Throne Science vs Shift
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Throne Science
This app translates your body's signals related to gut health, hydration, and bathroom habits into actionable guidance. It offers daily scores and long-term trends, helping you understand your body's patterns and make informed adjustments for better well-being.
- Daily gut health scores
- Hydration tracking
- Bathroom habit monitoring
- Urinary function analysis
- Long-term trend identification
- Hands-free tracking
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Throne translates your gut, hydration, and flow signals into guidance you can act on. Make sense of your bathroom signals with hands-free tracking and easy daily scores. DAILY SCORES Gut Health, Hydration, Bathroom Habits, and Urinary Function give you a clear view of how your body is running today, plus guidance on what to do next. SEAMLESS BY DESIGN Hands-free tracking that fits your normal routine. Downward-facing sensors and doctor-trained AI translate what happens in the bowl into easy-to-read trends. BEST-IN-CLASS PRIVACY Records only when your phone is nearby or when you push your assigned button. Data is encrypted. You’re in control of what’s saved and shared. GUT HEALTH Build a record of stool form, frequency, and timing so you can connect meals, stress, and routine to how you feel. A weekly Gut Health Score makes progress simple to track. HYDRATION See color-based trends that reflect your true hydration, often before thirst kicks in. Learn how daily swings, activity, heat, and electrolytes move your Hydration Score. BATHROOM HABITS Time your sessions end-to-end to support healthier habits. Track active time, wrap-up time, and overall duration to help reduce pelvic-floor strain and promote regularity. URINARY FUNCTION For users who pee standing up, Throne estimates flow patterns from sound to help you notice changes in peak flow, average flow, and volume over time.* LONG-TERM TRENDS Find your normal in about two weeks. Spot meaningful shifts early and make small adjustments that stick. WHY IT MATTERS Dehydration, irregularity, and urinary changes are common and often missed. Throne makes these systems visible and trackable every day so you can act sooner and feel better. *Urinary Function currently available for standing voids. The Throne App requires a Throne device. Throne is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat, cure, monitor, or prevent any disease or condition. Do not change medications, diet, or routines without consulting a healthcare professional.
Shift
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Shift helps you plan light, sleep, and caffeine timing around trips across time zones. PLAN YOUR TRIP Choose your airports and enter your flight times — or find the flight in your calendar. Add connections if you change planes. Shift picks the faster way to shift your body clock: for big eastward jumps it can be quicker to go the other way round. For short stays, choose "Stay on home time" so there is nothing to undo when you fly back. Shift builds a schedule before, during, and after your flight around your own usual sleep times. FOLLOW YOUR PLAN • Your next step comes first, with a live countdown. • Light windows fall only in your waking hours, and say whether to get outside or use bright indoor light. • On the plane, sleep when it is night at your destination. • A 24-hour timeline shows sleep, light to seek, and light to avoid. • Mark cues complete, skip a cue, or set a reminder. • Live Activity and Dynamic Island show an open light window. • Optional wake alarms ring at your planned wake time (iOS 26). • Ask Siri "What's next in Shift". • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, and a countdown with a Done button on Apple Watch. • Landed early or late? Shift notices the time-zone change and offers to update your arrival. BETWEEN TRIPS Shift+ includes an everyday light, sleep, and caffeine schedule, cue-completion summaries, an adaptation profile, and PDF export. APPLE HEALTH With your permission, Shift reads wrist temperature, sleep, heart-rate variability, and resting heart rate from Apple Health. Sleep at home sets your usual sleep window. After you arrive, your nights can show whether your body clock is ahead of or behind the plan, and later light windows move to match. Without data, Shift uses your usual sleep times and typical adaptation rates, and labels the body clock as an estimate. Body-clock positions and timelines are estimates, not direct measurements of recovery. PRIVACY No account is required. Health, calendar, and trip data stay on your iPhone. Schedule and completion data are shared on-device with Shift widgets; health readings are not included in widgets. Cue snapshots can be shared with your paired Apple Watch. Shift reads from Apple Health and does not write health data back. ACCESS • Free access includes a trip-plan preview. • Trip Pass unlocks the full trip protocol and cue logging for 14 days on this iPhone, with individual cue reminders. It is a one-time consumable purchase; completed purchases cannot be restored after reinstalling or on another device. • Shift+ offers monthly or yearly subscriptions with unlimited trips, Everyday mode, reports, PDF export, and opt-in automatic cue reminders. Shift keeps up to 48 upcoming reminders scheduled and refreshes them when you use the app. Family Sharing is supported where available. • Any eligible free trial, the price, and the billing period are shown with the plan. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled in your App Store subscription settings. Shift is a wellness planning tool. It does not diagnose or treat medical conditions, and optional melatonin timing is not medical advice. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://w3h9uf.github.io/shift/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Throne Science at none against Shift's 3. Throne Science also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Shift sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Throne Science asks for nothing beyond the download.
Throne Science ships an update fortnightly, Shift monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Throne Science | Shift |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (14 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 219 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Throne, Incorporated | Hashing LLC |
In-app purchases
Throne Science
No in-app purchases
Shift
- Shift+ Monthly$4.991 Month
- Shift+ Yearly$39.991 Year
- Trip Pass$6.99









