Comparison

MiVia Essential vs WeHale

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
Read full description

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

WeHale

This app offers guided breathwork sessions designed to promote calm, energy, and focus. It provides various session lengths and introductory courses, allowing users to track their emotional shifts before and after each practice. Suitable for both beginners and experienced practitioners.

Highlights
  • Guided breathwork sessions (6-15 mins)
  • Longer Breath Journeys (15-35 mins)
  • Introductory course and challenges
  • Technique, level, and expectation guidance
  • Gentle, Deep, and Immersive levels
  • Pre and post-session mood tracking
Features
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No hype. No wellness clichés. No guilt when you skip a day. WeHale is built like the practice itself. Deliberate pacing. Room to breathe. Less pressure means more presence. YOUR FIRST 14 DAYS ARE FREE No card needed. Nothing to cancel. And three sessions stay free after that, so there is always somewhere to breathe. WHAT YOU GET • Guided breathwork sessions from 6 to 15 minutes, in three categories. Calm, Balance and Activate • Longer Breath Journeys, 15 to 35 minutes, for the days you have the time • Begin Within, a five-day intro course. One short lesson and one session a day • Go Deeper, a seven-day challenge that builds through activation, balance and depth HOW IT WORKS • Every session tells you the technique, the level and what to expect before you press play • Gentle, Deep and Immersive levels, so there is always a next step • The course and the challenge open one day at a time WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT WeHale asks how you feel before a session, and again after. The shift is written down for you, session by session. FOR BEGINNERS AND EXPERIENCED PRACTITIONERS Not sure where to start? Begin Within walks you through the basics. Already experienced? Go straight to the full library and keep your own pace. SPOKEN IN ENGLISH Every session is recorded in English. SUBSCRIPTION WeHale Pro is an auto-renewing subscription, available monthly or yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple ID when the purchase is confirmed. It renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://wehale.io/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

MiVia Essential4 screens
WeHale4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MiVia Essential at none against WeHale's 4. MiVia Essential also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.1). WeHale's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs monthly). On price, 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. WeHale sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. MiVia Essential asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MiVia Essential ships an update monthly, WeHale every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
MiVia Essential versus WeHale: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMiVia EssentialWeHale
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews16.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB165 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMiTAC GISmoAndningsappen Varberg AB

Customer experience

MiVia Essential

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

WeHale

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

MiVia Essential

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

WeHale

Subscriptions4
  • WeHale monthly (partner)1 Month trial$6.991 Month
  • Monthly$12.991 Month
  • WeHale yearly (partner)1 Month trial$39.991 Year
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  • Yearly$79.991 Year

Questions

Is MiVia Essential free?
MiVia Essential is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is WeHale free?
WeHale is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do MiVia Essential or WeHale have ads?
Neither MiVia Essential nor WeHale shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MiVia Essential or WeHale?
MiVia Essential ships an update monthly, and WeHale every 3 days. Most recently, MiVia Essential was updated on November 2, 2026 and WeHale on November 8, 2026.

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