Comparison

Absolute Rest vs SET

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

Head to head
About

Absolute Rest

This app provides a comprehensive sleep management program using an FDA-cleared testing system to analyze sleep patterns. It offers personalized insights and expert support to improve sleep quality and daytime performance.

Highlights
  • Comprehensive sleep assessment
  • Autonomic nervous system testing
  • Personalized insights and expert support
  • User-friendly app interface
  • Continuous monitoring of sleep parameters
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Transform Your Sleep with Clinical Precision Absolute Rest combines the capabilities of a professional sleep laboratory with the precision of sleep science to deliver the first and only comprehensive sleep management program directly to your home. Utilizing an innovative FDA-cleared testing system, designed to detect sleep patterns through the autonomic nervous system with cutting-edge technology, you'll get a comprehensive analysis of your sleep quality and personalized insights to help you achieve your best rest. Key Features: Comprehensive Sleep Assessment: Absolute Rest transforms your fingertip into a clinical sleep lab, measuring every movement, heartbeat, and breath throughout the night. Detect and analyze a wide range of sleep problems and disorders, including insomnia, sleep apnea, hyperarousal, hyperactivity, and much more with unmatched depth and clarity. Cutting-Edge Autonomic Nervous System Testing: Gain insights from your autonomic nervous system while you sleep, with precise measurements of sympathetic fragmentation, deep parasympathetic restoration, sleep-disordered breathing including apneas, hypopneas, and RERAs, the only objective and FDA cleared sleep quality index (SQI), and much more. Personalized Insights and Expert Support: Receive detailed, actionable recommendations based on your unique sleep data. Your dedicated team, including a sleep clinician, clinical psychologist, and behavioral sleep expert, tailors solutions to your specific needs. Your team actively monitors nightly data to provide real-time, personalized guidance and comprehensive management to improve your sleep health and daytime performance. User-Friendly App Interface: The Absolute Rest app makes it simple to track meaningful sleep metrics and understand your unique patterns and trends with intuitive visuals and reports available on our companion web app. Continuous Monitoring: Unlike laboratory-based sleep studies, Absolute Rest continuously monitors multiple sleep parameters over time, providing ongoing insights and adjustments to help you optimize your sleep, and energize your life. Why Choose Absolute Rest? Millions suffer from poor sleep quality, leading to fragmented sleep, fatigue, and many associated health issues. Absolute Rest goes beyond traditional sleep trackers, offering a comprehensive, clinical-grade assessment to help you uncover the root causes of your particular sleep problems. With personalized insights and expert support, you can finally achieve the deep, restorative sleep you need to perform your best every day.

About

SET

This app helps you manage your workouts by planning routines, logging sets, and timing rest periods. It offers flexibility with pre-made plans, custom routines, and freestyle options. Track your progress with detailed history and visual timelines.

Highlights
  • Workout planning and logging
  • Rest timers with alerts
  • Workout history and timelines
  • Editable starter plans
  • Freestyle workout option
  • Strava sync (optional)
Features
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Train without breaking your flow. SET combines workout planning, set logging, and rest timing in one focused app. Build your own routine, start from a template, import a plan from photos, or jump straight into a freestyle workout. During your workout, SET keeps the next set clear and the rest timer moving. Log repetitions, weight, duration, and notes without losing your place. • Planned and freestyle strength workouts • Editable starter plans and on-device photo import • Set-by-set logging for repetitions, weight, duration, and notes • Automatic rest timers, local alerts, and Live Activities • Workout history with visual session timelines • Dedicated rest and repeating interval timers • Optional workout sync to Strava No SET account, ads, analytics, or tracking. Photo recognition happens on your device. Strava is optional.

Screenshots

Absolute Rest3 screens
SET4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: SET at 5.0 against Absolute Rest's 3.7. Absolute Rest's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SET holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Absolute Rest versus SET: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAbsolute RestSET
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAbsolute Rest, IncAlexander Becker

In-app purchases

None

Absolute Rest

No in-app purchases

None

SET

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Absolute Rest free?
Absolute Rest is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SET free?
SET is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Absolute Rest or SET?
SET is rated higher. Absolute Rest averages 3.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while SET averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Absolute Rest or SET have ads?
Neither Absolute Rest nor SET shows ads.

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