Comparison

3+ PRO vs Official LifeWatch

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

Head to head
About

3+ PRO

Track daily activity like steps, distance, and calories. Set personalized fitness goals and monitor progress. Features include heart rate monitoring, smart notifications, and weather updates, with data syncing to HealthKit.

Highlights
  • Activity tracking (steps, distance, calories)
  • Personalized goal setting
  • Heart rate monitoring
  • Smart notifications
  • Weather updates
  • HealthKit synchronization
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Overview Activity Tracking: Monitor your daily steps taken, distance traveled, calories burned and more. Personal Goal Setting: Set personalized step, calorie, distance, active minutes and sleep goals based on your activity level to reach your target fitness level. Health information can be synchronized to Health Kit. Smart Features Heart Rate Monitor: Maintain your heart rate level during workouts or measure your resting heart rate to see how your fitness level has improved over time. Smart Notifications: Receive and read a variety of notifications all on the watch. Weather App: Check today’s weather . Health information can be synchronized to HealthKit.

About

Official LifeWatch

Track daily activity, sleep patterns, and receive notifications from your smartphone. Get reminders to move, drink water, and set alarms. Features include finding your device and remote camera control.

Highlights
  • Daily step goal tracking
  • Sleep pattern analysis
  • Incoming call notifications
  • Social media and SMS alerts
  • Sedentary lifestyle reminders
  • Hydration reminders
  • Device finder function
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The Life Watch app can set a daily step goal and track the distance walked and calories burned. Record your daily sleep patterns, light sleep and waking status records, so you can better understand your sleep patterns and schedule your sleeping time. Life Watch app will allow you to make a phone call through your Life Watch device and notify you when you have an incoming phone call. Receive notifications from social media accounts, news, SMS, WhatsApp, Facebook and many other accounts on your connected smartphone. Sitting for a long time might negatively affect your health by being too sedentary. The Life Watch app will remind you with a notification to get up, and move! Timely replenishment of fluids is beneficial to your health, Life Watch for smart watches has a push notification to remind you to take a drink of water. Set an alarm for the Life Watch device, to wake you and remind you to get up or go to work, without disturbing people around you! Use the Life Watch app, “Finder” feature to find your Life Watch which will vibrate when found. Use the same feature on the Life Watch to find your smartphone which will vibrate when found. Take still images remotely on your smartphone by shaking the watch to activate the shutter on your smartphone camera. Raise your arm to wake up your Life Watch device so you can view the time without touching the watch. View the temperature of your location through the weather notification feature. [HealthKit] We use HealthKit to import your activity data into the Health App, and we would read the workout data from the Health App.

Screenshots

3+ PRO4 screens
Official LifeWatch4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: 3+ PRO at 640 against Official LifeWatch's 4. 3+ PRO also leads on device support. On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Official LifeWatch holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 3+ PRO has 640 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
3+ PRO versus Official LifeWatch: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter3+ PROOfficial LifeWatch
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.6 (640 ratings)3.8 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews42.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings640 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNo—
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPod — better—
Requires iOS11.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size106 MB122 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer3Plus Internationalinventel.tv LLC

Bugs and requests

3+ PRO

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes and freezes
  • Inaccurate activity tracking
  • Compatibility issues with newer devices
  • Inability to change time format

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add call and text functionality
  • Expand workout tracking options
  • Improve watch face customization
  • Implement sleep tracking feature

Official LifeWatch

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

3+ PRO

No in-app purchases

None

Official LifeWatch

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is 3+ PRO free?
3+ PRO is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Official LifeWatch free?
Official LifeWatch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, 3+ PRO or Official LifeWatch?
Official LifeWatch is rated higher. 3+ PRO averages 3.6 out of 5 from 640 ratings, while Official LifeWatch averages 3.8 from 4 ratings.

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