Pulse Tags vs AnyProgress
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pulse Tags
Track your daily heart rate changes on your Apple Watch. Tag events like stress or illness to monitor their impact. View historical data, averages, and get notified of significant deviations.
- Hourly heart rate averages vs. 7-day averages
- Digital Crown scrolling for detailed values
- Add tags for heart rate event causes
- Watch face complications for quick data access
- Notifications for significant heart rate changes
- Browse full history of tagged values
- Add notes to tagged heart rate data
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Pulse Tags is a simple yet powerful Apple Watch app to track changes in your daily heart rate. In many cases changes in heart rate can be caused by things like stress, caffeine or flu/other diseases. In such cases you can choose to tag the specific heart rate event and use Pulse Tags to keep track of how often for example stress has caused your heart rate to elevate. Pulse Tags requires an Apple Watch with watchOS 9 or later. Pulse Tags integrates with the Health app and uses data stored in the Health app. Key features: -See how your hourly heart rate (bpm) averages compare to your seven day hourly averages. -Use the Digital Crown on your Apple Watch to scroll between different values. -See detailed heart rate values recorded within the selected hour. -Add Pulse Tags as complications on your Apple Watch faces to see updated heart rate data directly on your watch faces. -Get notified if your hourly heart rate average is significantly higher or lower than usual. Please note that notifications and complication updates can get delayed or even blocked. Keep Pulse Tags as a complication on your active watch face to ensure better notification performance. -Tag heart rate changes with a possible cause or symptom. You can also tag heart rate changes directly from the notification. -Browse full history of tagged heart rate values. -Add and edit notes to tagged heart rate values. -Privacy: Information read by Pulse Tags is only used locally on your Apple Watch and iPhone while relevant data is synced to your personal iCloud. This data can not be accessed by anyone else but you. -Tutorial and in-app purchases on iPhone. If you have any questions we will happily help you: contact@sydvesti.com
AnyProgress
Monitor specific activities with customizable progress trackers. Define objectives, timeframes, and visual styles. Integrate with your home screen or Apple Watch for easy access. Leverages Apple Health data for tracking.
- Customizable progress indicators
- Goal setting
- Time period definition
- Appearance customization
- Home screen widget
- Apple Watch integration
- Apple Health integration
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Track certain activities using customisable progress indicators. Set goals, time periods and appearance. Add widget to your Home Screen or use Apple Watch. The app relies on integration with Apple Health to consume the data you choose to share.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pulse Tags at 67% against AnyProgress's 0%. Pulse Tags also leads on rating (4.6 vs 2.3) and ratings volume (23 vs 3). AnyProgress's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. Pulse Tags sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. AnyProgress asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pulse Tags holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pulse Tags has 23 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Pulse Tags's written reviews are positive against 0% of AnyProgress's.
Pulse Tags ships an update every 2 months, AnyProgress every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pulse Tags | AnyProgress |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (23 ratings) — better | 2.3 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sydvesti Oy | Dmitry Loktev |
Customer experience
Pulse Tags
AnyProgress
In-app purchases
Pulse Tags
- Lifetime Access$2.99
AnyProgress
No in-app purchases
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