Insomnia Coach vs Hypknowledge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Insomnia Coach
This app offers a guided training plan and interactive tools based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-i). It provides personalized feedback and tips to help users track and improve their sleep patterns. Designed for daily use over five weeks, it aims to help users regain healthy sleep habits.
- Guided weekly training plan
- Personalized sleep coach feedback
- Interactive sleep diary
- 17 sleep improvement tools
- Scientifically-based approach
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Insomnia Coach is designed for Veterans, military Servicemembers, and others who are suffering from insomnia. The app is based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-i) and provides: * a guided, weekly training plan to help you track and improve your sleep * a sleep coach with personal feedback about your sleep and fun sleep tips * an interactive sleep diary to help you keep track of daily changes in your sleep * 17 tools to help you get your sleep back on track This app is based on scientific research about how people can change their behaviors and thoughts to improve their sleep. This app does NOT replace professional care. Insomnia Coach is designed to be used daily for 5 weeks by following the Training Plan. After that, you can continue using the app to track your sleep and maintain good sleep habits. Insomnia Coach was created by VA’s National Center for PTSD.
Hypknowledge
This app enables clinicians and researchers to register patients and subjects for clinical studies. It facilitates the completion of sleep health screeners, diaries, and questionnaires, with data synchronization from Fitbits. Site administrators can view and download this data for analysis.
- Patient and subject registration
- Sleep health screeners
- Sleep diaries
- Sleep questionnaires
- Fitbit data integration
- Data visualization (tables & graphs)
- Excel data export
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The Hypknowledge Tracker allows clinicians and clinical researchers to register patients and research subjects at a tenant site (a site that is dedicated to a clinical practice or research study). Users may complete a sleep health screener, sleep diaries, and a core set of sleep related questionnaires on the site. Sleep diaries may also be completed via this iPhone App. Sleep data may also be gathered with Fitbits. The data is viewable by the site admin (those designated as admin for the tenant site) as tables or by graphs. All data is easily downloaded to excel for further analyses.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Insomnia Coach at 51% against Hypknowledge's 0%. Insomnia Coach also leads on rating (3.8 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (73 vs 2). Hypknowledge's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 9 months). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Insomnia Coach holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Insomnia Coach has 73 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 51% of Insomnia Coach's written reviews are positive against 0% of Hypknowledge's.
Insomnia Coach ships an update every 9 months, Hypknowledge monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Insomnia Coach | Hypknowledge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (73 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.9% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 73 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) | Quantox Technology Doo Cacak |
Customer experience
Insomnia Coach
Hypknowledge
Bugs and requests
Insomnia Coach
Reported bugs
8 issues- Sleep diary errors (negative hours)
- Progress tab not reflecting data
- App won't download
- Audio not playing through headphones
- Sleep diary calculation errors
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- Error when entering shift work hours
- App doesn't account for sex in diary
- Diary locks entries after prescription update
Requested features
9 requests- Dark mode feature
- Wireless headphone compatibility
- Ability to edit past diary entries
- Sync between devices
- More sleep stories and anxiety resources
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- Option to indicate getting out of bed in the middle of the night
- Better handling of irregular sleep hours
- Clearer overview of weekly exercises
- Support for Bluetooth earbuds
Hypknowledge
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Insomnia Coach
No in-app purchases
Hypknowledge
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Insomnia Coach free?
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