Comparison

Count my Target vs Sthenos

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Count my Target

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Keep an eye on your goals! You want to eat at least five times a day fruits or vegetables or drink at least five glasses of water? Set the limit to five and pass it and keep your eyes on your goal. For every portion you consume, you tap the button once. When it changes from red to green, you have reached your goal. You want to handle a small habit responsibly? Tonight you go out with friends and decide to drink a maximum of five beers? Set your limit to five and stay below in the settings. For every beer you order, you tap the button once. If it changes from green to red, it's good for today. This way you keep an eye on your limit even if you change bars or get invited. The last ten events are saved for tracking. You can change what you want to count in the settings! Have fun with Count my Target!

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Sthenos

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Do you know how much energy you actually have left right now? Sthenos turns your Apple Watch into a live energy score — a single number from 0 to 100 that reflects how recharged or depleted your body is, and whether you're charging or draining at this moment. No guesswork. No manual logging. Just honest, science-backed insight from the sensors you already wear. HOW IT WORKS Sthenos isn't a daily snapshot or a one-off rating. It's a running energy level, updated through the day: • You recharge during genuine rest and sleep — when your heart rate settles and your HRV rises relative to your own baseline. • You drain from activity, elevated heart rate, and physiological stress. • Recent training still counts — a hard workout keeps weighing on you for days, so you can tell when you're truly recovered. Everything is judged against YOUR personal baseline, not population averages. Sthenos learns your normal (about two weeks — faster if you've already been wearing your watch) and calibrates the score to your body. WHAT YOU GET • The heart gauge — your score fills a heart that empties as you deplete and refills as you recover. The number sits inside it and inverts where the waterline crosses, and it beats at your own resting heart rate. • Energy flow — a live read on whether you're charging or draining this hour, and why. • Sleep, Recovery, Heart and Freshness — the four things moving your score, each one tappable for a plain-English explanation of what it means today. • Trends — your history drawn as a tide, at a day, a month, three months or six, from the same model as the live score. • Training load — Fitness, Fatigue and Form from the training impulse of every workout, with the raw daily load drawn underneath, plus the acute:chronic ratio and its sweet spot. • Vitals — every reading your watch takes, each on a rail showing your own normal range and where today sits: heart rate, resting HR, HRV, blood oxygen, respiratory rate, VO₂ max, steps, active energy, sleep, wrist temperature, weight. • On-device AI insights — a short, plain-language read on your day, generated on your iPhone with Apple Intelligence. • Apple Watch app and complications — your score, factors, vitals and training load on the wrist, plus the score as a filling heart, a training-load complication, and a configurable single metric. • Home-screen widgets — a score widget, plus two configurable Vitals widgets where you choose every metric shown. • The science, in-app — an About tab explaining how the score is calculated, with links to the research, and saying plainly where the evidence is contested. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your health data never leaves your device. Sthenos reads from Apple Health and computes everything locally — no account, no sign-up, no tracking, no ads, no servers. Even the AI insights run on-device. WHAT IT READS (read-only, from Apple Health) • For the score: HRV, resting heart rate, heart rate, sleep, workouts • For Vitals: blood oxygen, respiratory rate, VO₂ max, steps, active energy, wrist temperature, body mass • For the optional fitness-age card: date of birth, biological sex, height, body composition, exercise and stand time, walking heart rate, mobility measures, daylight, blood glucose and pressure Nothing is written back to Apple Health. REQUIRES • iPhone with iOS 18 or later • Apple Watch (Series 4 or later) worn regularly, including overnight, for HRV and sleep. The watch app needs watchOS 11. • On-device AI insights require iOS 26 and an Apple-Intelligence-capable iPhone Sthenos is a personal wellness tool. It is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice. Apple Watch HRV is suitable for personal trends and is not clinical-grade. Always consult a healthcare professional for medical concerns.

Screenshots

Sthenos4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Sthenos at every 11 days against Count my Target's every 8 months. Count my Target's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $3.99) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On ads, in-app purchases 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

Count my Target costs $0.99 and Sthenos $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Count my Target ships an update every 8 months, Sthenos every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Count my Target versus Sthenos: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCount my TargetSthenos
Price$0.99 — better$3.99
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 11 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB5 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperMichael EckeGeorgios Stavropoulos

In-app purchases

None

Count my Target

No in-app purchases

None

Sthenos

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Count my Target free?
Count my Target costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sthenos free?
Sthenos costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Count my Target or Sthenos have ads?
Neither Count my Target nor Sthenos shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Count my Target or Sthenos?
Count my Target ships an update every 8 months, and Sthenos every 11 days. Most recently, Count my Target was updated on November 3, 2026 and Sthenos on October 31, 2026.

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