# Roost: Stress & Sleep — HRV, meditation & better sleep > HRV, meditation & better sleep (iPhone/iPad app by 李义 张.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/roost-stress-and-sleep/id6779966049 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [李义 张](https://appshunter.io/developer/1894684999) - Category: Health & Fitness, Lifestyle - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 18.0 · 27 MB - Languages: American English, Arabic, French (France), German (Germany), Japanese, Chinese (Simplified, China), Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan) - Released: 2026-07-05 - Data updated: 2026-07-28 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/roost-stress-and-sleep/id6779966049/reviews.md ## What is Roost? Roost is a stress, sleep, and habit companion for iPhone and Apple Watch. It reads your Apple Health data on-device to help you understand your body and steady your routine — fully private, no account, no servers. LIVE STRESS, AT A GLANCE Roost fuses HRV, heart rate, and sleep debt into a continuous stress score, drawn as a tiny mascot's face: relaxed, balanced, or overloaded. A watch-face complication keeps it on your wrist. OVERNIGHT RECOVERY HRV rebound, lowest heart rate, volatility windows — Roost tells you whether your body truly rested, not just how many hours you slept. BREATHE & UNWIND Several breathing patterns (4-7-8, Box, 5.5 resonant) with an animated orb, a per-second countdown, and haptic guidance on Apple Watch. EIGHT VOICE-GUIDED MEDITATIONS Deep Sleep, Grounding, Focus, Morning Wake-Up, Body Scan, Midday Recharge, Evening Unwind and Pre-Meeting Calm — every session carries gentle voice narration, so you can follow along with your eyes closed. While you meditate, the Lock Screen shows the current cue and time left. SMARTER REMINDERS Sedentary, hydration, and eye-rest nudges carry 22 messages each in a no-repeat rotation, and the ones you keep dismissing fade out. Pick a tone to match your mood: Gentle, Sassy or Minimal. Auto-silenced during meetings, focus, and workouts; skipped while you're already moving. Strong Apple Watch alerts reach you when it matters. MY TIMETABLE Lay out wake, lunch, reading and bed across your day and get pinged right on time, unaffected by quiet hours. One-tap templates for a workday rhythm or a self-care routine. A GENTLER WAKE-UP Gradual wake nudges you during light sleep; on iPhone a system alarm rings until you tap "I'm up"; your watch buzzes too, even when your phone isn't nearby. SEE YOUR PROGRESS Mood check-ins, weekly reports, a 30-day overview, achievements and streaks, morning and evening rituals — turn each day into a rhythm you can see. PRIVACY FIRST All analysis happens on your device; health data is never uploaded, and Roost is offline by default with no account. The one networked feature is the optional step leaderboard (via Apple Game Center), and it stays off until you switch it on yourself. Available in English, Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, French, German and Arabic, following your system language. Upgrade to Pro with a single one-time purchase to unlock everything — no subscription, no ads. ——— Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Roost Pro Lifetime | $9.99 | one-time | ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 1.2 — 2026-07-21 This release is all about company — the app feels less like a nagging timer and more like someone sitting with you. MEDITATION, MAJOR UPGRADE · Voice guidance: all 8 sessions now have gentle narration, so you can follow along with your eyes closed · 3 new sessions: Midday Recharge (12 min), Evening Unwind (6 min), Pre-Meeting Calm (2 min) · Live Activity: the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island show the current cue and time remaining · Post-session rating: tell us if it helped, and future picks lean toward what works for you REMINDERS THAT DON'T GET STALE · Each reminder type went from 12 to 22 messages, dealt in a no-repeat rotation · New reminder tones: Gentle, Sassy, Minimal (rough days fall back to Gentle automatically) · Messages you keep swiping away quietly show up less often NEW · My Timetable: lay out wake, lunch, reading and bed across your day and get pinged on time — unaffected by quiet hours · Step Leaderboard: opt in to compare today's steps with friends and the world via Game Center · Sleep coach now takes your age group into account and judges against your healthy sleep range — a full 8 hours is no longer called "a bit short" · The sleep-duration slider marks the recommended range right on the track, with haptic feedback as you drag ALSO · Sedentary / hydration / eye-rest reminders now default to 09:00–17:00 · Tap the sleep and calm rings on Today to open their details, including how the stress score is computed · Added French, German and Arabic (with right-to-left layout) — 7 languages in total ### 1.1 — 2026-07-09 1. Fixed a crash issue. 2. Added Recent 20-Minute Step Protection. If you’ve recently been walking, climbing stairs, or commuting, heart rate and HRV signals are weighted less to help prevent activity from being mistaken for high stress. ### 1.0 — 2026-07-05 No release notes. ## More apps by 李义 张 - [FreshDue – Expiry Tracker](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/freshdue-expiry-tracker/id6762595289) - [Mishkat: Prayer Times & Qibla](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mishkat-prayer-times-and-qibla/id6777729201) All apps by 李义 张: https://appshunter.io/developer/1894684999 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-07-28.*