Comparison

MiVia Essential vs Peak Zone HR

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

Head to head
About

MiVia Essential

This app works with a compatible wristband to monitor your fitness. It tracks daily activity, sleep quality, and calculates a health index using heart rate data. Features include breath training and smart notifications.

Highlights
  • Sync wristband data wirelessly
  • Auto-track daily activities
  • Calculate health index (EKG heart rate)
  • Interactive breath training coach
  • Smart notifications for calls and messages
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MiVia Essential The free MiVia Essential app is designed to work with the MiVia Essential wristband. It helps you accurately monitor your body’s fitness status during your daily routine. Enjoy the benefits of a healthier, more active lifestyle with the MiVia Essential app as it tracks your daily goals and progress over time for steps, calories burned, distance covered, activities, sleep quality, health index, and much more. Features: • Wirelessly sync your MiVia Essential wristband data to your mobile device. • Auto-track your daily activities, including steps, calories burned, distance covered, active time, and sleep quality. • Calculate your health index via EKG heart rate measurement, showing your heart rate, physiological age, body stress, and energy values. • Breath training provides an interactive rhythmic breathing coach to help balance your body's life-support network — the autonomic nervous system. • Smart push incoming calls, instant messages, WhatsApp, Line, Facebook, Twitter, schedule, and Skype notifications from a mobile device to your MiVia Essential wristband. Note: Compatible with iPhone 5/5c/5s/SE/6/6s/6 Plus/6s Plus devices with iOS version 8-9 installed

About

Peak Zone HR

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The Peak Zone HR App allows your members to: • Record, store, and track out-of-club workouts • Measure intensity by a unique points system • Track progress over time by monitoring weight loss • View real time heart rate displayed in colored heart rate zone chart or dashboard • View calorie burn per minute of a workout • Record, store, and track activity via a Bluetooth Activity Monitor

Screenshots

MiVia Essential4 screens
Peak Zone HR4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: MiVia Essential at monthly against Peak Zone HR's every 21 months. MiVia Essential also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 13.4). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MiVia Essential ships an update monthly, Peak Zone HR every 21 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
MiVia Essential versus Peak Zone HR: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMiVia EssentialPeak Zone HR
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews16.7% of reviews—
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 21 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better13.4
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMiTAC GISmoNci Technology Inc.

In-app purchases

None

MiVia Essential

No in-app purchases

None

Peak Zone HR

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MiVia Essential free?
MiVia Essential is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Peak Zone HR free?
Peak Zone HR is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do MiVia Essential or Peak Zone HR have ads?
Neither MiVia Essential nor Peak Zone HR shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MiVia Essential or Peak Zone HR?
MiVia Essential ships an update monthly, and Peak Zone HR every 21 months. Most recently, MiVia Essential was updated on November 2, 2026 and Peak Zone HR on November 7, 2026.

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