HeartMath vs Movement by Ape Co
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HeartMath
This app helps you manage stress, improve focus, and achieve optimal performance by aligning your heart, mind, and emotions. It offers guided sessions, immersive journeys, and coherence practices based on over 30 years of research.
- Real-time HRV Coherence Measurement
- Coherence Training
- Scientifically Validated Techniques
- Guided Learning Sessions
- Progress Tracking
- Heart-Brain Coherence Benefits
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Align your heart, mind, and emotions to help you manage stress, improve focus, and perform at your best. Enjoy HeartMath’s free intro experience to access your heart’s natural intelligence and see your heart-brain coherence as real-time feedback. Then start your 7-day free trial to explore a comprehensive collection of guided sessions, immersive journeys, and coherence practices designed to help you experience greater calm, focus, clearer thinking, and a more balanced you. **Inner Balance Coherence Plus sensor owners: Use your sensor to unlock a lifetime subscription.** Built on 30+ years of research on the heart-brain connection and supported by over 500 research studies, HeartMath is used in wellness and resilience programs at organizations including Stanford Healthcare and Kaiser Permanente, as well as in professional sports, the military, law enforcement, leading universities, non-profit organizations, and major corporations. It is used by coaches, trainers, and health professionals for stress education and resilience training. The HeartMath system is more than stress management: it’s a journey to more heart-centered living. This app puts HeartMath’s practical, research-supported tools right at your fingertips. Make mental and emotional well-being an achievable part of your daily life. The HeartMath technology is for stress education and resilience training. It is not a medical device. We encourage you to consult a health professional before making any medical decisions. KEY FEATURES • Real-time HRV coherence feedback: Use your phone’s camera or upgrade to the Inner Balance Coherence Plus sensor for a more precise signal and a free app subscription. • Coherence training: Whether you choose the game or the guided mode, watch your heart-rhythm pattern and coherence change in real time. • Research-Supported: Techniques developed from 30+ years of scientific research to help boost focus, positive feelings, and your ability to manage stress. • Guided learning: Explore guided meditations, courses, and videos led by HeartMath trainers. • Progress tracking: View your progress over time with a variety of chart options. WHAT REGULAR COHERENCE PRACTICE CAN SUPPORT Heart-brain coherence is a balanced, focused state you create yourself through calm breathing and positive focus. Coherence supports the body’s natural ability to shift from tension to calm, helping you manage everyday stress and build inner balance. • SUPPORTS STRESS MANAGEMENT & EMOTIONAL BALANCE • SUPPORTS FOCUS AND MENTAL CLARITY — coherent states are associated with more focus, clarity, and creativity. • SUPPORTS RESILIENCE — regular practice can help you adapt to and recover from challenging situations more quickly. • ENHANCES EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING AND SELF-AWARENESS — practice can support a greater sense of inner calm and a more mindful relationship with your emotions. Subscription terms: • Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each year. • You can cancel your subscription at any time in your account settings. • You will not be refunded for any unused portion of a subscription. • Price is subject to change. • Subscriptions are not available in all countries. • Full subscription terms: https://my.heartmath.com/terms If you’d like to purchase an Inner Balance Coherence Plus sensor to unlock complimentary lifetime access to the HeartMath app, please visit the HeartMath website.
Movement by Ape Co
This app offers video programs and guidance for improving strength, mobility, and various physical skills like handbalancing and acrobatics. It provides free introductory content and subscription-based access to structured programs for building foundational fitness and advanced capabilities.
- Strength and mobility programs
- Skill development videos
- Handbalancing training
- Athletics and ground movement
- Progress tracking
- Offline sync
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Hello! We are Ape Co Movement School and we are a group of passionate, loving people who know a thing or two about how humans can move their bodies. Welcome to our Movement app! In this app we give videos and programs for getting stronger and more mobile, as well as for developing skills in many areas including handbalancing, athletics, ground movement, soft acrobatics, gymnastics and a bit of most things. We believe that the greatest practice comes from generalizing our capabilities as our bodies are designed to do so much. Lifting heavy weights, moving in complex and expressive ways, fighting, dancing, holding postures, playing games, these things are all normal, good and exciting and because of that the practice is just called Movement. It covers everything because we do a little bit of everything. We want to help you learn how to move your body and reach your goals. In this app we have some free programs and follow-along videos that are meant to get you started and give you a taste of what having a movement practice is like. Once you purchase our Foundations membership plan you'll gain access to our 3 main programs that are designed to build your foundation in strength, mobility, handbalancing, ground movement, spine work, and overall body awareness. Once you've developed those areas a bit we have more advanced content to take you to the next level of your movement capabilities. Gaining competency in the gym, mastering skills on your hands and feet, knowing how to take care of yourself as injuries arise in the future; these are skills you can expect to gain when you work with us. So whether your goal is getting stronger, trying something new, recovering from an injury, just having fun exercising or anything in between we've got you covered. This app is an adaptation of our in-person school curriculum. We started as a small studio in Boulder, Colorado, expanded to Denver and now we're in your pocket. Come be a part of our thriving community and see that progress together is bigger, faster, stronger than progress alone. Coaching wherever you go, take your practice anywhere! INFORMATION ABOUT THE APP AND PURCHASE OPTIONS By signing up, you will get access to subscription(s) that include features such as progress tracking, and offline sync. The download of Movement by Ape Co is free of charge. No free trial offered. Should you use Movement by Ape Co app to access in-app content via available subscription(s), a payment will be charged to your credit card through your App Store account . A subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours prior to the end of the subscription period. There is no increase in price when renewing. Subscription(s) can be managed and auto-renewal turned off in Account Settings in the App Store after purchase. Read our full Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy: https://passion.io/terms-of-service https://passion.io/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: HeartMath at none against Movement by Ape Co's shown. HeartMath also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (4.7K vs 1). Movement by Ape Co's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 74%). 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
Both are free to download. HeartMath sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $39.00 per year and Movement by Ape Co sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $10.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for HeartMath against 5.0 for Movement by Ape Co. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HeartMath has 4.7K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 74% of HeartMath's written reviews are positive against 100% of Movement by Ape Co's.
HeartMath ships an update every 3 weeks, Movement by Ape Co every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HeartMath | Movement by Ape Co |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (4.7K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4.7K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 185 MB | 104 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HeartMath Inc. | Boulder Movement Collective LLC |
Customer experience
HeartMath
Movement by Ape Co
Bugs and requests
HeartMath
Reported bugs
4 issues- Sensor connection issues on newer devices
- App crashes and freezes on iPhone 16 Pro
- Inaccurate heart rate and coherence readings
- Screen sleep behavior disrupting sessions
Requested features
5 requests- Add dark mode option
- Allow playing music/sounds during sessions
- Provide audio feedback on coherence levels
- Add session history customization and details
- Improve sensor compatibility with older devices
Movement by Ape Co
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
HeartMath
- HeartMath Premium7 Days trial$39.001 Year
- HeartMath Premium7 Days trial$59.001 Year
- HeartMath Premium7 Days trial2 variants$79.001 Year
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- HeartMath Premium7 Days trial$99.991 Year
Movement by Ape Co
- Foundations$10.001 Month
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