Solulu vs Innertune: a huge affirmation library or your own mind movies
Innertune suits people who love affirmations on loop. It has a library of 77,000 spoken affirmations over music. You can record your own voice, and it runs on iPhone and Android. For most people manifesting a specific life, Solulu is the better pick. It shows your own face living the scene in a personal mind movie, not only words. You do not have to imagine what the words mean, and it takes a few minutes in the morning and at night.
Words or pictures: two ways to make it real
Innertune gives you thousands of affirmations to listen to. Solulu gives you a few mind movies of yourself to watch.
We make Solulu, so keep that in mind as you read. This page is about Innertune, the affirmations app. It is not about the music player with a similar name.
Every manifesting method does one job. It brings the life you want into your real life. You get clear on the wish, believe it is coming and keep coming back to it. Methods differ in how they do it.
- Law of Assumption methods, like scripting and mind movies, have you feel the wish as already done.
- Law of Attraction methods have you raise your feeling to match the wish.
- Repetition methods, like affirmations and subliminals, repeat the wish until it sinks in.
Innertune and Solulu use two of these ways, words and pictures.
- Words. Affirmations are short positive lines about who you are and what you have. You repeat them until they feel true, and then your life matches them. Played on loop under music, they work a little like subliminals. Subliminals hide the words under music, but here you can hear every word.
- Pictures. Visualization means picturing the life in your mind. Visualization and mind movies show you that life until it feels like a memory. Then it shows up for real.
Both work, and many people use both. Innertune is built for words. Solulu is built for pictures. Our guide to visualization vs affirmations compares the two in more depth.
What each app does, in three lines
Innertune is an affirmation audio app. Solulu is a mind movie app.
Innertune: Daily Affirmations (by Innertune Media Inc.)
- You pick from a library of 77,000 spoken affirmations and 550 playlists. Or you ask its AI to build a playlist for your mood or goal.
- The affirmations play on loop over music or beats. You can listen while you work, relax or sleep. You choose the voice, the beat, the volume and the pause between lines.
- You can record affirmations in your own voice and play them over the music. It has 4.8 stars from 12,000 ratings on the App Store.
Solulu (by us)
- You describe the life you want and add your photos. You can also add photos of your SP, places, outfits, pets and things you want. Your SP is your specific person, the one you want to be with.
- It makes personal mind movies with you in the scenes. A mind movie is a short video of your goals, with affirmations and music. Each one opens with a calm kaleidoscope, then shows scenes of you living that life.
- You get new mind movies every week as your goals grow. You watch them in the morning and at night.
Side by side
Innertune gives you more content, for longer, on more devices. Solulu gives you fewer things, made from your own life.
| Innertune | Solulu | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | A library of 77,000 affirmations and 550 playlists, AI playlists, your own recordings | Up to three new personal mind movies each week |
| Your own photos | No photo feature described | Yes. You, and if you like, your SP, places, pets and things |
| Video or audio | Audio | Video, with affirmations and music |
| Platforms | iPhone and Android. The App Store also lists newer Macs and Apple Vision | iPhone |
One wish, both ways
Here is the same wish as an affirmation and as a scene, starting with love.
An affirmation for an SP sounds like this. “I am deeply loved. My person chooses me every day.”
In Solulu, the same wish becomes one moment you can see, with you in it.
We are on the couch under one blanket, with my feet in their lap. They pause the show to tell me about their day.
Both say the same thing. The affirmation asks you to believe it. The scene shows it to you.
The same is true for money. “I am a money magnet” becomes this scene.
I pay for dinner for my whole family at our favorite restaurant. My mom squeezes my hand across the table.
And “I am confident and magnetic” becomes this one.
I walk into the party in my red dress, and three friends call my name at once.
Turn your favorite affirmation into a scene
If you already love an affirmation, you can turn it into a scene in three steps.
- Ask what would prove it. If “I am deeply loved” were true, what would you see on a normal day?
- Pick one small moment. Do not pick “a perfect relationship.” Pick your feet in their lap on the couch.
- Write it in the present tense, with you in it. For example, “We are on the couch…” Then look at it, or watch it, every morning and night.
Where Innertune is better
Innertune does some things Solulu does not. For some people, it is the better app.
- It is huge. It has 77,000 affirmations and 550 playlists, so there is something for every mood and goal. Solulu gives you a few mind movies, not a library.
- It has a free version. You can listen as much as you like on it.
- You can use your own voice. Its fans praise this feature most. You record your own affirmations and play them back.
- It plays in the background. Innertune is made to loop while you work, study or sleep. Solulu needs your eyes for a few minutes.
- It is on more devices. It runs on iPhone and Android. The App Store also lists newer Macs and Apple Vision. Solulu is iPhone only.
- You control the sound. You choose the voice and the music. You can also add binaural beats, a kind of sound some people use to relax or focus.
Where Solulu is better: four reasons
For most people manifesting something specific, Solulu is the better choice, for four reasons.
1. You see yourself living it
Innertune gives you words. Even the best words describe your life. They do not show it to you. Solulu makes scenes from your own photos, so you see your own face already living the life. It might be you on the couch with your person, or you paying for dinner. Seeing it makes it feel like a memory, not a wish. What feels like a memory is what shows up in your life.
There is good research behind this. In a well-known study, people pictured themselves voting, seen from the outside like a photo. Those people were more likely to really vote. Seeing yourself do something helps you believe you are someone who does it.
2. It does not depend on your imagination
An affirmation only feels true when you can feel the picture behind it. “My person chooses me every day” moves you if you can see a morning where they do. If no picture comes, the words can start to feel empty, or even fake.
That picture has to come from you. About 4 in 100 people have very dim mental pictures, or none at all. This is called aphantasia. These people cannot make the picture.
With Solulu, the picture is already there. Your affirmations play over a scene of you living them. The words have something real to stand on.
3. It never goes stale
Most practices repeat the same words, audio or pictures every day. After a few weeks, your mind gets used to them and the feeling fades. The Solulu method makes refreshing part of the practice, and Solulu keeps making new mind movies of you as your story moves on. So what you watch never goes stale.
4. It is easy to keep doing
Innertune is easy too, but in a different way. You press play and let it loop in the background. You choose from tens of thousands of lines.
Solulu takes a few minutes of full attention at two set times, morning and night. You get movies made for your life, not a library to choose from. That is the Solulu method. You pick one specific scene and see yourself inside it, every morning and night. You watch the same mind movie at both times. New ones arrive as your goals grow.
| You see yourself in it | Works without a strong imagination | Easy to keep up | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solulu | Yes, your own face, from your photos | Yes, the picture is made for you | Yes, a few minutes morning and night |
| Innertune | No, audio only | Partly. The words need a picture you bring yourself | Yes, on loop in the background |
What Innertune users say
Innertune users love the voices and the custom recordings. The common complaints are about bugs and support.
- What they love. They like recording affirmations in their own voice. They also like the choice of voices and music, and the binaural beats.
- Bugs. Common ones are crashes after updates, lost recordings, sound problems and streaks that reset.
- Support. Some emails to support get no reply.
We do not quote reviews of Solulu on this page, because we make it. Read those on the App Store, where we cannot choose which ones you see.
The verdict, by reader
For most readers manifesting a specific life, the pick is Solulu. If you love affirmations and want a big library, look at Innertune.
| If you… | Pick | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Want to see yourself living the life you want | Solulu | Your own face in every scene, from your photos |
| Are manifesting your SP | Solulu | A line says you are loved. A scene shows the two of you |
| Find it hard to picture things | Solulu | The picture is made for you |
| Want affirmations on loop while you work or sleep | Innertune | It is built for background listening |
| Want to hear your own voice | Innertune | It records your affirmations |
| Use Android | Innertune | Solulu is iPhone only |
Many people will be happiest with both. Play affirmations in the background during the day. Then spend a few minutes with your mind movie when you wake up and before you sleep.
Switching from Innertune
To move from Innertune to Solulu, cancel Innertune through Apple or Google first. Deleting the app does not cancel it.
- On iPhone, open Settings and tap your name.
- Tap Subscriptions, then Innertune.
- Tap Cancel Subscription. If there is no Cancel button, it is already cancelled.
On Android, open Subscriptions in Google Play, choose Innertune and tap Cancel subscription. Innertune’s help center asks you to cancel at least 24 hours before the next charge. Some people pay Innertune directly, not through Apple or Google. In that case, its terms say to cancel by email.
Our guide to cancelling a manifestation app has every step. For other options, see the best Innertune alternatives or our full Innertune review.
How to start
You can start seeing your scenes today, by hand or with the app.
- By hand, for free. Take your favorite affirmation and turn it into a scene with the three steps above. Find the closest photo you can with you in it. Look at it when you wake up and before you sleep.
- With Solulu. Solulu is the iPhone app we make for exactly this. You describe the life you want and add your photos. It makes mind movies with you in the scenes, with affirmations and music. You get up to three new mind movies each week.
Of the two apps, Solulu is the better way to manifest a specific life. There are four reasons. You see your own face living it, instead of only hearing words. You do not have to bring the picture yourself. New mind movies keep it from going stale. And it fits into a few minutes every morning and night. To find other apps for what you need, see the best manifestation apps.