Comparison

Eight Sleep vs Willowave

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Eight Sleep

This intelligent sleep system actively manages your sleep environment by adjusting temperature and elevation. It tracks detailed sleep metrics and provides personalized insights to help you wake up feeling refreshed. The system supports individual sleep profiles for multiple users.

Highlights
  • Personalized temperature control
  • Automatic elevation adjustments
  • Sleep stage tracking
  • Heart rate and HRV monitoring
  • Snoring detection
  • Gentle wake-up alarms
  • Dual sleep profiles
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Introducing Pod 6. The setup is as effortless as your sleep. Guided Hub setup gets you paired in minutes, a live priming screen decodes your Pod's lights in real time so you're never guessing, and Solo Pod owners get a path built just for them. Your best sleep starts tonight. The Eight Sleep Pod is the intelligent sleep system that gives you up to one hour more of sleep every night. It cools. It heats. It elevates. PERSONALIZED SLEEP WITH AUTOPILOT Autopilot is the intelligence behind the Pod. It adjusts your temperature and elevation to perfect your sleep experience. LEARN ABOUT YOUR SLEEP AND HEALTH View your sleep stages, time slept, heart rate, HRV, and snoring. Plus, receive personalized insights and recommendations. WAKE UP REFRESHED With customizable chest-level vibration and a gradual thermal change, you will wake up gently and feel fully refreshed. TWO SLEEP PROFILES PER POD Autopilot creates a profile for up to two individuals on the same Pod and refines overtime. Have questions? We’re here to help. Email us at support@eightsleep.com. Terms of Use: - www.eightsleep.com/app-terms-conditions/ - www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Willowave

This app uses adaptive soundscapes, healing frequencies, and affirmations to help you reprogram your subconscious mind. It guides you through sonic journeys and offers personalized soundscapes to reshape your reality and manifest desired states.

Highlights
  • Adaptive soundscapes
  • Healing frequencies
  • Brainwave entrainment
  • Personalized affirmations
  • Nature ambience
  • Guided sonic journeys
Features
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Rewire your mind. Reshape your reality. Willowave turns intention into experience through vibration, subconscious reprogramming, and ancestral wisdom. Using adaptive soundscapes that weave together healing frequencies, brainwave entrainment, nature-inspired ambience, and affirmations, Willowave helps you rewire your subconscious, reshaping the reality you manifest for yourself. *Features: -Healing Frequencies: Science-backed tones designed to target specific processes or emotions. Once you choose your frequency, every sound in the app automatically tunes to it for maximum potency. -Brainwave Technology: Shift into Alpha, Theta, or Delta states for focus, meditation, sleep, or deep release. -Affirmations: Rewire your subconscious story by feeding it the truths you want to live. -Nature Ambience: Layer rain, fire, forest, or even a cat’s purr to create a sensory field of safety and peace, allowing your nervous system to relax. -Sonic Journeys: Guided rituals that combine breathwork, toning, and somatic imagery for deep transformation. -Practical Tools: Save your soundscapes, set timers, schedule sessions, and more. This is the alchemy at the heart of Willowave: a proprietary fusion of neuroscience, sound, and subtle magic that speaks to the subconscious in its own language—frequency, rhythm, and truth. *How It Works -Set Your Intention: Tell Willow (your AI guide) how you want to feel, what you’re ready to release, or what you’re calling in. -Receive Your Soundscape: Willow creates a personalized soundscape using healing frequencies, brainwave entrainment, adaptive music, and affirmations crafted to reprogram your subconscious. If you know what you want, you can also manually select your own. -Rewire Your Reality: Your brain treats thought like lived experience, activating the same neural pathways whether you’re remembering, imagining, or affirming. Willow’s affirmations harness this mechanism to rewrite your inner narrative. As your subconscious adopts new beliefs, your brain begins to seek—and create—patterns that confirm them. Reality reorganizes around your story. Every soundscape is an energetic technology, tuning your nervous system and subconscious to the state you desire. Whether you’re seeking clarity, confidence, love, creativity, or peace, Willowave brings it into resonance. *Why It Works Our brain is a pattern-matching engine. It doesn’t perceive reality as it is—it perceives reality as it expects it to be. Every thought, feeling, and sound reshapes the neural architecture that guides your perceptions, behaviors, and choices. Over time, this architecture becomes the scaffolding of your life. Willowave works by shifting that architecture at its root. Through repeated exposure to affirmations delivered in states of openness, Willowave rewires subconscious beliefs—reshaping the lens through which you engage with the world. As your inner story changes, your external reality follows.

Screenshots

Eight Sleep4 screens
Willowave4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Willowave at 83% against Eight Sleep's 27%. Willowave also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Eight Sleep's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.3) and update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Eight Sleep sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $10.00 per month and Willowave sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Eight Sleep holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Eight Sleep has 17K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 27% of Eight Sleep's written reviews are positive against 83% of Willowave's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Eight Sleep ships an update every 4 days, Willowave monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and June 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Eight Sleep versus Willowave: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEight SleepWillowave
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (17K ratings) — better4.3 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews27.3% of reviews83.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings17K — better7
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size245 MB77 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperEight Sleep, IncDawnlight Studios LLC

Customer experience

Eight Sleep

All ratings17,307 ratings
Positive94.4%
Neutral1.4%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews765 reviews
Positive27.3%
Neutral11.5%
Negative61.2%

Willowave

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

Bugs and requests

Eight Sleep

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • App freezes and loses connection to pod
  • Alarms not working or turning off properly
  • Temperature settings not saving or resetting
  • Sleep data not syncing or displaying accurately
  • Frequent app crashes and performance issues

Requested features

5 requests
  • Apple Watch app integration
  • Offline temperature/alarm controls
  • Customizable sleep tracking and insights
  • Improved alarm snooze/dismiss functionality
  • Nap mode and more sleep schedule flexibility

Willowave

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Eight Sleep

Subscriptions4
  • 8+ Standard (Monthly)$10.001 Month
  • 8+ Pro (Monthly)$18.991 Month
  • 8+ Standard (Annual)$96.001 Year
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  • 8+ Pro (Annual)$179.991 Year
6 purchases

Willowave

Subscriptions2
  • Willowave Premium Monthly7 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Willowave Premium Annual7 Days trial$69.991 Year
One-time4
  • Alan Watts Lectures$1.99
  • Grabovoi Numbers$1.99
  • Silas Dubelaar$2.99
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  • Bhikkhu Bodhi$2.99

Questions

Is Eight Sleep free?
Eight Sleep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Willowave free?
Willowave is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Eight Sleep or Willowave?
Eight Sleep is rated higher. Eight Sleep averages 4.8 out of 5 from 17K ratings, while Willowave averages 4.3 from 7 ratings.
Do Eight Sleep or Willowave have ads?
Neither Eight Sleep nor Willowave shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Eight Sleep or Willowave?
Eight Sleep ships an update every 4 days, and Willowave monthly. Most recently, Eight Sleep was updated on September 25, 2026 and Willowave on June 14, 2026.

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