AwakeSync vs Benchplate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AwakeSync
This smart alarm app uses your Apple Watch to monitor sleep stages and wake you during light sleep. It offers personalized wake-up times, recurring alarms, and smart home integration for a more pleasant morning experience.
- Personalized wake-up during light sleep
- Multiple and recurring alarms
- Smart home device integration
- Sleep stage monitoring
- Siri Shortcuts integration
- Companion iPhone app
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AwakeSync – The Smart Alarm for a Better Wake-Up AwakeSync is the ultimate smart alarm for Apple Watch, designed to wake you up gently during light sleep, making your mornings more pleasant and energized. Simply set your desired wake-up time and a flexible wake window, and AwakeSync will intelligently choose the optimal moment to wake you, ensuring you feel refreshed. Key Features: • Personalized Wake-Up: AwakeSync monitors your sleep stages and wakes you during light sleep for a smoother start to your day. • Multiple and Recurring Alarms: Set up alarms for different occasions and routines, with full support for custom repeat schedules. • Smart Home Integration: Automate your morning by connecting AwakeSync to your smart home devices, creating a more relaxing wake-up environment. Powered by a highly efficient, custom AI model, AwakeSync tracks your sleep without draining your battery. Simply wear your Apple Watch overnight, and let AwakeSync do the rest. The companion iPhone app allows you to manage your alarms, customize smart home automations, and even integrate with Siri Shortcuts to create your own personalized routines. With AwakeSync, you’re not just setting an alarm—you’re transforming your mornings.
Benchplate
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Benchplate is a nutrition tracker built for people who train. Most food apps stop at calories and three macro bars. Benchplate tracks the whole picture — protein, carbs and fat alongside fibre, minerals and vitamins, each with its own target or upper limit, and each shown only if you want to see it. WHAT YOU GET • Calories, macros and a full micronutrient catalogue, with reference values one tap away • Barcode scanner backed by the Open Food Facts database, plus a nutrition-label scan for products without a barcode • Your own food library and meal templates — log a repeat meal in two taps • Say what you ate, also with Siri, the Action Button or Control Center • Recipes with AI search, cooking mode, meal prep and a weekly plan with shopping list, or import your own from a link, photo or text • Water, protein per meal, body measurements, and warnings for intolerances and allergies • A weekly review that shows where the week actually went • Progress photos and a weight history with trend line • Switching from another app? Bring your meals and weight along via Apple Health or an export file • My Trainer: share your week with your personal trainer, only with your consent APPLE HEALTH Benchplate reads your steps from Apple Health and, only if you switch it on, your workouts and your weight. A workout turns the day into a training day with a higher calorie target. If you like, Benchplate also writes the nutrition of everything you log back to Apple Health. GOALS THAT KEEP UP Tell Benchplate how fast you want to move, in kilos per week, and it adjusts. Every week it recalculates your calorie target from your real weight trend and pulls protein, fat and the energy-dependent nutrient targets along with it. No redoing the maths after every phase change. AI WHERE IT EARNS ITS PLACE Photograph a meal or just describe it, and get nutrition values you can log straight away. The Coach answers questions about your day or your week from your own data and proposes calorie, macro, nutrient and step targets you can apply in one tap — it already knows your height, age and activity level, and it remembers what matters to you, on your device only. KEEP THE STREAK A streak counts every day you hit both your calories and your protein, with enough tolerance for normal fluctuation. A reward waits at 100 days. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Everything lives in your own private iCloud account and syncs across your devices. No analytics SDKs, no advertising networks, no third-party trackers, no password to remember. Only optional features send anything off your device: the AI ones, where nothing personal is stored, and the trainer connection, which shares exactly what you agree to. Widgets for the Home Screen and Lock Screen, an Apple Watch app and Share to Benchplate included. Available in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch and Polish. Three days free, then a monthly or yearly subscription. That subscription is the entire business model — there is no advertising or data angle behind it. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Benchplate gives estimates for everyday use and is not medical or dietary advice. Terms of Use: https://benchplate.com/terms Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://benchplate.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Benchplate at every 6 days against AwakeSync's every 2 weeks. AwakeSync's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. AwakeSync sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Benchplate sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
AwakeSync ships an update every 2 weeks, Benchplate every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AwakeSync | Benchplate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cubeon Solutions UG | Richard Marschner |
In-app purchases
AwakeSync
- Buy me a coffee$1.99
- Pro$8.99
Benchplate
- Monthly3 Days trial$7.991 Month
- Yearly3 Days trial$79.901 Year









