SleepMatic vs AquaFit Stride
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SleepMatic
Automatically track your sleep cycles and naps using your Apple Watch. Wake up to detailed sleep analysis, including when you fall asleep and wake up. Log your sleep patterns with notes and hashtags to identify trends and factors affecting your rest.
- Automatic sleep tracking
- All-day and nap tracking
- Tunable detection sensitivity
- Detailed sleep analysis
- Add notes and hashtags
- Manual sleep editing
- HealthKit integration
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Sleep tracking should be effortless. SleepMatic automatically tracks your sleep using your Apple Watch. Simply wear your Watch to bed and wake up to a clear report—without starting a session, setting a sleep window, or remembering to stop tracking. Terms of use: http://www.vimo.co/termsofuse/ Privacy policy: http://www.vimo.co/privacy/ Automatic by design - Detects when you fall asleep and wake up - Tracks nighttime sleep and daytime naps - Works without a predefined sleep schedule - Lets you tune detection sensitivity to fit how you sleep Understand your nights See when you went to bed, fell asleep, woke up, and got out of bed. Review restful and restless periods, heart-rate information, and trends across nights, weeks, and months. Discover what affects your sleep Add notes and hashtags such as #coffee, #exercise, or #lateMeal. Compare your tagged nights over time and identify patterns in your routine. Your data, where you need it SleepMatic integrates with Apple Health and lets you correct recently detected sleep sessions when needed. Just wear your Apple Watch. SleepMatic handles the rest.
AquaFit Stride
This AI-powered app helps you achieve your health goals by tracking daily steps and monitoring custom workouts. It also provides personalized nutrition guidance, including protein recommendations, to support your fitness journey.
- AI-powered fitness companion
- Daily step tracking
- Custom workout monitoring
- Personalized nutrition guidance
- Smart training recommendations
- Protein intake tracking
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AquaFit Stride is your ultimate AI-powered fitness and nutrition companion. Track daily steps, monitor custom workouts, and achieve your health goals with smart training and protein guidance tailored just for you. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: AquaFit Stride at Free against SleepMatic's $1.99. AquaFit Stride also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4). SleepMatic's advantage is ratings volume (8.8K vs 1). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
AquaFit Stride is free to download; SleepMatic costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
AquaFit Stride holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SleepMatic has 8.8K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
SleepMatic ships an update every 3 weeks, AquaFit Stride every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SleepMatic | AquaFit Stride |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (8.8K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8.8K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vimo Labs Inc. | Abdulrahman Ali |
Customer experience
SleepMatic
AquaFit Stride
Bugs and requests
SleepMatic
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes when trying to view previous sleep data
- Inconsistent sleep tracking, sometimes registers inactivity as sleep
- Fails to sync sleep data to Apple Health on some occasions
Requested features
4 requests- Add ability to manually edit sleep data
- Improve trend and history visualization
- Implement automatic bedtime/wake up detection
- Provide more customization options
AquaFit Stride
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
SleepMatic
No in-app purchases
AquaFit Stride
No in-app purchases
Questions
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