BodyState vs Arc Timeline Recorder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BodyState
This app provides a daily energy score based on your fitness metrics, helping you manage stress, plan workouts, and understand your body's condition. It tracks sleep, recovery, stress levels, and training load, offering personalized insights to optimize your well-being.
- Personalized Energy Score
- Sleep & Recovery Tracking
- Stress Insights via HRV
- Acute Training Load (ATL)
- Personalized Baseline Learning
- All-in-One Dashboard
- Apple Health Sync
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Monitor Your Energy, Every Day with BodyState! BodyState gives you a daily energy score from 1 to 100, combining your most important fitness metrics into a single, clear signal. Whether your goal is to manage stress, plan workouts, or simply feel better, BodyState helps you make smarter choices in tune with your body. Key features: - Personalized Energy Score: Track your body’s condition with a single score, powered by sleep quality, HRV, resting heart rate, and recent physical exertion. No guesswork, just real insights. - Sleep & Recovery Tracking: Discover how restful your sleep truly was and how well your body recovered overnight. - Stress Insights via HRV & Resting Heart Rate: Monitor your stress level over time and stay ahead of burnout. - Acute Training Load (ATL): See the impact of recent physical activity on your body. Know when to push harder and when to pull back. - Know What’s Normal for You: BodyState doesn’t rely on generic health data. Instead, it learns your personal baseline over time to give context-specific insights. Understand how today's numbers compare to your standard. - All-in-One Dashboard: Get your energy, stress, sleep, and training signals all in one intuitive view. - Effortless Syncing: Works seamlessly with Apple Health to gather the metrics you already track, no extra setup needed. How It Works: 1. Sync with Apple Health to pull in key health metrics. 2. Get your daily score and see how each input affects your energy. 3. Check f you’re balanced, depleted, or primed for performance. 4. Track trends over time and adjust your habits. This App is intended for general wellness and information purposes only. BodyState does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult healthcare professionals for medical guidance. Subscribe to access to premium app features; subscription details are the following: - Length: weekly, yearly. - Your payment will be charged to your iTunes Account as soon as you confirm your purchase. - You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal from your Account Settings after the purchase. - Your subscription will renew automatically, unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. - The cost of renewal will be charged to your account in the 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. - When canceling a subscription, your subscription will stay active until the end of the period. Auto-renewal will be disabled, but the current subscription will not be refunded. - Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when purchasing a subscription. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Arc Timeline Recorder
This app acts as a backup for timeline recording. It runs in low power mode and takes over if the main timeline app is closed, ensuring continuous data capture without interruption.
- Background recording
- Low power standby mode
- Automatic takeover on app termination
- Ensures uninterrupted timeline data
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Arc Timeline Recorder is a companion app to Arc Timeline and Arc Mini. Leave Arc Timeline Recorder running in the background, and it will stay in low power standby mode until needed. If Arc Timeline or Arc Mini is terminated, and there is risk of a data gap in your timeline data, Arc Timeline Recorder will take over the recording role, and ensure that timeline recording continues uninterrupted.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: BodyState at 77% against Arc Timeline Recorder's 0%. BodyState also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (1.7K vs 8). Arc Timeline Recorder's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). On price, 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. BodyState sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Arc Timeline Recorder asks for nothing beyond the download.
BodyState holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BodyState has 1.7K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of BodyState's written reviews are positive against 0% of Arc Timeline Recorder's.
BodyState ships an update every 6 weeks, Arc Timeline Recorder every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BodyState | Arc Timeline Recorder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.7K ratings) — better | 3.0 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 77.5% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.7K — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 170 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fitness & Sports apps SRL | Matthew Bruce Greenfield |
Customer experience
BodyState
Arc Timeline Recorder
Bugs and requests
BodyState
Reported bugs
2 issues- Inability to access app due to Health permissions
- App not working after updates
Requested features
4 requests- Longer data history
- Automatic Apple Watch complication updates
- Customization options
- Ability to manually log feelings/recovery
Arc Timeline Recorder
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
BodyState
- Weekly premium7 Days trial$2.997 Days
- Weekly premium$2.997 Days
- Weekly premium$4.997 Days
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- Weekly premium7 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Yearly premium7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Yearly premium$39.991 Year
- Yearly premium7 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Supporter$4.99
- Patron$9.99
- Champion$14.99
Arc Timeline Recorder
No in-app purchases
Questions
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