Resolve vs Standly | Standing desk timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Resolve
This app offers a method to address issues like stress, trauma, pain, and cravings by stimulating brain plasticity. It aims to reset over-sensitized brain circuits that maintain persistent sensations.
- Stimulates brain plasticity
- Addresses chronic stress
- Helps with trauma recovery
- Manages pain sensations
- Supports addiction cravings relief
- Resets over-sensitized brain circuits
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RESOLVE-It! is a proven, tested method to solve problems by gently and safely stimulating brain plasticity. Research has shown that enduring problems produced by chronic stress, trauma, pain, and addictive cravings alter brain function - creating over sensitized brain circuits. These delicate circuits fire at higher volume keeping the experienced sensation such as anxiety or pain strong and activated until they reset back to their original state.
Standly | Standing desk timer
This app helps you maintain a healthy routine during your workday with customizable timers for sitting, standing, stretching, and walking. It provides gentle reminders to switch activities, track your progress, and build movement into your day to reduce sedentary time and discomfort.
- Customizable sit-stand-stretch-walk routines
- Gentle reminders to switch activities
- Adjustable durations and transition times
- Progress tracking and streak monitoring
- Reliable timers that work across app switches
- Long break scheduling
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Standly is a standing desk timer and reminder that helps you follow a simple routine during the workday. Set your schedule, choose your durations, and get gentle reminders to stand up, sit, walk, stretch, and take long breaks. It works well for adjustable desks and sit stand desks, and it is useful if you want to reduce sedentary time during desk work. Standly is used by developers, teachers, students, and anyone who works at a desk. Many people use it to support better posture and reduce discomfort that can build from long sitting, including back pain. Create your routine • Choose the order you want: standing, sitting, walking, stretching, and long breaks • Set how long each step lasts (durations) • Add transition time between steps • Take a longer rest after 2 to 10 cycles Reliable timers and controls • Start, pause, resume, restart • Skip to the next step, go back, or jump to a specific step • Timer stays accurate even if you lock your phone or switch apps • Timer can recover after closing the app for up to 24 hours Gentle reminders • Quiet notifications when it is time to switch • Optional sound alerts Track progress and streaks • See time spent by step type • View Today and Last 7 Days • Track your streak and best streak • Use it as a simple stand tracker for your workday Desk movement support Standly can help you build movement into your day, including desk workouts and workplace exercise breaks, without needing complicated settings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Resolve at Free against Standly | Standing desk timer's $1.99. Resolve also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.8) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.5). Standly | Standing desk timer's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 7 months) and chart position (#125 vs unranked). 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
Resolve is free to download; Standly | Standing desk timer costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Resolve holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.
Resolve ships an update every 7 months, Standly | Standing desk timer every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Resolve | Standly | Standing desk timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.8 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 76.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #125 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rich Bruursema | Design Park LLC |
Customer experience
Resolve
Standly | Standing desk timer
In-app purchases
Resolve
No in-app purchases
Standly | Standing desk timer
No in-app purchases
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