Comparison

Eight Sleep vs Soma

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

Soma

This app analyzes your voice patterns to provide insights into your mental clarity, energy, and stress levels. It offers personalized observations based on scientific evidence and learns your unique voice print over time for sharper, more personal understanding. Connect your calendar, location, and health data for a comprehensive view of factors impacting your mind.

Highlights
  • Personalized voice-based insights
  • Unique voice print learning
  • Context-aware analysis
  • Periodic weekly recaps
  • On-the-go conversation capture
  • Privacy controls
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Most health tools ask you to log how you feel, others require a wearable device or an in-person visit. Soma runs on devices you already have - first macOS and now iOS - to capture your voice as a health signal. By picking up on patterns in what you say and how you say it, Soma surfaces insights about your mental clarity, energy, stress, and more. HOW IT WORKS Soma runs primarily on macOS, capturing and analyzing your conversations as you go about your day. With the iOS app, you can now capture live conversations on the go and check your insights from anywhere. Soma builds your unique voice print to create a personalized understanding of you over time. - Personalized insights: specific, actionable observations drawn from your natural speech based on scientific evidence, not a one-size-fits-all cognitive assessment. - Voice print: Soma learns your baseline so insights get sharper and more personal the more you use it. - Context-aware: your speech carries rich context that helps us enhance your insights. You can also connect your calendar, location, Apple Health, and other health data so Soma can help you dissect the physiological and environmental factors that impact your mind. - Periodic recaps: a story of your week, including what shaped your mental states, what patterns are emerging, what to watch, and what to change. - Capture on the go: capture in-person conversations from your iPhone and pick up your insights right where you left off on Mac. - Privacy first: you decide what’s captured and what isn’t, and when something is stored or deleted. WHO IT'S FOR Soma is for anyone who wants to understand their own cognitive patterns better, whether that's staying sharp under work pressure, managing stress as a caregiver, or building mental resilience for competition. If you're curious what your voice reveals about your state of mind, Soma's for you.

Screenshots

Eight Sleep4 screens
Soma3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Soma at 100% against Eight Sleep's 29%. Soma also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Eight Sleep's advantage is ratings volume (18K vs 4). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Soma asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Soma holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Eight Sleep has 18K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Eight Sleep's written reviews are positive against 100% of Soma's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Eight Sleep ships an update every 3 days, Soma every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Eight Sleep versus Soma: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEight SleepSoma
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (18K ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews28.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings18K — better4
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size258 MB59 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperEight Sleep, IncSoma Precision Health, Inc

Customer experience

Eight Sleep

All ratings17,693 ratings
Positive94.4%
Neutral1.3%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews819 reviews
Positive28.9%
Neutral11.1%
Negative60.0%

Soma

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 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

Soma

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
None

Soma

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Eight Sleep free?
Eight Sleep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Soma free?
Soma is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Eight Sleep or Soma?
Soma is rated higher. Eight Sleep averages 4.8 out of 5 from 18K ratings, while Soma averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Eight Sleep or Soma have ads?
Neither Eight Sleep nor Soma shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Eight Sleep or Soma?
Eight Sleep ships an update every 3 days, and Soma every 5 days. Most recently, Eight Sleep was updated on November 1, 2026 and Soma on October 31, 2026.

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