resilience! It starts with raising your awareness, discovering faulty thinking patterns, and noticing how your emotions can negatively rule your behavior. You’ll begin by making lots of small shifts and healthier choices everyday in how you think and how you behave. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT MEQUILIBRIUM “I feel more able to anticipate stress. This seemed like an oxymoron at first—how can you predict the unforeseen? But now that I know my stressors, I know what to expect, and I can prepare to not let them stress me out.” —Steve, Santa Monica, CA “I love meQuilibrium! Managing stress is important to me, so meQ has become a big part of my lifestyle. Now, when I feel myself going from zero to 100, I stop myself and think about what’s really going on.” —Tara, New York, NY “Stress can be a big factor in life, no matter how strong of a person you are. meQuilibrium has helped me manage stress on a better level, understanding and identifying the different kinds of stress, and how to handle situations before they get out of control.” —Kathy, Cranberry, PA HOW IT WORKS • Evaluate: Establish a well-being baseline, get your stress personality and profile, and identify your key sources of stress • Train: Gain new habits and coping skills through self-paced, small steps • Track & See Results: Track your progress, earn badges and see your score improve GET STARTED! Download now if you are a meQuilibrium member, and begin the journey to better resilience!

About

Secondwind

Features
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Secondwind runs a list of timers in order, save your lists, run in the background! Minimalist view! Build the list once: warm up, work, rest, repeat then press play, and stop watching. Steps spoken out loud or with their own sound, so you can follow a whole session without looking at the screen. Place the app in the background and listen to your favorite music! WHAT A LIST IS Up to ten timers, run in sequence. Each one carries its own duration, its own sound and its own repeat count, and the list itself can loop a set number of rounds or keep going until you stop it. Name the steps! Warm up, Sprint, Recover, the labels sit on the cards, and you hear them when each step begins. Save up to five lists by name. Each one remembers how many times you have finished it. IT SPEAKS Secondwind announces each step as it starts and counts you into the next one. Spoken cues are on from the first launch and keep working with the screen off, the app in the background, and the phone face down on a bench. Everything sounds through the silent switch, deliberately. END BY A CLOCK TIME Set a time and the sequence stops there. Loop a circuit until six. End the session when your meeting starts. It turns an interval timer into something you can point at the end of your day rather than something you have to sit and watch. ON THE LOCK SCREEN A live card carries the step you are on, the time left in it and where you are in the run, on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, without unlocking anything. THE SMALL THINGS Seven boundary sounds, chosen per timer. Three complete visual themes. A master volume that scales everything the app plays. And a wall of achievements, some of which you will have to go and find. FREE, AND PRIVATE Secondwind is free. There is no account, no sign-up and nothing to subscribe to. Your timers, saved lists and history live on your iPhone and nowhere else, we hold no copy of any of it.

Screenshots

meQuilibrium4 screens
Secondwind4 screens

Verdict

The call

meQuilibrium and Secondwind are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
meQuilibrium versus Secondwind: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametermeQuilibriumSecondwind
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (141 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews27.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings141 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size78 MB8 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperMequilibrium MobilePNW Solutions

Bugs and requests

meQuilibrium

Reported bugs

26 issues
  • Glitches constantly
  • Doesn't work
  • No secure connection found error
  • Features are grayed out and unavailable
  • Doesn't log progress, marking tasks done doesn't work
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  • Defaults back to old journeys
  • Forces flashlight on during breathing exercises and exiting app
  • Keeps crashing
  • Latest version signed out, incorrect login, forgot password email not received
  • App insists on update, loses articles
  • Login process is bad, too many tokens
  • App refuses to open, constant loading spinner
  • Fails due to connectivity or memory issues
  • Does not sync with step counting or flights of stairs climbed
  • Tells user completed badge for physical activity months ago and doesn't allow tracking
  • Videos do not load
  • Invalid credentials message for app access
  • Videos don't play
  • Keeps hanging
  • UN and PW log in every time
  • Measurements are off after submitting 'How are you feeling'
  • App doesn't handle time zones well
  • Marking activities as done doesn't give credit
  • Screen flashes to white, requires restart
  • Several functions within the app don't work
  • Prevents finishing activity by not responding to button press

Requested features

9 requests
  • Dark theme option
  • Bring back breathing mantra
  • Apple Watch app
  • Bring back daily affirmation
  • Enable auto-login/face recognition
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  • Track and review breathing progress
  • Accessibility to past articles/themes
  • Improve 'How are you feeling' measurements and data visualization
  • More gamification and tracking

Secondwind

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

meQuilibrium

No in-app purchases

None

Secondwind

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is meQuilibrium free?
meQuilibrium is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Secondwind free?
Secondwind is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do meQuilibrium or Secondwind have ads?
Neither meQuilibrium nor Secondwind shows ads.

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