Restless vs Step Year
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Restless
This app helps you stay awake by vibrating at regular intervals and when it detects you might be falling asleep. It uses your heart rate, age, and biological sex to personalize its alerts, even when running in the background or with the screen off.
- Vibrates to keep you awake
- Detects falling asleep using heart rate
- Personalized alerts based on age and sex
- Works in background
- Screen-off functionality
- Changing vibration patterns
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Sometimes you’re tired but need to stay awake. May be you’re driving home at night after a party, may be you’re trying to study late in the night for your midterms or you just want to stay awake to see the end of that TV show … For that, there’s Restless ! Restless will keep you awake by vibrating at regular interval and as soon as it feels that you’re getting asleep. The app uses your current heart rate to detect if you may be falling asleep and react immediately (based on your age and and your biological sex). Restless needs read-only access to your HealthKit data to provide these personalized functionalities. The vibration pattern changes each time to avoid getting used to it. Works when the app is in background and even when the screen is turned off !
Step Year
Visualize your yearly step data with interactive daily views. Scroll and tap to see photos from specific days, jogging your memory about your activity. Share your annual step count and stats with friends and family.
- Yearly step data visualization
- Daily step count review
- Photo integration for daily context
- Step count sharing with friends
- One-time purchase for historical data
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Review your step data from a bird's eye view! Have fun scrolling and tapping around to see photos you took that day. Jog your memory on why you took that many steps! Share and compare your total year's step count and stats with friends and family! ______ Your step data for the current year is unlocked for free. Unlock the step data from all your previous years with a one-time purchase!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Step Year at 75% against Restless's 25%. Step Year also leads on price (Free vs $1.99) and rating (4.6 vs 2.3). Restless's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On ratings volume and ads 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
Step Year is free to download; Restless costs $1.99 up front. Step Year sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Restless asks for nothing beyond the download.
Step Year holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 25 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of Restless's written reviews are positive against 75% of Step Year's.
| Parameter | Restless | Step Year |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.3 (11 ratings) | 4.6 (25 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 25 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 10.3 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cubesoft SARL | Shannon Bolick |
Customer experience
Restless
Step Year
In-app purchases
Restless
No in-app purchases
Step Year
- Unlock Past Years$4.99
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