Aura vs Manai vs Smiling Mind vs Waking Up

Aura documents monthly subscriptions through Apple/Google, but not on its website; the reviewed current official sources do not publish an unambiguous US monthly amount. The $5.83 figure is an annual-plan monthly equivalent and is not used here.

Plan: Aura Premium

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [1]

The free mobile version includes one new three-minute session every two hours. Premium unlocks the larger library.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [1]

Aura: The consumer app personalizes recommendations from coach-created recordings. Its broad library includes meditation, hypnosis, prayer and breathwork, but recommendation personalization is not custom script generation. No matching personal recording or AI narration-production tool was listed. Selecting a recorded teacher is a different capability. This is an assessment of the reviewed published feature scope, not an explicit vendor denial.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [1], [2], [3]

Aura: The consumer app personalizes recommendations from coach-created recordings. Its broad library includes meditation, hypnosis, prayer and breathwork, but recommendation personalization is not custom script generation. No tool for making a new personalized script and guided recording in this format was listed. Existing library recordings, recommendations and timers do not meet that creation definition. This is an assessment of the reviewed published feature scope, not an explicit vendor denial.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [1], [2], [3]

Aura: The consumer app personalizes recommendations from coach-created recordings. Its broad library includes meditation, hypnosis, prayer and breathwork, but recommendation personalization is not custom script generation. No user script-writing, editing or narration-production control matching this criterion was listed. This is an assessment of the reviewed published feature scope, not an explicit vendor denial.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [1], [2], [3]

Aura: The consumer app personalizes recommendations from coach-created recordings. Its broad library includes meditation, hypnosis, prayer and breathwork, but recommendation personalization is not custom script generation. No matching conversational AI capability was listed. Content recommendations alone do not establish an assistant that creates or edits recordings. This is an assessment of the reviewed published feature scope, not an explicit vendor denial.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [1], [2], [3]

Aura: The consumer app personalizes recommendations from coach-created recordings. Its broad library includes meditation, hypnosis, prayer and breathwork, but recommendation personalization is not custom script generation. No matching conversational AI capability was listed. Content recommendations alone do not establish an assistant that creates or edits recordings. This is an assessment of the reviewed published feature scope, not an explicit vendor denial.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [1], [2], [3]

Aura: The consumer app personalizes recommendations from coach-created recordings. Its broad library includes meditation, hypnosis, prayer and breathwork, but recommendation personalization is not custom script generation. No tool for making a new personalized script and guided recording in this format was listed. Existing library recordings, recommendations and timers do not meet that creation definition. This is an assessment of the reviewed published feature scope, not an explicit vendor denial.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [1], [2], [3]

Aura: The consumer app personalizes recommendations from coach-created recordings. Its broad library includes meditation, hypnosis, prayer and breathwork, but recommendation personalization is not custom script generation. No tool for making a new personalized script and guided recording in this format was listed. Existing library recordings, recommendations and timers do not meet that creation definition. This is an assessment of the reviewed published feature scope, not an explicit vendor denial.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [1], [2], [3]

Aura: The consumer app personalizes recommendations from coach-created recordings. Its broad library includes meditation, hypnosis, prayer and breathwork, but recommendation personalization is not custom script generation. No matching personal practice cover-generation or cover-version control was listed. This is an assessment of the reviewed published feature scope, not an explicit vendor denial.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [1], [2], [3]

Download tracks in advance and access them under Downloaded Tracks without a connection.

Plan: Aura Premium

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [1]

Aura: The consumer app personalizes recommendations from coach-created recordings. Its broad library includes meditation, hypnosis, prayer and breathwork, but recommendation personalization is not custom script generation. No matching control for AI memories, saved creation preferences or a personal technique recipe was listed. This is an assessment of the reviewed published feature scope, not an explicit vendor denial.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [1], [2], [3]

Plus: USD 12.99 billed monthly through the advertised US individual plan. Taxes, promotions and other billing channels may differ. Pro has higher creation and storage allowances.

Plan: Plus · Region: United States

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [1]

Free includes one active goal, three first-goal practices, one separate Chat creation per calendar month, and ten listening minutes per day.

Plan: Free

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [1]

One personal voice clone for eligible active paid members, subject to capacity. Free accounts and trials are excluded. The clone can narrate new text; this is distinct from uploading a finished recording.

Plan: Active paid Plus / Pro · Platform: iOS

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [1]

Creates an original guided script and narrated recording from your instructions. Generation allowance and available voices depend on your plan.

Plan: Within creation allowance · Platform: iOS and supported connected assistants

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [2]

Supply your own script for narration. Exact supplied text is a distinct path from asking AI to write a new script; generation limits apply.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [3]

Discuss your practice in text with the AI instructor. Creation and editing actions have their own entitlements.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [4]

A creation request can produce a saved guided script, narrated audio and artwork, subject to account allowances.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [3]

Creates an original guided script and narrated recording from your instructions. Generation allowance and available voices depend on your plan. Self-directed wellness audio, not clinical hypnotherapy.

Plan: Within creation allowance · Platform: iOS and supported connected assistants

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [5]

Creates an original guided script and narrated recording from your instructions. Generation allowance and available voices depend on your plan. Audio cues for suitable, familiar movement; no video demonstration, camera form assessment or live correction.

Plan: Within creation allowance · Platform: iOS and supported connected assistants

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [6]

Generate artwork for the practice and provide visual direction. Artwork styles and generation allowances depend on plan.

Plan: Eligible creation / Studio access

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [7]

Download completed audio on the phone before going offline. This does not establish offline Apple Watch playback.

Platform: iPhone

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [8]

Enabled personal memory can carry useful context and preferences into later conversations.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [9]

The compared consumer app is free. Paid organizational services are outside this plan comparison.

Plan: Free

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [1]

The app is free for individual and family use.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [1]

Smiling Mind: Its free consumer app offers publisher-made sessions, mental-fitness activities and configurable routines. Recorded teachers, audio playback and sleep-sound recording are distinct from producing or importing a personal narration. Our review found no listed support for this criterion; this is a published-feature assessment, not an explicit vendor denial.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [1], [2], [3]

Smiling Mind: Its free consumer app offers publisher-made sessions, mental-fitness activities and configurable routines. These criteria require a newly personalized script and narrated recording, rather than a selection from existing sessions. Our review found no listed support for this criterion; this is a published-feature assessment, not an explicit vendor denial.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [1], [2], [3]

Smiling Mind: Its free consumer app offers publisher-made sessions, mental-fitness activities and configurable routines. The reviewed tools do not list a personal script-writing and narration-generation workflow. Our review found no listed support for this criterion; this is a published-feature assessment, not an explicit vendor denial.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [1], [2], [3]

Smiling Mind: Its free consumer app offers publisher-made sessions, mental-fitness activities and configurable routines. The assessment concerns the exact conversational AI action in this row. Our review found no listed support for this criterion; this is a published-feature assessment, not an explicit vendor denial.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [1], [2], [3]

Smiling Mind: Its free consumer app offers publisher-made sessions, mental-fitness activities and configurable routines. The assessment concerns the exact conversational AI action in this row. Our review found no listed support for this criterion; this is a published-feature assessment, not an explicit vendor denial.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [1], [2], [3]

Smiling Mind: Its free consumer app offers publisher-made sessions, mental-fitness activities and configurable routines. These criteria require a newly personalized script and narrated recording, rather than a selection from existing sessions. Our review found no listed support for this criterion; this is a published-feature assessment, not an explicit vendor denial.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [1], [2], [3]

Smiling Mind: Its free consumer app offers publisher-made sessions, mental-fitness activities and configurable routines. These criteria require a newly personalized script and narrated recording, rather than a selection from existing sessions. Our review found no listed support for this criterion; this is a published-feature assessment, not an explicit vendor denial.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [1], [2], [3]

Smiling Mind: Its free consumer app offers publisher-made sessions, mental-fitness activities and configurable routines. Choosing publisher artwork is distinct from generating, uploading or versioning personal cover art. Our review found no listed support for this criterion; this is a published-feature assessment, not an explicit vendor denial.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [1], [2], [3]

The publisher lists downloads for offline use, including offline Favorites for downloaded sessions.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [4]

Smiling Mind: Its free consumer app offers publisher-made sessions, mental-fitness activities and configurable routines. Recommendations and listening history do not establish conversational memory or custom technique creation. Our review found no listed support for this criterion; this is a published-feature assessment, not an explicit vendor denial.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [1], [2], [3]

The direct website advertises US$19.99 billed monthly. The annual amount is not its monthly equivalent; App Store prices can differ.

Plan: Waking Up membership · Region: US

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [1]

Financial assistance is available when membership is unaffordable; this is not an unrestricted free tier.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [2]

Waking Up: Its documented offering consists of recorded teaching, configurable listening, playlists, and a meditation timer. Recorded teachers, audio playback and sleep-sound recording are distinct from producing or importing a personal narration. Our review found no listed support for this criterion; this is a published-feature assessment, not an explicit vendor denial.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [3], [4]

Waking Up: Its documented offering consists of recorded teaching, configurable listening, playlists, and a meditation timer. These criteria require a newly personalized script and narrated recording, rather than a selection from existing sessions. Our review found no listed support for this criterion; this is a published-feature assessment, not an explicit vendor denial.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [3], [4]

Waking Up: Its documented offering consists of recorded teaching, configurable listening, playlists, and a meditation timer. The reviewed tools do not list a personal script-writing and narration-generation workflow. Our review found no listed support for this criterion; this is a published-feature assessment, not an explicit vendor denial.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [3], [4]

Waking Up: Its documented offering consists of recorded teaching, configurable listening, playlists, and a meditation timer. The assessment concerns the exact conversational AI action in this row. Our review found no listed support for this criterion; this is a published-feature assessment, not an explicit vendor denial.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [3], [4]

Waking Up: Its documented offering consists of recorded teaching, configurable listening, playlists, and a meditation timer. The assessment concerns the exact conversational AI action in this row. Our review found no listed support for this criterion; this is a published-feature assessment, not an explicit vendor denial.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [3], [4]

Waking Up: Its documented offering consists of recorded teaching, configurable listening, playlists, and a meditation timer. These criteria require a newly personalized script and narrated recording, rather than a selection from existing sessions. Our review found no listed support for this criterion; this is a published-feature assessment, not an explicit vendor denial.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [3], [4]

Waking Up: Its documented offering consists of recorded teaching, configurable listening, playlists, and a meditation timer. These criteria require a newly personalized script and narrated recording, rather than a selection from existing sessions. Our review found no listed support for this criterion; this is a published-feature assessment, not an explicit vendor denial.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [3], [4]

Waking Up: Its documented offering consists of recorded teaching, configurable listening, playlists, and a meditation timer. Choosing publisher artwork is distinct from generating, uploading or versioning personal cover art. Our review found no listed support for this criterion; this is a published-feature assessment, not an explicit vendor denial.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [3], [4]

Download individual sessions or entire series for offline playback within your membership access.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [5]

Waking Up: Its documented offering consists of recorded teaching, configurable listening, playlists, and a meditation timer. Recommendations and listening history do not establish conversational memory or custom technique creation. Our review found no listed support for this criterion; this is a published-feature assessment, not an explicit vendor denial.

Checked 2026-10-09. Sources: [3], [4]