Dr.VIVA vs VIV Ring
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dr.VIVA
Monitor your daily activity, including steps, distance, and calories. Track sleep quality, set alarms, and monitor your heart rate. Connect with Apple Health to sync your data and achieve a healthier lifestyle.
- Step tracking
- Distance traveled
- Calories burned
- Sleep quality monitoring
- Heart rate monitor
- GPS route tracking
- Apple Health integration
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Manage your healthy life, achieve your goals towards a more active and healthy lifstyle with Dr.VIVA. Track your steps taken, distance traveled, calories burned, active time and sleep quality. Send vibration alerts for incoming calls and message. Send alarms and always be on time. Track GPS route and Heart rate monitor. Connect Apple Health to share your steps,calories and distances.
VIV Ring
This smart ring and its companion app offer advanced health tracking, monitoring sleep, activity, heart rate, and stress. It provides personalized insights to help users understand their bodies and make informed lifestyle choices for general wellness.
- Sleep cycle tracking
- Activity level monitoring
- Heart rate monitoring
- Stress level tracking
- Personalized wellness insights
- Intuitive app interface
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The VIV™ Ring is a smart ring that blends timeless design with advanced health-tracking technology. VIV™ tracks, monitors, and provides personalized insights to support your well-being—covering sleep cycles, sleep patterns, activity levels, heart rate, stress levels, and more. The companion VIV™ App delivers a seamless, intuitive experience that simplifies complex wellness information into actionable insights, helping you better understand your body and make informed lifestyle choices. Disclaimer: The VIV™ ring is a wellness device and is NOT a medical device. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, monitor, or prevent any medical condition. It is designed solely for general fitness and wellness purposes. Do not make any changes to your medications, routines, or health behaviors without consulting a licensed medical professional.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Dr.VIVA at 3.8 against VIV Ring's 3.0. Dr.VIVA also leads on ratings volume (43 vs 1) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 17.0). VIV Ring's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 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.
Dr.VIVA holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dr.VIVA has 43 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Dr.VIVA ships an update every 2 months, VIV Ring every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dr.VIVA | VIV Ring |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (43 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 39.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 43 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 123 MB | 625 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 红甲 祝 | VIV HEALTH INC. |
Customer experience
Dr.VIVA
VIV Ring
In-app purchases
Dr.VIVA
No in-app purchases
VIV Ring
No in-app purchases
