Comparison

Eight Sleep vs Mom Unit

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

Mom Unit

This app offers a gamified fitness experience designed for mothers, focusing on functional strength training and community support. It integrates training, nutrition, and habit tracking with an AI coach to help users achieve their fitness goals and compete on leaderboards.

Highlights
  • Functional strength training programs
  • Goal-specific training tracks
  • Social 'Fire Teams' for accountability
  • Integrated health and fitness data tracking
  • AI fitness coach 'Sergeant Gains'
  • Gamified habit tracking and leaderboards
  • Weekly fitness challenges and competitions
Features
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THE MOM UNIT A fitness community built for moms. Not another workout tracker. A proven system that's transformed thousands of mothers, backed by a sisterhood that holds the line and pushes through competition. We focus on functional strength training that makes you look good and perform even better. Sure, you'll get toned. You'll also be able to run a mile with your six-year-old on your back. Look great. Be useful. Don't settle for one. PICK YOUR TRACK Three tracks built around your goals, your equipment, and your real-world time. Alpha Mom, Hybrid Mom or Run Club. You can cut, bulk or recomp with goal-aware macros tuned to your TDEE, not some generic calculator your husband's coworker swears by. PICK YOUR FIRE TEAM This is a social app at its core. Although you can take the lone wolf route and just grind on your own but life's better when you do it with friends. Fire Teams are small squads of moms who push each other, compete weekly, and call out the silence when one of you ghosts. Start your own team with your real-life crew or jump into an open team and make new friends. Either way, you've got moms in your corner and moms breathing down your neck. That's the whole point. THE OPERATING SYSTEM The Mom Unit isn't a workout tracker glued to a food log. It's one system where everything talks to everything. Your training, your nutrition, your sleep, your steps, your weight, your HRV, your VO2 max — all flowing into one place. Metrics, graphs, data - it's all the stuff moms need and love. And then there's Sergeant Gains, your AI coach. He pulls all your data and tells you the truth. You skipped two workouts and your protein is garbage? She notices. No sugar coating. No participation ribbons. TICK THE BOXES TTFB. Seven daily habits that accrue points and make you look better. Train, Eat, Sleep, hydrate, and move. The whole program runs on it. Miss them and the leaderboard knows. Hit them and you start watching the rank tick up. RANK UP Mom Bod. Weekend Warrior. Suburban Spartan. All the way to Alpha Mom. You don't buy rank. You earn it. And Alpha Mom requires passing the PT test, so don't get cute. COMPETE OR COAST WED WODs. FYFridays. Weekly Challenges. Fire Teams Ranks. 41+ leaderboards. Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, all-time. Global and team. You can hide from a lot of things in life. You can't hide from the board. BUILT BY A GREEN BERET AND CELEBRITY TRAINER TURNED MOM BOD DESTROYER A former Special Forces medic and celebrity trainer got tired of watching moms dissolve into recliners. So she built this. Used every day by actual mothers. NO BS. JUST SHOW UP. Download. Pick your track. Find your fire team. Stay accountable. The Mom Unit is free to download. Pro subscription required for full access — workouts, leaderboards, nutrition tracking, Fire Teams, and Sergeant Gains. TTFB. Privacy policy: thedadunit.com/privacy-policy Terms of service: thedadunit.com/terms-of-service

Screenshots

Eight Sleep4 screens
Mom Unit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Mom Unit at 100% against Eight Sleep's 28%. Mom Unit also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Eight Sleep's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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 Mom Unit sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $24.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Mom Unit holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Eight Sleep has 17K ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 28% of Eight Sleep's written reviews are positive against 100% of Mom Unit's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Eight Sleep ships an update every 3 days, Mom Unit every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Eight Sleep versus Mom Unit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEight SleepMom Unit
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (17K ratings)5.0 (12 ratings) — better
Positive reviews28.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings17K — better12
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size245 MB106 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperEight Sleep, IncMICAH ALLEN MEHAN

Customer experience

Eight Sleep

All ratings17,485 ratings
Positive94.4%
Neutral1.4%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews789 reviews
Positive28.0%
Neutral11.3%
Negative60.7%

Mom Unit

All ratings12 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Mom Unit

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
2 purchases

Mom Unit

Subscriptions2
  • MONTHLY$24.991 Month
  • YEARLY$249.991 Year

Questions

Is Eight Sleep free?
Eight Sleep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mom Unit free?
Mom Unit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Eight Sleep or Mom Unit?
Mom Unit is rated higher. Eight Sleep averages 4.8 out of 5 from 17K ratings, while Mom Unit averages 5.0 from 12 ratings.
Do Eight Sleep or Mom Unit have ads?
Mom Unit shows ads; Eight Sleep does not.
Which is updated more often, Eight Sleep or Mom Unit?
Eight Sleep ships an update every 3 days, and Mom Unit every 6 weeks. Most recently, Eight Sleep was updated on October 17, 2026 and Mom Unit on October 6, 2026.

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