Placebo vs HelioCoach
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Placebo
This app guides users through daily meditations to reprogram their mindset and create a new future. It offers morning and evening sessions designed to induce alpha or theta brainwaves, making users more receptive to suggestions and focused on their goals. The app also includes tools for goal setting, result tracking, and understanding belief change.
- Morning meditation for alpha/theta brainwaves
- Evening meditation for present moment awareness
- Meditation for changing beliefs
- Goal setting and writing
- Daily result mapping
- Evaluation and statistics
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Reprogramming your Self is an App for daily use in order to step out of the circle of constantly repeating your past and consciously creating a new state of being – thus creating a new future, of course! We keep creating the future constantly and in every single second with our thoughts and feelings as well as with our beliefs and perceptions. With the morning meditation you will get yourself into a coherent state of alpha or theta brainwaves. In those states you will be far more susceptible for suggestions. Your brain will be recalibrated automatically when you do this meditation of open space and you can gear your new Self-consciously towards the new day. During your evening meditation you will get into the present moment and linger in the emptiness of quantum space. As the observer you allow the day to pass by as you become an awareness of possibilties. In that state you will create the next day, your future. Use the meditation for changing your perceptions and beliefs to move into a new state of being. You will do this by marrying a clear intention with a higher emotion. This App will provide you with a range of options in order to get focussed on a specific goal. We are able to influence any condition as well as our outside reality using our mind alone simply by changing our old beliefs and patterns and our perceptions of ourselves and our environment. This App contains: - Morning meditation - Evening meditation - Meditation for changing your convictions and beliefs about yourself - Capacity to write down your goals - Mapping your results daily - Evaluation and statistics - Background information for changing your beliefs and perceptions Note: The Meditations are the same as on the CD or MP3-Download "You are the Placebo #2".We have split the Meditations in the App for a easier daily use into Morning, Evening and Changing Beliefs-Meditation.
HelioCoach
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Built for supplements. Not prescriptions. Not ads. Not upsells. HelioCoach is the only tracker built specifically for supplement stacks. No prescription clutter. No pharma relationships. No hidden agenda. Just your vitamins, tracked reliably. Reminders that fire every time. One-tap logging. Streaks that protect themselves. WHY HELIO COACH IS DIFFERENT Most reminder apps are built for medications. Designed around prescriptions, pharmacies, and caregivers. You end up with an app that treats your vitamin D like a controlled substance. HelioCoach was built from scratch for supplement users. For the person running a 5-supplement morning stack. For the biohacker with complex timing protocols. For anyone who has downloaded three apps and still keeps forgetting. WHAT MAKES IT WORK -> Reminders that actually fire. Timezone-aware, travel-proof, snooze-friendly. Reliable notifications are the entire product everything else is secondary. -> One-tap logging. No journal entries. No nutritional data. Open app, tap done. -> Streak Shields. Hit a 7-day streak, earn a Shield. A missed day does not end months of progress. -> Full stack support. Vitamins, adaptogens, omega, probiotics, proteins every supplement, every timing requirement. -> Your compliance, clearly. Rolling 30-day percentage and calendar heat-map. Green is good. No punitive red. OUR PROMISE ON TRUST -> No ads. Ever. Not in the free tier, not in premium. -> No supplement recommendations. No affiliate links. We have nothing to sell you except the app. -> Sources cited. Every interaction warning links to PubMed or NIH. We show our work. FREE TIER — No credit card, no expiry Up to 10 supplements • All streak and shield features • Smart reminders • 30-day history • Zero ads
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: HelioCoach at Free against Placebo's $6.99. HelioCoach also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months). Placebo's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.0). On ads, in-app purchases 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
HelioCoach is free to download; Placebo costs $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Placebo ships an update every 3 months, HelioCoach fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Placebo | HelioCoach |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $6.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 18.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Momanda | Tezi Communications LLP |
In-app purchases
Placebo
No in-app purchases
HelioCoach
No in-app purchases









