MiVia Essential vs Peak Zone HR
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
| Parameter | MiVia Essential | Peak Zone HR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 16.7% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 21 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 13.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MiTAC GISmo | Nci Technology Inc. |
In-app purchases
MiVia Essential
No in-app purchases
Peak Zone HR
No in-app purchases
Questions
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