Comparison

Pocket Yoga vs HelloSun

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

Head to head
About

Pocket Yoga

Practice yoga at your own pace with guided sessions and a comprehensive pose dictionary. Learn proper alignment and benefits, track your progress, and unlock new environments. Integrates with Apple Watch and Health app.

Highlights
  • Guided yoga sessions
  • Pose dictionary with explanations
  • Over 500 pose illustrations
  • Progress tracking
  • Customizable music options
  • Apple Watch integration
  • Health app integration
Features
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With Pocket Yoga you can keep up with your practice at your own pace in the comforts of your own home. Simply roll out your mat, place your device in front, and Pocket Yoga will guide you through your entire session. Choose between 27 different sessions of varying duration and difficulty. Learn the poses with the pose dictionary containing detailed explanations of the correct posture, alignment, and benefits. Features: • Soothing, detailed voice and visual instruction guides you through every pose. • Expertly designed practices by experienced yoga instructors. • Over 500 beautifully illustrated pose images show correct posture and alignment. • Dictionary of poses contains the descriptions and benefits of each pose. • Play music from your music library, Apple Music, or Spotify as an alternative to the default music in the app. • Quickly preview a practice to see if it is right for you before you start. • Unlock new environments as you progress in your yoga journey. • Track your progress with an ongoing log of all your yoga practices. • Accounts sync environments and progress across devices. • Play the practices on your Apple TV through AirPlay. • Integrates with the Health app. Track your workouts, heart rate, and calories burned. Accolades: ‣ Listed among the “15 Best Beauty Apps” - InStyle ‣ Selected by CNN as one of the "10 great mobile health apps" ‣ Featured by Apple in "Get in Shape", "Let's Get Moving", "10 Essentials" and "New and Noteworthy" APPLE WATCH Pocket Yoga works great on your Apple Watch. When you are playing a practice on your iPhone you can get extra information directly on your wrist. See the current pose, time remaining, heart rate, calories burned, and much more. You can even control your practice directly from your Apple Watch. WIDGET The “Pose of the Day” Widget helps you learn the names of the poses by showing you a different pose each day. You can see the name of the daily pose in English, Sanskrit and even in Devanagari script. Also tap on the pose image to launch Pocket Yoga and go directly to that pose.

About

HelloSun

Track your daily outdoor time and visualize your progress towards a goal. The app turns your time spent outside into a visual representation, showing how much daylight you've had and how much is left to reach your daily target. It also provides UV index estimates to help you enjoy sunshine safely.

Highlights
  • Visualize daily daylight progress
  • Standalone Apple Watch app
  • UV index and skin type estimation
  • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
  • Watch face complications
  • Streak and history tracking
  • Privacy-focused, no account needed
Features
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Get your daily daylight. How much time have you spent outside today? HelloSun turns your time outdoors into something you can actually see — right on your Apple Watch and iPhone. Your day starts in darkness. Every minute you spend outside makes the sky brighter, until the sun is shining and your daily goal is reached. SEE YOUR DAYLIGHT AT A GLANCE Your Apple Watch already tracks the time you spend outside. HelloSun turns that data into a simple, visual daily goal. FROM NIGHT TO DAY No complicated charts. Your progress is represented as the time of day. The closer you get to your goal, the brighter it becomes. MADE FOR APPLE WATCH The standalone Watch app runs right on your wrist. Your iPhone can stay at home. YOUR SUNLIGHT BUDGET See how much daylight you've already had and how much is left to reach your daily goal. SUNSHINE, WITHOUT THE SUNBURN HelloSun combines the live UV index, your skin type and the sunlight you've already had to give you an easy-to-understand estimate for the day. HelloSun is not a medical device. WIDGETS & COMPLICATIONS Keep your daylight progress where you can see it — on your Home Screen, Lock Screen and watch face. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Daylight data is processed on your iPhone and Apple Watch. No account. No server. No uploads. No ads. No trackers. STREAKS, RECORDS & HISTORY See your streaks, discover your best days and look back at your progress over time. Going outside doesn't have to be complicated. HelloSun. Get your daylight.

Screenshots

Pocket Yoga4 screens
HelloSun4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: HelloSun at 100% against Pocket Yoga's 81%. Pocket Yoga's advantage is chart position (#30 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Pocket Yoga costs $2.99 and HelloSun $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Pocket Yoga versus HelloSun: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket YogaHelloSun
Price$2.99$2.99
Rating4.8 (5.2K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews81.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5.2K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#30 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size235 MB31 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperRainfrog, LLCKevin Reutter

Customer experience

Pocket Yoga

All ratings5,193 ratings
Positive95.8%
Neutral2.6%
Negative1.6%
Written reviews793 reviews
Positive81.0%
Neutral8.2%
Negative10.8%

HelloSun

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Pocket Yoga

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes or freezes
  • Inconsistent voice prompts
  • Inaccurate calorie tracking
  • Syncing issues with Apple Health

Requested features

7 requests
  • Create custom yoga sequences
  • Add more diverse yoga routines
  • Include shorter 15-minute sessions
  • Provide option to adjust pace of transitions
  • Offer different voice options for narration
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  • Improve Apple Watch integration and sync
  • Add ability to track progress and unlock new content

HelloSun

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Pocket Yoga

No in-app purchases

None

HelloSun

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pocket Yoga free?
Pocket Yoga costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is HelloSun free?
HelloSun costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pocket Yoga or HelloSun have ads?
Neither Pocket Yoga nor HelloSun shows ads.

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