Activity Rings+ vs Rolling Heart
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Activity Rings+
This app displays your Apple Watch Activity Rings and Stand Hour progress directly on your watch face. Get a quick glance at your daily steps and activity data without needing to open the main app.
- Activity Rings display
- Stand Hour indicator
- Daily Steps at a glance
- Complications for watch faces
- Percentage or remaining data view
- Tap to refresh data
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Wish it were easier to see whether you’ve met your Stand Hour yet? This app uses your HealthKit data to offer complications for your favorite Apple Watch faces that show your Activity Rings, plus a Stand Hour circle to show whether you’ve already earned it at a glance. Note: If the app is missing on your Watch after purchase, go to the App Store on your Watch to install. (Scroll to the bottom, click Account -> Purchased, and tap the download cloud next to Activity Rings+) - APPLE WATCH APP In the app, see a quick view of your Move/Exercise/Stand data and your familiar Activity Rings, with an added indicator showing whether you've met the current Stand Hour. Also see today's Steps at a glance—no more scrolling down to interpret your activity data! Tap the screen to switch to percentage view or Calories/Minutes/Stand Hours remaining. - COMPLICATIONS On newer Apple Watch faces (Meridian, Infographic, California, etc.), you can add complications that feature your Activity Rings with an added stand indicator that illuminates when you've met the current stand hour. On older Apple Watch faces, (Breathe, Modular, Colors, Simple, etc.), you can add a Stand Indicator that will be colored solid if you've met the current stand hour or will be a hollow outline if you still need to stand up. Note: Complications refresh in the background as often as Apple permits. Tap the complication to open the app if you'd like to refresh the data immediately. Your Stand Hour will always clear at the start of the next hour, so if you see Activity Rings+ lit up, you'll know you've hit it. If you have any issues with HealthKit permissions, make sure to grant permissions from your iPhone via Settings -> Privacy -> Health. If complications are not available immediately after installation, rebooting your Apple Watch usually does the trick!
Rolling Heart
Track your heart rate and wellness patterns with glanceable views on iPhone and Apple Watch. Explore Heart Flow, Heart Load, and Recovery Reserve with personalized ranges and customizable graphs. Offers both free and premium features for detailed health insights.
- Glanceable heart rate views
- Heart Flow and Heart Load tracking
- Personalized heart rate ranges
- Customizable graph appearance
- Apple Watch complications
- Offline Rolling Heart Guide
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Your heart rate, rolling with you. Rolling Heart brings private Heart Flow context and factual Heart Data to iPhone and Apple Watch in calm, glanceable views for everyday wellness. SEE THE SHAPE OF YOUR DAY Dashboard gives you a quick view of Heart Flow. Heart Lens lets you explore recent patterns and the context behind them, including Heart Load, Movement Load, Recovery Reserve and Sleep Support. Heart Data keeps recorded values, timestamps and availability separate from these derived wellness views. MAKE HEART FLOW MORE PERSONAL Personal Ranges reviews 84 days of history privately on your iPhone when enough data is available. Compare Flexible and Standard styles, preview how your days look, then apply your choice or keep your current ranges. You decide when to review and what to apply. Optional review reminders help you return when you are ready. EXPLORE YOUR GRAPHS Browse available history, choose a date and inspect readings in the Heart Flow Graph preview. Lifetime Premium lets you customize graph shape and colors, choose Classic or Smooth Feather fills, soften the graph, and add Time Markers. Preview your changes before applying them. HEART FLOW ON YOUR WRIST Watch Today builds Heart Flow locally on Apple Watch. Heart Flow complications offer Flow, Heart Rate and Hybrid trace choices. Supported complications can show minimum and maximum readings for the graph range, since midnight or since noon. Explore factual Heart Rate, HRV, Resting Heart Rate, Blood Oxygen, Day's Vitals and Rolling Vitals complications across supported families. Browse every complication preview for free and discover nine ready-made faces in the iPhone Watch Face Gallery. Adding a face requires a compatible paired Apple Watch. USEFUL FROM THE START The free app includes six-hour Dashboard, Heart Lens, Heart Data, Watch Today and Heart Flow complication views; Personal Ranges on Everyday; supported factual complication families; graph preview and inspection; Heart Flow Lab comparisons; the offline Rolling Heart Guide; and three ready-made Watch faces. Sandstone and System, Light and Dark appearance are free. GO FURTHER WITH LIFETIME PREMIUM One optional, one-time purchase on iPhone or Apple Watch adds longer ranges, Parchment, Signal and Electric themes, graph and Advanced Lab customization, Body Response and Sleep Focus profiles, expanded Heart Rate complication options, four Signal Orbit complications and six additional ready-made Watch faces. Purchase and Restore Purchases are available on either device, with private paired-device ownership sharing. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Apple Health access is permission-based. Heart rate is the only required Heart Flow input; available age, recovery, movement, workouts, sleep, breathing, oxygen and sleeping wrist-temperature context add detail. Missing optional inputs are reweighted or treated as neutral. Date of Birth is used locally for an age-predicted maximum-heart-rate model and sleep-duration guidance; the actual birth date is excluded from Heart Flow caches and paired messages. Sleeping wrist temperature adds limited context relative to your own history. Health data stays on your devices. Rolling Heart has no account, ads, analytics, tracking or developer server. Only limited data and settings needed for paired features move privately between your iPhone and Apple Watch; the Watch builds its own Heart Flow. Optional comparison with your paired iPhone returns aggregate differences. No Health data is uploaded to the developer automatically, and the app does not write Health data. Rolling Heart is for personal wellness visualization only. It is not intended for diagnosis, treatment, monitoring, regulated medical-device use or emergencies.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Rolling Heart at Free against Activity Rings+'s $0.99. Rolling Heart also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 61%). Activity Rings+'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and chart position (#189 vs unranked). On update cadence, ads 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
Rolling Heart is free to download; Activity Rings+ costs $0.99 up front. Rolling Heart sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Activity Rings+ asks for nothing beyond the download.
Rolling Heart holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Activity Rings+ has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of Activity Rings+'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Rolling Heart's.
Activity Rings+ ships an update weekly, Rolling Heart every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Activity Rings+ | Rolling Heart |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.6 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #189 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 91 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brandon Wallace | BRENT ANDREW CHUA |
Customer experience
Activity Rings+
Rolling Heart
In-app purchases
Activity Rings+
No in-app purchases
Rolling Heart
- Rolling Heart Lifetime Premium$7.99
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