Sunlighten vs HearLift
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sunlighten
Optimize your well-being with this app, designed to enhance your light therapy and sauna experiences. Create personalized wellness programs, track sessions in real-time, and control your devices remotely for a seamless health journey.
- Science-based wellness programs
- Personalized program creation
- Real-time session tracking
- Remote sauna control (Wi-Fi)
- Audio and lighting management
- Red light therapy panel programs
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Take your wellness journey to the next level with the Sunlighten app, designed to enhance your Sunlighten sauna and Sunlighten RED Light Therapy Panel experience and optimize your well-being. Stay in control, feel your best, and enjoy the full potential of Sunlighten products. Key Features: • Science-based wellness programs designed to help you reach your health goals. • Create your own personalized programs. • Real-time session tracking. • Schedule your sauna sessions to build a routine. • Remote sauna control for compatible connected saunas • Manage your sauna's audio and lighting settings. • Get the most of our your RED Light Therapy Panel with over 20 scientifically optimized programs and guidance from the leaders in light therapy. Owners of mPulse saunas and RED Light Therapy Panels can enjoy full access to all app features, while owners of Amplify, Signature, and Solo Rise models can take advantage of convenient audio control. Stay connected for exciting updates as we continue to enhance your Sunlighten experience!
HearLift
Practice combining sounds from a cochlear implant and natural hearing. This app helps users with single-sided deafness train their brain to integrate audio from both sources. Explore simulated implant modes and listen to classic stories or your own files.
- Simulated implant mode for evaluation
- Guided listening setup
- Adjustable natural hearing support
- Alternating ears mode
- Offline book downloads
- Import EPUB/text files
- Background listening
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Make room for implant sound—without leaving natural hearing behind. HearLift is listening practice for people with single-sided deafness who have a cochlear implant in their deaf ear and natural hearing in the other. Help your brain practice combining both inputs. Lower-volume natural hearing support offers a middle ground between relying mainly on natural hearing and listening through your implant alone. Keep that support steady or let HearLift vary it automatically. EXPLORE SIMULATED IMPLANT MODE Family, friends, and audiologists with natural hearing in both ears can try Simulated implant mode to evaluate HearLift for someone who may benefit. Hear simulated implant sound alongside natural sound, and explore different ways of combining them. Simulation is an illustrative demo, not an exact recreation of anyone’s implant hearing or a practice mode for implant users. HEAR HOW IT WORKS Start with an included listening sample after setup—no title download or narrator choice needed. Explore the listening patterns before choosing your own content. BECOME WELL-READ, ONE LISTEN AT A TIME Explore classic stories and novels while practicing with your implant and natural hearing. Read along one passage at a time, or simply listen. If something isn’t clear, go back and hear it again. HearLift saves your place, lets you jump to chapters, and supports background listening and lock-screen playback controls for your titles. MAKE THE PRACTICE YOUR OWN • Find a comfortable personal starting point with guided listening setup. • Keep natural hearing support steady, vary it with a regular rhythm or random timing, or let it fade as passages begin. • Try Alternating ears, where one ear’s volume rises as the other’s falls. • Adjust support and reading speed while you listen. CHOOSE WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR • Download pre-recorded books with selected synthetic narrators and listen offline. • Discover free books through Project Gutenberg and Wikisource. • Bring your own EPUB or text files and hear them read aloud. Choose included HearLift voices on supported devices or available built-in Apple voices. Optional Microsoft Azure voices require separate setup and internet access; service charges may apply. YOUR LISTENING SETUP For implant practice, over-ear headphones deliver the same narration to your natural ear and your implant processor’s microphone. HearLift adjusts each side separately. Another setup must deliver the same audio to both ears with clear left/right separation. No HearLift account is required. Book availability and permissions vary by source and country. HearLift is a listening-practice aid, not a substitute for professional care. Results vary and aren’t guaranteed. Consult your audiologist for guidance on practice with your cochlear implant.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: HearLift at 5.0 against Sunlighten's 2.7. HearLift also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 4 months). Sunlighten's advantage is ratings volume (85 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). 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.
HearLift holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sunlighten has 85 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Sunlighten ships an update every 4 months, HearLift daily. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sunlighten | HearLift |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (85 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 19.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 85 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 207 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Sunlighten Inc | James Griesmer |
Customer experience
Sunlighten
HearLift
Bugs and requests
Sunlighten
Reported bugs
4 issues- App fails to connect to sauna
- Scheduled programs not running as expected
- Inconsistent lighting controls
- Tablet frequently restarts or loses connection
Requested features
4 requests- Remote start and preheat capability
- Improved app stability and reliability
- Better integration between app and sauna
- More customization options
HearLift
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Sunlighten
No in-app purchases
HearLift
No in-app purchases









