Comparison

MiVia Essential vs MyCaffeine

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

MyCaffeine

Monitor your daily caffeine intake and understand your body's current levels. Create custom beverages, receive reminders, and view weekly/monthly reports. Sync data with Apple Health and utilize home screen widgets for quick access.

Highlights
  • Daily caffeine intake monitoring
  • Custom beverage creation
  • Caffeine level forecasting
  • Weekly and monthly reports
  • Home and lock screen widgets
  • Apple Health synchronization
Features
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MyCaffeine helps you track your daily caffeine intake and understand how it affects your body — from your morning coffee to your last drink before bed. Log a drink in seconds, see exactly how much caffeine is in your system right now, and get a clear picture of how it builds up and fades throughout the day. Caffeine Tracking - See the current caffeine level in your body, updated in real time. - A live prediction graph shows your caffeine rising and falling across 24 hours, centred on now. - Caffeine now absorbs gradually rather than spiking instantly, so the curve better matches how you actually feel. - Forecast how much caffeine will still be in your system at bedtime. - A heads-up before you log a drink that would push you past your daily or bedtime limit. Water Tracking - Track your hydration alongside your caffeine, with a daily goal and a rolling 24-hour graph. - A hydration status label, from Dehydrated to Well Hydrated. - Water from every drink you log counts automatically. Apple Watch - Log drinks and water straight from your wrist. - Check your caffeine, hydration and daily total at a glance. - Complications for your watch face, kept in sync with your iPhone. Health Analysis - See how your caffeine lines up with your sleep, heart rate and activity, using data already in Apple Health. - Plain-language findings explain what your data actually shows. Trends & History - Track your intake, weekly patterns and bedtime caffeine levels over time. - Findings on every chart explain what you're looking at, in plain language. - Brand Ranking shows which brands you drink most, and what they add up to. - A calendar history with colour-coded daily intake at a glance. - Edit or delete any drink you've logged, from Today or History. Branded Drinks - Browse a growing catalogue from Coca-Cola, Starbucks, Red Bull and more — with serving sizes, nutrition and ingredients built in. - A redesigned Drinks tab, with search that ranks the closest matches first. - Your recent drinks are one tap away, remembering the serving size you last used. Custom Beverages - Create your own drinks based on caffeine quantity or concentration. - Custom drinks are saved under their own brand. - Decimal precision for more accurate tracking. Made For You - A metabolic calculator personalises your caffeine half-life and daily limits, instead of guessing. Widgets - Home Screen widgets showing your current level, drinks today, predicted bedtime level, and a 24-hour graph. - Lock Screen widgets to check your caffeine at a glance. - Water widgets for your Home Screen, Lock Screen and Apple Watch. - Quick Add shortcuts you choose, so your usuals are always one tap away. Health Integration - Sync your caffeine and water to Apple Health (iPhone only). - Write branded-drink nutrition to Health, and read caffeine logged by other apps. Notifications - Set daily reminders at the times that suit you. - A Daily Summary of what you've had. - Smart reminders that adapt to what you've actually drunk that day. Your Data - Export your caffeine and water logs as CSV or JSON, over any timeframe you choose. Now in Nine Languages - Fully available in English, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. MyCaffeine is free to use, with custom-drink logging always free. MyCaffeine Pro An optional purchase unlocks: - Logging branded drinks, with their full caffeine figures - Health Analysis against your sleep, heart rate and activity - Smart notifications - Logging drinks and water from Apple Watch and your widgets - All adverts removed (pricing varies by country) Privacy Policy: https://www.ryan-bush.com/portfolio/mycaffeine/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.ryan-bush.com/portfolio/mycaffeine/terms Please help MyCaffeine improve by letting us know what you think via the App Store reviews, or by email. More available at https://www.ryan-bush.com/portfolio/mycaffeine/support

Screenshots

MiVia Essential4 screens
MyCaffeine4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: MyCaffeine at 75% against MiVia Essential's 17%. MyCaffeine also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs monthly). MiVia Essential's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price 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. MyCaffeine sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. MiVia Essential asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MiVia Essential ships an update monthly, MyCaffeine every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
MiVia Essential versus MyCaffeine: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMiVia EssentialMyCaffeine
PriceFreeFree
Rating—3.6 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews16.7% of reviews75.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—5 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 9 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS8.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMiTAC GISmoRyan Bush

Customer experience

MiVia Essential

Written reviews18 reviews
Positive16.7%
Neutral16.7%
Negative66.7%

MyCaffeine

All ratings5 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

None

MiVia Essential

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

MyCaffeine

One-time1
  • MyCaffeine - Pro$9.99

Questions

Is MiVia Essential free?
MiVia Essential is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MyCaffeine free?
MyCaffeine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do MiVia Essential or MyCaffeine have ads?
MyCaffeine shows ads; MiVia Essential does not.
Which is updated more often, MiVia Essential or MyCaffeine?
MiVia Essential ships an update monthly, and MyCaffeine every 9 days. Most recently, MiVia Essential was updated on October 10, 2026 and MyCaffeine on October 24, 2026.

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